Landsberg (district)

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Landsberg

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State:	Bavaria
Capital:	Landsberg } } |- | Area:||804 km² |- | Inhabitants:||105,900 (2000) |- | pop. density:||132 inh./km² |- | Car identification:||LL |- | Homepage:||[landkreis-landsberg.de] |- !colspan=2 align=center bgcolor=#DEFFAD|Map |- |colspan=2 align=center| |} Landsberg is a district in Bavaria, Germany. It is bounded by (from the north and clockwise) the districts of Aichach-Friedberg, Fürstenfeldbruck, Starnberg, Weilheim-Schongau, Ostallgäu and Augsburg. Contents 1 History 2 Geography 3 Coat of arms 4 Towns and municipalities 5 External links History In 1180 the lands east of the Lech river fell to the Wittelsbach dynasty of Bavaria; the lands on the western bank were acquired about 1315. The district of Landsberg was established in 1938 as the successor of another entity (Bezirksamt) of the same name. In the administrative reform of 1972 the district received its present shape. Geography The district is situated on both sides of the Lech river. The Ammersee, one of the largest lakes of Germany (47 km), is located in the east of the district. Coat of arms The coat of arms displays: the blue and white checked pattern of Bavaria the eagle was the heraldic animal of the county of Dießen-Andechs, which possessed the lands east of the Lech river before the 12th century the lion stands for Henry the Lion, who was the founder of the city of Landsberg Towns and municipalities Towns Municipalities Landsberg Apfeldorf Denklingen Dießen Eching Egling Eresing Erpfting Finning Fuchstal Geltendorf Greifenberg Hofstetten Hurlach Igling Kaufering Kinsau Obermeitingen Penzing Prittriching Pürgen Reichling Rott Scheuring Schondorf Schwifting Thaining Unterdießen Utting Vilgertshofen Weil Windach External links [Official website] (German) [Online Memorial to those who suffered at the eleven Kaufering death camps (located in the Landsberg area) and those who liberated the camps at the end of WW II] (English) Cities and rural districts in the Free State of Bavaria in Germany Cities Amberg · Ansbach · Aschaffenburg · Augsburg · Bamberg · Bayreuth · Coburg · Erlangen · Fürth · Hof · Ingolstadt · Kaufbeuren · Kempten · Landshut · Memmingen · München (Munich) · Nürnberg (Nuremberg) · Passau · Regensburg · Rosenheim · Schwabach · Schweinfurt · Straubing · Weiden · Würzburg Rural districts Aichach-Friedberg · Altötting · Amberg-Sulzbach · Ansbach (district) · Aschaffenburg · Augsburg · Bad Kissingen  Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen · Bamberg · Bayreuth · Berchtesgadener Land · Cham · Coburg · Dachau · Deggendorf · Dillingen  Dingolfing-Landau · Donau-Ries · Ebersberg · Eichstätt · Erding · Erlangen-Höchstadt · Forchheim · Freising · Freyung-Grafenau  Fürstenfeldbruck · Fürth · Garmisch-Partenkirchen · Günzburg · Haßberge · Hof · Kelheim · Kitzingen · Kronach · Kulmbach · Landsberg · Landshut · Lichtenfels · Lindau · Main-Spessart · Miesbach · Miltenberg · Mühldorf · München (Munich)  Neuburg-Schrobenhausen · Neumarkt · Neustadt (Aisch)-Bad Windsheim · Neustadt (Waldnaab) · Neu-Ulm · Nürnberger Land  Oberallgäu · Ostallgäu · Passau · Pfaffenhofen · Regen · Regensburg (district) · Rhön-Grabfeld · Rosenheim (district) · Roth  Rottal-Inn · Schwandorf · Schweinfurt · Starnberg · Straubing-Bogen · Tirschenreuth · Traunstein  Unterallgäu · Weilheim-Schongau · Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen · Wunsiedel · Würzburg   From Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Original article here. Support Wikipedia by contributing or donating. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License See Wikipedia Copyrights for details. Search Titles 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z ? E-mail this article to: Personal Message: