Leitershofen
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Leitershofen
City Stadtbergen
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| Height : | 486 m |
| Residents : | 2832 (1987) |
| Incorporation : | May 1, 1978 |
| Postal code : | 86391 |
| Area code : | 0821 |
Leitershofen is a parish village and district of the city Stadtbergen in the Swabian district of Augsburg in Bavaria ( Germany ).
The federal road 17 , which coincides with the federal road 300 , has two exits to Leitershofen, namely Leitershofen / Pfersee-Süd and Stadtbergen-Leitershofen / Augsburg-Pfersee . The district road A 11 leads from Stadtbergen via Leitershofen to the district border to Schafweidesiedlung , where it turns into the district road As 6 .
history
The formerly independent municipality was incorporated into Stadtbergen on May 1, 1978 as part of the regional reform in Bavaria .
The Catholic parish of Sankt Oswald in Leitershofen, with the old church of St. Oswald (baroque new building from 1732 by the builder Johann Georg Fischer ) and the new parish church of the risen Lord (architect Adolf Zach, consecrated in 1970) belongs to the parish community Stadtbergen in the deanery Augsburg II in the diocese of Augsburg . In the village is the diocese's retreat house with the St. Paul chapel (completed in 1963, architect Thomas Wechs ).
In Leitershofen there is the international institute for empirical social economy .
Personalities
- Eitelhans Langenmantel (* around 1480 in Leitershofen, † 1528 in Weißenhorn), member of the Augsburg patrician dynasty Langenmantel vom Sparren, which later became extinct, and a martyr of the Anabaptist movement
- Imanuel Lauster (* 1873 in Münster near Stuttgart, † 1948 in Leitershofen), technician and CEO of MAN
- Karl Kraft (* 1903 in Munich, † 1978 in Augsburg), cathedral organist in Augsburg, composer. Owned an estate in Leitershofen that he lived in for decades. Today the street there is named after him.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ 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 / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 768 .
