Bergen, Upper Bavaria

Bergen is a community in the Upper Bavarian district of Traunstein and office of the Management Community mountains. The health resort in the Chiemgau at the foot of the Hochfelln is located directly on the A8 from Munich to Salzburg.

  • 2.1 Amalgamations
  • 2.2 Population development
  • 3.1 Coat of Arms
  • 4.1 Economy, agriculture and forestry
  • 4.2 traffic
  • 4.3 Education
  • 6.1 Sons and daughters of the town
  • 6.2 People who have worked on site

Geography

Geographical Location

Bergen is located in the Southeast Planning Region of Upper Bavaria. Nearest large town is Traunstein, about 10 km away.

Community structure

The municipality of Bergen has 32 ​​officially named districts:

  • Klaus
  • Green
  • Hide
  • Bernhaupten
  • Dafeicht
  • Essbaum
  • Geißing
  • Haslach
  • Hautzenbichl
  • Hilzing
  • Holzhausen
  • Irlach
  • Kaltbrunn
  • Carbon city
  • Kronberg
  • Conduct
  • Lohmann
  • Upper forest
  • Pattberg
  • Pletschach
  • Ramberg
  • Rumgraben
  • Schellenberg
  • Schipfl
  • Schlipfing
  • Schmid forest
  • Sonnenleiten
  • Stone bridges
  • Under forest
  • Weidach
  • White Achen

There are the districts Bergen, Bergen Forestry and Holzhausen.

History

The history of Bergen is closely linked to the 1562 founded ironworks mountains, which was called since 1824 Maxhiitte. It was one of the largest steel plants of southern Germany and was until its closure in 1932, an industrial center of the Chiemgau region.

Mountains belonged to Rentamt Burghausen and the district court Marquartstein of the Electorate of Bavaria. In the course of administrative reform in Bavaria, was born with the congregation of 1818, the current community. Since the local government reform in 1978, the municipality of Bergen forms an administrative community with Vachendorf.

Incorporations

On 1 January 1972 parts of the territory of the dissolved municipality Holzhausen were incorporated.

Population Development

Policy

Coat of arms

Blazon: Shared by silver and blue; diagonally above two crossed black iron hammers, down three, two -to-one asked, six-pointed golden star.

Economy and infrastructure

Economy, agriculture and forestry

In 1998 there were, according to official statistics in the field of Agriculture and Forestry 10, 187 in manufacturing and in trade and transport 146 persons work at the workplace. In other areas, were employed to social security at the workplace 271 people. Social insurance contributions at town there were a total 1290th In manufacturing, there was no, in construction enterprises 8. In addition, in 1999, there were 55 farms with an agricultural area of 901 ha, of which 840 ha of permanent green space.

Traffic

The mountain station ( Oberbay ) is a stopping point on the railway line Rosenheim and Salzburg. The A8 from Munich to Salzburg runs north adjacent to the district Bernhaupten.

Education

In 2011 there were the following facilities:

  • Four day-care centers with 187 seats, of which 182 were occupied
  • A primary and secondary school with 17 teachers and 221 students

Culture and sights

  • Parish Church of St. Giles
  • Former smelter and those of the present Museum Maximilianshütte
  • Vantage, hiking and skiing mountain Hochfelln
  • Theatre Bergen ( since 1879)

→ List of monuments in Bergen ( Chiemgau)

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Wastl Fanderl (1915-1991), musician, folk music collector
  • Hans W. Scheicher (* 1931), journalist, foreign correspondent and television presenter

Those who worked on site

  • Eduard Beaucamp (* 1937), art critic and journalist, Rudolf Alexander Schröder employees in Bergen
  • Max Prince (1846-1937), painter of murals in St. Giles mountains
  • Siegfried of Roedern (1870-1954), politician, 1917 Vice Chancellor, lived in Bergen
  • Rudolf Alexander Schröder (1878-1962), writer, architect and painter, lived in Bergen
  • Franz Michael Wagner (1768-1851), a Montanist, Oberberggerichtsverweser was in Bergen
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