Eichenau

Eichenau
Eichenau
Location of Eichenau within Fürstenfeldbruck district
Coordinates	48°10′N 11°19′E
Administration
Country	Germany
State	Bavaria
Admin. region	Upper Bavaria
District	Fürstenfeldbruck
Mayor	Hubert Jung (CSU)
Basic statistics
Area	6.98 km2 (2.69 sq mi)
Elevation	522 m  (1713 ft)
Population	11,961 (31 December 2010)
- Density	1,714 /km2 (4,438 /sq mi)
Other information
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Licence plate	FFB
Postal code	82223
Area code	08141
Website	www.eichenau.de

Eichenau is a municipality in the district of Fürstenfeldbruck, in Bavaria, Germany. It is situated 20 km west of Munich (centre).

Eichenau was officially named in 1907 as a separate settlement to the community of Alling. Its location is due to the railway station on the line Munich to Lindau. The settlement grew according to plans made by district commissioner Josef Nibler in Fürstenfeldbruck since 1916. He founded the Baugenossenschaft Eichenau and managed to acquire 60 ha of land for housing projects after the First World War. Most of the population commutes to Munich. The town now has a large sports centre, complete with outdoor beach volleyball courts.

Eichenau has two elementary schools ("Grundschule") and one high school ("Hauptschule").

Twin towns

• Budrio, Italy, since 1990.
• Vyshgorod, Ukraine, since 1994.

Satellite Images

http://www.wikimapia.org/#lat=48.&lon=11.&z=14&l=5&m=a&v=2

Famous people

• George Bouzianis (1885–1959), Greek painter
• Georg Spillner (1908–1998), clown Nuk
• Claus Biederstaedt (* 1928), German actor
• Herbert Riehl-Heyse (1940–2003), German journalist und author
• Alma Hagenbucher (* 1922), German businesswoman

Literature

• Hejo Busley, Angelika Schuster-Fox, Michael Gumtau (Hrsg.): Geschichte im Schatten einer Großstadt. Eichenau 1907–2007. Herbert Utz Verlag, München 2007, ISBN 3-8316-0717-6 (ISBN ) bzw. ISBN 978-3-8316-0717-4 (ISBN )
• Landratsamt Fürstenfeldbruck: Der Landkreis Fürstenfeldbruck - Natur, Geschichte, Kultur, Fürstenfeldbruck 1992

External links

• http://eichenau.de official webpage
• http://www.myheimat.de/fuerstenfeldbruck/beitrag/26518/rundgang-durch-eichenau-in-30-schritten-und-ein-video-versuch/ virtual tour of the town
• http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eichenau

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