Landsberg amndt Lech

See also: Landsberg

Landsberg amndt Lech is a commune of approximately 28.000 inhabitants located in Bavaria (Germany). This picturesque city, on the romantic Road, chief town of district, is twinned with Saint-Laurent-of-VAr (France).

Founded by Henri the Lion, Landsberg amndt Lech has a history of more than 700 years. The old city on the edges of the Lech river is a roomy shopping mall with its rich person houses patricians, its town hall with a frontage decorated with stuccos by Dominikus Zimmermann and the tower of Schmalz.

It is in the prison of this commune that was kept Adolf Hitler in 1924 and where he wrote Mein Kampf . The defendants of the Procès of Nuremberg in their turn will be locked up in this prison between 1945 and 1946.

districts of Landsberg

Erpfting, Ellighofen, Pitzling, Reisch and Friedheim.

The town of Landsberg has also some small hamlets ( Weiler ) Mittelstetten, Sandau and Stadtwaldhof.

Twinning

monuments and curiosities

  • the tower of Bavaria Bayertor 1425 (point of view)

  • the old town hall (1719) of Dominikus Zimmermann and places it Hauptplatz and its fountain of Maria Marienbrunnen (1783)
  • the tower of Schmalz (Schmalzturm) (13th century)
  • the old mountain road Alte Bergstraße and its houses picturesque
  • the tower of the mother Mutterturm, going back to 1884, of Hubert von Herkomer
  • cascades of Lech Karolinenwehr
  • the district of the witches Hexenviertel, picturesque district of the artists
  • the castle Schlossberg
  • the old cloister Arkadenhof of Jesuitenkollegs (1576-1609)
  • the district " Klösterl" and its tower of the nuns Nonnenturm (14th century)
  • the tower Landsberger Jungfernsprung (1st half of the 14th century)
  • the tower of the corbels Dachlturm ( Dohlenturm ) (2nd half of the 15th century)
  • the tower of the dyes Färbertor (1458)
  • the tower of the bakers Bäckertor (15th century) on the Roßmarkt
  • the tower of the witches Hexenturm (15th century) and her restaurant
  • the tower of the powder Pulverturm (15th century)
  • the tower of Sandau Sandauer Tor (1630), beside the court of Staffinger Staffinger Hof, (1500)
  • the old barn with salt Landsberger Salzstadl (14th century)
  • the old cemetery and its historical tombs (1596-1598)
  • the station (1872) Bahnhof Landsberg
  • the castle of Pöring Schloss Pöring (16th century) and its church, Landsberg-Pitzling

Church and vaults

  • center town:

  • Stadtpfarrkirche Mariä Himmelfahrt (1458-1708)

  • Marienkapelle im Obergeschoß of Südportals in der Stadtpfarrkirche Mariä Himmelfahrt (1605)
  • Johanniskirche, of Dominikus Zimmermann (1750-52)
  • Hl. Kreuz-Kirche, 1754
  • Ignatiuskapelle
  • Stadtpfarrkirche zu den Heiligen Engeln (1967)
  • the church St Katharina (1890-92)
  • the vault Leprosenkapelle (1458)
  • Friedhofskirche Zur Heiligen Dreifaltigkeit im alten, denkmalgeschützen Stadtfriedhof (1596-98)
  • Friedhofskirche St Ulrich in Landsberg-Spötting (1765)
  • Klosterkirche der Ursulinen (1754)
  • Brunnenkirchlein amndt Hofgraben (1756)
  • Altöttinger Kapelle amndt Waldfriedhof (1857)
  • Christuskirche, evang. (1913-14)
  • Neuapostolische Kirche (1970)
  • St Christina Kapelle (1991)

  • with the districts:

  • Ehem. Klosterkirche, St Benedikt, älteste Kirche of Landkreises, Landsberg-Sandau (8.Jhdt-1720)

  • Schloßkirche Pöring, Maria von der Versöhnung v. Dominikus Zimmermann, Pitzling (1764-66)
  • Pfarrkirche St.Johann Baptist, Landsberg-Pitzling (1435)
  • Pfarrkirche St Michael, Landsberg- Erpfting
  • Maria-Eich-Kapelle, Landsberg- Erpfting (1696)
  • Filialkirche Mariä Himmelfahrt, Landsberg- Reisch (1730)
  • Filialkirche St Stephanus, Landsberg- Ellighofen
  • Feldkapelle St.Rasso (1690), Landsberg-Ellighofen
  • Feldkapelle Zur schmerzhaften Muttergottes (1760), Landsberg-Ellighofen

Theaters

  • the theater of the city Landsberger Stadttheater (1878)

Personalities

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