Marquartstein

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 47 ° 45 '  N , 12 ° 28'  E
Basic data
State :	Bavaria
Administrative region :	Upper Bavaria
County :	Traunstein
Management Community :	Marquartstein
Height :	545 m above sea level NHN
Area :	13.42 km 2
Residents:	3273 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	244 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	83250
Area code :	08641
License plate :	TS, LF
Community key :	09 1 89 129
Community structure:	20 districts
Address of the municipal administration:	Rathausplatz 1 83250 Marquartstein
Website :	www.marquartstein.de
Mayor :	Andreas Scheck (citizen for Marquartstein)
Location of the municipality of Marquartstein in the Traunstein district

Marquartstein is a municipality in the Upper Bavarian district of Traunstein and the seat of the Marquartstein administrative community . The districts of Piesenhausen, Pettendorf and Niedernfels belong to the community. Marquartstein is a tourist resort and frequented by tourists in all seasons.

geography

Marquartstein with Piesenhausen and Niedernfels

Geographical location

Marquartstein is located in the Chiemgau about ten kilometers south of the Chiemsee in the valley of the Tiroler Achen . The river divides the place in half. To the east is the historic center of Alt-Marquartstein and Marquartstein Castle , on the other side of the river are the Heiligblut parish church , town hall and most of the living space. The two districts are connected by two bridges.

Approximately at the height of Marquartstein, the Achental opens towards the north. The local mountains Marquartstein, Hochgern and Hochplatte , form the northern edge of the Chiemgau Alps , which flow into the Chiemgau there.

Community structure

The 20 districts are:

Dicking Danube Borrow Freiweidach Geisenhausen Grenzmühle Hanghal

Wood Lanzing Marquartstein Mooshäusl Niedernfels Oed Pettendorf

Piesenhausen Schwaig Streunthal Cuties Vogllug Wuhrbichl

history

Marquartstein Castle

→ Main article : Marquartstein Castle

Marquartstein Castle was founded in 1075 by the Chiemgaugrafen Marquardt. After the castle passed to the Wittelsbach family at the end of the 13th century , it was the seat of a maintenance office until 1803 . In that year, Marquartstein joined the Traunstein District Court , whereupon the castle gradually fell into disrepair.

In 1857 the castle was bought by Jemina Montgomery, an English writer, and her husband Cajetan by Tautphoeus , which made it private for the first time. After the Landschulheim Marquartstein was founded in the castle in 1928 , the castle was a grammar school for 30 years. After the school moved to the new castle not far from the castle in 1958, the castle was again dedicated to decay for around 30 years before it was bought and renovated in 1987 by the Munich art dealer Konrad O. Bernheimer .

The castle has been up for sale by Bernheimer again since 2015, but an auction in the London auction house Sotheby’s has so far been unsuccessful.

traffic

In 1884 the local railway Übersee-Grassau-Marquartstein was built . This was one of the most profitable in all of Bavaria thanks to a cement factory that had been asked to transport it by rail. In 1968 passenger traffic was discontinued due to a lack of passenger numbers. After no more goods traffic served the route from 1992, it was gradually dismantled. The place of the old train station in Marquartstein was used for a new building of the town hall, on the forecourt a buffer stop reminds of the former train traffic.

Church planting and incorporations

On April 1, 1938, Marquartstein became an independent political municipality, which was formed from parts of the communities Grassau , Schleching and Unterwössen and the forest districts of Marquartstein and Piesenhausen . In 1962 the three localities of Niedernfels, Pettendorf and Piesenhausen were changed from the community of Grassau to the community of Marquartstein. Since 1978 the municipalities of Staudach-Egerndach and Marquartstein have formed an administrative community based in Marquartstein.

Population development

Between 1988 and 2018 the municipality grew from 2,729 to 3,247 by 518 inhabitants or 19%.

politics

mayor

• 1st Mayor: Andreas Scheck since May 1, 2014 (re-elected with 66.77% in 2020)
• 2nd Mayor: Claudia Kraus

coat of arms

Blazon: Split; on the left in silver a black gable with four steps, on the right in blue two crossed silver pilgrim poles, on the intersection covered with a silver pilgrim shell.

The stepped gable is the coat of arms of the von Hohenstein family, which died out around 1400, on seals from the 14th century. The Counts of Hohenstein are considered to be the founders of Marquartstein Castle in the late 11th century, i.e. at a time when there were no coats of arms. The castle came into the possession of the Counts of Kraiburg-Ortenburg before 1150 (died out in 1248). An Engelbert von Hohenstein was the ducal Bavarian castle keeper after 1276. The rear field shows a modification of the coat of arms of the Barons of Tautphoeus (two crossed silver pilgrim sticks, accompanied by four silver shells). Cajetan von Tautphoeus acquired the dilapidated nursing home in 1857 and had it restored. The municipal coat of arms is based on a design by Helmut von Tautphoeus.

Partnership agreement

• St. Andrä (Brixen) (Italy), since 1981

economy

traffic

The closest motorway is the A 8 Munich-Salzburg. The B 305 Bernau - Marquartstein - Reit im Winkl crosses the town in a north-south direction and is used for tourism in the ski areas of Bavaria and Austria , especially in winter .

The closest train station is Übersee station on the Rosenheim – Salzburg line .

The transport services in local public transport is carried out today by the bus lines 9505 (Reit im Winkl - Marquartstein - Prien), 9508 (Marquartstein - Bergen) and 9509 (Reit im Winkl - Marquartstein - overseas - Traunstein) of the DB subsidiary regional traffic Upper Bavaria . Marquartstein serves as a hub for local bus transport, especially through the local schools, whose students depend on the bus connections.

Established businesses

Chiemgau Clinic in Marquartstein

Marquartstein is home to some tourist facilities, including the chair lift to the Hochplatte to the west and a fairy tale adventure park, as well as a large number of guest houses and restaurants that are used all year round.

A not insignificant economic factor in the rural surroundings of the region to this day is the long-established Chiemgau Clinic in the Geisenhausen district, formerly the health resort of the Deutsche Bundesbahn , now the " Deutsche Rentenversicherung Knappschaft-Bahn-See ".

In the 2010s, with the creation of an industrial area on the northern edge of the village, other medium-sized companies settled in Marquartstein, including for example the Linus & Wittig printing company, as well as the paraglider manufacturer Skywalk and X-Gloo, a company for the manufacture of lightweight tents.

Educational institutions

The small town gains importance primarily as an educational center of the Achental. In addition to the primary school in Marquartstein and the private Franz von Sales home elementary school in Schloss Niedernfels, south of the district town of Traunstein there is only a secondary school here, the Achental secondary school in Marquartstein , and a grammar school, the state school home in Marquartstein with an associated boarding school.

Buildings

Hofwirth to the post office

The above-mentioned Marquartstein Castle is the most striking building in the village and is exposed on a promontory in the east. There is also a country house on Burgstrasse, where the composer Richard Strauss composed some of his most important works. A plaque commemorates his stay in Marquartstein.

The Gasthof Hofwirth zur Post is one of the oldest inns in the entire Chiemgau and was extensively renovated in the 1990s. Richard Strauss is said to have been a regular guest here.

The Hochplattenbahn is a 1330 meter long double chairlift built in 1973 , which goes from the to 560  m above sea level. Marquartstein valley station located NN leads to the mountain station on the Hochplatte 1110 meters above sea level. The Hochplattenbahn was built by the Doppelmayr company and has 17 supports.

The Schnappenkirche , built around 1637, is located 1116 m above sea level on the Schnappenberg and is easily visible from the southern Chiemgau.

See also : List of architectural monuments in Marquartstein

Soil monuments

See: List of soil monuments in Marquartstein

Personalities

• The composer Richard Strauss was often in Marquartstein and married there because his bride's family owned a summer villa there. Some of his compositions, including the opera Feuersnot , were written here.
• The central politician Heinrich Haslinde died on November 26, 1958 in Marquartstein.
• Christoph Probst , a member of the inner circle of the "White Rose", a resistance group against National Socialism, attended the boarding school of the Marquartstein country school home in the early 1930s.
• The German narrator and writer Elsa Sophia von Kamphoevener (“An Nachtfeuern der Karawan-Serail”) lived in Marquartstein with her friend Ilse Wilbrandt from 1952 until her death in 1963.
• The writer William Quindt spent his twilight years in Marquartstein, where he also died.
• The German writer, translator and publisher Ilija Trojanow visited the Marquartstein country school home from 1979 to 1981.
• The actor Richard Lauffen died August 28, 1990 in Marquartstein.
• The photographer Peter Keetman died on March 8, 2005 in Marquartstein.
• The actress Elisabeth Wiedemann last lived in Marquartstein and died here on May 27, 2015.
• The journalist and gossip reporter Paul Sahner had his weekend home in the Marquartstein district of Lanzing and died there on June 7, 2015.
• The ethnomusicologist Marius Schneider spent the last years of his life in Marquartstein.

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. ↑ http://www.bayerische-landesbibliothek-online.de/orte/ortssuche_action.html ? Anzeige=voll&modus=automat&tempus=[phone]/204206&attr=OBJ&val= 559
3. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 581 .
4. ^ Entry on the Marquartstein coat of arms  in the database of the House of Bavarian History , accessed on January 25, 2019 .
5. ↑ Line map of Upper Bavaria . Accessed April 30, 2019 (PDF).

Web links

Commons : Marquartstein  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Marquartstein community
• Marquartstein: Official statistics of the LfStat
• Entry on the coat of arms of Marquartstein  in the database of the House of Bavarian History