Wengen (Dießen am Ammersee)

Wengen Municipality of Dießen am Ammersee Coordinates: 47 ° 56 ′ 26 "  N , 11 ° 4 ′ 45"  E
Height :	616 m above sea level NHN
Residents :	148  (May 25 1987)
Postal code :	86911
Area code :	08807

Wengen is a village in the St. Georgen district of the market in Dießen am Ammersee in the Upper Bavarian district of Landsberg am Lech .

geography

Wengen is located southwest of the former district of St. Georgen von Dießen am Ammersee and has now grown together with it.

The Jungfernberg (694 m) rises one kilometer west of the village .

history

Wengen is mentioned for the first time in 1127, the place name comes from the Old High German word for grass slope: Wang.

The former Schönberg Castle is located south of Wengen on the Schatzberg . Some dams, ditches and remains of tuff walls can still be seen there. The castle was shown as a ruin as early as 1566, and it was finally demolished in 1664.

From the Middle Ages to around 1800, the Upper and Lower Wengen Ponds were located south of Wengen.

Wengen belonged to the Dießen monastery until secularization in 1803 .

Attractions

In Wengen there is the St. Leonhard Chapel , it was built in 1723 in the Baroque style after a cattle epidemic. On the day of St. Leonhard (November 6th) a Leonhardiritt with horse blessing takes place at the chapel .

The Mechtildisbrünnlein from 1885 and the castle chapel from 1792 are located on the Schatzberg (677 m) above the village .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Pankraz Fried, Peter Fassl: From Swabia and Altbayern . Thorbecke, 1991, ISBN 978-3-7995-7073-2 , pp. 124 .
2. ^ Map for those interested in history - local researcher Dießen. Accessed January 31, 2019 (German). 
3. ↑ Markt Diessen am Ammersee - churches and chapels. Retrieved January 8, 2019 .