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Lots of interesting facts about Peiting and his Peitnach in the new Welf yearbook

2023-01-12T09:09:06.053Z


Lots of interesting facts about Peiting and his Peitnach in the new Welf yearbook Created: 01/12/2023, 10:00 am The Peitnach looks so small on the wide gravel surface created by the Peitinger Lech. The picture was taken at Lamprecht looking north. © Mueller In the recently published Welf of the Schongau Historical Association, the Schongau geologist Manfred Müller has taken on the Peitnach and,


Lots of interesting facts about Peiting and his Peitnach in the new Welf yearbook

Created: 01/12/2023, 10:00 am

The Peitnach looks so small on the wide gravel surface created by the Peitinger Lech.

The picture was taken at Lamprecht looking north.

© Mueller

In the recently published Welf of the Schongau Historical Association, the Schongau geologist Manfred Müller has taken on the Peitnach and, after having dealt with this body of water in detail, has shared his observations.

Peiting/Schongau

– At 17.3 kilometers in length, the Peitnach is just a very small tributary of the Lech.

Its catchment area is correspondingly small at around 47 square kilometers, i.e. the area on which all surface water flows into the Peitnach.

The catchment area is almost entirely within the Peiting district, which makes it the “home water” of the Peiting market, so to speak.

So it doesn't bother at all that the local name Peitnach does not appear on maps and town plans, but the name "Peitinger Mühlbach" or just "Mühlbach" can be read.

19,000 years ago everything was covered with ice

"Despite such restrictions, our Peitnach can show some special features that distinguish it from other Lech tributaries," says geologist Müller.

"This includes their origin story."

It should be remembered that 19,000 years ago the entire area was covered by glacial ice from the last ice age.

"The ice then melted and receded further and further to the south," Müller continues.

The Peitnach was only able to develop when two former courses of the Lech dried up around 12,000 years ago.

The stream had to adapt to the Lech

"From then on, they and their tributaries led rainwater to what is now the course of the Lech on the gravel surfaces they had poured," Müller has determined.

"From a geological point of view, it is an extraordinarily young river at around 12,000 years old."

According to Müller, the Peitnach also had to adapt to the post-Ice Age landscape formation of our area with its many and rapid changes: "The Lech, into which it flows at Herzogsägmühle, lowered its valley floor about 40 meters, and the small Peitnach had to follow this development and itself also deepen.” This is how the gorge-like valley that stretched from the Peitinger Gumpen to the Herzogsägmühle emerged.

Ideal for the installation of mills

The upper end of the gorge, where the almost imperceptible gradient increases until Peiting, proved to be a particularly well-suited location for the installation of mills.

"Over time, no fewer than seven mills were built in this section." Since the mills are a significant factor in Peiting's economic power, the Peitnach has also played its part in the town's development.

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In the Welf essay, Müller points out that the name Peitnach was not decisive for the place name Peiting, but is a more recent designation.

Welf yearbook:

The Welf is available for 14 euros in Schongau in the books gallery and at Seitz stationery, in Peiting at Buch am Bach and in the Schongau town museum.

MANFRED MUELLER

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Source: merkur

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