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Vaterstetten
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Location of Vaterstetten within Ebersberg district
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| Administration | |
| Country | Germany |
| State | Bavaria |
| Admin. region | Upper Bavaria |
| District | Ebersberg |
| Local subdivisions | 7 officially named centres |
| Mayor | Robert Niedergesäß (CSU) |
| Basic statistics | |
| Area | 34.18 km2 (13.20 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 528 m (1732 ft) |
| Population | 22,070 (31 December 2010)[1] |
| - Density | 646 /km2 (1,672 /sq mi) |
| Other information | |
| Time zone | CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2) |
| Licence plate | EBE |
| Postal code | 85591 |
| Area code | 08106 |
| Website | www.vaterstetten.de |
Vaterstetten is a municipality in the Upper Bavarian district of Ebersberg. It lies east of Munich and is the district’s biggest community. Vaterstetten is on the outskirts of Munich, roughly twenty minutes by S-Bahn from the Marienplatz.
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Vaterstetten borders in the north on the community of Poing, in the northeast on the community of Anzing, in the east on the unincorporated area of the Ebersberg Forest (Ebersberger Forst), in the southeast on the community of Zorneding (all in Ebersberg district), in the southwest on the community of Grasbrunn, and in the west on the communities of Haar and Feldkirchen (all three in Munich district).
The community consists of the constituent centres of Baldham, Hergolding, Neufarn, Parsdorf, Purfing, Vaterstetten and Weißenfeld.
Because of being on the border of the sandur of Munich, an early settlement in the southern part of today's community area is unlikely, because the tillage was disadvantaged here compared to the northern part. Consequently, the oldest town of the community is Purfing, where a settlement from the period between 750 to 600 BC was found.
Vaterstetten was founded by the Old Bavarii Fater family.
Until 1056 the district of Weißenfeld (Wizzinvelt) was in the possession of the Holy Roman Emperor Henry III. as a Reichsgut. How significant these lands must have been for the emperor is shown by the fact that he instructed his wife in negotiations over his ownership on his deathbed in the year 1056.
It was here in the summer of 1800 that the Parsdorf Ceasefire was signed by Major General Franz Joseph von Dietrichstein and General Jean Victor Moreau, which later came to an end with the Battle of Hohenlinden. In 1818, when there was the Royal Bavarian territorial reform, the community of Parsdorf was founded and it replaced the former "Steuerdistricten". The administrative seat of the community was transferred to Parsdorf probably because of its important coaching inn.
An increase of the population of the community began with the connection to the rail network in 1871.
In 1913 physicist Ernst Mach settled in Vaterstetten, where he died 1916.
The district of Baldham was selected as a location for the studio of Hitler's sculptor Josef Thorak before the beginning of World War II. The building, which was created by Albert Speer, is now a branch of the Archaeological Staatssammlung in Munich. On 5 May 1945, the delegations of the German Army Group G and the 7th U.S. Army met here to discuss the surrender of the 200 000 German soldiers in southern Germany, which was finally signed in the neighbour community of Haar.
On 19 May 1944, a US Consolidated B-24 bomber crashed into the forest between Vaterstetten and the neighbouring town of Ottendichl.
The current community of Vaterstetten came into being with the municipal reform of 1978. The old community included all the same current centres as are now found in Vaterstetten, but it was named Parsdorf. On 1 May 1978, the community’s name was changed to Vaterstetten, by which time the community’s main centre had long been of that same name, along with Baldham. Before that reform, a part of Baldham (named Baldham-Kolonie) belonged to Zorneding.
Today the community of Vaterstetten is a popular home for celebrity people.
Vaterstetten is part of the Munich Transport and Fare Association (Münchner Verkehrs- und Tarifverbund, or MVV). The Munich S-Bahn’s line S4 runs over the Munich–Salzburg line through the community serving the Vaterstetten and Baldham stations.
Two buslines of the Vaterstettener Innerörtlicher Personennahverkehr (Vaterstetten Local Passenger Transport, or VIP) run regularly in the local area.
The name Vaterstetten is well known to many motorists for its Autobahn roadhouse, which lies on the A99. The Autobahn itself runs by the community about a kilometre away. Through the community’s south end runs the Wasserburger Landstraße (officially named B304), one of Munich’s main arterial roads.
Within the community stand four elementary schools, a Hauptschule, a Realschule and the Humboldt-Gymnasium Vaterstetten, as well as a folk high school and a music school.
| Year | - Inhabitants |
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| 1867 | 175 |
| 1910 | 1,407 |
| 1925 | 1,565 |
| 1939 | 1,837 |
| 1945 | 1,300 |
| 1961 | 5,420 |
| 1987 | 17,843 |
| 2002 | 21,113 |
| 2006 | 21,401 |
(1910, 1925, 1939, 1961, 1987: census results)
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