Hamlet (Waltenhausen)

hamlet Community Waltenhausen
	Coordinates: 48 ° 10 ′ 6 ″ N , 10 ° 21 ′ 54 ″ E
Height :	592 (590-602) m
Incorporation :	May 1, 1978
Postal code :	86480
Area code :	08263

Weiler is a small village in the municipality of Waltenhausen in the Swabian district of Günzburg .

location

The place is about two kilometers south of Waltenhausen on the Riedel between the valleys of the Krumbach and the Weilerbach . Hamlet is 600 meters above sea level. NN the highest place in the district of Günzburg . At the same time, the village is also the southernmost in the district - the border between the districts of Günzburg and Unterallgäu is about 250 m from the southern outskirts.

history

Like the neighboring Waltenhausen, Weiler was for a long time owned by the Fuggers , who still own large forests in the area of the municipality of Waltenhausen. For this reason alone, Weiler is closely associated with Waltenhausen. Around 1805 the place became Bavarian .

On May 1, 1978, the previously independent municipality of Weiler came to the municipality of Waltenhausen as part of the regional reform .

Attractions

Chapel of St. Francis Xavier seen from the northwest

Chapel of St. Franz Xavier, built in 1718, with a neo-Romanesque altar

Web links

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

Individual evidence

^ 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 and Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 775 .
↑ Ullmann, FG, (photos: Huber, M. & Huber, M.) 1992: Krumbach - Images from the city and the countryside in Central Swabia. - Müller Druck und Verlag, Krumbach, 157 pp.

[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 and Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 775 .

[2] Ullmann, FG, (photos: Huber, M. & Huber, M.) 1992: Krumbach - Images from the city and the countryside in Central Swabia. - Müller Druck und Verlag, Krumbach, 157 pp.