Handzell

Handzell Market Pöttmes Coordinates: 48 ° 33 '34 "  N , 11 ° 3' 54"  E
Height :	425 m
Residents :	727  (Dec. 31, 2019)
Incorporation :	April 1, 1972
Postal code :	86554
Area code :	08253

Handzell is a parish village and part of the market Pöttmes in the district of Aichach-Friedberg , which belongs to the administrative district of Swabia in Bavaria .

In the same district also lie Weiler This, , Mandlach and Sedlbrunn and the wastelands Aumühle , Batzmühle , Dießmühle , Maier mill , Obermühle , St. Othmar and winner Berg . In the local West Central Bavarian dialect, the place is called Haundzöö .

geography

Handzell is located south of Pöttmes on the border between the Aindlinger Terrassentreppe ( Donau-Iller-Lech-Platte ) in the west and the Danube-Isar hill country in the east. These are part of the Alpine Foreland , one of the main natural spatial units in Germany .

The districts of Dieß, Dießmühle, Maiermühle and Sankt Othmar are to the northeast, Aumühle, Batzmühle, Obermühle and Sedlbrunn to the east, Mandlach to the south and Siegersberg to the west of Handzell.

The place Handzell is located on the north-south running state road St 2035 from Neuburg an der Donau via Pöttmes to Augsburg .

The neighboring towns of Handzell and its districts are in the west Stuben , in the northwest Kühnhausen , in the north Wagesenberg , Immendorf and the main town Pöttmes , in the northeast Au , Pertenau and Eiselsried , in the east the Schrobenhausen districts Gollingkreut and Öd , in the southeast Schnellmannskreuth , in the south Inchenhofen district of Ingstetten and Gundelsdorf in the southwest .

South of Handzell located in the recreation area Mandlach Mandl Achsee in whose territory the Sandrach springs.

history

To the north of Handzell there is a jump, presumably of Celtic origin, which was a deposit of the Swedes during the Swedish War. Handzell means the sharp, bad, bitter, busy country . The ending -zell indicates a church foundation. At the beginning of the 14th century, the greater part of Handzell belonged to the Fürstenfeld monastery , which also exercised jurisdiction and owned a court marque. In 1424 the Gumppenbergers acquired the Hofmark.

The Catholic parish of Sankt Maria Magdalena in Handzell is part of the Pöttmes parish community. The church is a fortified church in which people sought refuge in times of war. The districts Mandlach, Sankt Othmar and Sedlbrunn belong to the parish Heilig Kreuz in Gundelsdorf , Au, Dieß and Dießmühle belong to the parish Sankt Peter and Paul in Pöttmes.

Handzell and its districts were an independent municipality in the Upper Bavarian district of Aichach until April 1, 1972 and were incorporated into the Pöttmes market as part of the regional reform in Bavaria . On July 1, 1972, Pöttmes and its districts came to the newly founded Swabian district of Aichach-Friedberg, which was called the Augsburg-Ost district until May 1, 1973 .

Daughters of the place

• Aurelie Deffner (1881–1959), Bavarian politician

literature

• Wilhelm Liebhart (Hrsg.): Pöttmes - rule, market and community . 2 vol. Pöttmes 2007 (especially church p. 188 and community history p. 749).

Web links

• Handzell in the location database of the Bayerische Landesbibliothek Online . Bavarian State Library
• Further information on the district at www.markt-poettmes.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 415 .