Karlshuld

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Karlshuld
Coat of arms Location
Coat of arms of Karlshuld
Karlshuld (Germany)
Karlshuld
Administration
Country Flag of Germany Germany
State Bavaria
Admin. region Upper Bavaria
District Neuburg-Schrobenhausen
Local subdivisions 6 Gemeindeteile
Mayor Karl Seitle (FW)
Basic statistics
Area 29.09 km² (11.2 sq mi)
Elevation 375 m  (1230 ft)
Population 5,021  (31/12/2006)
 - Density 173 /km² (447 /sq mi)
Other information
Time zone CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Licence plate ND
Postal code 86668
Area code 08454
Website www.karlshuld.de
Lage der Gemeinde Karlshuld im
Landkreis Neuburg-Schrobenhausen
Lage der Gemeinde Karlshuld imLandkreis Neuburg-Schrobenhausen

Coordinates: 48°41′00″N 11°18′00″E / 48.683333, 11.3

Karlshuld is a municipality in the district of Neuburg-Schrobenhausen in Bavaria in Germany.

[edit] History

The locality was created in the course of the dewatering of the Donaumooses begun at 1790 in the year 1795 as colony of Karl baron v. kind of hitting a corner. The place was until 1840 seat of an aristocracy yard Mark (and/or a Patrimonialgerichts). 1804 had five times more originally planned it already over 300 inhabitants - than. The living conditions were in particular in the start time very hard and improved in the course of the decades only little. 1824 were created a little later again a closed spinning mill, 1898 developed the moorland laboratory. 1888 gave it already 1,227 inhabitants. The place kept courses of a distressed area, until the Second World War like in many places a fundamental upswing began.

Today Karlshuld is a prosperierende municipality, which won in the last years also as residence - not least due to the proximity to Ingolstadt - at attractiveness.

In the years 1970 to 1985 took place the incorporations of the municipality parts Grasheim, Kochheim, Nazibühl and Neuschwetzingen.