Lechmühlen

Lechmühlen municipality Fuchstal Coordinates: 47 ° 57 ′ 11 ″ N , 10 ° 52 ′ 9 ″ E
Height :	612 m above sea level NHN
Residents :	36 (Dec. 31, 2013)
Postal code :	86925
Area code :	08243
	The chapel in Lechmühlen

Lechmühlen is a district of the municipality of Fuchstal in the Upper Bavarian district of Landsberg am Lech .

geography

The village is located about three kilometers east of Leeder on a gravel terrace of the Lech not far from federal highway 17 .

Lech barrage 12 - Lechmühlen - is located southeast of the village .

history

The first mention of the village comes from 1469.

The village was part of the main team Mundraching of the Rauhenlechsberg care court until the secularization in 1803 . In 1752 six properties are mentioned. Four properties are free and two are available for the Rauhenlechsberg box office. The sovereignty was initially to 1785 when the Bishopric of Augsburg , then at the Electorate of Bavaria .

There were once five mills in Lechmühlen. However, these were not driven by the Lech, but by a stream that rises on the edge of the Lech terrace. The last of the former grinding mills ceased operations in 1980, but two sawmills are still in operation. The former hammer forge ceased operations in 1936.

Johann Baptist Baader

The church painter of the Bavarian Rococo Johann Baptist Baader (1717–1780) came from a milling family from Lechmühlen.

Attractions

In Lechmühlen there is a Catholic chapel from the 18th century. The frescoes by Johann Baptist Baader were painted over in 1870.

Soil monuments

See: List of ground monuments in Fuchstal

literature

Pankraz Fried, Sebastian Hiereth: District Court Landsberg and Pfleggericht Rough Lech Mountain (= . Historical Atlas of Bavaria Altbayern Series I . Band 22/23 ). Komm. Für Bayerische Landesgeschichte, Munich 1971, DNB 720039177 .

Web links

Lechmühlen in the location database of the Bavarian State Library Online . Bavarian State Library

Individual evidence

^ Pankraz Fried , Peter Fassl: From Swabia and Altbayern . Thorbecke, 1991, ISBN 978-3-7995-7073-2 , pp. 125 .
^ Heide Weißhaar-Kiem: Landsberg am Lech district . Ed .: Landsberg am Lech district. 1st edition. EOS Verlag, Sankt Ottilien 2010, ISBN 978-3-8306-7437-5 , p. 205 .

[1] Pankraz Fried , Peter Fassl: From Swabia and Altbayern . Thorbecke, 1991, ISBN 978-3-7995-7073-2 , pp. 125 .

[2] Heide Weißhaar-Kiem: Landsberg am Lech district . Ed .: Landsberg am Lech district. 1st edition. EOS Verlag, Sankt Ottilien 2010, ISBN 978-3-8306-7437-5 , p. 205 .