Town in Bavaria, Germany
Weilheim in Oberbayern ( english : ‘Weilheim in Upper Bavaria ‘ ) is a town in Germany, the capital of the district Weilheim-Schongau in the south of Bavaria. Weilheim has an old city-wall, historic houses and a museum .

local history [edit ]

up to the eighteenth hundred [edit ]

The oldest traces of human colony date back to the Bronze Age [ 3 ] and there were scratch finds from the Late Roman era. [ 4 ] The mention Weilheim is interpreted as a base to the Roman villa ( nation estates ). There are, however, several other theories for the roots of the list. [ 5 ] Upper Bavaria came in Roman hands through air force officer Drusus. [ 6 ] The Romans built “ Via Raetia ” in 200 AD, which led over the Brenner Pass to Augsburg. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] This Roman road ran through the Weilheim area. [ 6 ] Around 476 AD, the Romans withdrew southwards and the Bavarians came into the region. [ 8 ]

The first documentary mention of the greenwich village “ Wilhain ” dates from 16 April 1010 of the king and late Emperor Heinrich II of Bamberg, who granted the monastery of Polling the property of a farm in Weilheim in 1010. [ 3 ] [ 9 ] From about 1080 onwards lord of Weilheim appeared, they were vassals from Andechs-Meranier and disappeared around 1312. [ 3 ] [ 10 ] From 1236, there was a wall argue as a precursor to the town rampart. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] Around 1328, the Munich aristocratic Ludwig Pütrich enabled the institution of the Heiliggeistspital ( lighted. : Holy Spirit Hospital ) outside the town walls through donations. [ 3 ] [ 12 ] A award of the town is named after him. In the Middle Ages, there were several big fires in Weilheim. When a plague epidemic broke out in Munich in 1521, the Bavarian dukes Wilhelm IV and Ludwig temporarily resided in Weilheim. [ 3 ] [ 13 ] Early in the seventeenth hundred, artwork flourished in Weilheim, specially the Weilheimer sculpt school. [ 14 ] long-familiar representatives from this time were Georg Petel, Hans Krumpper, and Johann Sebastian Degler. In 1611, the alleged Trifthof was set up at the Ammer for log drift, [ 3 ] [ 15 ] where tree trunks were bond together as rafts to carry them along the watercourse polish to the Amper. [ 3 ] [ 16 ] In 1639, the franciscan monastery of St. Joseph was founded at the Schmied Gate because of a lack of priests. [ 17 ]

19th and twentieth hundred [edit ]

The franciscan monastery in Weilheim was abolished as a result of the secularization in 1802. [ 3 ] [ 18 ] 120 houses burnt down and two people were killed in a dangerous fire catastrophe in the Oberen Stadt ( illuminated. : upper town ) on 3 May 1810. [ 19 ] [ 20 ] The former Franciscan monastery burnt down in 1825, after which a Heiliggeistspital was built and a hospital on today ‘s Münchner Straße in 1826. [ 3 ] [ 21 ] On 1 October 1869, the first daily newspaper was published, the “ Weilheimer Tagblatt ”. [ 3 ] [ 18 ] Between 1872 and 1874, three city gates were demolished, the Obere Tor in 1872, the Schmied Gate in 1873, and the Pöltner Gate in 1874. [ 3 ] [ 22 ] 24 people were killed and the coach station was destroyed by an air travel raid in the moment World War on 19 April 1945. [ 3 ] [ 23 ]

sport [edit ]

The aeroclub Weilheim- Peißenberg flying at Paterzell airfield is rather successful in glider aerobatics : 2006 german National Champion Markus Feyerabend [ 24 ] and Hans-Georg Resch [ 25 ] are members of the german national glider aerobatics team .

transportation [edit ]

Weilheim has a station on the Munich-Garmisch-Partenkirchen railway.

celebrated people [edit ]

Georg Petel in 1628

International relations [edit ]

Weilheim in Oberbayern is twinned with :

  • FranceNarbonne, France
  • Yelabuga, Tatarstan, Russian Federation

References [edit ]