Krumbach (also: ''Krumbach (Schwaben)'') is a
town
A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world.
Origin and use
The word "town" shares an ori ...
with 13,000 residents in the district
Günzburg
Günzburg (; Swabian: ''Genzburg'') is a town in Bavaria, Germany. It is a ''Große Kreisstadt'' and the capital of the Swabian district Günzburg. This district was constituted in 1972 by combining the city of Günzburg – which had not p ...
in
Swabia,
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 ...
, Germany. It is the second biggest town in the district.
Geography
Krumbach (
elevation
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512 m (1680 ft)) is situated in
Mittelschwaben in the
natural region
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From the ecological point of view, the naturally occurring flora and ...
Lower Iller-Lech Gravel Plateau (a part of the region between
Danube
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and the
Alps
The Alps () ; german: Alpen ; it, Alpi ; rm, Alps ; sl, Alpe . are the highest and most extensive mountain range system that lies entirely in Europe, stretching approximately across seven Alpine countries (from west to east): France, Swi ...
) in the valley of the
Kammel
The Kammel is a river in Bavaria, southern Germany. The Kammel originates west of Mindelheim, in the district Unterallgäu, and flows generally north. It flows into the Mindel (left tributary) south of ''Offingen at the Danube'', east of Günzb ...
, a left tributary of the
Mindel
The Mindel () is a river in Bavaria, southern Germany. The Mindel originates west of Kaufbeuren, in the Allgäu region, and flows generally north. It flows into the Danube (right tributary) in Gundremmingen, east of Günzburg. The towns Mindelhe ...
river and so an indirect tributary of the
Danube
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river. The landscape is marked by forests and areas in agricultural acreage (fields and grassland).
The next bigger cities respectively towns are
Ulm
Ulm () is a city in the German state of Baden-Württemberg, situated on the river Danube on the border with Bavaria. The city, which has an estimated population of more than 126,000 (2018), forms an urban district of its own (german: link=no, ...
, approximately 40 kilometres northwest of Krumbach,
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 ...
, 48 kilometres northeast of Krumbach,
Memmingen
Memmingen (; Swabian: ''Memmenge'') is a town in Swabia, Bavaria, Germany. It is the economic, educational and administrative centre of the Danube-Iller region. To the west the town is flanked by the Iller, the river that marks the Baden-WÃ ...
, about 40 kilometres southwest of Krumbach,
Mindelheim
Mindelheim (; Swabian: ''Mindelhoi'') is a town in Swabia, Bavaria, Germany. The town is the capital of the Unterallgäu district. At various points in history it was the chief settlement of an eponymous state.
Geography
Mindelheim is locate ...
, 30 kilometres south of Krumbach and
Günzburg
Günzburg (; Swabian: ''Genzburg'') is a town in Bavaria, Germany. It is a ''Große Kreisstadt'' and the capital of the Swabian district Günzburg. This district was constituted in 1972 by combining the city of Günzburg – which had not p ...
, 27 kilometres north of Krumbach. The distance to
Munich
Munich ( ; german: München ; bar, Minga ) is the capital and most populous city of the German state of Bavaria. With a population of 1,558,395 inhabitants as of 31 July 2020, it is the third-largest city in Germany, after Berlin and Ha ...
is approximately 120 kilometres.
History
In 1156 Krumbach was mentioned in documents the first time, in 1370 the village got the right to hold a market. From 1305 until 1805 Krumbach was part of the
Margraviate of Burgau
Burgau is a town in the district of Günzburg in Swabia, Bavaria. Burgau lies on the river Mindel and has a population of just under 10,000.
History
The territory around Burgau was originally part of the stem duchy of Swabia. The death of ...
, which was part of the
Habsburg Further Austria
Further Austria, Outer Austria or Anterior Austria (german: Vorderösterreich, formerly ''die Vorlande'' (pl.)) was the collective name for the early (and later) possessions of the House of Habsburg in the former Swabian stem duchy of south-wes ...
. In the year 1805 Krumbach became Bavarian by the
Peace of Pressburg. 90 years later Krumbach became a town. In the year 1902 the previously independent municipality
Hürben, a neighbouring village of Krumbach, merged into Krumbach. Until the time of the Third Reich Hürben had a high percentage of Jewish residents in comparison to the Bavarian average.
Until 1972 Krumbach was the district seat of the administrative district
Krumbach (Swabia)
Krumbach (also: ''Krumbach (Schwaben)'') is a town with 13,000 residents in the district Günzburg in Swabia, Bavaria, Germany. It is the second biggest town in the district.
Geography
Krumbach (elevation 512 m (1680 ft)) is situated ...
.
Bavarian regional reforms merged the previously independent municipalities of Hohenraunau (1972/01/01), Billenhausen with Hirschfelden (1972/07/01), Edenhausen with the Krumbad (1973/01/01), Attenhausen (1977/01/01) and
Niederraunau (1978/05/01) into Krumbach.
The Krumbad is a health resort approximately one kilometre east of Krumbach. It is the oldest health resort of Swabia.
Coat of arms
The colours of the town (red and white) as well as the arms (a silver-coloured wavy thick line in red) remind one on the one hand of the long affiliation to
Further Austria
Further Austria, Outer Austria or Anterior Austria (german: Vorderösterreich, formerly ''die Vorlande'' (pl.)) was the collective name for the early (and later) possessions of the House of Habsburg in the former Swabian stem duchy of south-wes ...
on the other hand it is a canting arms – the crooked stream. In this context, it is important to know, that the
meander
A meander is one of a series of regular sinuous curves in the channel of a river or other watercourse. It is produced as a watercourse erodes the sediments of an outer, concave bank ( cut bank) and deposits sediments on an inner, convex ba ...
of the Kammel are clearly distinct.
Attractions
* market place and historic town hall
* church St Michael
* church St Ulrich in Hürben
* church ''Maria Hilf''
* church ''Lindlkirche''
* ''Mühlkapelle''
* castle of Krumbach
* moated castle of Hürben
* ''Landauer Haus''
* Middleswabian lokal heritage museum
* waxart museum MORSA
* Krumbad
* church of Niederraunau
* castle of Niederraunau
* ''Dossenberger Pfarrhof'' (parsonage) Billenhausen
File:KRU-St-Michael.jpg, Church St Michael
File:KRU-MuehlK01.jpg, Mühlkapelle
File:Krumbach centrum.JPG, Market place and historic town hall
File:KRU-WaSchl01.jpg, Castle of Hürben
File:KRU-KruBad03.jpg, Krumbad
Economy, transport and public institutions
In Krumbach, there are car suppliers, a paint factory, plant construction factories, weaving mills, wax factories, and a wall-to-wall carpeting factory.
Two
Bundesstraße
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Germany
Germany's ''Bundesstraßen'' network has a total length of about 40,000 km.
German ''Bundesstraßen'' ...
n pass Krumbach: the
Bundesstraße 16
The Bundesstraße 16 or B 16 is one of the German federal highways crossing southern Bavaria from east to south. It runs from the Bavarian Forest to Regensburg and then along the river Danube to Günzburg. From Roding to Regensburg the highway ...
(B 16) Günzburg-Mindelheim and the
Bundesstraße 300 (B 300) Memmingen-Augsburg. The distances to the
Autobahn
The (; German plural ) is the federal controlled-access highway system in Germany. The official German term is (abbreviated ''BAB''), which translates as 'federal motorway'. The literal meaning of the word is 'Federal Auto(mobile) Track' ...
en
7,
8 and
96 are each approximately 25 kilometres. Furthermore, Krumbach has a railway station at the railway from Günzburg to Mindelheim (
Mittelschwaben Railway), a loop line, which connects the main lines
Bavarian Maximilian Railway
The Bavarian Maximilian Railway (German: ''Bayerische Maximiliansbahn'') was as an east–west line built between the Bavarian border with Württemberg at Neu-Ulm in the west via Augsburg, Munich and Rosenheim to the Austrian border at Kufstein a ...
(Munich-Augsburg-Ulm-
Stuttgart) and the railway from Munich to
Zurich via
Buchloe
Buchloe (; Swabian: ''Buechla'') is a community raised to town status in 1954, lying in Ostallgäu district in Bavaria. Together with the neighbouring communities of Jengen, Lamerdingen and Waal, Buchloe belongs to the ''Verwaltungsgemeinschaft'' ...
, Memmingen and
Lindau (Bodensee)
Lindau (german: Lindau (Bodensee), ''Lindau am Bodensee''; ; Low Alemannic: ''Lindou'') is a major town and island on the eastern side of Lake Constance (''Bodensee'' in German) in Bavaria, Germany. It is the capital of the county (''Landkreis ...
.
In Krumbach there are quite a few public institutions: police station, forestry commission office, planning department and several schools: secondary schools, grammar school and vocational schools;
Miscellaneous
In the valley of
Günz
The Günz is a river in Bavaria, Germany.
It is formed near Lauben by the confluence of its two source rivers: the Östliche Günz (eastern Günz) and the Westliche Günz (western Günz). It is approx. long (including its western source rive ...
– approximately six kilometres west of Krumbach there is the ''
Oberrieder Weiher'', a flooded gravel pit and popular greenbelt recreation area. At the shores of this lake, there is a camping site, too.
Notable births
*
Franz Tausend (1884–1942), German alchemist and fraudster
*
Ernst Heinrich Buschor (1886–1961), archaeologist
*
Gerd Müller (born 1955), politician (CSU)
*
Georg Nüßlein
Georg Nüßlein (born 10 April 1969) is a German politician who served as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Bavaria from 2002 until 2021. From 1987 until 2021, he was a member of the Christian Social Union (CSU). He left the party in t ...
(b. 1969), politician (CSU)
*
Volkher Häusler
Volkher Häusler (born 14 August 1958) is a German conductor, composer and church musician. He is artistic director of the MendelssohnKammerChor in Berlin.
Life
Born in Krumbach, Bavaria, Häusler passed his Abitur in 1979 at the . He then b ...
(b. 1958), conductor and church musician
*
Gerhard Wisnewski (b. 1959), writer
*
Thomas Tuchel
Thomas Tuchel (; born 29 August 1973) is a German professional football manager and former player who last managed Premier League club Chelsea.
Born in Krumbach, Tuchel retired at age 25 after a chronic knee cartilage injury; in 2000, he b ...
(b. 1973), football coach
See also
*
Synagogues of the Swabian type (Krumbach)
References
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Populated places in Günzburg (district)