Grafing
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| Grafing b.München | |
| Coat of arms | Location |
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| Administration | |
| Country |  Germany |
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| State | Bavaria |
| Admin. region | Upper Bavaria |
| District | Ebersberg |
| 1. Bürgermeister | Rudolf Heiler (CSU) |
| Basic statistics | |
| Area | 29.57 km² (11.4 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 522 m (1713 ft) |
| Population | 12,543 (31/12/2006) |
| - Density | 424 /km² (1,099 /sq mi) |
| Other information | |
| Time zone | CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2) |
| Licence plate | EBE |
| Postal code | 85567 |
| Area code | 08092 |
| Website | www.grafing.de |
Grafing bei München (officially: Grafing b.München) is a town in the Upper Bavarian district of Ebersberg. In 2003, the town marked its 50th anniversary of being raised to town (1953).
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[edit] Geography
Grafing bei München lies in the Munich Region where the Urtelbach and Wieshamer Bach both empty into the River Attel. Nearby communities are the district seat of Ebersberg, Glonn and Kirchseeon. To the state capital Munich, it is 32 km, and also roughly the same to Rosenheim and Wasserburg am Inn.
The town has the following traditional rural land units (Gemarkungen in German): Elkofen, Grafing b.München, Nettelkofen, Oexing and Straußdorf.
[edit] History
The town, founded in 960 with the name Gisling belonged to the Rentamt of Munich and the Court of Swabia in the Electorate of Bavaria. Right next to Grafing and for a long time once lay another town called Öxing. After many polls, the town chose to assume the name Grafen after the two towns had grown together. All that nowadays remains to recall the days when Grafing was two towns is the two churches, one in the former Grafing and the other in the former Öxing.
Grafing moreover was home to a market court with far-reaching judicial autonomy. In the course of administrative reform in Bavaria, the community of Grafing came into being with the community edict in 1818, and with regional reform in 1978, Grafing swallowed up the former communities of Elkofen, Nettelkofen and Straußdorf. Town status came in 1953.
[edit] Population development
The town’s area was home to 9,426 inhabitants in 1970, 11,039 in 1987 and 12,493 in 2004.
[edit] Politics
The mayor (Bürgermeister) is Rudolf Heiler (CSU). Town council seats are apportioned thus: CSU (14), Greens (4), SPD (3), ÜWG (3).
In 1999, the town’s tax revenue, converted to euros, was €7,703,000, of which €1,654,000 was business taxes.
[edit] Coat of arms
Grafing’s arms might heraldically be described thus: In Or a bear rampant sable armed and langued sable. The local lore has it that Emperor Ludwig the Bavarian granted the town these arms in 1325. The Grafingers had taken part in the great battle near Ampfing-Mühldorf between Kaiser Ludwig and Duke Friedrich the Handsome of Austria in 1322 with that little flag at the Emperor’s side, and fought in this battle, it is said, “like bears”.
[edit] Education
[edit] Schools
- Grundschule Grafing (elementary school)
- Georg-Huber-Hauptschule
- Gymnasium Grafing
- Johann-Comenius-Schule (special pedagogical continuiong education centre)
- Gymnasium im Collegium Augustinum
[edit] Other educational institutions
- Volkshochschule Grafing
- Musikschule
- Kreisbildungswerk (“District Education Works”)
- Evangelisches Bildungswerk
[edit] Sightseeing
- Rathaus (town hall)
- Pfarrkirche St. Ägidius (parish church)
- Marktkirche (church)
- Leonhardikirche (church)
- Wildbräugebäude (building)
- Schloss Elkofen (castle)
- Mariensäule (column)
- Heimatmuseum im Rieperdinger-Haus (“Homeland Museum”)
[edit] Sport clubs
The best known Grafing sport club beyond the region is EHC Klostersee. It is named after the Klostersee (lake) lying in the neighbouring town of Ebersberg where the first ice hockey games were held in the 1950s. Early on the club moved to Grafing, although it kept its name. Games are nowadays played in a ramshackle, half-open artificial ice arena.
The club’s claim to fame is that it is the first men’s hockey team to play in the Federation-wide Oberliga (Third League).
The club has also won national titles in speed skating and shorttrack speed skating events. Local shorttracker Susanne Rudolph also competed in the Olympic Winter Games in Turin.
The sport club with the most members of any in town is TSV Grafing von 1864. As well as the football division with two men’s, one women’s and numerous youth teams, there are also many smaller divisions within the club. Especially successful among these are the men’s volleyball team, which currently plays in the Second Bundesliga South, and the women’s judo team, which has met with success in the Bavarian League.
[edit] External links
This article is based on a translation of an article from the German Wikipedia.
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