Admin. region Oberbayern Elevation 558 m (1,831 ft) Area 40.84 km² Population 11,228 (31 Dec 2008) Dialling code 08092 | District Ebersberg Time zone CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2) Local time Friday 6:34 PM Postal code 85560 | |
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Weather 5°C, Wind NW at 10 km/h, 62% Humidity | ||
Ebersberg is the seat of the similarly named Ebersberg Landkreis (district) in the Oberbayern Regierungsbezirk (administrative region) in Bavaria, southern Germany. The Ebersberger Forst (forest) is one of Germany’s largest continuous area of woodlands.
Contents
- Map of 85560 Ebersberg Germany
- History
- Coat of arms
- Sights
- Transport
- Famous people
- Working or living in the village
- Honorary citizens
- References
Map of 85560 Ebersberg, Germany
Neighbouring communities are Grafing bei München, Kirchseeon and Steinhöring. Bavaria’s capital, Munich, lies 32 km away and may be reached by Munich S-Bahn (S4). Rosenheim and Wasserburg am Inn are about the same distance away.
History
Ebersberg’s history is closely tied with the nearby Benedictine monastery founded in 934 by the Counts of Sempt. Beginning in the 14th century the monastery exercised local jurisdiction. In 1595, Pope Clement VIII dissolved the monastery and turned its lands over to the Jesuits. On January 18, 1634, during the Thirty Years War, Ebersberg was the site of a skirmish between Habsburg troops and local peasants. The peasants, being poorly armed, were quickly defeated by the Imperial forces and around 200 were killed. Later, the ringleaders were exonerated by local authorities and found they were acting only in self-defense. In 1773, the Knights of Malta took over the building. When the monastery was dissolved for good in 1808, the building went partly to government ownership and partly private.
In 1954, Ebersberg was raised to the status of a 'town'. In 1972 it was connected to Munich by the S-Bahn highway. The once separate municipality of Oberndorf was combined with Ebersberg.
Ebersberg is the only German town that has named a street after a cabaret group (Valtortagasse, after the Gruppo di Valtorta from Ebersberg). Ebersberg’s main cultural institution, the Alte Kino Ebersberg (Old Cinema), is today run by a non-profit governing board whose roots lie in this same Deutscher Kleinkunstpreis-winning group.
Coat of arms
Ebersberg’s civic coat of arms consists of a gold background with a black boar standing on a green three-knolled hill (Dreiberg, in German heraldry) on the shield’s right edge (from the armsbearer’s point of view – the left edge from the viewer’s) sloping upwards.
The town’s website includes a short summary of its history.
Sights
Transport
Ebersberg has a station on the railway line between Grafing and Wasserburg and is the terminal station of line S 4 of the Munich S-Bahn.
Famous people
The following luminaries were born in Ebersberg: