Warching

Warching City of Monheim
Coordinates: 48 ° 50 ′ 17 ″  N , 10 ° 54 ′ 46 ″  E
Height :	472 m
Residents :	150  (2015)
Incorporation :	May 1, 1978
Postal code :	86653
Area code :	09091

Warching is a district of the city of Monheim in the Swabian district of Donau-Ries ( Bavaria ).

Warching from the north

location

The church village is about four kilometers east of Monheim. The Gailach flows past to the south , a tributary of the Altmühl .

history

Warching was part of the so-called Vogtei Monheim, which had been under Bavarian sovereignty since 1457, after it had already come into close contact with the Duchy of Bavaria in the second half of the 14th century . In the Middle Ages, the Warching church was looked after by the Monheim Benedictine monastery .

On May 1, 1978, the previously independent community was incorporated into the city of Monheim.

Architectural monuments

• Catholic branch church of St. Nicholas

→ List of architectural monuments in Warching

Son of the place

• Johann Baptist Herb (1806–1890), Catholic theologian

Web links

• Warching on the Monheim website
• Warching in the location database of the Bayerische Landesbibliothek Online . Bavarian State Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer GmbH, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 794 .