Schwangau is a common of Germany, in the Land of Bavaria (3  419 inhabitants).

History

The discovery of tools on the Frauenberg attests the presence of a first settlement to the age of the stone.

In the year 15 av. J. - C., the Roman troops conquer, under the command of Drusus and Tibère the Préalpes until the the Danube. Under the emperor Claude, a road crosses the the Alps, the Via Claudia . It connects Rome and the Italy to the province of Rhétie. The Vétéran S of the Roman Armée received pieces like starting gift and are based in the indigenous population. Thus were born the agglomerations from the Tegelberg (hydropathic establishment at the 2nd century) and the villae rusticae (inn).

With the fall of the Roman Empire, the area is occupied, cleared and exploited by the Alamans. There remains of this time surroundings a hundred and thirty tombs in the north of Schwangau.

The first Christian church is attested in 746. It is the first on Right Bank of the Lech and is dedicated to holy Magne and Tozzo saint.

First mention of the Toponym Schwangau ( Castrum Swangowe ) date of 1090. It is about a Château located at the site of the current Neuschwanstein. It was a property of the Guelfes.

The Minnesang (troubadour) Hitpold de Schwangau (towards 1190 - 1256) left an abundant work. Schwangau passes to the Bavaria to the 15th century. One century later is built the first castle of Hohenschwangau.

The Plague devastation the area of 1618 with 1648. The tradition wants that it was disencumbered of it by a procession with Saint Coloman.

The castle changes several times of owner before being acquired by the family of the Wittelsbach which restores it. The king Louis II made contruire Neuschwanstein as of 1869.

Schwangau is a high place of the Tourisme in Germany.

Curiosities

• the castle of Neuschwanstein

• the castle of Hohenschwangau
• the Saint-Coloman church of Schwangau