Hoofbeat (Surberg)
Hufschlag is a district of the community Surberg near Traunstein in the Upper Bavarian district of Traunstein . Politically, the place belongs to the community of Surberg, parish to the Catholic parish of St. Oswald in Traunstein.
history
Hufschlag belonged to the Hauptmannschaft Berg (Office Chamber ) of the Electorate of Bavaria . With the formation of the community in the Kingdom of Bavaria from 1808 to 1818, Hufschlag came to the community of Thunstetten, which in turn was united with Surberg.
Parental home of Pope Benedict XVI.
In Hufschlag, Papst-Benedikt-XVI.-Weg 19 (formerly Eichenweg), is the home of Pope Benedict XVI. and his brother Georg Ratzinger . Cardinal Ratzinger stated in his 1998 autobiography From My Life that it would not be so “easy to say where I am actually at home. My father was repeatedly transferred as a gendarme , so that we wandered a lot until we were able to move into the house in Hufschlag near Traunstein in 1937, when he retired at the age of sixty, which then became our actual home. "
In 1955, for reasons of age, Joseph Ratzinger's parents moved in with him in his apartment on Freising Cathedral Hill .
On May 6, 2019, a delegation from the Surberg congregation in Rome presented the certificate of honorary citizenship to Pope Benedict XVI.
traffic
Hufschlag has a stop on the Traunstein – Waging railway line .
Coordinates: 47 ° 53 ' N , 12 ° 40' E