Unterallgäu (, ) is a
''Landkreis'' (district) in
Swabia,
Bavaria
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,
Germany
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. Neighboring districts are (from the north clockwise)
Neu-Ulm,
Günzburg
Günzburg (; Swabian German, Swabian: ''Genzburg'') is a town in Bavaria, Germany. It is a ''Große Kreisstadt'' and the capital of the Swabian Günzburg (district), district Günzburg. This district was constituted in 1972 by combining the city ...
,
Augsburg
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,
Ostallgäu
Ostallgäu is a ''Landkreis'' (district) in Swabia, Bavaria, Germany. It is bounded by (from the west and clockwise) the districts of Oberallgäu, Unterallgäu, Augsburg, Landsberg, Weilheim-Schongau and Garmisch-Partenkirchen, and by the ...
,
Oberallgäu, and the districts
Ravensburg und
Biberach in
Baden-Württemberg
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. The district-free city
Memmingen in the west of the district is nearly surrounded by the district. The capital of the district is
Mindelheim.
Geography
The district is located in the ''Allgäu'', the northern foothills of the
Alps
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...
. The river
Iller forms part of the western boundary of the district.
History
The district was created July 1, 1972 by merging the previous districts Mindelheim and Memmingen.
Mindelheim is the administrative seat of the new district.
Partnerships
The district started a partnership with the
Polish Gostyn County in 2001.
Coat of arms
The rose in the left of the coat of arms is the symbol of the abbey of Ottobeuren, which ruled the southern part of the district. The
fleur-de-lis
The ''fleur-de-lis'', also spelled ''fleur-de-lys'' (plural ''fleurs-de-lis'' or ''fleurs-de-lys''), is a common heraldic charge in the (stylized) shape of a lily (in French, and mean and respectively). Most notably, the ''fleur-de-lis'' ...
in the right stands for the
Fugger family
The House of Fugger () is a German family that was historically a prominent group of European bankers, members of the fifteenth- and sixteenth-century mercantile patrician (post-Roman Europe), patriciate of Augsburg, international mercantile ban ...
, who owned several estates in the district. To the bottom are the Bavarian lozenges, to symbolize that the area became part of Bavaria in 1814.
Towns and municipalities
Towns
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Bad Wörishofen
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Mindelheim
Märkte
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Babenhausen
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Bad Grönenbach
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Dirlewang
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Erkheim
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Kirchheim in Schwaben
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Legau
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Markt Rettenbach
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Markt Wald
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Ottobeuren
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Pfaffenhausen
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Türkheim
Türkheim is a municipality in the district of Unterallgäu in Bavaria, Germany
Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It lies between the Baltic Sea and the North Sea to the north and the Al ...
#
Tussenhausen
Verwaltungsgemeinschaften
# Babenhausen
# Boos
# Dirlewang
# Erkheim
# Bad Grönenbach
# Kirchheim (Schwaben)
# Memmingerberg
# Ottobeuren
# Pfaffenhausen
# Türkheim
Municipalities
References
External links
Official website(German)
Orchids in Allgäu
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Districts of Bavaria
Mittelschwaben
Swabia (Bavaria)