Sankt Leonhard in the forest

Sankt Leonhard in the forest municipality Wessobrunn Coordinates: 47 ° 50 ′ 46 ″ N , 11 ° 1 ′ 48 ″ E
Height :	759 m above sea level NHN
Residents :	49 (May 25 1987)
Incorporation :	May 1, 1978
Postal code :	82405
Area code :	08809

Sankt Leonhard im Forst (officially Sankt Leonhard i.Forst ) is a district of the municipality of Wessobrunn in the Upper Bavarian district of Weilheim-Schongau .

geography

The parish village is about five kilometers south of Wessobrunn in a moraine landscape .

history

According to a legend, around 1200 there was a horse disease in the forest area. After a pilgrim carried the relics of St. Leonhard through Forst, the plague ended abruptly. Since then, St. Leonhard has been venerated here. There is historical evidence that Forst belonged to the Wessobrunn monastery and that Abbot Leonhard I held an annual Leonhardiritt in the middle of the 15th century and had a small church built.

The current Catholic church was finally built between 1726 and 1735.

Forest was an independent municipality until it was incorporated into Wessobrunn on May 1, 1978.

Attractions

Catholic parish and pilgrimage church St. Leonhard im Forst from 1735

Web links

Commons : Sankt Leonhard im Forst - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Sankt Leonhard i.Forst in the location database of the Bayerische Landesbibliothek Online . Bavarian State Library

Individual evidence

↑ Wessobrunn municipality. Retrieved February 2, 2019 .

[1] Wessobrunn municipality. Retrieved February 2, 2019 .