Aichach-Friedberg – DE275

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More on wikipedia wikidata Q10415 on OpenStreetMap Aichach-Friedberg slovensky: DE275

Demographics

From Wikipedia: Aichach-Friedberg is a Landkreis (district) in Bavaria, Germany. It is bounded by (from the northwest and clockwise) the districts of Augsburg, Donau-Ries, Neuburg-Schrobenhausen, Pfaffenhofen, Dachau, Fürstenfeldbruck and Landsberg, as well as by the city of Augsburg.

History

Aichach-Friedberg was settled by Bavarian tribes from the seventh century on. The region is sometimes called the cradle of Bavaria, since the castle of Wittelsbach was located close to the present city of Aichach. It was the ancestral castle of the Wittelsbach family, who were rulers of Bavaria for thousand years. The castle was razed to the ground in 1208, and today there is nothing else left than a memorial stone at the place.

The town of Friedberg was founded in the 13th century in order to collect a toll from people using the bridge across the Lech River. Aichach became a town about hundred years later. In 1862 the two districts of Aichach and Friedberg were founded. They were merged in 1972 and became part of the administrative region of Swabia.

Other: Swabia, Kempten, Augsburg, Kaufbeuren, Aichach-Friedberg, Neu-Ulm, Lindau, Ostallgäu, Memmingen, Dillingen, Donau-Ries, Unterallgäu, Oberallgäu, Augsburg, Günzburg

Neighbours: Dachau, Fürstenfeldbruck, Landsberg am Lech, Augsburg, Pfaffenhofen, Neuburg-Schrobenhausen, Augsburg, Donau-Ries

Suggested citation: Michal Páleník: Europe and its regions in numbers - Aichach-Friedberg – DE275, IZ Bratislava, retrieved from: https://www.iz.sk/​PDE275, ISBN: 978-80-970204-9-1, DOI:10.5281/zenodo.10200164