Reicholzried

After the Ice Age, the Iller left the old valley and since then has flowed north between Altusried (in the foreground) and Reicholzried.

Reicholzried is part of the Dietmannsried community and is located in the Oberallgäu district . It rises 720 m above sea level, has 1040 inhabitants and an area of 14.765 km².

history

The place name with the ending -ried is a typical Allgäu place name. "Ried" means something like clearing . The obvious assumption that Reicholzried means “clearing rich in wood” does not apply. Rather, a man named Richolf should have founded the settlement in Carolingian times. In the course of the Middle High German phonetic shift, Richolfsried then developed into Reicholzried. The nearby hamlet of Sachsenried is considered the clearing of forcibly transplanted Saxon settlers. The first written document for Reicholzried is from the year 1218. At that time Heinrich and Berthold von Richolfsried were witnesses in Ulm when the Kempten monastery received the umbrella bailiff from Emperor Friedrich II. One event from the long local history deserves special mention because ax traces on the iron-shod sacristy door of the church still remind us today : On May 22, 1632, 300 Swedish horsemen plundered the village and burned it down together with the church. Pastor Ulrich Weinhart was also killed in the process.

On January 1, 1972, it was incorporated into Dietmannsried.

Geography and geology

Reicholzried from the north

Reicholzried is located 12 km north of Kempten on a terminal moraine of the Iller glacier. In the northern Oberallgäu the place is visible from afar. The old Illertal lies broadly in the east. But at the end of the Ice Age, the Iller gnawed a new river bed through the moraines. Since then, the river has been flowing back and forth between steep slopes and flat banks to the west of Reicholzried.

Attractions

The parish church of St. George and Florian can be seen everywhere due to its favorable location in the northern Oberallgäu. The reticulated vault in the choir is a reminder of the Gothic period . In 1788, under Prince Rupert, it was given the extraordinary frescos and stucco in the late Baroque / Rococo style, making it one of the most beautiful churches in the Allgäu. The stucco work was done by Franz Xaver Feuchtmayer the Younger . In addition, the cemetery is well known, nowhere else you can see so many wrought iron and colored grave crosses. At the entrance to the church square is the presumably 300-year-old judicial linden tree , which has since been filled with concrete to ensure its preservation. An oath hand and words are carved on the memorial stone next to it. They say that at this point justice was pronounced by the Kempten monastery as early as 1430 under the later Emperor Sigismund. A hilltop rises north of the village, which is now densely forested. There is a Mount of Olives chapel , a grotto, a Way of the Cross and many wayside shrines . ( Kalvarienberg Reicholzried )