Schneckenhofen

Schneckenhofen community Bibertal Coordinates: 48 ° 24 ′ 8 ″ N , 10 ° 13 ′ 29 ″ E
Height :	492 m above sea level NN
Residents :	230 (2015)
Incorporation :	May 1, 1978
Postal code :	89346
Area code :	08226

Schneckenhofen is a district of the municipality of Bibertal in the Swabian district of Günzburg ( Bavaria ).

location

The church village lies in the open ground in the east of the municipality and can be reached via the state road St 2020 . It is traversed by the Lower Lachgraben , a source brook of the Drill .

history

The place name is probably of Alemannic origin and is interpreted as the courts of Snego . Schneckenhofen is first mentioned in a papal document of August 16, 1225 as Schneggenhouven in connection with the Elchingen monastery . The property in the place was very fragmented, it belonged to the margraviate Burgau and other dominions . Schneckenhofen has grown together from at least two sub-settlements, west and east of the Lower Lachgraben.

On the occasion of the Bavarian regional reform , the formerly independent community Schneckenhofen was merged with other communities to form the unitary community Bibertal on May 1, 1978.

Attractions

Chapel of St. George

Catholic Chapel of St. George , built in 1924
Wayside shrine from the 19th century

literature

Bernt von Hagen, Angelika Wegener-Hüssen: Landkreis Günzburg (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume VII.91 / 1 ). Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-87490-589-6 , p. 33 .

Web links

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

Schneckenhofen in the location database of the Bayerische Landesbibliothek Online . Bavarian State Library
The districts on the website of the community Bibertal