Lengenfeld (Oberostendorf)
Lengenfeld is part of the municipality of Oberostendorf in the Ostallgäu .
geography
The small pile village of about 180 inhabitants and an area of about 700 hectares located on the eastern edge of Kirchweih valley between Kaufbeuren and Landsberg am Lech on the western foot of a ridge, of the matte from Wertachtal separates. The village image is dominated by agriculture (dairy farming, arable farming), in 2009 there were 11 full-time agricultural businesses and a number of part-time businesses.
history
Lengenfeld is mentioned for the first time in a document on February 5, 1059 in a document from King Henry the Fourth as a border town of the wilderness district by Bishop Heinrich II. Earlier settlement can be proven by means of barrows. A castle ruin on the Stockberg is assigned to the Lengenfeldd family and was abandoned in 1414, the lord of the castle Ruprecht von Lechsberg moved into a farm in Lengenfeld. The village became the property of Ulrich Honold from Augsburg , then passed to the Steingaden monastery and the Augsburg monastery before it became Bavarian through secularization .
Since May 1st, 1978 the village belongs to the municipality of Oberostendorf.
Attractions
- Catholic parish church St. Nikolaus : The choir and upper part of the tower were rebuilt from 1707 to 1709 by the Rettenbach master builder Joseph Miller on late medieval foundations and provided with stucco around 1750 . The high altar comes from St. Martin, Kaufbeuren .
- Burgstall: About 800 m east-southeast of the church on the road in the Hofwald there is a castle stable, first mentioned in 1306 and abandoned in 1414 .
Personalities
The moral theologian Jakob Danzer comes from Lengenfeld.
swell
- Allgäuer Zeitung from April 29, 2009
Individual evidence
- ↑ List of monuments of the BLFD, 8030/0026 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ List of monuments of the BLFD ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Heinrich Habel, Helga Himen: monuments in Bavaria. Volume VII. Schwaben, Munich 1985.
- ↑ List of monuments of the BLFD, 8030/0025 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Coordinates: 47 ° 57 ' N , 10 ° 47' E