Nesselwang
Sign in to saveNesselwang () is a municipality in the district of Ostallgäu in Bavaria in Germany. It is a frequently photographed market town and tourist resort at the foot of the Alps in Allgäu. It consists of the market (Nesselwang) as well as 17 surrounding hamlets (Gschwend, Hörich, Reichenbach, Bayerstetten, Wank, Hertingen, Attlesee, Schneidbach, Hammerschmiede, Lachen, Niederhöfen, Rindegg, Thal, Schicken, Schneidbach, Voglen and Widdumhof).
Key facts
- German location.image_coa
- DEU Nesselwang COA.svg
- German location.image_photo
- Nesselwang Alpspitz.jpg
- German location.image_caption
- Nesselwang
- German location.image_plan
- Nesselwang in OAL.svg
- German location.state
- Bayern
- German location.region
- Schwaben
- German location.district
- Ostallgäu
- German location.elevation
- 867
- German location.area
- 29.54
- German location.postal_code
- 87484
- German location.area_code
- 08361
- German location.licence
- OAL
- German location.Gemeindeschlüssel
- 09 7 77 153
- German location.mayor
- Pirmin Joas
- German location.leader_term
- 2020–26
- German location.party
- CSU
- German location.website
- www.nesselwang.de
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Nesselwang () is a municipality in the district of Ostallgäu in Bavaria in Germany. It is a frequently photographed market town and tourist resort at the foot of the Alps in Allgäu. It consists of the market (Nesselwang) as well as 17 surrounding hamlets (Gschwend, Hörich, Reichenbach, Bayerstetten, Wank, Hertingen, Attlesee, Schneidbach, Hammerschmiede, Lachen, Niederhöfen, Rindegg, Thal, Schicken, Schneidbach, Voglen and Widdumhof).
== History == In Roman times there was a road connecting Via Claudia Augusta with the Roman town of Cambodunum (Kempten). This road passed through the area now occupied by Nesselwang, however there is no evidence of Roman occupation in the town.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Nesselwang” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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