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 Show map of Germany Landsberg am Lech Show map of Bavaria
Coordinates: 48°02′52″N 10°53′56″E / 48.04778°N 10.89889°E / 48.04778; 10.89889
Country	Germany
State	Bavaria
Admin. region	Oberbayern
District	Landsberg am Lech
Subdivisions	6 Ortsteile
Government
• Lord mayor (2020–26)	Doris Baumgartl[1]
Area
• Total	57.89 km2 (22.35 sq mi)
Highest elevation	630 m (2,070 ft)
Lowest elevation	585 m (1,919 ft)
Population  (2022-12-31)[2]
• Total	29,551
• 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.

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.

• 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

Landsberg am Lech is twinned with:^[3]

Landsberg is home to the following sports clubs:

• 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).

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Landsberg am Lech.

• 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)
• Landsberger lager-cajtung (Landsberg am Lech, Germany), B1110 is a digitized periodical at the Leo Baeck Institute, New York