Upper Bavaria

Upper Bavaria Bavaria in both a district and a county.

The districts in Bavaria are self-governing bodies, to which several groups have come together. The circles of a district each belong to a same government district, the jurisdiction of the district government (often only short- Government ) as a state agent authority. Unlike the district administration offices, the same state and municipal authority ( " Janus-faced " ), exist for them in Bavaria with the district administrations and the governments of separate authorities.

Upper Bavaria is located in the southeast of the Free State and is bordered to the south and east by Austria, in the northeast of Lower Bavaria and the Upper Palatinate, to the northwest of Middle Franconia and Swabia in the west. Administrative headquarters of the district and at the same time the seat of government of the district of Munich is.

Upper Bavaria is a term for an administrative unit whose boundaries have changed several times over the centuries and have taken no account of tribal or linguistic boundaries. In particular, there is no specific upper Bavarian dialect. The term " Upper Bavaria " appears for the first time in 1255 in the Bavarian division. However, the expansion was originally a different: The Chiemgau and the area of Bad Reichenhall were among Lower Bavaria. The term refers to the relative position on the Danube and its tributaries: Downstream Upper Bavaria is followed by Lower Bavaria, Upper Austria, Lower Austria.

Upper Bavaria is in Germany to Hamburg, the region with the second highest gross domestic product per capita. The main centers in Upper Bavaria are ( ordered by population ) Munich, Ingolstadt, Rosenheim, Freising, Garmisch -Partenkirchen and Traunstein.

  • 2.1 Independent Cities
  • 2.2 counties
  • 5.1 General Information
  • 5.2 Tourism in Upper Bavaria
  • 6.1 Cultural Promotion
  • 6.2 County Council 6.2.1 composition
  • 6.2.2 District Presidents tags
  • 7.1 Government President

Current political structure of the government district

The Regierungsbezirk Oberbayern includes three county-level cities and 20 counties:

Independent Cities

Counties

Notes: During the transitional period from 1 July 1972 to April 30, 1973 four counties contributed other names:

Political Structure of the administrative district until 1972

Before the district reform on 1 July 1972, the government district had seven county-level cities and 26 counties:

Independent Cities

  • Bad Reichenhall (today district town in the district of Berchtesgaden )
  • Freising ( today district town in the district of Freising )
  • Ingolstadt
  • Landsberg am Lech (today district town in the district of Landsberg am Lech)
  • Munich
  • Rosenheim
  • Traunstein (today district town in the district of Traunstein )

Counties

  • Aichach (now Aichach -Friedberg in the district of Bavarian Swabia )
  • Altötting
  • Bad Aibling (now Rosenheim)
  • Bad Tölz (today Bad Tölz -Wolfratshausen )
  • Berchtesgaden ( today Berchtesgaden )
  • Dachau
  • Ebersberg
  • Erding
  • Freising
  • Fürstenfeldbruck
  • Garmisch -Partenkirchen
  • County Ingolstadt
  • Landsberg am Lech
  • Running ( today Berchtesgaden, Traunstein and Altötting )
  • Miesbach
  • Mühldorf
  • Munich
  • Pfaffenhofen
  • Rosenheim
  • Schongau (now Weilheim -Schongau )
  • Schrobenhausen (now Neuburg -Schrobenhausen )
  • Starnberg
  • Traunstein
  • Wasserburg am Inn (now Rosenheim, Erding and Mühldorf )
  • Weilheim (now Weilheim -Schongau )
  • Wolfratshausen (today Bad Tölz -Wolfratshausen )

Planning regions

The Upper Bavarian cities and counties are assigned to four different planning regions: Ingolstadt, Munich, Upper Bavaria Oberland and Southeast.

History

The first Bavarian division in 1255 an independent Duchy of Bavaria was created under Louis the Severe, but which was not congruent with the present government district. After transient reunification in 1340, the Duchy of Bavaria was in 1392 divided into three parts: originated in Upper Bavaria Bavaria -Munich and Bavaria -Ingolstadt, Bavaria, Lower Bavaria -Landshut. There was also in Lower Bavaria as the fourth dukedom since 1349 Bavaria - Straubing. 1505 all duchies were reunited. For administrative purposes Bavaria was split in the sequence in Rent offices. With the secularization of 1802/1803 the territories of the Bishopric of Freising came to Upper Bavaria. With the Bavarian Constitution of 1808 was the systematic classification of the now King of Bavaria in circles that did not meet as a means authorities today's counties, but the present-day districts. 1837 was the romantic moving King Ludwig I. the French naming system of the Bavarian districts by river names replaced by historicizing terms that should reflect the history of the Bavarian parts. This arose from the Isar circle of the district of Upper Bavaria.

Economy

General Information

The unemployment rate in Upper Bavaria was 3.7 percent in December 2008. In comparison with the GDP of the EU expressed in purchasing power standards reached Oberbayern an index of 165.6 (EU -27: 100)

About 1.6 million people in Upper Bavaria are social insurance contributions, over a million of them in the service sector. Less than 500,000 work in the manufacturing sector and 11,000 in agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fisheries. The district operates a municipal company with the Departments of Upper Bavaria.

Tourism in Upper Bavaria

Upper Bavaria has always been one of the most important national and international destinations in tourism. With world-famous attractions such as the castles of King Ludwig II, the attractions in the city of Munich and the endless natural beauty of Upper Bavaria is an attractive holiday destination.

The umbrella organization of the Bavarian tourism since its inception in 1937, the Tourist München- Oberbayern eV Hierarchical including Upper Bavaria is divided into 14 tourist regions. These include the Alpine region Tegernsee- Schliersee, the region Ammersee -Lech, the Berchtesgaden area, the Chiemgau, the Chiemsee Alps, country, Ebersberg Green Country, the Region Inn - Salzach River, the city of Munich, the Munich region, the Upper Bavaria region cities, Pfaff angle, the Starnberg Five -Lakes Region, the Bad Tölz and the Zugspitze region.

The regions of Upper Bavaria benefit greatly from their tourist guests. Based on the analysis of the relevant economic factor, the importance of tourism is generally obvious to the economic health of Upper Bavaria. Thus, the gross sales of the Upper Bavarian tourism amounted to 12.6 billion euros by overnight guests and day visitors, with an emphasis on the latter. The employment effect affects around 200,000 people who can work in tourism and their living expenses with an average primary income.

District

Cultural Promotion

The cultural department of the district promotes inter-regional cultural events in Upper Bavaria. The district of Upper Bavaria is also supporting the open-air museums on the Glentleiten and in Amerang, and the cultural and educational center in the former monastery Seeon.

County Council

The county council is chosen parallel to the Bavarian Parliament, the constituency of Upper Bavaria is composed of 60 members and 7 overhang and compensation mandates.

Composition

Tags District President

Tags District President in Upper Bavaria:

  • Peter Hecker (CSU ), 1954-1966
  • Georg Klimm (CSU ), 1966-1986
  • Hermann Schuster ( CSU), 1986-1998
  • Erwin Filser (CSU ), 1998-2000
  • Franz Jungwirth (CSU ), 2000-2008
  • Josef Mederer (CSU ), since 2008

Since October 2008, Josef Mederer (CSU ) Tags District President. His deputies are Ursula Bittner (SPD) and Friederike Steinberger (CSU ).

Government District

Government President

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