Grafing

Infobox German Location
type = Stadt
Name = Grafing b.München
Wappen = Wappen von Grafing bei Muenchen.pnglat_deg = 48 |lat_min = 3
lon_deg = 11 |lon_min = 58
Lageplan =
Bundesland = Bayern
Regierungsbezirk = Oberbayern
Landkreis = Ebersberg
Höhe = 522
Fläche = 29.57
Einwohner = 12543
Stand = 2006-12-31
PLZ = 85567
Vorwahl = 08092
Kfz = EBE
Gemeindeschlüssel = 09 1 75 122
Adresse = Marktplatz 28
85567 Grafing
Website = [http://www.grafing.de/ www.grafing.de]
Bürgermeister = Rudolf Heiler
Bürgermeistertitel = 1. Bürgermeister
Partei = CSU

Grafing bei München (officially: Grafing b.München) is a town in the Upper Bavarian district of Ebersberg. In 2003, the town marked its 50th anniversary of being raised to town (1953).

Geography

Grafing bei München lies in the Munich Region where the Urtelbach and Wieshamer Bach both empty into the River Attel. Nearby communities are the district seat of Ebersberg, Glonn and Kirchseeon. To the state capital Munich, it is 32 km, and also roughly the same to Rosenheim and Wasserburg am Inn.

The town has the following traditional rural land units ("Gemarkungen" in German): Elkofen, Grafing b.München, Nettelkofen, Oexing and Straußdorf.

History

The town, founded in 960 with the name "Gisling" belonged to the "Rentamt" of Munich and the Court of Swabia in the Electorate of Bavaria. Right next to Grafing and for a long time once lay another town called Öxing. After many polls, the town chose to assume the name Grafen after the two towns had grown together. All that nowadays remains to recall the days when Grafing was two towns is the two churches, one in the former Grafing and the other in the former Öxing.

Grafing moreover was home to a market court with far-reaching judicial autonomy. In the course of administrative reform in Bavaria, the community of Grafing came into being with the community edict in 1818, and with regional reform in 1978, Grafing swallowed up the former communities of Elkofen, Nettelkofen and Straußdorf. Town status came in 1953.

Population development

The town’s area was home to 9,426 inhabitants in 1970, 11,039 in 1987 and 12,493 in 2004.

Politics

The mayor ("Bürgermeister") is Rudolf Heiler (CSU). Town council seats are apportioned thus: CSU (14), Greens (4), SPD (3), ÜWG (3).

In 1999, the town’s tax revenue, converted to euros, was €7,703,000, of which €1,654,000 was business taxes.

Coat of arms

Grafing’s arms might heraldically be described thus: In Or a bear rampant sable armed and langued sable. The local lore has it that Emperor Ludwig the Bavarian granted the town these arms in 1325. The Grafingers had taken part in the great battle near Ampfing-Mühldorf between Kaiser Ludwig and Duke Friedrich the Handsome of Austria in 1322 with that little flag at the Emperor’s side, and fought in this battle, it is said, “like bears”.

Education

chools

*Grundschule Grafing (elementary school)
*Georg-Huber-Hauptschule
*Gymnasium Grafing
*Johann-Comenius-Schule (special pedagogical continuiong education centre)
*Gymnasium im Collegium Augustinum

Other educational institutions

*Volkshochschule Grafing
*Musikschule
*Kreisbildungswerk (“District Education Works”)
*Evangelisches Bildungswerk

ightseeing

*Rathaus (town hall)
*Pfarrkirche St. Ägidius (parish church)
*Marktkirche (church)
*Leonhardikirche (church)
*Wildbräugebäude (building)
*Schloss Elkofen (castle)
*Mariensäule (column)
*Heimatmuseum im Rieperdinger-Haus (“Homeland Museum”)

port clubs

The best known Grafing sport club beyond the region is EHC Klostersee. It is named after the Klostersee (lake) lying in the neighbouring town of Ebersberg where the first ice hockey games were held in the 1950s. Early on the club moved to Grafing, although it kept its name. Games are nowadays played in a ramshackle, half-open artificial ice arena.

The club’s claim to fame is that it is the first men’s hockey team to play in the Federation-wide "Oberliga" (Third League).

The club has also won national titles in speed skating and shorttrack speed skating events. Local shorttracker Susanne Rudolph also competed in the Olympic Winter Games in Turin.

The sport club with the most members of any in town is TSV Grafing von 1864. As well as the football division with two men’s, one women’s and numerous youth teams, there are also many smaller divisions within the club. Especially successful among these are the men’s volleyball team, which currently plays in the Second "Bundesliga" South, and the women’s judo team, which has met with success in the Bavarian League.

External links

* [http://www.grafing.de The town’s website]
* [http://www.verkehrs-verein-grafing.de Information from the travel club]
* [http://www.museum-grafing.de/ Town of Grafing Museum]