DEUTSCHLAND	GERMANY
Bundesland: Freistaat Bayern	Bavaria
Regierungsbezirk: Schwaben
Landkreis: Ostallgäu

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Aitrang is situated at an elevation of 745 m in the district Ostallgäu, about 10 km southwest of the administrative centre of the district, Kaufbeuren, and about 85 km southwest of Bavaria's capital, Munich. The municipality has a population of about 2,100 (2021).

Aitrang is one of the oldest settlements in the area. The place was first mentioned in a deed of donation from the Frankish king Pippin the Short (741–768). The place was the imperial bailiwick of the monastery of St. Mang (Füssen), which had held lower jurisdiction since 1227. The imperial bailiwick was pledged several times and was lastly acquired by the princely ponastery of Kempten in 1524. In 1632, during the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648), Aitrang suffered from looting after the Swedish invasion, and in 1633/1634 the Croats in imperial service invaded Aitrang. In 1648 the French, allied with the Swedes, occupied the place and in the same year an entire Hungarian regiment took over the place. A major fire disaster in 1797 destroyed over 40 residential buildings and numerous barns. Before 1803, the rights of the St. Mang monastery and those of the Kempten monastery overlapped in the area. In the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss (Final or Imperial Recess) of 1803, the last significant law enacted by the Holy Roman Empire before its dissolution in 1806, the place fell to the Princes of Öttingen-Wallerstein. In 1806 it was became part of the Kingdom of Bavaria. The municipality was created in 1818.

The Catholic parish church of Sankt Ulrich [left, no. 4553: centre] was originally built around 1466. The aisleless church was enlarged and remodeled in 1683/1684 and 1867/1868.

[https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aitrang; https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Ulrich_(Aitrang)]