Surheim

Catholic parish church St. Stephan in Surheim

Surheim is a district of the municipality of Saaldorf-Surheim in the Upper Bavarian district of Berchtesgadener Land and was an independent municipality until 1978. Until 1994 the name of today's municipality Saaldorf-Surheim was only Surheim.

Location and structure

The municipality of Surheim, which was independent until 1978, is located in the east of today's municipality of Saaldorf-Surheim.

history

Surheim was first mentioned in a document in 788 in the Notitia Arnonis . During the secularization of 1803 Surheim fell to the Principality of Salzburg of the Archduke Ferdinand of Tuscany . In 1805 the area came to Austria in the Peace of Pressburg , which it had to cede to Bavaria in 1809/10. The previously independent communities Saaldorf and Surheim were merged on May 1, 1978 to form a new community called Saaldorf. Since May 1st 1994 the community name is Saaldorf-Surheim.

Religions

For centuries the area belonged to the Roman Catholic parish of Salzburghofen . In 1957 Surheim became its own parish.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer GmbH, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 597 .
2. ↑ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 1994