Bergen (Chiemgau)

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 47 ° 48 '  N , 12 ° 35'  E
Basic data
State :	Bavaria
Administrative region :	Upper Bavaria
County :	Traunstein
Management Community :	Mountains
Height :	553 m above sea level NHN
Area :	36.91 km 2
Residents:	4892 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	133 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	83346
Area code :	08662
License plate :	TS, LF
Community key :	09 1 89 113
Community structure:	32 districts
Address of the municipal administration:	Hochfellnstraße 14 83346 Bergen
Website :	www.bergen-chiemgau.de
First Mayor :	Stefan Schneider (Green List)
Location of the municipality of Bergen in the Traunstein district

Bergen is a municipality in the Upper Bavarian district of Traunstein and the seat of the Bergen administrative community . The climatic health resort in Chiemgau at the foot of the Hochfelln is located directly on the A 8 from Munich to Salzburg .

geography

View of mountains from the Hochfelln

Bergen is in the planning region of Southeast Upper Bavaria . The next larger town is Traunstein, approx. 10 km away .

Community structure

The 33 districts are:

Klaus Anger Mountains Bernhaupten Not there Eßbaum Goat Semolina Haslach

Hautzenbichl Hilzing Holzhausen Irlach Kaltenbrunn Kohlstadt Kronberg Conduct

Lohmann Oberwald Oed Pattenberg Pletschach Ramberg Digging around Schellenberg

Schipfl Schlipfing Schmidwald Sonnenleiten Stone bridges Unterwald Weidach Weißachen

There are the districts of Bergen, Bergener Forst and Holzhausen.

history

Until the church is planted

The community area was settled before the birth of Christ. From the first to the fifth century AD it was part of the Roman Empire, as evidenced by the villa rustica in Holzhausen. Bergen was first mentioned in 924 as Perch or Perga in a document from the Archdiocese of Salzburg . In 959 Bergen went to Salzburg , in 1275 it became Bavarian again .

The history of Bergen is closely linked to the Bergen ironworks , which was founded in 1562 and has been called Maxhütte since 1824. It was one of the largest steelworks in southern Germany and was an industrial center of the Chiemgau until its closure in 1932. Tourism has been booming since the 1950s . In 1971 the cable car on the 1671 m high Hochfelln was completed.

Bergen was part of the Burghausen Rent Office and the Marquartstein Regional Court of the Electorate of Bavaria . In the course of the administrative reforms in the Kingdom of Bavaria , the municipality of Bergen was created with the municipal edict of 1818 .

Territorial reform

In the course of the territorial reform on January 1, 1972, ten districts of the dissolved municipality of Holzhausen were incorporated. Since 1978 the municipality of Bergen has formed an administrative partnership with Vachendorf .

Population development

Between 1988 and 2018 the municipality grew from 3,638 to 4,910 by 1,272 inhabitants or 35%.

• 1961: 2450 inhabitants
• 1970: 2831 inhabitants
• 1987: 3542 inhabitants
• 1991: 4007 inhabitants
• 1995: 4412 inhabitants
• 2000: 4605 inhabitants
• 2005: 4831 inhabitants
• 2010: 4912 inhabitants
• 2015: 4893 inhabitants

politics

City council election 2020

(in %)

 %

40

30th

20th

10

0

34.89

32.89

21.28

10.93

Green LB

CSU ^b

UW ^c

SPD ^d

Remarks:

^b CSU including BBU

^c UW including BBH

^d SPD including FWG

Current distribution of seats in the Bergen Municipal Council (March 15, 2020)

    

A total of 16 seats

• Green LB : 6
• CSU / BBU : 5
• UW / BBH : 3
• SPD / FWG : 2

mayor

• 0000–2014: Bernd Gietl (CSU)
• 2014–2014: Josef Schweiger (SPD / FWG)
• 2014– 0000: Stefan Schneider (Green List)

In the local elections on March 15, 2020, Stefan Schneider was re-elected with 86.93% of the vote.

Municipal council

The municipal council has 16 members. Another member and chairman of the municipal council is the 1st mayor. In the local elections on March 15, 2020, 2,455 of the 4,073 residents entitled to vote in the municipality of Bergen exercised their right to vote, bringing the turnout to 60.27%.

Parties in Bergen (Chiemgau)

The oldest and longest active party in Bergen is the SPD, founded in 1919. The CSU has existed in the community since 1966 and the local association of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen since 2013.

coat of arms

Bergen has had its own municipal coat of arms since November 1970. Blazon : Divided by silver and blue; At the top two black iron hammers crossed at an angle, at the bottom three, two aligned, six-pointed golden stars.

Parish partnership

•  Brie-Comte-Robert in the Seine-et-Marne department , France , since 1988
•  Bagnolo Mella in Lombardy , Italy , since 2005

In addition, since 1995, mountain meetings have been held with eight German locations with this name.

Economy and Infrastructure

Economy including agriculture and forestry

In 2017 there were 702 jobs subject to social security contributions in the municipality. Of the resident population, 1,694 people were in employment that was subject to compulsory insurance. This means that the number of out-commuters was 992 more than that of in-commuters. 72 inhabitants were unemployed. In 2016 there were 37 farms.

traffic

The Bergen (Oberbay) train station is a stop on the Rosenheim – Salzburg railway line . The A 8 from Munich to Salzburg runs to the north adjacent to the Bernhaupten district.

education

In 2018 there were the following institutions:

• two day-care centers with 145 places, 126 of which were occupied
• a primary school with 5 classes and 89 students

Culture and sights

→ Main article : List of architectural monuments in Bergen

• Parish Church of St. Giles
• Former steelworks and current Maximilianshütte museum
• View, hiking and skiing mountain Hochfelln
• Bergen Theater (since 1879)
• Festival "Grimmig & Grantig" (annual open-air event since 2015, with national recognition)

Soil monuments

→ Main article : List of ground monuments in Bergen (Chiemgau)

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the church

• Wastl Fanderl (1915–1991), musician, folk music collector
• Fritz Hofmann (1925–2008), Bad Reichenhall town caretaker
• Hans W. Scheicher (1931–2016), journalist, foreign correspondent and television presenter

People who worked on site

• Eduard Beaucamp (* 1937), art critic and publicist, worked for Rudolf Alexander Schröder in Bergen
• Herbert von Dirksen (1882–1955), landlord , German ambassador and author , lived in Bergen for the last few years
• Max Fürst (1846–1917), painter with wall paintings in St. Giles mountains
• Karl von Lotzbeck (1832–1907), head of the Bavarian medical corps , buried in Bergen
• Siegfried von Roedern (1870–1954), politician, Deputy Chancellor in 1917, lived in Bergen
• Rudolf Alexander Schröder (1878–1962), writer, architect and painter, lived in Bergen
• Franz Michael von Wagner (1768–1851), a Montanist , was the High Court Administrator in Bergen

Web links

Commons : Bergen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Homepage
• Bergen (Chiemgau): Official statistics of the LfStat

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "Data 2" sheet, Statistical Report A1200C 202041 Population of the municipalities, districts and administrative districts 1st quarter 2020 (population based on the 2011 census) ( help ).
2. ↑ Mr. Schneider, Stefan. Bergen Municipality, accessed May 30, 2020 . 
3. ↑ http://www.bayerische-landesbibliothek-online.de/orte/ortssuche_action.html ? Anzeige=voll&modus=automat&tempus=[phone]/172822&attr=OBJ&val= 550
4. ↑ Gotthard Kießling, Dorit Reimann: District of Traunstein (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume I.22 ). Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg im Allgäu 2007, ISBN 978-3-89870-364-2 . P. 42
5. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 581 .
6. ↑ Results of local elections 2020. OK.VOTE, March 15, 2020, accessed on May 24, 2020 . 
7. ↑ Mr. Schneider, Stefan. Bergen Municipality, accessed May 30, 2020 . 
8. ↑ Results of local elections 2020. OK.VOTE, March 15, 2020, accessed on May 24, 2020 . 
9. ↑ Results of local elections 2020. OK.VOTE, March 15, 2020, accessed on May 24, 2020 . 
10. ↑ Entry on the coat of arms of Bergen (Chiemgau)  in the database of the House of Bavarian History
11. ↑ History & Coat of Arms. Bergen Municipality, accessed May 30, 2020 . 
12. ↑ Bergentreffen
13. ↑ "Chiemgau-Woodstock on the rise", Traunsteiner Tagblatt v. 7/13/18. Retrieved November 28, 2019 . 
14. ↑ * Homepage of the festival "Grimmig und Grantig"