Völken (Eggenthal)

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Völken
Community Eggenthal
Coordinates: 47 ° 54 ′ 0 ″  N , 10 ° 27 ′ 44 ″  E
Postal code : 87653
Area code : 08347
Folks, houses and chapels in winter
Folks, houses and chapels in winter

Völken belongs to the Holzstetten settlement group and is a district of the Upper Swabian municipality of Eggenthal in the Ostallgäu district in Bavaria .

location

The hamlet is west of Eggenthal.

history

Völken is first mentioned in the Eggenthal church register at the end of the 18th century. The place name should go back to an older farm name . The hamlet and the Holzstettener settlements belonged to the Ronsberg rule of Stein. After their division, it and the surrounding towns came to the Kempten Monastery under Prince Abbot Engelbert von Syrgenstein in 1749 .

Until May 1, 1978, Völken belonged to the previously independent municipality of Bayersried in the Altland district of Marktoberdorf . Bayersried was then incorporated into Eggenthal as part of the regional reform.

Ecclesiastically, the place belonged to the Baisweil parish until 1495 . Since 1495 Völken has belonged to the Eggenthal parish of St. Afra.

Architectural monuments

In the center of the village there is a chapel from the first half of the 18th century, which is a listed building.

literature

  • Aegidius Kalb and Ewald Kohler (eds.): Ostallgäu - once and now . Allgäuer Zeitungsverlag, Kempten 1984, ISBN 3-88006-103-3 , p. 1072 .
  • Anton von Steichele, Alfred Schröder, Friedrich Zoepfl : The Diocese of Augsburg: described historically and statistically, Volume II . B. Schmid'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Augsburg 1864, p. 344 .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Völken in the local database of the Bayerische Landesbibliothek Online . Bavarian State Library, accessed on August 18, 2018.
  2. ^ Walter Brandmüller : Spiritual life in Kempten of the 17th and 18th centuries . In: Journal for Bavarian State History 43 (1980), p. 620 f.
  3. Johann Baptist Haggenmüller: History of the City and the Fürsteten Grafschaft Kempten , p. 294.