Unterföhring
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Unterföhring | |
Coat of arms | Location |
Administration | |
Country | Germany |
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State | Bavaria |
Admin. region | Upper Bavaria |
District | München |
Mayor | Franz Schwarz (SPD) |
Basic statistics | |
Area | 12.80 km² (4.9 sq mi) |
Elevation | 508 m (1667 ft) |
Population | 7,887 (31/12/2006) |
- Density | 616 /km² (1,596 /sq mi) |
Other information | |
Time zone | CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2) |
Licence plate | M |
Postal code | 85774 |
Area code | 089 |
Website | www.unterfoehring.de |
Unterföhring is a municipality in the Upper Bavarian district Munich.
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[edit] History
Before the establishment of Munich around 1158 an important river crossing existed over the Isar, the Föhringer bridge. Unterföhring was mentioned documentary for the first time 1180 as independent place (inferius Feringin). Unterföhring was a component to the high pin freesings counting former county Ismaning. Since the realm deputation main conclusion of 1803 the place belongs to Bavaria. In the course of the administrative reforms in Bavaria the today's municipality developed with the municipality edict of 1818.
[edit] Population development
Number of inhabitants
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[edit] Politics
1. Mayor: Franz Schwarz (SPD)
- Local councils
SPD: 8
PWU - Party-free constituency Unterföhring: 7
CSU: 4
The Greens: 1
[edit] Economics
Unterföhring is one of the important media locations of Germany. Already into the 1950er years took place the settlement of the RIVA photometric enterprises. 1962 took over the Bavarian broadcast (BR) and the Second Channel of German Television RIVA Studios. 1972 followed those Taurus film, the later Kirch group. Since 2000 is here also the seat of the ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG. In addition to that the Premiere AG and Europe of large operator cable Germany. One of the largest independent film production companies in Germany, the neue deutsche Filmgesellschaft, has their head office here.
In addition, beside media enterprises considerable insurance companies are east the rapid-transit railway line S8 settled in the trade area Unterföhring. Largest employer is the alliance SE with approximately 6000 coworkers, under also different one the AGIS alliance Dresden of information systems GmbH, the IT-Dienstleister and subsidiary of the alliance SE) with a large computing centre and further societies of the alliance company. In direct neighbourhood the Swiss RH, has the world largest reinsurance since December 2001 likewise a location with approx. 580 woman employees.
Owing to the many enterprises the municipality is free from debt and even reserves of 232 million euro accumulated.
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