Contact Admin. It is the administrative center 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 notable for its 6th to 7th century Alemannic cemetery , row graves in an area of by metres.
The counts of Dillingen ruled from the 10th to the 13th century; in the territory was turned 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 centers of the Counter-Reformation. Kray had taken refuge in the fortress at Ulm ; Moreau diverted his army to approach Ulm from the east and, after a small group of men captured a foothold on the northern bank of the Danube, his forces were able to move against the fortress on both sides of the river.
At this battle , the culmination of the Danube Campaign of , Moreau forced Kray to abandon Ulm and withdraw into eastern Bavaria. A university was established in , but was closed by Napoleon in The philosophical and theological faculties still existed in the 20th century.
One of the largest employers in the city is Bosch and Siemens Household Appliances , producer of household applicances.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. This article is about the Bavarian town. For other places sharing the name, see Dillingen. Place in Bavaria, Germany. Location of Dillingen an der Donau within Dillingen district.
