Feldkirchen-Westerham

Feldkirchen- Westerham is a community in the Upper Bavarian district of Rosenheim, which originated from the communities vague / Westerham, Feldkirchen and Höhenrain.

  • 2.1 Amalgamations
  • 3.1 municipal
  • 3.2 Coat of Arms
  • 5.1 traffic
  • 5.2 Established businesses
  • 5.3 Formation
  • 6.1 freeman
  • 6.2 Sons and daughters of the town
  • 6.3 Other persons who are connected with the community

Geography

Geographical location

Feldkirchen- Westerham is the westernmost municipality in the district of Rosenheim and is located in Mangfalltal at the Mangfall in the Bavarian Alps. Neighboring municipalities are:

  • Bruckmuhl, also the district of Rosenheim
  • Deer Mountain, and Valley Weyarn in Miesbach
  • Aying in the district of Munich
  • Glonn and Bavaria in the district of Ebersberg

The municipality is located in the ground moraine of the Inn glacier moraines and has in the form of Aschbacher mountain in the west and the Deer Mountain in the south.

Partnership communities are Jallais in western France and Genesio in South Tyrol.

Community structure

The municipality Feldkirchen- Westerham has 54 officially named districts:

  • Altenburg
  • At the hem
  • Aschbach
  • Aschhofen
  • Branch
  • Book mountain
  • Misery churches
  • Eutenhausen
  • Feldkirchen
  • Feldolling
  • Gmeinwies
  • Großhöhenrain
  • Hague
  • Hammer
  • Hofberg
  • Hohenfried
  • Timber classes
  • Stroke
  • Irnberg
  • Kleinhöhenrain
  • Krügling
  • Kugelloh
  • Conduct
  • Lenz mill
  • Loher mountain
  • Miihlberg
  • Mühlholz
  • Neuhaus
  • Niederstetten
  • Oberaufham
  • Oberlaus
  • Oberreit
  • Oberstetten
  • Upper Wertach
  • Percha
  • Fart
  • Reisachöd
  • Reed
  • Ried Unterbichl
  • Schnaitt
  • Schöffleiten
  • Schwaig
  • Stadlberg
  • Staudach
  • Sterneck
  • Thal
  • Unteraufham
  • Unterlaus
  • Unterreit
  • Under Wertach
  • Vague
  • Walpersdorf
  • Weidach
  • Westerham

History

From finds a stone ax, blades and scrapers is a settlement in the Neolithic period (5000 - 3200 BC) to close. Around 500 BC, Celtic tribes settled immigrant to Mangfall and Leitzach. From the Roman Empire (15 BC - 480 AD) could be west of Perca prove a section of the Roman road Via Julia from Augsburg to Salzburg. The rampart " Birg " north of small height churches dates from the time of the invasions of the Hungarians (9th - 10th century).

First known written evidence comes back from the year 795 in the monastery of St. Emmeram to Regensburg called Bishop Atto of Freising from the Tegernsee Abt Meginhart including the tithe of Feldkirchener church. In 1634 the plague raged in the community, in Feldkirchen 58 in Westerham 156 in Feldolling killed 48 people; the other districts had to complain about big losses. Because today still remember the Plague in Westerham, Feldolling and Anger. Since 1739, operated by the Thurn and Taxis postal empire Imperial wrong as " riding post " on the old salt route from Bad Reichenhall to Munich by Feldkirchen, since 1769 the " traveling people post ".

The second Gemeindeedikt were Feldkirchen, collected vague ( with Westerham ) and Großhöhenrain ( with Kleinhöhenrain ) on 17 May 1818 a separate political communities. At that time stood in Feldkirchen near the church with the farm buildings 15 more property and a salt store. The economy lived mainly from the well-traveled road salt. From 1876 to 1987, there was in Feldkirchen -Westerham also has its own brewery.

Incorporations

On 1 July 1972, the municipalities of Feldkirchen and vagueness were merged to form the new municipality of Feldkirchen- Westerham. The district of Bad Aibling was dissolved at the same time. Thus, the new municipality was assigned to the district of Rosenheim. On May 1, 1978, the previously independent community Höhenrain was incorporated.

While the church in 1993 received a single zip code, the district vague kept the calling code Bruckmühls today.

Policy

Parish council

24 volunteer local councils together with the full-time mayor of the local council of Feldkirchen- Westerham. After the election of 2 March 2008, it is composed as follows:

Coat of arms

The coat of arms is divided vertically: on the left is a golden hawk with a red collar on blue bottom, right, a black chevron on a white background. In the lower quarter, a golden wave beam passes over the entire width of the crest.

The falcon motif comes from the arms of Count Neuburg- Falkenstein, the rafters of the seal coat of arms of local noble family of Westerham. The wave bar symbolizes the Mangfall, which influences the landscape.

The coat of arms was originally introduced in 1964 as a municipal coat of arms vague by then- Mayor Max Reitner. In the municipal reform 1972 Vagener coat of arms was adopted unchanged for the new combined Feldkirchen -Westerham.

Attractions

  • Stollwerck mausoleum in Hohenfried
  • Schloss Altenburg, castle roof storage and baroque palaces in vague
  • Parish church of St. Lawrence ( Feldkirchen ) by Hans Schurr and filial church of St. Peter ( Westerham )
  • Sanctuary of the Virgin Mary in Upper Riding, today side of Church of St. Lawrence, Feldkirchen
  • Filial church of St. Nicholas, Feldolling

See also List of historic buildings in Feldkirchen -Westerham

Economy and infrastructure

Traffic

The community is connected through the station Westerham, which is served hourly by regional trains of the relation wooden churches -Rosenheim to the Mangfalltalbahn. The bus of the RVO through several districts of the municipality. At the weekend, a night express is additionally configured to and from Rosenheim. A motorway connection is given on the driveways of the A8 ( Weyarn deer and mountain).

Established businesses

  • W. L. Gore & Associates
  • Spinner

Education

  • The Community Library Feldkirchen- Westerham is the largest volunteer-run library in Germany.
  • Academy of Chamber of Commerce for Munich and Upper Bavaria: Training center with about 800 events each year and 10,000 participants. Topics range from management training through real estate seminars for up to secretaries courses.
  • Primary and secondary school with M- train.
  • Community College.

Personalities

Freeman

  • Ecclesiastic Council Hubert Huber, August 1979
  • Mayor A.D. Georg Röhrmoser, April 1993

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Markus Eham (* 1958), liturgist and composer
  • Ilse Aigner (born 1964 ), Federal Minister of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection, Member of Parliament (CSU ), due to the state election 9/2013 and a new government 10/2013 Member of Parliament and Minister for Economic Affairs.

Other personalities who are associated with the community

  • Nick McCarthy ( born 1974 ), musician with Franz Ferdinand, grew up in the district vague and Westerham.
  • Hans Memminger
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