Gallenbach (Aichach)

Gallenbach City of Aichach Coordinates: 48 ° 24 '52 "  N , 11 ° 5' 52"  E
Residents :	530  (Jan. 1, 2016)
Incorporation :	January 1, 1978
Postal code :	86551
Area code :	08251

Gallenbach is a parish village and district of Aichach in the district of Aichach-Friedberg , which belongs to the administrative district of Swabia in Bavaria .
The district also includes the hamlets of Ippertshausen , Neumühle and upper Neulhof and the deserted areas of Röckerszell , lower Neulhof and Windten .

geography

Gallenbach lies in the Danube-Isar hill country and thus in the Lower Bavarian hill country , which belongs to the Alpine foothills , one of the main natural spatial units in Germany .

Gallenbach is about four kilometers southwest of Aichach. Röckerszell lies to the southeast, Ippertshausen to the south, lower Neulhof and Neumühle to the southwest and upper Neulhof to the west of Gallenbach.

All districts are located to the east of the Paar flowing in a southwest-northeastern direction , with upper Neulhof and lower Neulhof and Neumühle being directly in the Paartal in the immediate vicinity of the river.
The Gallenbach flows through Gallenbach and Ippertshausen, which runs from south to north and flows north of Gallenbach into the Paar as a right tributary.
The Röckerszeller Bach, which flows from west to east and flows north of Sielenbach as a left tributary into the Ecknach, flows through Röckerszell .

In the middle of the district the federal highway 300 runs along the Paar from northeast to southwest, with Neumühle, Oberer Neulhof and Unterer Neulhof to the west and Gallenbach, Ippertshausen, Röckerszell and Windten to the east of the street.

St. Stephen Church

history

The Catholic parish of St. Stephan in Gallenbach belongs to the deanery Aichach-Friedberg in the diocese of Augsburg. The parish includes the villages of Ippertshausen, Neumühle, upper Neulhof and lower Neulhof.
Windten belongs to the Catholic parish of the Assumption of Mary in Klingen .
The parish church of St. Stephan is a flat-roofed hall building with a retracted choir from 1705. In 1910/11 an expansion took place.
The Wies chapel, built in 1714 and enlarged in 1737, is located south of Gallenbach.

On July 1, 1972, Gallenbach and its districts (previously in the Aichach district ) came to the newly founded Aichach-Friedberg district (until April 30, 1973 called the Augsburg-Ost district ). On January 1, 1978, Gallenbach was finally incorporated into the city of Aichach.

Soil monuments

See: List of ground monuments in Aichach

Individual evidence

1. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer GmbH, Stuttgart and Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 788 .

Web links

Commons : Gallenbach  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Gallenbach (Aichach) in the location database of the Bayerische Landesbibliothek Online . Bavarian State Library
• City of Aichach