Vaterstetten

Vaterstetten
Vaterstetten
Location of Vaterstetten within Ebersberg district
Coordinates	48°06′18″N 11°46′14″E / 48.105°N 11.77056°E / 48.105; 11.77056Coordinates: 48°06′18″N 11°46′14″E / 48.105°N 11.77056°E / 48.105; 11.77056
Administration
Country	Germany
State	Bavaria
Admin. region	Upper Bavaria
District	Ebersberg
Local subdivisions	7 officially named centres
Mayor	Robert Niedergesäß (CSU)
Basic statistics
Area	34.18 km2 (13.20 sq mi)
Elevation	528 m  (1732 ft)
Population	22,070 (31 December 2010)[1]
- Density	646 /km2 (1,672 /sq mi)
Other information
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Licence plate	EBE
Postal code	85591
Area code	08106
Website	www.vaterstetten.de

Vaterstetten is a municipality in the Upper Bavarian 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.

Geography

Location

Vaterstetten borders in the north on the community of Poing, 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).

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 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 Bavarian 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.

Economy

Transport

Vaterstetten is part of the Munich Transport and Fare Association (Münchner Verkehrs- und Tarifverbund, or MVV). The Munich S-Bahn’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.

Educational institutions

Within the community stand four elementary schools, a Hauptschule, a Realschule and the Humboldt-Gymnasium Vaterstetten, as well as a folk high school and a music school.

Town partnerships

• since 1982 with Allauch (France)
• since 1994 with Alem Katema (Ethiopia)
• since 2009 with Trogir (Croatia)

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

Community development

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)

External links

• Community’s official website
• Partnership with Alem Katema

References

1. ^ "Fortschreibung des Bevölkerungsstandes" (in German). Bayerisches Landesamt für Statistik und Datenverarbeitung. 31 December 2010. https://www.statistikdaten.bayern.de/genesis/online?language=de&sequenz=tabelleErgebnis&selectionname=12411-009r&sachmerkmal=QUASTI&sachschluessel=SQUART04&startjahr=2010&endjahr=2010. 

This article incorporates information from the German Wikipedia.