Großkötz

Großkötz community Kötz Coordinates: 48 ° 24 '23 " N , 10 ° 16' 46" E
Height :	470 m above sea level NHN
Postal code :	89359
Area code :	08221
	Großkötz

Großkötz is a district of the municipality of Kötz in the Swabian district of Günzburg . The parish village lies on both sides of the Kötzbach .

history

In 1931 excavations two kilometers north of Großkötz discovered the foundation walls of a villa rustica .

A Hartmann de Kez is mentioned as early as the 11th century. In 1312 the Neresheim monastery exchanged its goods in Großkötz for the Wettenhausen monastery . The possession of the Lords of Kötz went in 1408 as a fief of Mark Burgau to the Ulmer patrician family Ehinger , later than Ehinger of Balzheim into the baron were collected. The Ehinger family kept the fief until the family died out in 1743.

The municipality of Kötz was created on July 1, 1972 through the voluntary amalgamation of the previously independent municipalities of Großkötz and Kleinkötz .

Architectural monuments

Großkötz Castle

Catholic parish church of St. Peter and Paul
Großkötz Castle

Sons of the place

Bruno Merk (1922–2013), politician ( CSU ) and Bavarian Minister of the Interior

Companies

AL-KO Kober

literature

Bernt von Hagen, Angelika Wegener-Hüssen: Landkreis Günzburg (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume VII.91 / 1 ). Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-87490-589-6 , p. 280-286 .

Web links

Commons : Großkötz - collection of images, videos and audio files

Großkötz in the location database of the Bayerische Landesbibliothek Online . Bavarian State Library
Kötz community

Individual evidence

^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 476 .

[1] Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 476 .