Munich planning region
The Munich planning region , or Munich region for short , is the capital region and one of the 18 planning regions of the Free State of Bavaria . It is one of four regions in Upper Bavaria and has the region number 14. As of December 31, 2013, the Munich region had 2,768,488 inhabitants.
structure
The Munich planning region is located in the center of the Upper Bavarian administrative district . The following bodies are united in the regional planning association: the state capital Munich and the districts of Dachau , Ebersberg , Erding , Freising , Fürstenfeldbruck , Landsberg am Lech , Munich and Starnberg as well as their cities and communities.
The Munich region has a population of 2,768,488 (as of December 31, 2013), which results in an average population density of 503 inhabitants per square kilometer over an area of 5,503.78 square kilometers. Compared with the average population densities of Bavaria (179 inhabitants per km²) and Germany (226 inhabitants per km²), the Munich region has an above-average population density. The regional centers of the region are Munich, Freising and Erding . The state capital Munich takes up just under 6% of the region's area, but with over 1.4 million people, around half of the region's population lives here. Associated medium-sized centers are Dachau , Ebersberg / Grafing near Munich , Fürstenfeldbruck , Landsberg am Lech , Moosburg an der Isar and Starnberg .
history
In 1972 the Free State of Bavaria was divided into 18 planning regions based on the Bavarian State Planning Act of 1970. The Regional Planning Association was established on April 1, 1973. The current association chairman (as of October 2016) is Karl Roth , District Administrator of the Starnberg district. His deputies are Stefan Schelle, Mayor of Oberhaching , and Dieter Reiter , Lord Mayor of Munich.
Not to be confused with the planning region of Munich is the planning association for the outer economic area of Munich , which was founded as a special purpose association of cities and municipalities in the same districts as early as 1950 and remained a voluntary association even after the state-defined planning regions were introduced.
Population development
The following table shows the population development in the Munich region since 1970, divided into its nine districts:
| year | Population on January 1st | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Munich city | Munich-Land | Dachau | Ebersberg | Erding | Freising | Fürstenfeldbruck | Landsberg am Lech | Starnberg | Munich region | |
| 1970 | 2,074,254 | |||||||||
| 1987 | 2,208,737 | |||||||||
| 2009 | 2,654,726 | |||||||||
| 2010 | 2,686,780 | |||||||||
| 2011 | 2,727,106 | |||||||||
| 2013 | 1,407,836 | 329,981 | 144.407 | 133.007 | 130,238 | 169.010 | 208.272 | 114,926 | 130.811 | 2,768,488 |
| 2015 | 2,850,000 | |||||||||
| 2016 | 1,464,301 | 343,405 | 150,839 | 139.016 | 135,429 | 175,803 | 216.857 | 118,725 | 134.732 | 2,879,107 |
| year | Munich city | Munich-Land | Dachau | Ebersberg | Erding | Freising | Fürstenfeldbruck | Landsberg am Lech | Starnberg | Munich region |
Education and Research
The Munich region has the largest collection of universities and colleges in Bavaria. The two large Munich universities, the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich (LMU) and the Technical University of Munich (TUM), are both among the nine elite German universities . The third university, the University of the Federal Armed Forces Munich, is located in the Munich suburb of Neubiberg . The smallest and least known university in the region is the Ukrainian Free University of Munich . In addition, the Munich University of Applied Sciences is also the second largest university of applied sciences in Germany in the planning region.
A variety of other, mostly private colleges is also based in the planning region Munich, such as the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich , the Technical College of Applied Management Erding , the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich , the Munich Business School , the University of Television and Film Munich , the University of Applied Languages , the University of Applied Sciences for Public Administration and Justice in Bavaria , the Catholic Foundation University in Munich or the University of Philosophy in Munich . In Munich there are also branches of the Hochschule Fresenius , the Hochschule für Oekonomie & Management and the Mediadesign Hochschule .
The Münchner Volkshochschule is also the largest adult education center in Germany, with around 200,000 participants annually.
Numerous research institutes and academies are also based in Munich, including the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , the Max Planck Society , the Fraunhofer Society , the Helmholtz Center Munich and the Institute for Broadcasting Technology .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Statistical Yearbook for Bavaria 2005
- ↑ Munich region (as of December 31, 2015): Regional data at a glance , Planning Association for the External Economic Area of Munich (PV), accessed on November 2, 2017
