Landsberg am Lech

Landsberg am Lech (Landsberg at the Lech) is a town in southwest Bavaria, Germany, about 65 kilometers west of Munich and 35 kilometers south of Augsburg. It is the capital of the district of Landsberg am Lech.

Geography

Landsberg is on the Romantic Road and is the center of the Lechrain region, the boundary region between Swabia and Bavaria. It is noted for its historic center.

Notable people
Lanspergius (1489–1539), Carthusian monk and ascetical writer
Ignaz Kögler (1680–1746), Jesuit missionary and mathematician
Dominikus Zimmermann (1685–1766), architect
Sir Hubert von Herkomer (1849–1914), artist, film and theatre director
Alois Wolfmüller (1864–1948), inventor and aeronautical engineer
Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb (1876–1956), World War II field marshal and war criminal
George Remus (1878–1952), attorney and famed bootlegger during U.S. Prohibition
Adolf Hitler (1889–1945), dictator (was in prison in Landsberg 1923/24)
Luise Rinser (1911–2002), writer and politician
Johnny Cash (1932–2003), American singer/songwriter stationed here in the early 1950s while serving in the U.S. Air Force
Siegfried Rauch (1932–2018), actor
Samuel Bak (born 1933), painter and writer
Anton Posset (1941–2015), holocaust researcher and founder of the European Holocaust Memorial located in Landsberg
Erwin Neher (born 1944), biologist
Julian Nagelsmann (born 1987), football manager
Michael Unterbuchner (born 1988), darts player

Twin towns – sister cities
Landsberg am Lech is twinned with:

 Hudson, United States (1984)
 Saint-Laurent-du-Var, France (1986)
 Bushey, England, United Kingdom (1989)
 Rocca di Papa, Italy (1989)
 Waldheim, Germany (1990)
 Siófok, Hungary (2002)

Sports
Landsberg is home to the following sports clubs:
+ Club Sport League Established TSV Landsberg Football Landesliga Bayern 1882 Landsberg Riverkings Ice hockey Regionalliga (Bayernliga) 2008 Landsberg X-PRESS American football Regionalliga Süd 2007 DJK Landsberg Basketball Regionalliga 1956 Jahn Landsberg Football A-Klasse Oberbayern 1923 Türkspor Landsberg Football A-Klasse Oberbayern -- Landsberg Cruisaders Baseball Bezirksliga Bayern 2003 Landsberg Kodiacs Softball Landesliga Bayern 2009 Landsberg BB-Dance Camp Dance Boogie Woogie Dance Festival1987

Sources

 Thomas Raithel, Die Strafanstalt Landsberg am Lech und der Spöttinger Friedhof (1944-1958). Eine Dokumentation im Auftrag des Instituts für Zeitgeschichte München-Berlin (München: Oldenbourg 2009).

References

Other websites

 Official Website (in German) 
 European Holocaust Memorial  Citizens´Association European Holocaust Memorial Foundation
 The Holocaust in the Landsberg area - Citizens´ Association "Landsberg in the 20th Century" (English) 
Landsberger lager-cajtung (Landsberg am Lech, Germany), B1110 is a digitized periodical at the Leo Baeck Institute, New York

Category:Landsberg (district)