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| State: | Bavaria |
| Capital: | Marktoberdorf |
| Adm. Region: | Swabia |
| Area: | 1395 km² |
| Inhabitants: | 131,500 (2000) |
| pop. density: | 94 inh./km² |
| Car identification: | OAL |
| Homepage: | http://www.ostallgaeu.de |
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Before 1803 the region was split into several tiny states, most of them clerical states. When these states were dissolved in 1803, the Ostallgäu region became part of Bavaria. The kings of Bavaria soon evolved a special relationship with the region and built their famous castles of Hohenschwangau and Neuschwanstein.
The district was established in 1972 by merging the former districts of Kaufbeuren, Marktoberdorf and Füssen.
"Ostallgäu" literally means "Eastern Allgäu". The term Allgäu is applied to the part of the Alps located in Swabia and their northern foothills.
The district extends from the crest of the Alps to hilly countryside in the north. It is located on either side of the Wertach , an affluent of the LechLech can refer to: a Slavic, especially Polish, first name, e. Lech Walesa president of Poland Lech Kaczynski president-mayor of Warsaw Lech, founder of Poland legendary father and founder of Poland, and city of Gniezno. Lech (beer a brand of popular Poli River. In the south there is a great number of alpine lakes, the largest of them being the Forggensee (16 km²).
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