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Meitingen was firstly mentioned in a certificate in 1231. Since the [[German Mediatisation]] Meitingen belongs to [[Bavaria]] in 1803. In 1844 the railroad line Augsburg-Nürnberg arrived Meitingen. The construction of the Lech-channel determined series of flooding caused by the river Lech.
In 1928 the Catholic priest Dr. Max-Josef Metzger founded the ''Christkönigshaus''. Because of his dedication in the international peace movement he was a thorn in the Nazis' flesh. He was murdered after a denunciation in [[Brandenburg-Görden]] in 1944. His corpse rests at the local graveyard. His gravestone, a memorial tablet at the ''Christkönigshaus'', the name of a street and of the secondary school remember his dedication.▼
With the construction of the hydro-electric power plant of the Lech-channel the industrialization of Meitingen started. Until 1972 Meitingen was a part of the district of [[Wertingen]] but because of local government reforms [[Erlingen]], [[Herbertshofen]], [[Ostendorf]], [[Langenreichen]] and [[Waltershofen]] became a part of Meitingen. In succession of the growth and the importance for the environs Meitingen became a [[market town]] in 1989.
== Notable people ==
▲In 1928,
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