Pestenacker

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Pestenacker
Coordinates: 48 ° 9 ′ 20 ″  N , 10 ° 56 ′ 37 ″  E
Height : 572 m above sea level NHN
Residents : 235  (1987)
Incorporation : January 1, 1972
Postal code : 86947
Area code : 08195
Pestenacker from the southeast
Pestenacker from the southeast

Pestenacker is a village in the Upper Bavarian district of Landsberg am Lech , which is part of the municipality of Weil located five kilometers to the south .

Location / history

The parish village is located in the east of the municipality on a valley slope.

The name Pestenacker can possibly be interpreted as the village with the bad or swampy fields , also in Celtic Pez means swamp. It is more likely to be interpreted as the best field , since the plateaus above the valley floor consist of the best farmland ( loess and loess loam).

On January 1, 1972, the previously independent municipality of Pestenacker was incorporated into the municipality of Weil.

Prehistoric settlement Pestenacker

To the west of Pestenacker is the one-kilometer-wide basin of the Verloren Bach and the Loosbach.

Stone Age settlement remains from the 4th millennium BC were found there as early as the 1930s when the valley was drained by the Reich Labor Service . Discovered. Today these remains of three wetland settlements are assigned to the Altheimer Group and are considered to be the best preserved in Bavaria due to the humid swampy location for thousands of years . The settlement south of the village has been excavated and researched since the 1980s; remains of textiles found there and a well-preserved Stone Age hat have become known nationwide.

So far, only small parts of the settlement have been explored, the excavations will be stopped in 2004 due to lack of funding.

Currently, the Friends of the Prehistoric Settlement Pestenacker eV is reconstructing the settlement from the Neolithic Age. So far a museum building and the beginning of the reconstruction of a Stone Age settlement have been built.

See also: List of soil monuments in Weil (Upper Bavaria)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Official directory for Bavaria, territorial status: May 25, 1987
  2. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 507 .