Feldkirchen Westerham

Feldkirchen Westerham is a municipality in the Upper Bavarian district of Rosenheim, which originated from the communities Vagen Westerham, Feldkirchen and Hohenrain. From findings of a stone axe, of blades and scrapers is to close on a settlement inside the Neolithic 5000 to 3200 BC. Around 500 BC, immigrated Celtic tribes settled at Mangfall and Leitzach. From the Roman imperial length 15 BC to 480 AD will be west of Percha a segment of the Roman Avenue Via Julia from Augsburg to Salzburg proves. The ramparts Birg north of Kleinhohenkirchen dates again to the time of the invasion of Hungary 9^th to 10^th century.

The first known written testimonies date returned to 795. In the monastery of St. Emmeram in Regensburg, Bishop Atto von freising of the Tegernsee abbot Meginhart demanded, among different matters, the tithe of the Feldkirchen church. In 1634, the plague raged inside the network, in which forty eight people died in Feldkirchen 58, in Westerham 156, in Fledgling; the other districts had suffered splendid losses. This is still remembered today by way of the Pestsaulen in Westerham, Fledgling and Aufham.