Top tube (Ursberg)
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community Ursberg
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| Height : | 505 (496-518) m |
| Residents : | 816 (Feb. 1, 2017) |
| Incorporation : | January 1, 1976 |
| Postal code : | 86513 |
| Area code : | 08281 |
Oberrohr is a district with about 800 inhabitants in the municipality of Ursberg in the district of Günzburg in Bavaria .
location
The church village is about one kilometer north of Ursberg on an eastern slope of the Mindeltal and on the district road GZ 25 . This leads to the federal highway 300, which runs just south .
history
The place name Oberrohr may have come from the reed , which used to be found especially "in the Mösle".
A local nobility in Rohr is mentioned as early as 1109. In the 13th century Heinrich von Rohr is attested as Ministerial of the Lords of Neuburg . In 1254 the Ursberg monastery received the Rohr church as a gift from noble Berthold von Neuburg. The seat of the monastic lower court was in Oberrohr .
On May 1, 1978, the previously independent municipality of Oberrohr was incorporated into Ursberg.
Attractions
- Catholic branch church of St. Pankratius
See also: List of architectural monuments in Oberrohr
Sons of the place
- Fridolin Rothermel (1895–1955), Bavarian politician and representative of farmers' associations
- Theo Waigel (* 1939), Federal Minister of Finance from 1989 to 1998 and CSU Chairman from 1988 to 1999
literature
- Bernt von Hagen, Angelika Wegener-Hüssen: Landkreis Günzburg (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume VII.91 / 1 ). Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-87490-589-6 , p. 483 .
Web links
- Top tube in the location database of the Bavarian State Library Online . Bavarian State Library