Aitrach, municipality in Germany
Aitrach is a small municipality in the Ravensburg district of Baden-Württemberg, situated where the rivers Aitrach and Iller meet. The settlement consists of multiple neighborhoods featuring timber-framed houses, farmsteads, and maintained streets surrounded by green meadows, forests, and gently rolling hills.
Aitrach was first documented in 838 in a monastery record and was connected to Burg Marstetten in medieval times. From the late 1600s onward, the Waldburg family ruled the area, a period whose influence shaped the settlement's development for centuries to come.
Aitrach is valued by its residents as a place where community bonds remain strong and local traditions are kept alive. The townspeople regularly gather for festivals, markets, and events that maintain the small settlement's intimate and welcoming character.
A small train station links Aitrach to nearby towns and bus routes provide easy access throughout the region. The settlement has local shops, bakeries, and cafes as well as a market square with regular markets for shopping and sampling local produce.
For centuries, an old craft tradition called Illerflößerei drove the local economy, with workers floating wooden logs downstream on the river. At its peak, this trade employed up to half the adult male population and shaped multiple generations of families in the settlement.
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