| Eggenthal | ||
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 Eggenthal, church | ||
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  Eggenthal Location of Eggenthal within Ostallgäu district  | ||
| Coordinates: 47°55′N10°31′E / 47.917°N 10.517°E Coordinates: 47°55′N10°31′E / 47.917°N 10.517°E | ||
| Country | Germany | |
| State | Bavaria | |
| Admin. region | Schwaben | |
| District | Ostallgäu | |
| Government | ||
| • Mayor | Harald Polzer (FW) | |
| Area | ||
| • Total | 28.10 km2 (10.85 sq mi) | |
| Elevation | 713 m (2,339 ft) | |
| Population (2017-12-31) [1] | ||
| • Total | 1,361 | |
| • Density | 48/km2 (130/sq mi) | |
| Time zone | CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2) | |
| Postal codes | 87653 | |
| Dialling codes | 08347 | |
| Vehicle registration | OAL | |
| Website | www.eggenthal.de | |
Eggenthal is a municipality in the district of Ostallgäu in Bavaria in Germany. It is located in the Allgäu region.
Municipalities are the lowest level of official territorial division in Germany. This is most commonly the third level of territorial division, ranking after the Land (state) and Kreis (district). The Gemeinde which is one level lower in those states also includes Regierungsbezirke as an intermediate territorial division. The Gemeinde is one level higher if it is not part of a Samtgemeinde. Only 10 municipalities in Germany have fifth level administrative subdivisions and all of them are in Bavaria. The highest degree of autonomy may be found in the Gemeinden which are not part of a Kreis. These Gemeinden are referred to as Kreisfreie Städte or Stadtkreise, sometimes translated as having "city status". This can be the case even for small municipalities. However, many smaller municipalities have lost this city status in various administrative reforms in the last 40 years when they were incorporated into a Kreis. In some states they retained a higher measure of autonomy than the other municipalities of the Kreis. Municipalities titled Stadt are urban municipalities while those titled Gemeinde are classified as rural municipalities.
Ostallgäu is a Landkreis (district) in Swabia, Bavaria, Germany. It is bounded by the districts of Oberallgäu, Unterallgäu, Augsburg, Landsberg, Weilheim-Schongau and Garmisch-Partenkirchen, and by the Austrian state of Tyrol. The town of Kaufbeuren is enclosed by but does not belong to the district.
Bavaria, officially the Free State of Bavaria, is a landlocked federal state of Germany, occupying its southeastern corner. With an area of 70,550.19 square kilometres, Bavaria is the largest German state by land area comprising roughly a fifth of the total land area of Germany. With 13 million inhabitants, it is Germany's second-most-populous state after North Rhine-Westphalia. Bavaria's main cities are Munich and Nuremberg.
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There are the Gemarkungs Bayersried and Eggenthal. There are also the villages of Romatsried and Holzstetten as well as several small hamlets. In Romatsried you will find the Burgstall Romatsried, a place that may have already been populated in the Bronze Age.
A Gemarkung is a parcel of land recorded in the cadastre in the countries of Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Gemarkung registers record the parcels' location, usage and geomorphology and the like qualities, however, the rights to the land are kept in the Grundbuch. A Gemarkung is made up of a number of, usually contiguous, plots of urban (Grundstücke) or rural land (Flurstücke). Between the levels of Flurstück and Gemarkung is often found the level of Flur, usually a tract of open land or forest.
The Bronze Age is a historical period characterized by the use of bronze, and in some areas proto-writing, and other early features of urban civilization. The Bronze Age is the second principal period of the three-age Stone-Bronze-Iron system, as proposed in modern times by Christian Jürgensen Thomsen, for classifying and studying ancient societies.
