Eschenlohe

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Coat of arms of the municipality of Eschenlohe
Eschenlohe
Map of Germany, position of the municipality Eschenlohe highlighted

Coordinates: 47 ° 36 '  N , 11 ° 11'  E

Basic data
State : Bavaria
Administrative region : Upper Bavaria
County : Garmisch-Partenkirchen
Management Community : Ohlstadt
Height : 640 m above sea level NHN
Area : 55.04 km 2
Residents: 1582 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 29 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 82438
Area code : 08824
License plate : Cap
Community key : 09 1 80 114
Community structure: 5 parts of the community
Association administration address: Rathausplatz 1
82441 Ohlstadt
Website : www.eschenlohe.de
Mayor : Anton Kölbl ( CSU / Future for Eschenlohe)
Location of the municipality of Eschenlohe in the Garmisch-Partenkirchen district
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Eschenlohe from the south
The Loisach in Eschenlohe
Vicarage in Eschenlohe from the north, April 2004
Historical map of Eschenlohe from 1810

Eschenlohe is a municipality in the Upper Bavarian district of Garmisch-Partenkirchen .

geography

The community is located north of the Estergebirge at the exit of the Loisach valley from the Alps . Within the local area of ​​Eschenlohe, the Mühlbach and Eschenlaine flow into the Loisach. To the north of the village is the Murnauer Moos . Eschenlohe is also a member of the Oberland Region Planning Association .

The municipality has five officially named municipal parts (the type of settlement is given in brackets ):

history

Originally a castle of the Counts of Eschenlohe ( Burg Eschenlohe ), the place belonged from 1332 to the secularization of 1803 to the court of Murnau of the formerly imperial monastery Ettal , which in turn later belonged to the Electorate of Bavaria . In the course of the administrative reforms in the Kingdom of Bavaria , today's municipality was created with the municipal edict of 1818 . Until the establishment of the Garmisch-Partenkirchen district, this belonged to the Garmisch District Office and Tax Office and the Garmisch District Court district.

During the Whitsun floods in 1999 and the Alpine floods in 2005 , Eschenlohe was severely affected when protective dams broke.

Secret aircraft manufacturing facility during World War II

During the Second World War , the two road tunnels of "Olympiastraße" (today's Bundesstraße 2 ) southwest of the village were walled up bombproof at the ends as part of the U relocation and served as a secret production facility with the cover name "Ente" and the like. a. for the Flugzeugwerke Messerschmitt AG . The facility was managed by the so-called Upper Bavarian Research Institute in Oberammergau and was constructed similarly to the U-relocation in the Engelberg tunnel . Numerous concentration camp prisoners who were housed in the satellite camps of the Dachau concentration camp in Seehausen near Murnau and Oberammergau were involved in the construction.

Population development

Between 1988 and 2018 the municipality grew from 1,425 to 1,593 by 168 inhabitants or by 11.8%.

year Residents
1961 1309
1970 1351
1987 1391
1991 1489
1995 1619
2000 1611
2005 1633
2010 1545
2015 1569

religion

The majority of the population is Roman Catholic with 67.7%, 12.6% are Evangelical Lutheran (as of 2011).

A special piece of jewelery is the St. Clemens Church , built between 1764 and 1782 in the late Baroque style with signs of the early Rococo , according to plans by Johann Michael Fischer .

politics

The community is a member of the Ohlstadt administrative community .

Municipal council

The local election of March 16, 2014 resulted in the following distribution of seats in the local council:

Christian Social Union in Bavaria (CSU) 44.67% 5 seats
Free voters Eschenlohe (FWE) 24.73% 3 seats
Bavarian Party (BP) 17.71% 2 seats
Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) 12.89% 2 seats

The local council consists of twelve members, plus the honorary mayor Anton Kölbl (CSU).

Community finances

The municipal tax revenue amounted to 1,356,000 euros in 2011 , of which the trade tax revenue (net) amounted to 472,000 euros.

coat of arms

Coat of arms of Eschenlohe
Blazon : “Split by silver and red; in front of the gap a half black eagle, behind a silver bar. "

Like the communities of Garmisch-Partenkirchen and Telfs , Eschenlohe traces its coat of arms back to the Counts of Eschenlohe .

Architectural monuments

Economy and Infrastructure

Economy including agriculture and forestry

In the years 1927-2000 the hard stone works Werdenfels was in operation in Eschenlohe . a. Gravel produced for railway construction.

In 2011 there were a total of 463 employees subject to social security contributions at the place of work. There were none in the agriculture and forestry sector, 252 in the manufacturing sector, 154 in the trade and transport sector and 48 in the public and private sector. There were 557 employees in the place of residence subject to social insurance contributions. There were three in the manufacturing sector , there are also three companies in the main construction trade.

In addition, there were 27 farms in 2010 with an agriculturally used area of ​​948 hectares of permanent green space.

New Loisach Bridge from the north-west
New Loisach Bridge from the south

traffic

The place is very well developed in terms of traffic. The federal road 2 runs through the community and was expanded as "Olympiastraße" for the 1936 Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen . It leads from Munich via Murnau to Garmisch-Partenkirchen and via the border town of Mittenwald into Innsbruck in Austria .

One kilometer northwest of the town center is the motorway exit 11 of the A 95 coming from Munich ( Europastraße 533) towards Garmisch. This expressway finds its provisional end 1.5 km south of the exit and joins Bundesstraße 2 there. The end of the motorway causes congestion on busy days.

A train station on the Munich – Garmisch-Partenkirchen railway connects Eschenlohe to the Deutsche Bahn AG network .

Eschenlohe had a small airfield that was moved to Ohlstadt in 2011. The site at the Murnauer Moos is to be returned to its original state, which is to be done by creating poor grasslands . In 2013 there will be legal proceedings to clarify who has to bear the costs.

education

In Eschenlohe there is a two-group kindergarten with 50 places and currently 41 children, which is sponsored by the Catholic Church Foundation St. Clemens. There is also a primary school on site for grades 1 to 4 with currently 60 students.

Flood protection

After the floods in 2005, extensive construction measures were carried out to protect against flooding. The embankments were raised and walled. In 2006 a new bridge was built that spans the Loisach without a central pillar.

Web links

Commons : Eschenlohe  - collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikivoyage: Eschenlohe  - travel guide

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. Municipal Council. Eschenlohe municipality, accessed on June 28, 2020 .
  3. ^ Community Eschenlohe in the local database of the Bayerische Landesbibliothek Online . Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, accessed on September 6, 2019.
  4. a b c d Bavarian State Office for Statistics and Data Processing - Municipal Statistics 2012: Eschenlohe (PDF file; 1.67 MB)
  5. Municipal Council. Eschenlohe municipality, accessed on March 2, 2015 .
  6. Municipal election 2014. (No longer available online.) Garmisch - Partenkirchen district office, archived from the original on March 18, 2014 ; accessed on March 2, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lra-gap.de
  7. ^ Entry on the coat of arms of Eschenlohe  in the database of the House of Bavarian History
  8. COMMUNITY ESCHENLOHE & # 151; Coat of arms history. House of Bavarian History , accessed on June 3, 2014 .
  9. Trouble about "Garmisch-Partenkirchner" coat of arms at the Eschenloh town hall. Münchener Zeitungs-Verlag , accessed on June 3, 2014 .
  10. Telfs. Association "fontes historiae - sources of history", accessed on June 3, 2014 .
  11. ↑ Sports pilot on a collision course. Merkur-Online, February 25, 2013, accessed April 29, 2013 .