Waakirchen
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Coordinates: 47 ° 46 ' N , 11 ° 40' E |
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| State : | Bavaria | |
| Administrative region : | Upper Bavaria | |
| County : | Miesbach | |
| Height : | 759 m above sea level NHN | |
| Area : | 42.31 km 2 | |
| Residents: | 5809 (Dec. 31, 2019) | |
| Population density : | 137 inhabitants per km 2 | |
| Postal code : | 83666 | |
| Area code : | 08021 | |
| License plate : | MB | |
| Community key : | 09 1 82 134 | |
| LOCODE : | DE WAK | |
| Community structure: | 32 parts of the community | |
| Address of the municipal administration: |
Tegernseer Strasse 7 83666 Waakirchen |
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| Mayor : | Norbert Kerkel ( FWG ) | |
| Location of the municipality of Waakirchen in the Miesbach district | ||
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Waakirchen is a municipality in the west of the Upper Bavarian district of Miesbach .
geography
Geographical location
Waakirchen lies on the lateral moraine between the former Isar and Tegernsee glaciers.
The village of Waakirchen is located on the federal highway 472 between Bad Tölz (eight kilometers) and Miesbach (twelve kilometers). After Holzkirchen and the Federal Highway 8 is 16 km, Tegernsee just five kilometers and after Munich km 48th
The municipality has 32 officially named municipal parts (the type of settlement is given in brackets ):
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Waters
The Rinnenbach and the Festenbach run in the area of the municipality of Waakirchen .
history
Church planting
Waakirchen became an independent political municipality in the course of the administrative reforms in Bavaria in 1818.
Incorporations
On May 1, 1978, the community of Schaftlach was incorporated as part of the regional reform .
Population development
Between 1988 and 2018 the municipality grew from 4,795 to 5,801 by 1,006 inhabitants or 21%.
| year | 1840 | 1871 | 1900 | 1925 | 1939 | 1950 | 1961 | 1970 | 1987 | 1991 | 1995 | 2000 | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 |
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| Residents | 1022 | 1020 | 1654 | 2472 | 2864 | 4317 | 4065 | 4184 | 4692 | 5050 | 5178 | 5442 | 5510 | 5535 | 5661 |
politics
Municipal council
In the local elections on March 15, 2020 , the result shown on the right resulted in the following distribution of seats:
| Party / list | 2014 | 2020 |
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| CSU | 6th | 5 |
| FWG | 8th | 5 |
| Green | - | 3 |
| ABV | 4th | 3 |
| WE | - | 2 |
| FW | - | 1 |
| SPD | 2 | 1 |
| total | 20th | 20th |
mayor
Norbert Kerkel is mayor of the Waakirchen community. He was elected to office in the 2020 local elections with 54.3% of the valid votes in the runoff election. He is the son of the former mayor of Waakirchen and former Miesbach district administrator Norbert Kerkel .
coat of arms
The description of the coat of arms reads: "Under a silver shield head, in it two green sea leaves crossed with stems, a golden morning star and a golden miner's hammer crossed in blue."
banner
The municipality's flag is green and yellow with the municipality's coat of arms in the middle.
Buildings
The Oberland monument is located at the confluence of Tegernseer Straße with the B 472 . This memorial, inaugurated on August 20, 1905 in the presence of Prince Ludwig of Bavaria , commemorates those who died at the Sendlinger Murder Christmas in December 1705. The lion with the lance comes from Hygin Kiene , who created four reliefs on the base (scenes from the Sendlinger Murder Christmas) the Munich sculptor Anton Kaindl .
In the Heilig-Kreuz-Kirche in Schaftlach hangs the Schaftlacher Kreuz , one of the oldest monumental crucifixes . During a restoration it turned out that the cross can be dated to approx. 970. It is believed that it comes from the Tegernsee monastery .
In the municipality of Georgenried is the St. Georg branch church , a small, single-nave late Gothic building from the years 1525–1528 with early baroque altars.
traffic
In the district of Schaftlach there is a rail connection to the Holzkirchen – Lenggries railway line and the Schaftlach – Tegernsee railway line . The routes are operated by the Bayerische Oberlandbahn . The trains run from Schaftlach every hour to Holzkirchen, Munich, Lenggries and Tegernsee .
Personalities
sons and daughters of the town
- Silvia Bovenschen (born March 5, 1946 in Point near Waakirchen; † October 25, 2017 in Berlin), literary scholar, writer
- Hans Engl (born October 12, 1944 in Waakirchen), alpinist and high-altitude mountaineer
- Balthasar Mayer (born January 6, 1644 in Waakirchen), allegedly the blacksmith of Kochel
Honorary citizen
- Peter Westermeier (1920–2016), First Mayor (SPD) in Waakirchen from 1960 to 1984
- Georg Gruber (1932–2014), Second Mayor of Waakirchen from 1972 to 1984
- Otto Wesendonck (* 1939), sculptor
- Josef Gast (* 1943), former municipal councilor and farmer in Waakirchen
Web links
- Entry on the coat of arms of Waakirchen 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 ).
- ↑ Waakirchen municipality in the local database of the Bavarian State Library Online . Bavarian State Library, accessed on September 7, 2019.
- ^ 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, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 581 .
- ↑ Waakirchen municipal statistics , accessed on November 6, 2010
- ↑ Waakirchen municipality: result of the 2020 election of the municipal council , accessed on March 27, 2020
- ^ Local councils. Retrieved March 21, 2020 .
- ↑ Waakirchen municipal administration : Waakirchen municipality | City Hall Current. Waakirchen municipality, March 2020, accessed on March 26, 2020 .
- ↑ Christina Jachert-Maier: Norbert Kerkel becomes Waakirchen's new mayor. March 29, 2020, accessed May 7, 2020 .
- ↑ Bavaria's municipalities - coat of arms: municipality Waakirchen
- ↑ Waakirchen says goodbye to Peter Westermeier. In: Münchner Merkur . February 11, 2016, accessed April 8, 2016 .
- ↑ Gabi Werner: A sculptor becomes an honorary citizen. August 6, 2015, accessed January 5, 2020 .
- ↑ Josef Gast becomes an honorary citizen. In: Münchner Merkur. June 21, 2016. Retrieved June 22, 2016 .
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