Siegsdorf

Basic data
State :	Bavaria
Administrative region :	Upper Bavaria
County :	Traunstein
Height :	615 m above sea level NHN
Area :	56.98 km 2
Residents:	8310 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	146 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	83313
Area code :	08662
License plate :	TS, LF
Community key :	09 1 89 145
LOCODE :	DE SOF
Community structure:	98 districts
Address of the ; municipal administration:	Rathausplatz 1 ; 83313 Siegsdorf
Website :	www.siegsdorf.de
Mayor :	Thomas Kamm ( UW )
Location of the municipality of Siegsdorf in the Traunstein district

Siegsdorf (in dialect: "Siagsdorf") is both a place and a municipality in the Traunstein district in Upper Bavaria .

Since the 1970s it has been a large municipality due to the Bavarian territorial reform . The following formerly independent communities were incorporated: Eisenärzt , Vogling and Hammer , and parts of Hochberg and Haslach were created. Their coats of arms are shown below; however, the coats of arms of Vogling and Hochberg are not official coats of arms, and the communities were never given a coat of arms before they were dissolved.

Iron doctor
hammer
Vogling
Hochberg
Haslach

geography

Geographical location

Siegsdorf is the seat of a political community and a Roman Catholic parish (earlier pilgrimage to the inclined head ). The next larger city is Salzburg , approx. 25 km to the east. Near Siegsdorf, the ' Red ' and ' White ' arms unite to form the Traun , which flows further over Traunstein and Altenmarkt and flows into the Alz . In the south are the foothills of the pre-Alps - here the Hochfelln . The highest point of the municipality is the Zinnkopf at 1227 m.

Main places

Siegsdorf (largest town and today's administrative seat of the municipality of Siegsdorf)
Eisenärzt (second largest town and former administrative seat of the Eisenärzt municipality)
Hammer (third largest town and former administrative seat of the municipality of Hammer)
Vogling (fourth largest town and former administrative seat of the municipality of Vogling)

Community structure

Siegsdorf has 98 districts:

Adlga day
Aich
Aicher
Aigen
Alm
Alzing
Auli
Aumann
Bad Adelholzen
Bernbichl
Bichl
Bucheck
Daxa
Daxbach
Daxlberg
Iron doctor
Embach
Farnbichl
Feichten
File ride

Felln
Frauenstätt
Gas day
Gerhartsreit
Grünreit
Hachau
Hallaich
hammer
Haunerting
Houses
Backwells
Hell
Holnstein
Höpfling
Low hearing
Hub
Knappenfeld
Kohlbrenn
Königswiesen
Krutzling

Kühleiten
Lettengruben
Linden trees
Lindl
Lohhäusl
Mowing
Maria-Eck
Wall
Mauerriedl
Meisau
Molberting
Mosen
Obereck
Obergalling
Oberheutau
Oberunterberg
Oed
Osterham
Pattenau
Paulfischer

Ready
Prüll
Reichhausen
Rettenbach
Reeds
Rudhart
Saint Johann
Shame
Scheiblegg
Schöneck
Schweinbach
Siegsdorf
Sparrow ride
Spirka
stone
Tauernstein
Thal
Thalham
Traundorf

Unterberg
Lower corner
Untergalling
Unterheutau
Venusberg
Vitzthum
Vogling
Ahead
Front well
Wagenau
Forest
Pond
Weitwies
Wernleiten
Meadow
grasslands
Wimm
Wolfsberg
To live

history

Siegsdorf around 1900

Until the 19th century

Siegsdorf is first mentioned in writing around 1120. In the Middle Ages, iron ore mining played an important role , especially in today's districts of Eisenärzt and Hammer. A Salzsäumerweg ran through the municipality from Reichenhall to Traunstein , which was only expanded to become a salt road around 1590. Since 1618 the brine pipeline led from Reichenhall to Traunstein and from 1809 to Rosenheim along the Roten Traun via Hammer (Brunnhaus) and Siegsdorf (Brunnhaus). The late-Gothic parish church "Maria Conception" was redesigned in Baroque style in 1779 and provided with a large ceiling painting by the Trostberg painter Franz Soll. In 1896 Siegsdorf is connected to the railway.

20th century

In 1936 the first section of the motorway stretched from Munich to Siegsdorf.

On April 1, 1934, the municipality name Obersiegsdorf was officially changed to Siegsdorf at the same time as Untersiegsdorf was incorporated .

Siegsdorf mammoth

On October 11, 1975, the then 16-year-old student Bernard Raymond von Bredow discovered and hid one of the largest mammoth skeletons in the world in a stream bed near Siegsdorf (in the Höpfling district) . Siegsdorf hit the headlines in 1985 when Bredow published his mammoth find with the filmmaker Ulli Weißbach. The find was the reason to build the Mammutheum in Siegsdorf in 1991 and the Southeast Bavarian Natural History and Mammoth Museum in 1995 .

Incorporations

On April 1, 1934, the previous community of Untersiegsdorf was attached and the previous name of the community Obersiegsdorf was changed to Siegsdorf . On January 1, 1972, the previously independent community of Eisenärzt was incorporated. On July 1, 1972, Vogling and the southern part of the dissolved community of Hochberg were added. On May 1, 1978, the municipal area reform came to an end with the voluntary joining of the municipality of Hammer and the southern part of the municipality of Haslach.

Population development

Between 1988 and 2018 the municipality grew from 7,277 to 8,355 by 1,078 inhabitants or 14.8%.

year	1840	1900	1925	1939	1950	1961	1970	1987	2011	2016
Residents	2233	2835	3354	4057	6140	5648	6020	7219	8099	8382

politics

City council and mayor

The municipal council election on March 16, 2014 led to the following result:

Party / list	CSU	SPD	GREEN	UWG ^*	total
Share of votes	32.6%	13.1%	18.5%	35.8%	100%
Seats	7th	2	4th	7th	20th

^* Independent voter community

Thomas Kamm (UWG) was elected First Mayor on May 1, 2008. He was re-elected on March 16, 2014 and March 15, 2020 (78.37%).

Community partnerships

Siegsdorf's partner communities are Pfunders in South Tyrol (Italy), Venusberg in the Ore Mountains in the German state of Saxony and Daone in Trentino (Italy).

Culture and sights

Museums

Buildings

Pilgrimage church Maria Eck

Pilgrimage church, chapel and Maria Eck monastery
Catholic parish church Siegsdorf
Bad Adelholzen nurses' home
St. Rupertus Hammer Church
Catholic branch church St. John the Baptist in Sankt Johann

Soil monuments

See: List of ground monuments in Siegsdorf

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Siegsdorf is located directly on the A 8 from Munich to Salzburg and can be reached via the Siegsdorf-West or Traunstein / Siegsdorf-Ost exits . Siegsdorf is also on the Traunstein – Ruhpolding railway line .

Established businesses

The community lives from small businesses and handicrafts, medium-sized industrial enterprises and partly from tourism and agriculture. The plant construction company Brückner Group has had a location in Siegsdorf since 1960. The two mineral water fountains Adelholzener Alpenquellen and Siegsdorfer Petrusquelle are well known beyond the region .

education

Siegsdorf owns the Siegsdorf elementary school, divided into elementary and middle school with a total of approx. 500 students in 21 classes and 33 teachers. A parish and community library is located in the community administration building. There is also a branch of the VHS Traunstein.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the church

Alois Irlmaier (1894–1959), clairvoyant, end-time visionary, a. a. Vision of the third world war or apocalypse
Matthias Engelsberger (1925–2005), politician (CSU). He was a member of the German Bundestag from 1969 to 1990.
Peter Angerer (* 1959), former German biathlete.
Christian Gerhartsreiter (* 1961), an imprisoned in the US for murder German impostor who as Clark Rockefeller was known
Markus Eisenbichler (* 1991), ski jumper

Personalities with connections to the community

Ernst von Salomon (1902–1972), writer, experienced the end of the war in Siegsdorf in 1945 and reported about it in his book The Questionnaire .
Marianne Hoppe (1909–2002), actress, died here.
Jimmy Carl Black (1938–2008), American drummer, lived since the 1990s and died here too.
Sepp Ferstl (* 1954), former German ski racer, lives here.

Interesting facts about districts

Ahead

Ahead is a holiday complex that was built in the early 1970s. The “bird house” architecture of many buildings is typical, most of which were built on a south-facing slope.

The holiday park area itself consists of three parts, namely Feichten, Mosen and the actual Vorauf. The holiday park has facilities that are typical for holidaymakers, such as a mini golf course, a dining restaurant, a small indoor swimming pool and a sauna. The latter is also used by residents of the region, especially in winter. There is also a stud where horses can be rented. The old riding stables collapsed under the weight of snow on the same day as the ice rink in Bad Reichenhall, 30 km away .

Only 200 people live in the Vorauf area, but there are up to 500 holiday homes of various sizes. The house type (e.g. "Type Salzburg") is always named after a city. After the decline in mass tourism in the region, however, there has been an increase in property and house sales in recent years, which means that there is no longer the same range of supplies as 20 years ago. For example, the village shop that provided food to guests for over 30 years no longer exists. Instead, you have to go to Wernleiten, Siegsdorf, Traunstein or Neukirchen a. Teisenberg to be driven to grocery shopping. In addition, the holiday park is suffering from the demographic development because the first generation of holiday park owners is sometimes no longer alive and the following generations often have to sell the houses. This harbors a risk because real estate speculators and various holiday home providers are fighting for the houses that are becoming vacant or vacant, both for buyers and tenants.

The unresolved living situation is also problematic for the holiday park. Some people live in the holiday park for a long time and, as “long-time residents”, are officially residents of the holiday park and thus of the community. Newly arrived guests or holiday guests, on the other hand, are only allowed to use the apartments for holiday purposes, but not as permanent living quarters.

The holiday park is mostly used by guests from the (Upper) Bavarian area, as many of the homeowners come from this area and rent them out to friends, relatives or tourists. Guests from home and abroad also come.