Munster (Mickhausen)

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Muenster
Community Mickhausen
Munster coat of arms
Coordinates: 48 ° 13 ′ 46 ″  N , 10 ° 38 ′ 15 ″  E
Height : 524 m
Residents : 211  (May 25 1987)
Incorporation : May 1, 1978
Postal code : 86866
Area code : 08204

Munster is a church village and district of the municipality Mickhausen in the southwest of the district of Augsburg in the administrative region of Swabia in Bavaria . The village of Rielhofen also belongs to the district.

location

The church village of Münster is located on two slopes sloping to the south and south-east in the Augsburg-Westliche Wälder nature park on the upper reaches of the Schmutter amid the perennials .

The district road A 16 leads from Walkertshofen via Münster, Zirken , Klimmach , Leuthau and Königshausen to Schwabmünchen . The district road A 2 leads from Mickhausen via Zirken, Kelchsried , Rielhofen, Konradshofen and Erkhausen to Scherstetten .

history

Münster was first mentioned in a document in 969. The foundation probably goes back to Benedictine monks , who settled in the forests west of the Lech and Wertach between 750 and 850 AD in order to clear the land here.

The name of the place is probably owed to these monks, because over the centuries the name “Münster” emerged from the Latin “Monasterium” (monastery). However, there are no more remains of this monastery, only on the place where the monastery stood there is now another sight to be admired.

Until the regional reform in Bavaria on July 1, 1972, Münster and its district belonged to the district of Schwabmünchen and was then added to the district of Augsburg (initially called the district of Augsburg-West ). On May 1, 1978 it was incorporated into the Mickhausen community .

Attractions

Church of St. Benedict and St. Vitus

The Münster Church, a branch church that is consecrated to Saints St. Benedict and St. Vitus, is one of the few late Gothic churches in southern Germany that have been preserved as such. It belongs to the parish of Sankt Wolfgang in Mickhausen.

Trivia

The Mickhausen hill climb started in Münster from 1964 to 1985 and again since 2001 .

Web links

Commons : Münster  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bavarian State Office for Statistics and Data Processing (Ed.): Official local directory for Bavaria, territorial status: May 25, 1987 . Issue 450 of the articles on Bavaria's statistics. Munich November 1991, DNB  94240937X , p. 392 ( digitized version ).
  2. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer GmbH, Stuttgart and Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 768 .