Dillingen

Dillingen is a city in Swabia, Bavaria, Germany. It is the place of job of the district of Dillingen. Besides the town of Dillingen proper, the municipality encompasses the villages of Donaualtheim, Fristingen, Hausen, Kicklingen, Schretzheim and Steinheim. Schretzheim is splendid for its 6^th to 7^th century Alemannic cemetery, 630 row graves in a place of a hundred by way of 140 metres. The counts of Dillingen ruled from the 10^th to the 13^th century; in 1258 the territory become grew to become over to the Prince Bishops of Augsburg. After the Reformation, the prince-bishops of Augsburg moved to the Catholic city of Dillingen and made it one of the facilities of the Counter-Reformation.

In 1800, at some stage in the War of the Second Coalition, the armies of the French First Republic, below command of Jean Victor Moreau, fought Habsburg regulars and Wurttemberg contingents, beneath the overall command of Pal Kray. Kray had taken safe haven within the fortress at Ulm; Moreau diverted his navy to method Ulm from the east and, after a small group of guys captured a foothold on the northern bank of the Danube, his forces were able to move in opposition to the castle on both sides of the river. At this warfare, the culmination of the Danube Campaign of 1800, Moreau compelled Kray to desert Ulm and withdraw into japanese Bavaria.