Ostallgau

Ostallgau is a district in Swabia, Bavaria, Germany. It is bounded by means of the districts of Oberallgau, Unterallgau, Augsburg, Landsberg, Weilheim-Schongau and Garmisch-Partenkirchen, and via the Austrian kingdom of Tyrol. The city of Kaufbeuren is enclosed with the aid of however does not belong to the district. Before 1803 the place become cut up into several tiny states, most of them clerical states.

When those states were dissolved in 1803, the Ostallgau location became part of Bavaria. The kings of Bavaria quickly advanced a special dating with the location and built their famous castles of Hohenschwangau and Neuschwanstein there. The district turned into installed in 1972 by using merging the former districts of Kaufbeuren, Marktoberdorf and Fussen. "Ostallgau" literally manner "Eastern Allgau".

The term Allgau is carried out to the a part of the Alps placed in Swabia and their northern foothills. The district extends from the crest of the Alps to hilly nation-state in the north. It is positioned on both side of the Wertach, an prosperous of the Lech River. In the south there is a extremely good range of alpine lakes, the most important of them being the Forggensee.