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Country
  
Germany

Admin. region
  
Niederbayern

Time zone
  
CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)

Area
  
44.5 km²

Local time
  
Tuesday 8:55 PM

Number of airports
  
1

State
  
Bavaria

District
  
Rottal-Inn

Postal codes
  
84307 8330,8331

Population
  
12,837 (31 Dec 2008)

Dialling code
  
08721

Administrative region
  
Lower Bavaria

Eggenfelden

Weather
  
3°C, Wind W at 6 km/h, 93% Humidity

Geographical location

Eggenfelden is located in the gentle valley of the Rott at the intersection of B 20 with the B 388 and the beginning of the B 588 . The city has two railway stations on the railway Passau - Neumarkt- Sankt Veit as well as an airfield (airfield Eggenfelden) . Eggenfelden is located about 56 km southeast of Landshut , 60 km south of Straubing , 70 km south-west of Passau , 84 kilometers north of Salzburg and 110 kilometers east of Munich.

Contents

Communal

The municipality Eggenfelden has 119 officially named Stadtteile:

Mayors

  • 1946–1948: Lorenz Fichtner, SPD
  • 1948–1960: Lorenz Bachmeier, CSU
  • 1960–1990: Hans Kreck, SPD
  • 1990–2002: Karl Riedler, SPD
  • 2002–2014: Werner Schießl, FWG
  • since May 2014: Wolfgang Grubwinkler, UWG, elected in March 2014 with 54,86 % of the votes

    • Notable people

  • The ski mountaineer Konrad Lex was born in Eggenfelden.
  • The German pop-singer and actor Daniel Küblböck who achieved short-lived celebrity in 2003, in the first season of Deutschland sucht den Superstar (DSDS), the German version of Pop Idol, in which he came third, was born outside of Eggenfelden and lived here until his breakthrough.

    • Sons and daughters of the city

  • Albert Hahl (1868-1945), German colonial officer and governor of German-New Guinea
  • Richard Schimpf (1897-1972), officer of the German Army, the Reichswehr, the Wehrmacht and the Bundeswehr (last rank major general)
  • Friedrich Müller (born 1938), legal scientist and author
  • Joseph Vogl (born 1957), literary and media scientist
  • Katrin Garfoot (born 1981), Australian cyclist
  • Barbara Lechner (born 1982), shooting sports woman
  • Fritz Wiedemann (1891-1970), German officer, adjutant of Adolf Hitler and diplomat
  • Daniel Küblböck (born 1985), DSDS participant and singer

    • References

    Eggenfelden Wikipedia
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