Goßholz

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Goßholz
Coordinates: 47 ° 36 ′ 54 ″  N , 9 ° 54 ′ 29 ″  E
Height : 770 m
Residents : 229  (May 25 1987)
Postal code : 88161
Area code : 08381
Chapel in Goßholz
Chapel in Goßholz

Goßholz is a village in the town of Lindenberg im Allgäu in the district of Lindau and part of the Westallgäu region . The place is northeast of the main town Lindenberg.

history

In 1771 which found Vereinödung place in Goßholz. Around 1780, the entrepreneur Franz Xaver Stadler opened the first cheese wholesale company in the Allgäu in Goßholz. In 1808 the place was incorporated into the municipality of Lindenberg. The Baldauf dairy was founded in 1862 and the Hochland cheese factory in Goßholz in 1912 . In 1901 the place received a loading siding on the Röthenbach – Scheidegg railway line .

Architectural monuments

See: List of architectural monuments in Goßholz

Personalities

  • Otto Keck (1873–1948), painter
  • Paul Keck (1904–1973), painter
  • Johann Evangelist Keller (1824–1910), mayor and member of the German Reichstag
  • Werner Specht (* 1942), painter, draftsman, graphic artist, dialect poet, composer and author
  • Josef Aurel Stadler (1778–1837), agricultural reformer and pioneer of the Allgäu hard cheese production according to the Swiss style

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ City history of the city of Lindenberg im Allgäu , website of the city of Lindenberg im Allgäu. Retrieved February 16, 2019.