Schwenden (Bad Groenenbach)

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Schwenden
Coordinates: 47 ° 51 ′ 50 ″  N , 10 ° 15 ′ 59 ″  E
Height : 725 m above sea level NN
Postal code : 87730
Area code : 08334
Schwenden
Schwenden

Schwenden is a hamlet of the Kneipp spa Bad Grönenbach in the Unterallgäu district in Bavaria .

geography

topography

The hamlet is located about 3.5 kilometers south-east of Bad Grönenbach at an altitude of 725  m above sea level. NN . Schwenden borders clockwise, starting from the north, with the village of Ittelsburg , the hamlets Niedergsäng , Niederholz , Hörensberg in the district of Oberallgäu and the hamlet In der Tarrast in the district of Unterallgäu. The federal highway 7 runs from northwest to southeast past Schwenden.

geology

Schwenden lies on a young moraine with terminal moraine courses from the Worm Ice Age of the Pleistocene . The subsoil partly contains gravel and gravel as well as sand , clay and silt .

history

Schwenden is a former clearing settlement from the late Middle Ages .

Web links

Commons : Schwenden  - collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

  • Hermann Haisch (Ed.): Landkreis Unterallgäu . Memminger Zeitung Verlagsdruckerei, Memmingen 1987, ISBN 3-9800649-2-1 , p. 1019 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Geological map of Bavaria 1: 500,000. Bavarian State Ministry of Finance, Regional Development and Homeland, accessed on November 22, 2015 .