Because (Upper Bavaria)

Basic data
State :	Bavaria
Administrative region :	Upper Bavaria
County :	Landsberg am Lech
Height :	587 m above sea level NHN
Area :	44.48 km 2
Residents:	3854 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	87 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	86947
Primaries :	08195, 08193
License plate :	LL
Community key :	09 1 81 145
Community structure:	14 parts of the community
Address of the ; municipal administration:	Landsberger Strasse 15 ; 86947 Weil
Website :	www.weil.de
Mayor :	Christian Bolz ( village community / free voters )
Location of the community of Weil in the Landsberg am Lech district

Because from the south

Memorial for Jewish victims at the Schwabhausen concentration camp cemetery

Petzenhausen from the north

Geretshausen from the southeast

Weil is a municipality in the Upper Bavarian district of Landsberg am Lech .

geography

The community is located about nine kilometers northeast of Landsberg and is 30 and 50 kilometers away from Augsburg and Munich, respectively. It is traversed by the Lost Bach in a south-north direction , called Friedberger Ach in its lower course .

structure

The municipality consists of six districts , which correspond to the former municipalities, and has 14 officially named municipality parts :

the Pfarrdorf Beuerbach with the Weiler Adelhausen and wastes Mangmühle , Wolfsmühle and Zellhof
the parish village of Geretshausen with the wasteland Aumühle
the parish village of Pestenacker
the parish village of Petzenhausen
the parish village of Schwabhausen near Landsberg with the hamlet of Machelberg
the parish village of Weil with the hamlets of Missenhof and Neuweil

Neighboring communities

Neighboring communities are (clockwise from the north): Prittriching , Egling an der Paar , Geltendorf , Eresing , Windach , Penzing , Kaufering and Scheuring .

history

Until the church is planted

The place name Weil is of Roman origin and was originally Villa (manor).

Weil belonged to the Munich Rent Office and to the Landsberg Regional Court of the Electorate of Bavaria . The German Order ( Kommende Blumenthal ) had an open court mark here .

In the course of the administrative reforms in the Kingdom of Bavaria , the municipality of Weil was created with the municipal edict of 1818 .

Territorial reform

Today's community of Weil was created on January 1, 1972 in the course of the regional reform from the previously independent communities of Weil, Beuerbach, Geretshausen, Pestenacker, Petzenhausen and Schwabhausen near Landsberg.

Population development

Lived on the territory of the parish

1970: 2278 inhabitants
1987: 2608 inhabitants
1991: 2918 inhabitants
1995: 3141 inhabitants
2000: 3321 inhabitants
2005: 3626 inhabitants
2010: 3765 inhabitants
2015: 3775 inhabitants
2018: 3833 inhabitants
2019: 3854 inhabitants

Between 1988 and 2019 the municipality grew from 2,688 to 3,854 by 1,166 inhabitants or by 43.4%.

politics

Municipal council

After the municipal council election on March 16, 2014, the council was composed as follows:

list	be right	percent	Seats
Village community Weil (DG Weil)	9,867	34.98%	6th
Free voter group Schwabhausen (FWG Schwabhausen)	7,589	26.90%	4th
Geretshausen village community (DG Geretshausen)	3,437	12.18%	2
Village community Petzenhausen (DG Petzenhausen)	2,958	10.49%	2
Free voters Pestenacker (FW Pestenacker)	2,415	8.56%	1
Beuerbach village community (DG Beuerbach)	1,944	6.89%	1

coat of arms

The description of the coat of arms reads: In silver a black paw cross , covered with a silver heart shield , in it a red sheep scissors .

Coat of arms history

The black paw cross is the heraldic symbol of the Teutonic Knight Order. From the 13th century until the dissolution of the order in 1806, Weil belonged to the imperial rule of the Teutonic Order of Blumenthal near Aichach. The sheep shears in the heart shield are taken from the coat of arms of the former local lords, the Lords of Haldenberg. As early as 1260 the Haldenbergers handed over goods in Weil to the Teutonic Order; Konrad von Haldenberg himself entered the order in 1314.

Culture and sights

Weil became known nationwide through excavations of Stone Age wetland settlements in the valley of the Lost Brook near Pestenacker.

130 victims of Nazi tyranny were buried in three collective graves near the railway line in the cemetery of honor in the Schwabhausen district . The community of Weil speaks of 120 dead. Other places of 140 dead and more. A British or American reconnaissance aircraft discovered a parked ammunition train at this point on April 27, 1945. A train with up to 3,400 prisoners from the concentration camp Kaufering was then allegedly deliberately blocked by the escorts of the ammunition train . The low-flying aircraft that appeared shortly after fired at this train. Many of the 500 or so prisoners who fled were shot. The wounded Jews were taken to the hospital of the St. Ottilien Archabbey . Probably only 1,769 prisoners reached the Dachau destination station . Jewish inscriptions were placed on the memorial stones erected above the collective graves.