Schöngeising

Schöngeising is a municipality in the district of Fürstenfeldbruck, Regierungsbezirk Oberbayern and a member of the administrative community Grafrath. It lies about 7 km southwest of Furstenfeldbruck and 30 km west of Munich.

The municipality Schöngeising include the vilage Schöngeising, Jexhof and Zellhof.

Geography

Climate

Schöngeising can - as virtually all of Bavaria ( excluding high mountain areas ) - are attributed to the Central European transitional climate. Thus, although occur weather extremes of the continental climate rather rare, but is to observe that the winters are often stricter than in West Germany. Also usually falls more snow than in many other German territories. One reason for this is the high altitude of over 500 meters above sea level. In the summer, it can often be hotter than eg on the North Sea coast, as the cooling effect of a large mass of water is missing. Other significant weather- determining factors are the Alps as a Central European and the Danube as a regional weather divide. Thanks to this arrangement, the weather is relatively changeable. The foehn brings all the year round from the south irregularly warm, dry air flows after Schöngeising. The microclimate of the village is also determined by the Amper.

Coat of arms

Six times confess changes from blue, silver, green, silver, green and silver, covered with a silver and red geschachten in two rows of beams; above a golden cross bar, down a red clover cross. The contents of the emblem in 1967 adopted is justified as follows: Schöngeising, whose story was in close contact with the Cistercian monastery Fürstenfeld, was in the 16th century known by that of Duke Wilhelm V the Bavarian court music of Orlando di Lasso ceded land on which the famous musicians lived until his death in 1594. Therefore, it was the coat of arms of Orlando, called Ständerung (ie, multiple oblique division, with the cross in the top box based on the municipal coat of arms ). The Cistercian bar reminiscent of the relationship to the monastery Fürstenfeld. The shamrock cross in the lower part of coat of arms represents the local reference to the church in Schöngeising or its patron saint, St. John the Baptist, ago.

History

See also: List of monuments in Schöngeising

Numerous finds of hills and cremations in the immediate vicinity, suggest a use of space from the oldest Bronze Age Hallstatt period, Viereckschanzen have obtained from the La Tene period. The Romans built a bridge over the Amper here, at the rest stop, the leading over the Brenner Via Raetia and the Via Tiberina, the much-used Consularstraße from Salzburg to Augsburg met. As the only point in that region of the Roman name of Schöngeising was handed down in writing as Ambrae. Excavations suggest a settlement until the 4th century. The documentary first citation of Schöngeising was 763 as Kisingas, which means as much as " with the people of Giso ". The words " you" was added later to distinguish the place from the marshy Kottgeisering. The Jexhof was first mentioned in 1433, the Zellhof 1314. 1818 the church formed from the present-day districts and additionally Grafrath. The latter in 1849 the municipality slammed Unteralting.

Policy

The local council of Schöngeising consists of 12 members with the following distribution of seats:

The term of office of the first mayor dressed Marianne Hofmuth (CSU ). Thomas Totzauer (FW ) is the second mayor.

Traffic

Schöngeising is connected via the breakpoint Schöngeising to the S4 line Geltendorf - Ebersberg the Munich S-Bahn. About the Federal Highway 471 is a connection to the motorway A96 Munich -Lindau, junction inning and to Fuerstenfeldbruck and further to the A8 Munich -Stuttgart -Karlsruhe at the exit Dachau / Fürstenfeldbruck.

Special Structures

  • In Schöngeising is one of the first hydroelectric power plants in Germany. It was built in 1891/92 according to the plans of Oskar von Miller and is a listed building. It is now managed by the Fürstenfeldbrucker municipal utilities. The Amper drives the three Francis turbines from the years 1911/22/27, and thus the two generators (1922 /27) to the dependent on the water level of continuous operation.
  • At 48 ° 7 ' 55 "N, 11 ° 13' 26.6 " O48.13195497444411.224063038889 a 144 meter high telecommunications tower of Deutsche Telekom AG of type FMT is 12
  • The municipal area are the remains of Sunderburg.
  • On the eastern outskirts of the village there is the Catholic parish church consecrated in 1709 St. John the Baptist. The baroque hall building with a three-sided choir conclusion of attached two-storey sacristy and an onion dome on the north tower was rebuilt in 1683 to 1699. Previously was at this point also consecrated to St. John baptistery in the first Romanesque and later Gothic style for the first time in the 10th century recorded mention found. The Munich painter G. Lachner designed in 1861 next to the ceiling painting of John the Baptist at the Jordan, the Way of the Cross, the depiction of Saint Joseph and the portrait of Mary Immaculate Conception. The religious building is surrounded by a cemetery. The Church opposes the parsonage built in 1993.
  • Outside the village, to the east is the small Romanesque chapel of St. Vitus in Zellweg in the 13th century was mentioned for the first time. The church building is at the end of a narrow asphalt road that continues along the Amper, passing to Fuerstenfeldbruck leads gravelled as cycle path at the animal shelter to the monastery Fürstenfeld. The later Baroque style building is surrounded by a low cemetery wall. In it, there are numerous, meanwhile abandoned graves with wrought-iron grave crosses. The chapel underwent between the years 1971 to 1975 and ultimately 1993, a total renovation.

Waters

  • Amper

Partner communities

Schöngeising has a partner community:

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