Vaterstetten
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Vaterstetten is a municipality
in the Upper Bavaria
n district of Ebersberg
. It lies east of Munich and is the district’s biggest community. Vaterstetten is on the outskirts of Munich
, roughly twenty minutes by S-Bahn
from the Marienplatz
.
, in the northeast on the community of Anzing
, in the east on the unincorporated area of the Ebersberg Forest (Ebersberger Forst), in the southeast on the community of Zorneding
(all in Ebersberg district), in the southwest on the community of Grasbrunn
, and in the west on the communities of Haar
and Feldkirchen
(all three in Munich district
).
Because of being on the border of the sandur
of Munich, an early settlement in the southern part of today's community area is unlikely, because the tillage
was disadvantaged here compared to the northern part. Consequently, the oldest town of the community is Purfing, where a settlement from the period between 750 to 600 BC was found.
Vaterstetten was founded by the Old Bavarii
Fater family.
Until 1056 the district of Weißenfeld (Wizzinvelt) was in the possession of the Holy Roman Emperor
Henry III
. as a Reichsgut. How significant these lands must have been for the emperor is shown by the fact that he instructed his wife in negotiations over his ownership on his deathbed in the year 1056.
It was here in the summer of 1800 that the Parsdorf Ceasefire was signed by Major General Franz Joseph von Dietrichstein and General Jean Victor Moreau, which later came to an end with the Battle of Hohenlinden. In 1818, when there was the Royal Bavaria
n territorial reform, the community of Parsdorf was founded and it replaced the former "Steuerdistricten". The administrative seat of the community was transferred to Parsdorf probably because of its important coaching inn
.
An increase of the population of the community began with the connection to the rail network in 1871.
In 1913 physicist Ernst Mach
settled in Vaterstetten, where he died 1916.
The district of Baldham was selected as a location for the studio of Hitler's sculptor Josef Thorak
before the beginning of World War II. The building, which was created by Albert Speer
, is now a branch of the Archaeological Staatssammlung in Munich. On 5 May 1945, the delegations of the German Army Group G and the 7th U.S. Army met here to discuss the surrender of the 200 000 German soldiers in southern Germany, which was finally signed in the neighbour community of Haar.
On 19 May 1944, a US Consolidated B-24 bomber crashed into the forest between Vaterstetten and the neighbouring town of Ottendichl.
The current community of Vaterstetten came into being with the municipal reform of 1978. The old community included all the same current centres as are now found in Vaterstetten, but it was named Parsdorf. On 1 May 1978, the community’s name was changed to Vaterstetten, by which time the community’s main centre had long been of that same name, along with Baldham.
Before that reform, a part of Baldham (named Baldham-Kolonie) belonged to Zorneding
.
Today the community of Vaterstetten is a popular home for celebrity people.
’s line S4 runs over the Munich–Salzburg line
through the community serving the Vaterstetten and Baldham stations.
Two buslines of the Vaterstettener Innerörtlicher Personennahverkehr (Vaterstetten Local Passenger Transport, or VIP) run regularly in the local area.
The name Vaterstetten is well known to many motorists for its Autobahn roadhouse, which lies on the A99
. The Autobahn itself runs by the community about a kilometre away. Through the community’s south end runs the Wasserburger Landstraße (officially named B304), one of Munich’s main arterial roads.
, a Realschule
and the Humboldt-Gymnasium
Vaterstetten, as well as a folk high school
and a music school
.
(1910, 1925, 1939, 1961, 1987: census results)
Municipalities of Germany
Municipalities are the lowest level of territorial division in Germany. This may be the fourth level of territorial division in Germany, apart from those states which include Regierungsbezirke , where municipalities then become the fifth level.-Overview:With more than 3,400,000 inhabitants, the...
in the Upper Bavaria
Upper Bavaria
Upper Bavaria is one of the seven administrative regions of Bavaria, Germany.- Geography :Upper Bavaria is located in the southern portion of Bavaria, and is centered around the city of Munich. It is subdivided into four regions : Ingolstadt, Munich, Bayerisches Oberland , and Südostoberbayern...
n district of Ebersberg
Ebersberg (district)
Ebersberg is a district in Bavaria, Germany. It is bounded by the districts of Erding, Mühldorf, Rosenheim and Munich.-History:...
. It lies east of Munich and is the district’s biggest community. Vaterstetten is on the outskirts of Munich
Munich
Munich The city's motto is "" . Before 2006, it was "Weltstadt mit Herz" . Its native name, , is derived from the Old High German Munichen, meaning "by the monks' place". The city's name derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who founded the city; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat...
, roughly twenty minutes by S-Bahn
S-Bahn
S-Bahn refers to an often combined city center and suburban railway system metro in Austria, Germany, Switzerland and Denmark...
from the Marienplatz
Marienplatz
Marienplatz is a central square in the city center of Munich, Germany. It has been the city's main square since 1158.-Architecture:...
.
Location
Vaterstetten borders in the north on the community of PoingPoing, Germany
Poing is a community in the Upper Bavarian district of Ebersberg, lying east of central Munich.-Geography:Poing is approximately NE of Munich and is serviced by the Munich S-Bahn and MVV Bus systems. Poing has two...
, in the northeast on the community of Anzing
Anzing
Anzing is a municipality in the Upper Bavarian district of Ebersberg.-Municipal divisions:Constituent communities include Anzing, Auhofen, Boden, Froschkern, Frotzhofen, Garkofen, Hl...
, in the east on the unincorporated area of the Ebersberg Forest (Ebersberger Forst), in the southeast on the community of Zorneding
Zorneding
Zorneding is a community in the Upper Bavarian district of Ebersberg. It lies some 20 km east of Munich, Bavaria’s capital.-Neighbouring communities:...
(all in Ebersberg district), in the southwest on the community of Grasbrunn
Grasbrunn
Grasbrunn is a municipality in the district of Munich in Bavaria in Germany.-References:...
, and in the west on the communities of Haar
Haar, Bavaria
Haar is a municipality in the district of Munich, in Bavaria, Germany. It is 12 km east of Munich . As of 2005 it has a population of some 20'000.It is home to the Haar Disciples, a team in the first division of German's Baseball Bundesliga....
and Feldkirchen
Feldkirchen, Upper Bavaria
Feldkirchen is a municipality in the district of Munich, Bavaria, Germany. It is located 10 km eastern from Munich and has 5,987 inhabitants. It was first mentioned in an 853 document....
(all three in Munich district
Munich (district)
Munich is a district in Bavaria, Germany. It borders the districts of Dachau, Freising, Erding, Ebersberg, Rosenheim, Miesbach, Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen, Starnberg, Fürstenfeldbruck, and surrounds district-free city Munich itself, which is the district seat.-History:The history of the region is...
).
Constituent communities
The community consists of the constituent centres of Baldham, Hergolding, Neufarn, Parsdorf, Purfing, Vaterstetten and Weißenfeld.History
Because of being on the border of the sandur
Sandur
A sandur is a glacial outwash plain formed of sediments deposited by meltwater at the terminus of a glacier.- Formation :Sandar are found in glaciated areas, such as Svalbard, Kerguelen Islands, and Iceland...
of Munich, an early settlement in the southern part of today's community area is unlikely, because the tillage
Tillage
Tillage is the agricultural preparation of the soil by mechanical agitation of various types, such as digging, stirring, and overturning. Examples of human-powered tilling methods using hand tools include shovelling, picking, mattock work, hoeing, and raking...
was disadvantaged here compared to the northern part. Consequently, the oldest town of the community is Purfing, where a settlement from the period between 750 to 600 BC was found.
Vaterstetten was founded by the Old Bavarii
Bavarii
The Bavarii were a Germanic tribe whose name emerged late in Teutonic tribal times. The full name originally was the Germanic *baio-warioz. This name has been handed down as Baiwaren, Baioaren, Bioras, latinised Bavarii, Baioarii. or Bavarii, Bavarians, Bajuwaren, Bajuvarii, Bajuwaren and Baiern....
Fater family.
Until 1056 the district of Weißenfeld (Wizzinvelt) was in the possession of the Holy Roman Emperor
Holy Roman Emperor
The Holy Roman Emperor is a term used by historians to denote a medieval ruler who, as German King, had also received the title of "Emperor of the Romans" from the Pope...
Henry III
Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor
Henry III , called the Black or the Pious, was a member of the Salian Dynasty of Holy Roman Emperors...
. as a Reichsgut. How significant these lands must have been for the emperor is shown by the fact that he instructed his wife in negotiations over his ownership on his deathbed in the year 1056.
It was here in the summer of 1800 that the Parsdorf Ceasefire was signed by Major General Franz Joseph von Dietrichstein and General Jean Victor Moreau, which later came to an end with the Battle of Hohenlinden. In 1818, when there was the Royal Bavaria
Bavaria
Bavaria, formally the Free State of Bavaria is a state of Germany, located in the southeast of Germany. With an area of , it is the largest state by area, forming almost 20% of the total land area of Germany...
n territorial reform, the community of Parsdorf was founded and it replaced the former "Steuerdistricten". The administrative seat of the community was transferred to Parsdorf probably because of its important coaching inn
Coaching inn
In Europe, from approximately the mid-17th century for a period of about 200 years, the coaching inn, sometimes called a coaching house or staging inn, was a vital part of the inland transport infrastructure, as an inn serving coach travelers...
.
An increase of the population of the community began with the connection to the rail network in 1871.
In 1913 physicist Ernst Mach
Ernst Mach
Ernst Mach was an Austrian physicist and philosopher, noted for his contributions to physics such as the Mach number and the study of shock waves...
settled in Vaterstetten, where he died 1916.
The district of Baldham was selected as a location for the studio of Hitler's sculptor Josef Thorak
Josef Thorak
Josef Thorak was an Austrian-German sculptor.In 1922 Thorak's reputation increased when he created Der sterbende Krieger, a statue in memory to the dead of World War I of Stolpmünde.In 1933 and in following years, Thorak joined Arno Breker as one of the two "official sculptors" of the Third Reich...
before the beginning of World War II. The building, which was created by Albert Speer
Albert Speer
Albert Speer, born Berthold Konrad Hermann Albert Speer, was a German architect who was, for a part of World War II, Minister of Armaments and War Production for the Third Reich. Speer was Adolf Hitler's chief architect before assuming ministerial office...
, is now a branch of the Archaeological Staatssammlung in Munich. On 5 May 1945, the delegations of the German Army Group G and the 7th U.S. Army met here to discuss the surrender of the 200 000 German soldiers in southern Germany, which was finally signed in the neighbour community of Haar.
On 19 May 1944, a US Consolidated B-24 bomber crashed into the forest between Vaterstetten and the neighbouring town of Ottendichl.
The current community of Vaterstetten came into being with the municipal reform of 1978. The old community included all the same current centres as are now found in Vaterstetten, but it was named Parsdorf. On 1 May 1978, the community’s name was changed to Vaterstetten, by which time the community’s main centre had long been of that same name, along with Baldham.
Before that reform, a part of Baldham (named Baldham-Kolonie) belonged to Zorneding
Zorneding
Zorneding is a community in the Upper Bavarian district of Ebersberg. It lies some 20 km east of Munich, Bavaria’s capital.-Neighbouring communities:...
.
Today the community of Vaterstetten is a popular home for celebrity people.
Transport
Vaterstetten is part of the Munich Transport and Fare Association (Münchner Verkehrs- und Tarifverbund, or MVV). The Munich S-BahnMunich S-Bahn
The Munich S-Bahn is an electric rail transit system in Munich, Germany. "S-Bahn" is the German abbreviation for stadtschnellbahn , and the Munich S-Bahn exhibits characteristics of both rapid transit and commuter rail systems.The Munich S-Bahn network is operated by S-Bahn München, a subsidiary...
’s line S4 runs over the Munich–Salzburg line
Munich–Salzburg railway
The Munich–Salzburg railway is a 153 kilometre-long double-track main line of the German railways. It connects Munich with the line to Vienna at Salzburg. At Rosenheim station, it connects with the line to Kufstein. which continues to Innsbruck and the Brenner line to Italy...
through the community serving the Vaterstetten and Baldham stations.
Two buslines of the Vaterstettener Innerörtlicher Personennahverkehr (Vaterstetten Local Passenger Transport, or VIP) run regularly in the local area.
The name Vaterstetten is well known to many motorists for its Autobahn roadhouse, which lies on the A99
Bundesautobahn 99
- History :A ring Autobahn round Munich was planned in 1938, but war intervened and construction was deferred. Sections of the road were constructed to the north and east of the city in the 1960s and 1970s, following a route significantly further from the city centre than the ring planned in the...
. The Autobahn itself runs by the community about a kilometre away. Through the community’s south end runs the Wasserburger Landstraße (officially named B304), one of Munich’s main arterial roads.
Educational institutions
Within the community stand four elementary schools, a HauptschuleHauptschule
A Hauptschule is a secondary school in Germany and Austria, starting after 4 years of elementary schooling, which offers Lower Secondary Education according to the International Standard Classification of Education...
, a Realschule
Realschule
The Realschule is a type of secondary school in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and Liechtenstein. It has also existed in Croatia , Denmark , Sweden , Hungary and in the Russian Empire .-History:The Realschule was an outgrowth of the rationalism and empiricism of the seventeenth and...
and the Humboldt-Gymnasium
Gymnasium (school)
A gymnasium is a type of school providing secondary education in some parts of Europe, comparable to English grammar schools or sixth form colleges and U.S. college preparatory high schools. The word γυμνάσιον was used in Ancient Greece, meaning a locality for both physical and intellectual...
Vaterstetten, as well as a folk high school
Folk high school
Folk high schools are institutions for adult education that generally do not grant academic degrees, though certain courses might exist leading to that goal...
and a music school
Music school
The term music school refers to an educational institution specialized in the study, training and research of music.Different terms refer to this concept such as school of music, music academy, music faculty, college of music, music department or conservatory.Music instruction can be provided...
.
Town partnerships
- since 1982 with AllauchAllauchAllauch is a French commune situated east of Marseille in the department of Bouches-du-Rhône in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region of France. Its inhabitants are called Allaudians.- Location :...
(France) - since 1994 with Alem Katema (EthiopiaEthiopiaEthiopia , officially known as the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a country located in the Horn of Africa. It is the second-most populous nation in Africa, with over 82 million inhabitants, and the tenth-largest by area, occupying 1,100,000 km2...
) - since 2009 with TrogirTrogirTrogir is a historic town and harbour on the Adriatic coast in Split-Dalmatia County, Croatia, with a population of 12,995 and a total municipality population of 13,322 . The historic city of Trogir is situated on a small island between the Croatian mainland and the island of Čiovo...
(CroatiaCroatiaCroatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a unitary democratic parliamentary republic in Europe at the crossroads of the Mitteleuropa, the Balkans, and the Mediterranean. Its capital and largest city is Zagreb. The country is divided into 20 counties and the city of Zagreb. Croatia covers ...
)
Regular events
- Street Festival in June
- Töpfermarkt in the Freizeitpark, always in mid-October
- Volksfest (Folk Festival)
- Sonnwendfeuer (Solstice Festival)
- AFRICA! Festival, every other year, to be held next in 2011
Population development
| Year | - Inhabitants |
|---|---|
| 1867 | 175 |
| 1910 | 1,407 |
| 1925 | 1,565 |
| 1939 | 1,837 |
| 1945 | 1,300 |
| 1961 | 5,420 |
| 1987 | 17,843 |
| 2002 | 21,113 |
| 2006 | 21,401 |
(1910, 1925, 1939, 1961, 1987: census results)