Lechrain

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Approximate location of the Lechrain (hatching)
Lechrain near Mundraching

With Lechrain the region between is Rain am Lech and the Alps along the Lech designated, focusing the area is located east of the river. A defining element of the Lechrain is the meeting of Bavarian and Swabian influences created by the border location. A typical feature is the Lechrain dialect , which, in addition to Swabian and Bavarian language features, has Middle High German relics.

geography

The Lechrain extends as a strip up to 20 km wide between Rain am Lech and the Ammer Mountains along the Lech. There is no precise limit, the transition to neighboring landscapes is fluid. In general, however, the largest part of the Landsberg am Lech district , the southern part of the Friedberg district and parts of the Schongau district are counted as Lechrain. According to another classification, a distinction is made between a Lower Lechrain (from Rain am Lech to Rehling ), a Middle Lechrain (center of Landsberg am Lech ) and the Upper Lechrain (from Rottenbuch to Wieskirche ).

The Lechrain is part of the northern Alpine foothills . It includes young moraine in the south, old moraine in the middle and gravel plates in the north. Parts of the Pfaffenwinkel also belong to Lechrain .

Political communities of Lechrain:

Concept history

The name "Lechrain" already illustrates the old border function of this region between Baiern and Swabia - Rain from ahd. Rein = border, edge of the forest.

The expression "Lechrayner" (Latinized Lycatii ) appears for the first time in 1550 in the cosmography of Sebastian Münster as a term for the population between Lech , Ammer and Amper . Even then, the peculiarity of this border area in terms of language and customs must have been obvious.

In 1765 the electoral court and mountain ridge Johann Georg von Lori brought out a collection of documents as the history of the Lechrain , which, however, included the entire region on the Lech from Füssen to the mouth.

The Lechrain received the most extensive attention as a regional landscape designation through the folklore documentation Aus dem Lechrain by Karl Freiherr von Leoprechting , published in 1855 . The description of rural customs and popular beliefs is still considered a classic work of folklore today .

Today, the old-established population in particular is the bearer of a special “Lechrainian” awareness. In addition, numerous associations, but also cultural institutions and companies run the Lechrain in their name. Despite the gradual retreat of regional peculiarities in language and customs, the Lechrain can still be perceived as a culturally and historically particularly shaped landscape and separated from the surrounding regions ( Allgäu , Oberland ).

Political history

The Lechrain was conquered by the Romans from the Celtic Likatians around 15 AD and became part of the province of Raetia . After the retreat of the Romans around 476 AD, the area was mainly populated by the Alamanni and partly Bavarians . The fact that most of Lechrain belongs to the Duchy of Baiern goes back to the Conradin donation, when the last Staufer Konradin had to pledge a large part of his property claims as Duke of Swabia to his former ally Duke Ludwig II of Bavaria in 1268 to settle debts . The Wittelsbach judge after the takeover in the 13th century here, the regional courts Landsberg one, Friedberg, Mering and Schongau.

Unaffected by this, the Lechrain is still almost entirely part of the Swabian diocese of Augsburg .

As border towns towards Swabia, Landsberg , Friedberg and Schongau enjoy numerous ducal privileges, which at times lead to considerable prosperity. On the other hand, Friedberg in particular was repeatedly a victim of the constant clashes between Bavaria and the wealthy imperial city of Augsburg .

With the incorporation of Augsburg and East Swabia into the later Kingdom of Bavaria in 1803/1806, Lechrain lost its political border function - mentally it has remained alive to this day.

In the 1860s, the Rasso robbers caused a national sensation.

After the administrative reforms of the 19th and 20th centuries, most of Lechrain is now part of the Upper Bavarian district of Landsberg am Lech . Schongau and the surrounding area are in the Weilheim-Schongau district, also in Upper Bavaria . In contrast, the old district of Friedberg came to Swabia in 1944 , where it was merged into the new district of Aichach-Friedberg in 1972 . The Lower Lechrain is mainly in the district of Aichach-Friedberg and in the district of Donau-Ries , around Thierhaupten a part is also in the district of Augsburg .

Literature and publications

literature
  • from Pankraz Fried :
    • ––: The Lechrain - historical and folkloric contributions to a sinking border landscape . In: Ingolf Bauer, Edgar Harvolk, Wolfgang A. Mayer: Research on historical folk culture . Festschrift for Torsten Gebhard on his 80th birthday, Munich 1989, pp. 287–295.
    • ––: The Lechrain. Bauer-Verlag, Thalhofen 2012, ISBN 978-3-941013-99-5 .
  • Aichacher Nachrichten , September 29, 2007, No. 255, p. 5:
    • Thomas Wunder: The dialect is dying out. Interview: Historian Pankraz Fried on his relationship with Lechrain.
    • Christian Lichtenstern, Thomas Wunder: The Lech has always been a limit. Lechrain: Where Bavaria and Swabia (almost) come together. The people between the river, Ammersee and Paar have their own dialect and have left traces and buildings in history.
  • other:
    • Landsberg am Lech district (Hrsg.): Home book for the Landsberg am Lech district. Landscape, history, administration, culture, economy, the individual places. 2nd Edition. This 1982.
    • Martin Wölzmüller: The Lechrainer and his language. Landscape - customs - dialect. Landsberg 1987.
    • Max Zinterer: Towards morning in the gray morning - On the history of Lechrain . Wißner-Verlag Augsburg, 2006, ISBN 3-89639-572-6 .
Television broadcast
  • Out of line in Lechrain : Under our sky from Bayerischer Rundfunk, on Sunday, July 9, 2017 at 7.15 p.m.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Article: The Lechrain and its people In: Augsburger Allgemeine from March 5, 2013

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