Velden (Vils)
Velden is a municipality in the district of Landshut in Bavaria in Germany.
Geography
Velden lies on the border from Lower Bavaria to Upper Bavaria. The river Vils runs through the town. Velden is about 64 kilometers northeast of Munich.
The municipality consists of 130 villages and communes
History
The first mentioning of a Place named Feldin is found around 771. Since 1410 it is a Municipality with Market town status.
Transportation
Velden once had a railway connection to Dorfen via Taufkirchen. In 1994 the tracks were removed and converted to a now very popular cycle track. Velden lies on the Bundesstraße B 388. Frequent buses connect Velden to Vilsbiburg, Landshut and Dorfen. The nearest Airport is Munich International Airport about 40 km to the southwest.
Architecture & Art
In the center of Velden is St. Peters church. It was built in two steps around 1450, newly renovated around 1990. Its 64m high tower is a main sight of Velden.
Velden also features an open-air museum with many sculptures of Georg Brenninger (born in Velden - later worked in Munich) for example the "Apoll" or the "Bergpredigt", also two fountains by the same sculptor can be seen in the center of the town.
Velden
Velden may refer to several places:
Velden, Limburg
Coordinates: 51°24′51″N 6°09′57″E / 51.4142°N 6.1657°E
Velden (Limburgish: Velde) is a village in the municipality of Venlo (5,085 inhabitants) in Limburg, Netherlands.
Location
Velden is situated along the Meuse River about 5km north of the center of Venlo on N 271st Rijksstraatweg. The German border in the east is 2km.
History
During the War of the Spanish Succession, Velden was also occupied by Prussian troops and so until 1814 the Prussian part of Gelderland. Then it fell to the Kingdom of the Netherlands, which established the border into Germany by the distance of a cannon on the banks of the Meuse to the east. In the Treaty of London in 1839, the limits laid down and the entire area was in 1866 with the Netherlands. Until 1 January 2010 belonged to the former municipality of Arcen en Velden.
Trivia
A ferry crossing the Meuse goes to Grubbenvorst, which is accessible for motorists and cyclists. The long-distance Pieterpad goes through the village. Velden was elected along with two other places as greenest town in the Netherlands in 1999.
Velden (Pegnitz)
Velden is a town in the district Nürnberger Land, in Bavaria, Germany. It is situated on the Pegnitz River, 16 km south of Pegnitz, and 36 km northeast of Nuremberg (centre).
References
Vils
Vils can refer to:
- Vils (Danube), tributary of the Danube, in eastern Bavaria.
- Vils (Naab), tributary of the Naab, in northern Bavaria.
- Vils (Lech), tributary of the Lech, in Tyrol and south-western Bavaria.
Vils (Lech)
The river Vils is a 30 km long tributary of the Lech River in the Alps of Austria and Germany. The Vils has a drainage basin of approximately a 300 km², with an average annual precipitation of nearly 2000 mm.
It originates in the Allgäu Alps in Tyrol from the supplies of the Vilsalpsee, and is its only discharge. Its water flows first in the northern and northwestern directions, in the Reutte district through the Vils and Tannheim valleys and here it runs alongside the B 199 road through Tannheim, Zoeblen and Schattwald. From here the Vils descends down the waterfall "Vilsfall", only slightly east/northeast of the Oberjoch Pass and only a few hundred metres east of the border to Germany. Then the river crosses the border into southern Bavaria, turns northeast and reaches the municipality Pfronten in the district Ostallgäu. Then it flows eastwards along the B 308, again crossing the border into Tyrol, flows below the Tannheimer mountains slightly south of the German border and parallel to this through the municipality Vils, and after going under the B 179 flows directly into the Lech.
Vils (Danube)
The Vils is a river in Bavaria, Germany, right tributary of the Danube. It is formed by the confluence of its two source rivers, the Kleine Vils and the Große Vils, in Gerzen. It is 68.62 km long (104 km including Große Vils). It flows east through a rural area with small towns, including Aham, Frontenhausen, Marklkofen, Reisbach, Eichendorf and Aldersbach. It flows into the Danube in Vilshofen.
