Inn-Salzach
The Inn-Salzach region comprises the districts of Mühldorf am Inn and Altötting in Upper Bavaria . It borders to the southeast on the Rupertiwinkel , to the south on the Chiemgau , in the west on the district of Erding ; Lower Bavaria begins in the north and the Austrian Innviertel adjoins it in the east . It is a tourism region according to the official tourism statistics of the Bavarian State Office for Statistics .
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The largest cities in the region are the industrial city Waldkraiburg with about 25,000 inhabitants , which at the Salzach location Burghausen with the longest castle in Europe and about 19,000 inhabitants, the commercial city of Mühldorf which about 20,000 inhabitants (2017) houses and the pilgrimage town of Altötting with 13,000 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2005).
Another well-known place is Marktl with the birthplace of Pope Benedict XVI. , which, along with the Burghausen Castle, the parish church of St. Nikolaus , a large three-aisled hall church from the late Gothic period in Neuötting , the Kapellplatz in Altötting with its numerous churches and the Chapel of Mercy, is one of the sights of the region.
The historical cities and markets of the region belong to the core distribution area of the typical Inn-Salzach-style building of the same name .
The region represents the largest part of the Bavarian chemical triangle . Major employers include Wacker Chemie , the Gendorf Chemical Park and SKW Metallurgie .
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Individual evidence
- ^ Rosina Maria Fuchs-Höhn: Die Tourismusregionen in Bayern , pp. 57, 68; in articles from statistics, 2006, pp. 55–69; accessed on May 21, 2017