Ebersberg

For other uses, see Ebersberg (disambiguation).
Ebersberg

Coat of arms
Ebersberg

Coordinates: 48°05′N 11°58′E / 48.083°N 11.967°E / 48.083; 11.967Coordinates: 48°05′N 11°58′E / 48.083°N 11.967°E / 48.083; 11.967
Country Germany
State Bavaria
Admin. region Oberbayern
District Ebersberg
Government
  Mayor Walter Brilmayer (CSU)
Area
  Total 40.84 km2 (15.77 sq mi)
Population (2013-12-31)[1]
  Total 11,469
  Density 280/km2 (730/sq mi)
Time zone CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes 85560
Dialling codes 08092
Vehicle registration EBE
Website www.ebersberg.de

Ebersberg is the seat of the similarly named Ebersberg landkreis (district) in the Oberbayern regierungsbezirk (administrative region) in Bavaria, southern Germany. The Ebersberger Forst (forest) is one of Germany’s largest continuous area of woodlands.

Neighbouring communities are Grafing bei München, Kirchseeon and Steinhöring. Bavaria’s capital, Munich, lies 32 km away and may be reached by Munich S-Bahn (S4). Rosenheim and Wasserburg am Inn are about the same distance away.

History

Timeline of Ebersburg
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934 - Benedictine monastery founded
c. 1300 - Town under jurisdiction of the monastery
1595 - Dissolution of the monastery
1773 - Knights of Malta gained jurisdiction
1954 - Elevated to the status of a town

Ebersberg’s history is closely tied with the nearby Benedictine monastery founded in 934 by the Counts of Sempt. Beginning in the 14th century the monastery exercised local jurisdiction. In 1595, Pope Clement VIII dissolved the monastery and turned its lands over to the Jesuits. On January 18, 1634, during the Thirty Years War, Ebersberg was the site of a skirmish between Habsburg troops and local peasants. The peasants, being poorly armed, were quickly defeated by the Imperial forces and around 200 were killed. Later, the ringleaders were exonerated by local authorities and found they were acting only in self-defense.[2] In 1773, the Knights of Malta took over the building. When the monastery was dissolved for good in 1808, the building went partly to government ownership and partly private.

In 1954, Ebersberg was raised to the status of a 'town'. In 1972 it was connected to Munich by the S-Bahn highway. The once separate municipality of Oberndorf was combined with Ebersberg.

Ebersberg is the only German town that has named a street after a cabaret group (Valtortagasse, after the Gruppo di Valtorta from Ebersberg). Ebersberg’s main cultural institution, the Alte Kino Ebersberg (Old Cinema), is today run by a non-profit governing board whose roots lie in this same Deutscher Kleinkunstpreis-winning group.

Coat of arms

Ebersberg’s civic coat of arms consists of a gold background with a black boar standing on a green three-knolled hill (Dreiberg, in German heraldry) on the shield’s right edge (from the armsbearer’s point of view – the left edge from the viewer’s) sloping upwards.

The town’s website includes a short summary of its history.

Sights

Transport

Ebersberg has a station on the railway line between Grafing and Wasserburg and is the terminal station of line S 4 of the Munich S-Bahn.

Famous people

The following luminaries were born in Ebersberg:

Ebersberg was furthermore Josef Wintrich's hometown. He was the second president of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany.

Honorary citizens

See also

References

  1. "Fortschreibung des Bevölkerungsstandes". Bayerisches Landesamt für Statistik und Datenverarbeitung (in German). 31 December 2013.
  2. Wilson, Peter. The Thirty Years War. Belknap Press, Harvard University, 2009. Cambridge, Massachusetts. pp. 533.

Further reading

External links

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