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Wertach
Sign in to saveWertach () is a small town in the Oberallgäu district, southern Bavaria, Germany. It is located in the German Alps, situated on the river Wertach, southeast of Kempten. The town was the childhood home of the writer W. G. Sebald.
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- Wertach
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- Wertach in OA.svg
- German location.state
- Bayern
- German location.region
- Schwaben
- German location.district
- Oberallgäu
- German location.elevation
- 915
- German location.area
- 45.65
- German location.postal_code
- 87497
- German location.area_code
- 08365
- German location.licence
- OA
- German location.Gemeindeschlüssel
- 09 7 80 145
- German location.mayor
- Gertrud Knoll
- German location.leader_term
- 2020–26
- German location.party
- CSU
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Official website
Wertach im Allgäu - Urlaub im Allgäu - Ferien in Wertach
Weite, voralpine Landschaft, staub- und nebelarme Luft. 120 km Wanderwege, Angeln am Grüntensee, solarbeheiztes Freibad, Schlepplifte, 15 km Loipen und 20 km geräumte Winterwanderwege.
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Wertach () is a small town in the Oberallgäu district, southern Bavaria, Germany. It is located in the German Alps, situated on the river Wertach, southeast of Kempten. The town was the childhood home of the writer W. G. Sebald.
== History == Wertach was first mentioned in 955 and received in 1423 the town privileges. The market Wertach belonged to the Prince-Bishopric of Augsburg. Since the German mediatization and the secularization of 1803 the place belongs to Bavaria. As part of the administrative reforms in the Kingdom of Bavaria and the the current municipality was formed. In 1893 a fire destroyed most of the town, with only a few houses surviving.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Wertach” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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