Herrenwies (Wiggensbach)

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Herrenwies
Municipality Wiggensbach
Coordinates: 47 ° 43 ′ 0 ″  N , 10 ° 14 ′ 53 ″  E
Height : 796 m above sea level NN
Area : 25.44 ha
Residents : (1987)
Population density : 31 inhabitants / km²
Postal code : 87487
Area code : 08370
Herrenwieser Weiher, looking west towards the Herrenwies farmhouse (municipality of Wiggensbach)
Herrenwieser pond, west view to Einödhof Herrenwies (municipality Wiggensbach )

Herrenwies (formerly Hertwies) is an isolated farm in the municipality Wiggensbach in the district of Oberallgäu, Bavaria. The Einödhof had 8 inhabitants in 1987 and is 796 m above sea level. NN .

In house statistics from around 1800, the property is listed as an Ölmühl-Gut with an area of ​​74.65 days' work (25.44 hectares ). The oil mill, which was built after 1730 and has long since ceased to exist, was located on a stream or artificial canal, part of the early long-distance water supply in Kempten , which passed here at the time and flowed a good 300 meters to the east into the Herrenwieser Weiher , which already led to the City of Kempten (Allgäu) belongs. The courtyard gives this pond its name .

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Herrenwieser Weiher historical land map.png
The historical map shows the no longer existing stream that led past Herrenwies and flowed into the Königliche Herrenwieser Weiher .
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Herrenwies is located in the extreme southeast of the municipality of Wiggensbach


Individual evidence

  1. Topo-geographical-statistical lexicon of the Kingdom of Bavaria, Volume 1, by Joseph Anton Eisenmann, Karl Friedrich Hohn, page 724
  2. ^ Genealogical index of places - Herrenwies , accessed on February 23, 2013
  3. Müller's Large German Local Book 2012: Complete Local Lexicon, Volume 1, Local Directory AM, by Walter De Gruyter Incorporated, page 56
  4. ^ Peter Blickle: Historical Atlas of Bavaria: Kempten. Munich 1968 , p. 325
  5. Bruno Steinmetz: The Schlangenbach should remain visible. In: The Old Town Letter , No. 26/1999 , p. 4