Pocking
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Coordinates: 48 ° 24 ' N , 13 ° 19' E |
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| State : | Bavaria | |
| Administrative region : | Lower Bavaria | |
| County : | Passau | |
| Height : | 323 m above sea level NHN | |
| Area : | 68.88 km 2 | |
| Residents: | 16,041 (Dec. 31, 2019) | |
| Population density : | 233 inhabitants per km 2 | |
| Postal code : | 94060 | |
| Primaries : | 08531, 08538 | |
| License plate : | PA | |
| Community key : | 09 2 75 141 | |
| City structure: | 67 districts | |
City administration address : |
Simbacher Strasse 16 94060 Pocking |
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| Mayor : | Franz Krah (UB) | |
| Location of the city of Pocking in the Passau district | ||
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Pocking is a town in the Lower Bavarian district of Passau . Pocking is the main town of Rottal horse breeding .
geography
Geographical location
The city lies in the middle of the Pockinger Heide , an extensive, fertile plain. Two rivers, Rott and Inn, flow close to Pocking, and the city is also often referred to as the center of the Lower Bavarian spa triangle . Pocking is located around 30 km south of Vilshofen an der Donau , 25 km southwest of Passau , 12 km from Schärding in Upper Austria , 25 km northeast of Simbach am Inn and 30 km east of Pfarrkirchen .
City structure
The municipality of Pocking has 67 districts:
Neighboring communities
- Bad Ditzenbach
- Kirchham
- Rotthalmünster
- Tettenweis
- Ruhstorf on the Rott
- Neuhaus am Inn
- Suben (AT)
- Sankt Marienkirchen near Schärding (AT)
- Antiesenhofen (AT)
history
Until the church is planted
A Roman settlement was founded in the area of the later Pocking as early as the 1st century and the Bavarians settled here in the 6th century . The first documentary mention of the year 820, when a Perthelm gave his property "ad pochingas" to the Mondsee Monastery as a gift.
Since the 13th century, Pocking was the seat of a Hofmark that was temporarily owned by the Lords of Rottau. In 1806 Pocking became the seat of its own Catholic parish. Pocking has had its own political municipality since 1824.
19th and 20th centuries
In 1879 Pocking got a railway connection, which made the cattle trade flourished. Pocking became a center of cattle breeding through its cattle and later horse market, which led to the construction of its own auction hall in 1908.
During the time of National Socialism there was a satellite camp of the Flossenbürg concentration camp in Pocking .
After the end of the Second World War in 1945, a DP camp was set up on the camp grounds for Jewish so-called “ displaced persons ”. With up to 7,645 residents in 1946, the Pocking camp was the second largest DP camp in Germany after Bergen-Belsen . The Pocking camp was dissolved in February 1949.
On October 2, 1971, Pocking was raised to the city. As part of the regional reform in Bavaria , the municipalities of Kühnham (on April 1, 1971), Indling and Markt Hartkirchen (both on October 1, 1971) were voluntarily incorporated in addition to the city census.
Population development
Between 1988 and 2018, the city grew from 11,319 to 15,967 by 4,648 inhabitants or 41.1%.
politics
mayor
- –2008: Josef Jakob (CSU)
- 2008– : Franz Krah (Independent Citizen)
In the local elections on March 15, 2020, Franz Krah was re-elected with 58.84% of the vote.
City council
In the local elections on March 15, 2020, 6,072 of the 12,737 residents in Pocking who were entitled to vote made use of their right to vote, bringing the turnout to 47.67%.
coat of arms
Blazon: “Split in blue and silver; in front over three golden wavy strips a golden crescent moon turned to the left, underneath a silver horse head growing to the left from the lower edge of the shield; at the back under a raised red sloping beam a rooted green oak with three golden acorns, topped with two diagonally crossed blue keys. "
Pocking is mentioned in a document as early as Carolingian times. In 820 “Perhthelm” donated all of his goods “ad pochingas” to the Mondsee Monastery, whose coat of arms is a golden crescent moon and three golden waves on a blue background.
Pocking, the headquarters of the Rottaler horse breeding, symbolized by the silver horse's head, looks back on a rich historical past. The development since the late Middle Ages is symbolically represented by the coat of arms of the Lords of Rottau (red sloping bar in silver). You were the owner of Hofmark Pocking.
The coat of arms of Markt Hartkirchen is symbolized by the two keys that indicate the patronage of St. Peter. The stylized oak emphasizes that in the late Middle Ages the place can still be documented as the site of a prison court of the Griesbach court. It is also speaking for the place name, which comes from "Hart", d. H. Forest, is derived.
The new coat of arms was created after the voluntary incorporation of the communities of Kühnham, Indling and the market in Hartkirchen based on the designs of the home administrator Wilhelm Millauer.
Twin cities
Economy and Infrastructure
One of the most important economic sectors is gravel mining, of which there are currently four pits. Agriculture is another economic factor. In addition to these two branches, retail plays an important role. There are a total of 180 businesses in the city. In addition, Pocking benefits from its location in the Lower Bavarian spa triangle - Bad Füssing (Europe's largest thermal baths) - Bad Griesbach - Bad Birnbach.
Banks
The Rottaler Raiffeisenbank is a cooperative bank based in Pocking. It has a network of 10 branches.
traffic
Public transport
On September 1, 1879, the place was connected to the railway network with the opening of the " Rottalbahn " from Neumarkt-Sankt Veit via Eggenfelden and Pfarrkirchen to Pocking. In 1888, the line was expanded to include a connection from Pocking to Passau . On October 29, 1910, Pocking became a railway junction with the start of operations on the Simbach am Inn – Pocking railway line. However, passenger traffic on the connection to Simbach ended on June 1, 1969, and freight traffic was offered until Tutting for about 30 years. In mid-2006 the railway line was finally completely dismantled and dismantled.
The railway connection ( Mühldorf -) Neumarkt-Sankt Veit - Pocking - Passau is operated today by the Südostbayernbahn (infrastructure and passenger transport) and by DB Cargo (freight transport).
Private transport
Pocking is connected to the European motorway network ( E 56 ) via the federal motorway 3 to the north and the Austrian motorway 8 to the east . There are also two connections to Munich with the federal highway 388 and the federal highway 12 . It is planned to expand the B 12 to the federal motorway 94 .
environment
The city operates a sewage treatment plant - the sewage sludge is dried using solar energy.
On April 27, 2006 the world's largest connected, grid-connected solar power plant was inaugurated. It is located on the former training area of the Rottal barracks south of the planned BAB 94 near Kirchham . The system has a peak output of 10 megawatts from 62,500 photovoltaic modules spread over 36 hectares. The construction costs amounted to 40 million euros. This system can supply 3,300 single-family houses with electricity.
Culture
education
In Pocking there is a day nursery, a day nursery and six kindergartens. There is a primary school in both Pocking and Hartkirchen. The middle school and the Wilhelm-Diess -Gymnasium enable all school-leaving certificates. The special educational support center and the Ortisei school also offer training to children with learning difficulties and disabled children. For adult education, the adult education center is housed in the old school.
Buildings
The parish church of St. Ulrich dominates the cityscape with its baroque "onion dome" that can be seen from afar. Although the church looks baroque from the outside, it is older. If you enter the interior you can see from the late Gothic parts of the church that construction of the church began in the 15th century (1478).
The Evangelical Kreuzkirche is hidden near the cemetery. It comes from the emergency chapel program after the Second World War, was designed by Otto Bartning and is a listed building.
The Pocking City Library (new building: 2004) is an architecturally attractive public library well-equipped with an up-to-date and comprehensive range of books and media. In 2006 it welcomed more than 20,000 visitors. In the archaeological museum Turntable Pocking - Traces of History , the 2000-year history of the city is documented in a representative way.
At Bundesstraße 12 , a concentration camp memorial with a stele commemorates the more than 100 dead concentration camp inmates of the Waldstadt satellite camp who were buried here before they were transferred to their homeland or before they found their final resting place in the Flossenbürg cemetery.
Sports
The MSC Pocking's motorcycle speedway races in the Rottalstadion, which can accommodate over 20,000 spectators, are well known beyond the region. MSC Pocking was represented with a team in the Speedway Bundesliga for several years. Since the 80s World Cup races in the Pockinger Rottalstadion: 1986 Best Pairs World Cup Final, 1993 Speedway Individual World Cup, and in 1996 and 1998 the Speedway World Cup Grand Prix of Germany as part of the Speedway Individual World Cup. The highlights also include the races and international fights every year at Easter.
societies
- Horticultural and local beautification association Pocking
- Watchtower Pocking
- Entrepreneur Association Pocking Aktiv
- Tanzsportclub Pocking eV
- Fitness Club Pocking e.V. V.
Personalities
sons and daughters of the town
- Hanns Meilhamer (* 1951), songwriter and cabaret artist - Herbert von Herbert and Schnipsi
- Margit Orlogi (* 1958), artist
- Michael Ammermüller (* 1986), racing driver
- Stefan Ravasz (*), sound engineer
Famous residents of the city
- Jürgen Wollina (* 1946 in Berlin, † 2015), draftsman of the only true city and surrounding area of Duckburg
Memorials
Hungarian cemetery
In 1953, the Bavarian State Ministry of the Interior agreed to the intention of the German War Graves Commission to create a central Hungarian war cemetery for all Hungarians who fell on southern Bavarian soil. At that time, the regulations of the military government still applied to these graves. An application for approval of the action has been submitted to the American Consulate General.
This permit was granted in November 1954. In Bavaria, 1,500 Hungarian graves were found in 141 communities. The Pockingen municipal council, who showed great understanding for the plan, provided a particularly suitable 1,000 m² area at the local cemetery. In 1955 the first dead were embedded and the graves marked. In the following years, hundreds of Hungarian war victims were added, who were rescued from makeshift graves whenever the reburial group of the Volksbund had to do in places where such graves were. Completed structures, in which the existence of the graves appeared to be secured, were left. In 1961 the campaign was largely over. 747 Hungarians from 115 parishes found their final peace in the grove of honor. The name of 107 dead is not known. 618 died as soldiers on the German side. 129 civilians were also rescued, including 32 women and 56 children.
Concentration camp memorial
Located directly on Bundesstraße 12 in the direction of Munich is a 17 meter high obelisk as a memorial for the victims of the branch of the Flossenbürg concentration camp in Waldstadt. The concentration camp cemetery built on this site after 1945 was closed in 1957. The former concentration camp inmate and engineer A. Perkal designed the memorial.
Web links
- Entry on the coat of arms of Pocking in the database of the House of Bavarian History
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 ).
- ^ Bavarian State Library Online - Pocking
- ↑ Mario Bloier: The Roman Settlement of Pocking - An inventory . In: Mathias Pfeil (Ed.): Roman Vici and traffic infrastructure in Raetien and Noricum. Colloquium Bedaium Seebruck. 26.-28. March 2015 (= content - projects - documentation. Series of publications by the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation . No. 15). Volk Verlag, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-86222-227-8 , pp. 90-98 .
- ^ Anna Rosmus : Pocking. End and beginning. Konstanz 1995, ISBN 3-926937-15-7 .
- ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 474 .
- ↑ City council election 2020
- ↑ Mayoral election 2020
- ↑ City council election 2020
- ↑ Pocking's story: City arms
- ↑ Pocking solar power plant on Solarserver.de
- ↑ pocking.de: Education & Culture
- ↑ Memorial sites for the victims of National Socialism. A documentation. Volume 1. Federal Agency for Civic Education, Bonn 1995, ISBN 3-89331-208-0 , p. 184.
- ^ Horticultural and local beautification association eV Pocking
- ↑ wasserwacht-pocking.com
- ↑ Pocking Active: Home
- ^ Tanzsportclub Pocking eV: Home
- ↑ fitness-club-pocking.de
- ↑ Memorial sites - City of Pocking. Accessed March 31, 2019 .
- ↑ Flossenbürg Concentration Camp Memorial: satellite camp. Accessed March 31, 2019 .
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