Denklingen is a
municipality
A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate.
The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...
in the district of
Landsberg (also called Landsberg am Lech) in
Bavaria
Bavaria ( ; ), officially the Free State of Bavaria (german: Freistaat Bayern, link=no ), is a state in the south-east of Germany. With an area of , Bavaria is the largest German state by land area, comprising roughly a fifth of the total lan ...
in
Germany
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. The former municipality of
Epfach
Epfach is a village and former municipality () located on the left bank of Lech, in the municipality of Denklingen in the Upper Bavarian District of Landsberg, Bavaria, Germany.
History
Around 14 BCE there was, near the present village, on t ...
, which has a history back to the Roman period, is now part of Denklingen.
Geography
Denklingen is the most southwesterly municipality in the district of Landsberg. It is located on flats to the west of the
Lech River
The Lech (, ''Licca'') is a river in Austria and Germany. It is a right tributary of the Danube in length with a drainage basin of . Its average discharge at the mouth is .
Its source is located in the Austrian state of Vorarlberg, where the r ...
. It is at the edge of Denklinger Rotwalds (red forest of Denklingen) and Sachsenrieder forest.
References
Landsberg (district)
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