Landsberg am Lech

Landsberg am Lech
Town
The Lech in Landsberg
Coat of arms
Location of Landsberg am Lech within Landsberg am Lech district
Landsberg am Lech Landsberg am Lech
Coordinates: 48°02′52″N 10°53′56″E
Country	Germany
State	Bavaria
Admin. region	Oberbayern
District	Landsberg am Lech
Subdivisions	6 Ortsteile
Government
• Lord mayor (2020–26)	Doris Baumgartl
Area
• Total	57.89 km2 (22.35 sq mi)
Highest elevation	630 m (2,070 ft)
Lowest elevation	585 m (1,919 ft)
Population  (2024-12-31)
• Total	29,257
• Density	510/km2 (1,300/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes	86899
Dialling codes	08191, 08246 (Ellighofen)
Vehicle registration	LL
Website	www.landsberg.de

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

The historic old town

Bayertor, the gate to Munich

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 Festival	1987

Sources

• Burgett, Daniel R. (2001). Beyond the Rhine. New York: Dell Publishing. pp. 119–134.
• 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).

Other websites

• Official Website (in German)
• European Holocaust Memorial Archived 2018-01-08 at the Wayback Machine Citizens´Association European Holocaust Memorial Foundation
• The Holocaust in the Landsberg area - Citizens´ Association "Landsberg in the 20th Century" (English) Archived 2021-12-03 at the Wayback Machine
• Landsberger lager-cajtung (Landsberg am Lech, Germany), B1110 is a digitized periodical at the Leo Baeck Institute, New York