Hohenlinden: Guide, Hotels, Map & Photos
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Hohenlinden: Guide
Hohenlinden is a village of the Ebersberg (district)|Ebersberg Kreis (district) in the administrative region of Upper Bavaria, in the German state of Bavaria, 35 km east of Munich; pop. about 2900. It offers many tourist attractions, especially the Ebersberger Forst, maybe Bavaria's most beautiful forest.
On December 3, 1800, the Battle of Hohenlinden took place here.
Hohenlindens Burgomaster is Ludwig Maurer, a non-party member, who was elected in 1998.
The Bavarian dialect is very common and wide-spreaded in Hohenlinden. In Bavarian, Hohenlinden is called Herlin.
According to 1998 statistics, Hohenlinden had 155 manufacturing establishments and a total tax income of 1.552.000 €
A kindergarten with a capacity of 100 pupils and an elementary school with 263 pupils and 14 teachers existed in 1999, but it's pretty likely that these figures are much higher today, since Hohenlinden registers a massiv increase of habitants since several years.
The famous former German goalkeeper Sepp Maier lives in Hohenlinden.
Kreith, a small district, who adminstratively belongs to Hohenlinden is famous for his mead.
Public buildings and shops
There are several public buildings in Hohenlinden, e.g:
- Two churches
- A soccer field
- A youth centre (opened 2006)
- An elemenatry school
- Two kindergarten
- A gymn
- A manse
Due to its location near the Bundesstraße 12 (B12), one of Bavaria's most important traffic routes, a whole bunch of shops developed in the past decades. Currently there are 3 inns, two traditional Bavarian (Gasthof Steutzger and Gasthof zur Post) ones and one Italian (La Posta).
Besides several smaller shops, there is a REWE supermarket, two car traders (Porsche and Mercedes-Benz), a driving school (City Fahrschule II), a pharmacy, and a gas station (Allguth)
Associations
Hohenlinden offers a wide choice of associations and clubs. Most of them are free for everyone to join and only charge a small annual fee to cover their expenses. The most popular associations are the Sportvereinigung Hohenlinden, the Boeller-Verein, the Freiwillige Feuerwehr Hohenlinden, the Schützenverein and the Theaterverein Hohenlinden.
Other popular organsiations are the Landfrauen, the Stiefelclub, the Motocrossverein, the Tischtennisverein, the Eisstockschützen and the Verein Hohenlinden 2000 e.V.
External links
http://www.hohenlinden.de (German)
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