Pitzling (Landsberg am Lech)

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Pitzling
Municipality Landsberg am Lech
Coordinates: 48 ° 0 ′ 49 ″  N , 10 ° 52 ′ 57 ″  E
Height : 621 m above sea level NHN
Residents : 513  (May 25 1987)
Incorporation : July 1, 1972
Postal code : 86899
Area code : 08191
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Pitzling is a district of Landsberg am Lech in the Upper Bavarian district of Landsberg am Lech and is located about five kilometers south of the city on a Lech barrage at the end of the Lech Park Pössinger Au at an altitude of 621  m above sea level. NN .

There is no significant business. The location on the Lech with many bathing opportunities attracts visitors from the surrounding area to Pitzling in summer, the reservoir is also often used for canoeing .

history

The first traces of settlement date from the Bronze and Urnfield Ages .

The place name suggests a Germanic resettlement in the early Middle Ages, from the 6th century the Bavarians controlled the area.

As early as the middle of the 8th century, the Seiferstetten monastery was founded by the Huosi about two kilometers south of the village , but was not rebuilt after the destruction by the Hungarians in the 10th century.

Pitzling is first mentioned in a document in 1270 as a Butzlinge in the land register of the Landsberg office, the place name is derived from the personal name Buzo . At that time the place was a bailiff of the Wessobrunn monastery and was built on the edge of Pöring Castle .

In legal terms, Pitzling later belonged to the Ummendorf area of ​​the Upper Office of the Landsberg Regional Court . In 1752, 27 properties are recorded, ten of which were landable for the Wessobrunn monastery, six for the community, three Landsberg citizens, two for the Igling church and one each for the Andechs and Dießen monasteries , the Landsberg caste office, the Igling court and the Igling parish.

On July 1, 1972, the previously independent municipality was incorporated into the city of Landsberg am Lech.

Club life

Festivals and other activities are organized on a regular basis, such as the village festival, the Pitzlinger strong beer evening, soap box races or volleyball tournaments. Organizers are the brass band, the shooting club, the active Pitzling village community or the Pitzling youths. The place also has its own volunteer fire department .

Attractions

Soil monuments

See: List of soil monuments in Landsberg am Lech

Personalities

literature

  • Pankraz Fried, Sebastian Hiereth: Altbayern row I issue 22-23: Landsberg district court and Rauhenlechsberg nursing court . In: Historical Atlas of Bavaria . Komm. Für Bayerische Landesgeschichte, Munich 1971 (327 pages).
  • Josef Hemmerle : The Benedictine Abbey Benediktbeuern . De Gruyter, Berlin and New York 1993, especially p. 80 ff. ( E-copy ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Landsberg town history from the beginning until 1945. Retrieved on June 6, 2019 .
  2. ^ Pankraz Fried, Peter Fassl: From Swabia and Altbayern . Thorbecke, 1991, ISBN 978-3-7995-7073-2 , pp. 128 .
  3. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 601 .

Web links

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