Lechfeld

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"A flat, tree-covered landscape, also from a distance with agricultural fields, stretches far to a bluish finish visible on the horizon with ridges from the left to the right edge of the picture below, rising light clouds in the mountains. In the middle a white steeple steeple gray roof in the green, almost directly behind it in the haze, a small transmission tower on a hill. A little further to the left an onion tower in the plain and really only hinted at the rising edge of the Lech plain. A tiny red and white striped tower on the right. In the foreground some houses between the dark green trees and some electricity pylons on the plain
View from a hill over the plain in the south of Augsburg (from the Bismarck tower) to the foothills of the Alps

The Lechfeld is a gravel plain south of Augsburg that was formed from river deposits from the last Ice Age . It lies between the alpine rivers Lech and Wertach .

Natural space

In the river area between Landsberg am Lech and Augsburg, rare Lech primeval landscapes have been preserved. The individual areas of different heaths and dry grasslands are summarized under the term Lechtalheiden . They only represent 1% of the original area and are under strict nature protection. It is one of the most species-rich habitats in Central Europe.

Battles on the Lechfeld

The Lechfeld is known for the decisive battles during the Hungarian invasions . After the Hungarians had defeated a Frankish army under Ludwig the Child on the Lechfeld on June 22, 910 , Otto I inflicted a devastating defeat on the Hungarians on August 10, 955 in the battle of the Lechfeld. As early as 1995, the historian Georg Kreuzer worked out convincingly that this term cannot refer to today's Lechfeld, but rather to an area between Augsburg and Günzburg ( Reisensburg ). Even Charles R. Bowlus comes to the view that the battle must have taken place to the west of Augsburg.

In the Middle Ages, the Lechfeld was one of the usual meeting places for princes and armies of knights before the Italian campaigns , for example in August 1220 before the departure of Frederick II's coronation as emperor .

In addition, one of the main traffic routes between Italy and Germany, the Via Claudia Augusta , ran on the Lechfeld since Roman times , on whose route the federal highway 17 between Augsburg and Schongau largely still runs today. Due to the importance of this road , this landscape, which was in the hands of the bishopric of Augsburg before it was incorporated into Bavaria at the beginning of the 19th century, was called the "Straßvogtei". However, originally the right to raise funds for the protection of the road was originally referred to as the “Straßvogtei”. This right was in the hands of Welf VI. , an uncle of Duke Heinrich the Lion , until he sold the rights to Friedrich Barbarossa .

Today's Lechfeld

Since 1912 is to Lagerlechfeld , a district of the municipalities digging and Untermeitingen , as the site of the Air Force of Lechfeld Air Base - 1956-2013 home of Fighter Bomber Wing 32 , now alternate aerodrome for the Tactical Air Force Wing 74 .

Web links

Commons : Lechfeld  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wiktionary: Lechfeld  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Battle of Lechfeld and its Aftermath, August 955. The End of the Age of Migrations in the Latin West, Aldershot, Burlington 2006 (German translation "Die Schlacht auf dem Lechfeld" 2012)

Coordinates: 48 ° 10 ′  N , 10 ° 49 ′  E