Waldkirch (Winterbach)
Waldkirch is a district with around 300 inhabitants (2015) in the Winterbach municipality in the Günzburg district in Bavaria . Today's municipality of Winterbach was created on July 1, 1972 through the voluntary amalgamation of the previously independent municipalities of Winterbach, Waldkirch and Rechbergreuthen .
The church village is one and a half kilometers north of Winterbach and can be reached via the GZ 11 district road.
history
Roman settlement finds in the area of Waldkirch point to an ancient settlement tradition.
In the late Middle Ages , the lords of Waldkirch are proven to be local lords and fiefs of the Counts of Kirchberg . It was not until the transfer to the Lords of Freyberg in 1511 that the place was spared a future change of rule.
Personalities
In Waldkirch was born:
- Ernst Zimmermann (1929–1985), manager, RAF murder victim
Attractions
See also: List of architectural monuments in Waldkirch
- Catholic parish and pilgrimage church of the Virgin Mary in pain
- Rectory
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. 509-512 .
Web links
- Waldkirch in the location database of the Bayerische Landesbibliothek Online . Bavarian State Library
- Winterbach municipality
Coordinates: 48 ° 29 ' N , 10 ° 29' E