Eching am Ammersee

Basic data
State :	Bavaria
Administrative region :	Upper Bavaria
County :	Landsberg am Lech
Management Community :	Schondorf am Ammersee
Height :	541 m above sea level NHN
Area :	6.24 km 2
Residents:	1709 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	274 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	82279
Area code :	08143
License plate :	LL
Community key :	09 1 81 115
Community structure:	2 parts of the community
Address of the ; municipal administration:	Am Anger 1 ; 82279 Eching am Ammersee
Website :	www.eching.info
Mayor :	Siegfried Luge (CSU)
Location of the municipality of Eching am Ammersee in the Landsberg am Lech district

Eching am Ammersee is a municipality in the Upper Bavarian district of Landsberg am Lech and a member of the administrative community Schondorf am Ammersee .

Eching, which lies on the northern edge of the Ammersee , is directly adjacent to the large nature reserve “Ampermoos” and the wooded recreation area “Weingarten” directly on the Ammersee.

Community structure

Parts of the municipality are the parish village of Eching am Ammersee and the hamlet of Gießübl . There is only the district Eching am Ammersee.

history

Until the church is planted

Eching is first mentioned in 1065 as Ehingun , the name is derived from the personal name Echo.

Eching belonged to the Electorate of Bavaria and was part of the closed Hofmark Greifenberg of the Barons of Perfall . In the course of the administrative reforms in the Kingdom of Bavaria , today's municipality was created with the municipal edict of 1818 .

Population development

Between 1988 and 2019 the community grew from 1,265 to 1,709 by 444 inhabitants or 35.1%.

1970: 0749 inhabitants
1987: 1293 inhabitants
1991: 1350 inhabitants
1995: 1416 inhabitants
2000: 1477 inhabitants
2005: 1657 inhabitants
2010: 1653 inhabitants
2015: 1681 inhabitants
2018: 1729 inhabitants
2019: 1709 inhabitants

politics

town hall

mayor

First mayor has been Siegfried Luge (CSU) (* 1943) since May 1996.

Municipal council

In the 2014 local elections, the CSU and the civic bloc stood separately for the first time in 36 years. The group Menschen für Menschen was no longer running. The citizen block provided nine council members (including the second and third mayors) and the CSU three council members.

The municipal council, which has been in office since May 2020, consists of seven members of the civic block and five of the CSU. Siegfried Luge is still the first mayor. The turnout in the 2020 local elections was 77.1%.

The distribution of seats in the municipal council in 2002 and 2008.
year	CSU / Citizens' Block	People for people	total	Voter turnout in%
2008	10	2	12	67.3
2002	11	1	12	70.3

coat of arms

	Blazon : “Split; in front a growing golden abbot's staff in blue, behind three times undulating diagonally divided by red and silver. "

Economy and Infrastructure

Economy including agriculture and forestry

According to official statistics, there were 83 employees at the place of work in the manufacturing sector and 23 in the trade and transport sector. In other economic sectors, 133 people were employed at the place of work subject to social security contributions. There were a total of 482 employees at the place of residence subject to social security contributions. There were 14 companies in the manufacturing sector and one company in the main construction sector. In addition, in 1999 there were 13 farms with an agricultural area of 303 ha, of which 178 ha were arable land.

The municipal tax receipts in 1999 amounted to the equivalent of 938 T €, of which the trade tax receipts (net) amounted to the equivalent of 53 T €.

Leisure and retail

In the past few years the community has developed very strongly. In addition to a large sports center, it now has a shopping and health center with several specialist doctors and, since October 6, 2014, also has a pharmacy.

In 2015 the Echinger Festival took place for the ninth time. The 10th Echinger Festwoche had to be postponed by one year to 2021 due to the Covid 19 pandemic

education

Parish Church of St. Peter and Paul

There are the following institutions (status: 2010):

Kindergarten with 75 places
Adult Education Center Ammersee-Nordwest

Due to the falling number of pupils, there has been no elementary school in Eching for several years. The students are now being taught in Windach. The school building in Echingen has been used as refugee accommodation since the beginning of 2016.

Architectural monuments

Picture house

Soil monuments

Others

The contemplative community came into the public eye throughout Germany through the kidnapping of Ursula Herrmann .

Thilo Bode , the founder and managing director of the consumer protection organization Foodwatch , was born in 1947 in Eching am Ammersee.

literature

Maximilian von Perfall : Historical description of several localities in the area around Greifenberg . Munich 1848 ( full text ).

Web links

Commons : Eching am Ammersee - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ "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 ).
↑ Greeting Mayor. Municipality of Eching am Ammersee, accessed on June 11, 2020 .
^ Community Eching am Ammersee in the local database of the Bavarian State Library Online . Bavarian State Library, accessed on September 8, 2019.
↑ District. Office for Digitization, Broadband and Surveying | Landsberg am Lech with the Starnberg branch, accessed on April 10, 2019 .
^ Heide Weißhaar – Kiem: Landsberg am Lech district . Ed .: Landsberg am Lech district. 1st edition. EOS Verlag Sankt Ottilien, 2010, ISBN 978-3-8306-7437-5 , p. 180 .
^ Entry on the coat of arms of Eching am Ammersee in the database of the House of Bavarian History

[Metadaten_Einwohnerzahl_DE-BY-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] Greeting Mayor. Municipality of Eching am Ammersee, accessed on June 11, 2020 .

[3] Community Eching am Ammersee in the local database of the Bavarian State Library Online . Bavarian State Library, accessed on September 8, 2019.

[4] District. Office for Digitization, Broadband and Surveying | Landsberg am Lech with the Starnberg branch, accessed on April 10, 2019 .

[5] Heide Weißhaar – Kiem: Landsberg am Lech district . Ed .: Landsberg am Lech district. 1st edition. EOS Verlag Sankt Ottilien, 2010, ISBN 978-3-8306-7437-5 , p. 180 .

[Wappen-6] Entry on the coat of arms of Eching am Ammersee in the database of the House of Bavarian History