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Augsburger Verkehrs- Und Tarifverbund
The ''Augsburger Verkehrs- und Tarifverbund'' (German for Augsburg Transport and Tariff Association) or AVV is the transit authority of the city of Augsburg, located in Swabia, Bavaria, Germany. Its jurisdiction covers the city and its surrounding area, responsible for the commuter trains, the Augsburg tramway and buses. The AVV coordinates transport and fares in area comprising the city of Augsburg and three surrounding districts. It is jointly owned by the state of Bavaria, the city of Augsburg and the three surrounding districts, which are: *Augsburg (city) * Augsburg (district) * Aichach-Friedberg (district) *Dillingen (district) History The first plans for a transport association in the Augsburg region had already been drawn up in 1974, but the shareholders' agreement was not signed until 1985 before the ''Verbundgesellschaft'' finally commenced operations on 1 July 1985. In July 1985, the ''Verbundgesellschaft'' commenced business operations and initially started a test ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Augsburg
Augsburg (; bar , Augschburg , links=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swabian_German , label=Swabian German, , ) is a city in Swabia, Bavaria, Germany, around west of Bavarian capital Munich. It is a university town and regional seat of the ''Regierungsbezirk'' Schwaben with an impressive Altstadt (historical city centre). Augsburg is an urban district and home to the institutions of the Landkreis Augsburg. It is the third-largest city in Bavaria (after Munich and Nuremberg) with a population of 300,000 inhabitants, with 885,000 in its metropolitan area. After Neuss, Trier, Cologne and Xanten, Augsburg is one of Germany's oldest cities, founded in 15 BC by the Romans as Augsburg#Early history, Augusta Vindelicorum, named after the Roman emperor Augustus. It was a Free Imperial City from 1276 to 1803 and the home of the patrician (post-Roman Europe), patrician Fugger and Welser families that dominated European banking in the 16th century. According to Behringer, in the sixteen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Friedberg, Bavaria
Friedberg () is a town in the district Aichach-Friedberg, Bavaria, Germany, with some 30,000 inhabitants. It is located next to Augsburg at the river Lech. The town was founded in the 13th century in order to collect a toll from people using the bridge across the Lech. The town lies almost entirely on the western edge of the hills along the Lechleite, where the river Lech has formed a wide bed from glacial melt water. History Settlements in the area of Friedberg can be traced to Roman times through archeological findings of pottery and brickworks in the Hügelshart, Rohrbach (dating from the last third of the 3rd Century AD), Stätzling (late 3rd Century to 4th Century AD) and Wulfertshausen districts. The town is mentioned in historical documents for the first time in letter of protection from Conrad of the House of Hohenstaufen together with Duke Ludwig II, also called ''"the Strict"'', of Bavaria and the Burghers of Augsburg, in 1264. The ''Fridberch'' castle was subsequen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zusmarshausen
Zusmarshausen is a municipality in the district of Augsburg, Bavaria, Germany. The 1648 Battle of Zusmarshausen took place here. It lies on the river Zusam and is a part of the Augsburg Western Woods Nature Park The Augsburg-Western Woods Nature Park (german: Naturpark Augsburg-Westliche Wälder) is one of the two ''nature parks'' in Bavarian Swabia. The 1988 founded park has a size of . The nature park is bordered by the rivers Danube, Wertach, Schmutte .... Its districts are Friedensdorf, Gabelbach, Gabelbachergreut, Steinekirch, Streitheim, Vallried, Wollbach, Wörleschwang and Zusmarshausen itself. Local council (Marktgemeinderat) The local council has 20 members (Elections in March 2014): * CSU: 8 seats * Wählergruppe Freie Wählervereinigung: 7 seats * SPD/Aktives Bürgerforum: 5 seats Bernhard Uhl has served as the mayor of Zusmarshausen since 2014 and was reelected on 15 March 2020 with 63.6% of votes cast. Uhl's predecessor as mayor of Zusmarshausen was Albert Letti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neusäß
Neusäß (English transcription: Neusaess, Swabian: ''Neisäß'',Neusäß ) is a town in the District of Augsburg, Bavaria, Germany. The town lies on the Schmutter river and borders the city of Augsburg. , the city had 22,164 inhabitants.Municipality of Neusäß(German). Retrieved 6 March 2019. Town districts * Alt-Neusäß * Hainhofen * Hammel * Westheim * Schlipsheim * Täfertingen * Ottmarshausen * Steppach History Neusaess is a union from 8 formerly independent villages, which united in the years 1972 and 1977, in order to avoid the threatening incorporation by Augsburg. Since 2014, Richard Greiner ( Christian Social Union of Bavaria, CSU) has been mayor of Neusäß. Attractions * Pilgrimage church Maria Loreto on the Kobel (Westheim) * Schloss Hainhofen * Schloss Hamel * Bismarckturm (Steppach) * Titania hot springs * Schmutter Twin towns — Sister cities Neusäß is twinned with: * Cusset, France * Eksjö, Sweden * Markkleeberg, Germany * Bracciano, Italy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monheim, Bavaria
Monheim is a town in the Donau-Ries district, in Bavaria, Germany. It is situated 15 km northeast of Donauwörth, and 27 km east of Nördlingen. It lies in the Regierungsbezirk Schwaben. History The origins of Monheim date back into the 7th century, when a village was formed at the crossing of the Gailach, a small river running into the Altmühl. From 870, a Benedictian convent existed within the small town. In 893, the abbess of the convent, Mother Liubila, transferred it to the Bishop of Eichstätt, Erchanbald, and it was then that Monheim was first mentioned in an official document. It became an important place of pilgrimage due to the relics of Saint Walpurga, a former abbess of the convent in Eichstätt. Unlike virtually all of Schwaben, which belongs to the Diocese of Augsburg, Monheim is still part of the Diocese of Eichstätt today. The village of Monheim came into possession of the ''Graf von Oettingen'', now the House of Oettingen-Wallerstein, around t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Otting
Otting is a municipality in the district of Donau-Ries in Bavaria in Germany. The village is located between Augsburg and Nuremberg, about 5 km east of Wemding Wemding () is a Town#Germany, town in the Donau-Ries district of Bavaria, Germany. Wemding is situated on the edge of the Ries meteorite crater in the Geopark Ries. Wemding is the location of the ''Zeitpyramide'' (Time pyramid), a public art work ... and about 6 km west of Monheim. Mayors *Rupert Felber, 1945–1946 (CSU), *Kaspar Waidhaußer, 1946–1952 (CSU), *Kaspar Rupp, 1952–1956 (CSU), *Karl Häfelein, 1956–1984 (CSU), *Wolfgang Seefried, 1984–1990 (Free voters), *Walter Bayerle, 1990–2002 (Free voters), *Johann Bernreuther, 2002–2020 *Wolfgang Lechner, since 2020 Further reading *Gemeinde Otting: ''Otting im Spiegel seiner Geschichte''. Reimlingen 2009. External links * Official website References Donau-Ries {{DonauRies-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donauwörth
Donauwörth () is a town and the capital of the Donau-Ries district in Swabia, Bavaria, Germany. It is said to have been founded by two fishermen where the rivers Danube (Donau) and Wörnitz meet. The city is part of the scenic route called "Romantische Straße" (Romantic Road). The city is situated between Munich and Nuremberg, 46 km north of Augsburg. History Donauwörth grew up in the course of the 11th and 12th centuries under the protection of the castle of Mangoldstein, became in the 13th century a seat of Duke Ludwig II of Bavaria, who, however, soon withdrew to Munich to escape from his wife, Duchess Maria of Brabant, whom he had there beheaded on an unfounded suspicion of infidelity. The town received the freedom of the Holy Roman Empire in 1308, and maintained its position in spite of the encroachments of Bavaria till 1607, when the interference of the Protestant inhabitants with the abbot of the Heilig-Kreuz called forth an imperial law authorizing the duke of Bav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nordendorf
Nordendorf is a Municipalities of Germany, municipality in the district of Augsburg (district), Augsburg in Bavaria in Germany. Geography Nordendorf, located on the federal highway 2 and the railway line Augsburg - Donauwörth, and Blankenburg, which is stretching southwest up the Schmutterleite, form the current community since 1975. Northwest of Nordendorf is the monastery Holzen. History The name Nordendorf is of Franconian origin; evidence of an Alamanni forerunner settlement from around the middle of the 6th century came in 1844 when a row of 433 graves was uncovered on the occasion of the construction of the Augsburg-Donauwörth railway line, making the site one of the most important sites of the early Middle Ages in the Swabian-Bavarian region. The most important archaeological finds are the hanger brooches of Nordendorf, two clasps with runic inscriptions engraved on the back. The current name is mentioned for the first time in 1213. Initially the lords of Donnsberg, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wertingen
Wertingen () is a town in the district of Dillingen in Bavaria, Germany. It is located along the river Zusam in 13 km east of Dillingen, and 28 km northwest of Augsburg. The city is the seat of the municipal association Wertingen. See also * Battle of Wertingen In the Battle of Wertingen (8 October 1805) Imperial French forces led by Marshals Joachim Murat and Jean Lannes attacked a small Austrian corps commanded by Feldmarschall-Leutnant Franz Xaver von Auffenberg. This action, the first battle of ... * Gymnasium Wertingen References Dillingen (district) {{Dillingen-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meitingen
Meitingen is a market town in the district of Augsburg, in Bavaria, Germany. It is situated on the left bank of the Lech, south of Donauwörth, and north of Augsburg. History Meitingen was firstly mentioned in a certificate in 1231. Since the German Mediatisation Meitingen belongs to Bavaria in 1803. In 1844 the railroad line Augsburg-Nürnberg arrived Meitingen. The construction of the Lech-channel determined series of flooding caused by the river Lech. In 1928 the Catholic priest Dr. Max-Josef Metzger founded the ''Christkönigshaus''. Because of his dedication in the international peace movement he was a thorn in the Nazis' flesh. He was murdered after a denunciation in Brandenburg-Görden in 1944. His corpse rests at the local graveyard. His gravestone, a memorial tablet at the ''Christkönigshaus'', the name of a street and of the secondary school remember his dedication. With the construction of the hydro-electric power plant of the Lech-channel the industrializatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gersthofen
Gersthofen () is a town in the district of Augsburg, in Bavaria, Germany. It is situated on the west bank of the river Lech, approx. north of Augsburg. Gersthofen is divided into five districts (German: Stadtteile): Batzenhofen, Edenbergen (with Gailenbach and Gailenbacher Mühle), Gersthofen, Hirblingen, and Rettenbergen (with Peterhof). Mayors *Josef Helmschrott (CSU): 1947-1952 *Georg Wendler (independent): 1952-1967 *Karl J. Weiß: (CSU): 1967-1984 *Siegfried Deffner (CSU): 1984-2008 *Jürgen Schantin (W.I.R., till 2013 CSU): 2008-2014 *since May 2014: Michael Wörle (independent) Born in Gersthofen * Hans Erdmenger (1903-1943), marine officer in the second World War * Michael Martin (born 1948), photographer, geographer and author People related to Gersthofen * Auguste Piccard (1884-1962), Swiss scientist, physicist and explorer. Piccard started off in 1931 near Gersthofen with his Stratosphere - balloon A balloon is a flexible bag that can be inflated with a g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pöttmes
Pöttmes is a market town and municipality in the district of Aichach-Friedberg in Bavaria in Germany Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated betwe .... Personalities Sons and Daughters of the Community * Aurelie Deffner (1881-1959), politician * Joachim Rückert (born 1945), legal scientist Honorary citizen * Karl Hofmann (1924-2012), awarded in 1991, 1st Mayor 1972-1990 References Aichach-Friedberg {{AichachFriedberg-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
