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Marienstein
Marienstein is a village in the municipality of Waakirchen in the west Upper Bavarian district of Miesbach Miesbach () is a town in Bavaria, Germany, and is the capital of the Miesbach district. The district is at an altitude of 697 metres above sea level. It covers an area of approximately 863.50 km² of alpine headlands and in 2017 had a popul .... History 1850/51 The owner of the Oberkammerloh estate built 2 cement ovens and a mill complex. The stone for his cement factory was extracted from ''Holzwiesenthal'' quarry where he later moved his business and renamed it after his niece, Maria, to Marienstein. 1852 Herr Deuringer was given mining rights for coal by the Royal Mining Office in Munich. Marienstein became a mining centre until 1962 when the last seam was worked. After the closure of the cement factory in 1998 the community strove to turn the area into an industrial estate. External links Cement Mine at Marienstein {{Coord, 47, 45, 4, N, 11, 41, 05, E, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marienstein (Nörten-Hardenberg)
Marienstein is a village in the municipality of Waakirchen in the west Upper Bavarian district of Miesbach. History 1850/51 The owner of the Oberkammerloh estate built 2 cement ovens and a mill complex. The stone for his cement factory was extracted from ''Holzwiesenthal'' quarry where he later moved his business and renamed it after his niece, Maria, to Marienstein. 1852 Herr Deuringer was given mining rights for coal by the Royal Mining Office in Munich. Marienstein became a mining centre until 1962 when the last seam was worked. After the closure of the cement factory in 1998 the community strove to turn the area into an industrial estate. External links Cement Mine at Marienstein {{Coord, 47, 45, 4, N, 11, 41, 05, E, type:city_region:DE-BY, display=title Miesbach (district) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marienstein
Marienstein is a village in the municipality of Waakirchen in the west Upper Bavarian district of Miesbach Miesbach () is a town in Bavaria, Germany, and is the capital of the Miesbach district. The district is at an altitude of 697 metres above sea level. It covers an area of approximately 863.50 km² of alpine headlands and in 2017 had a popul .... History 1850/51 The owner of the Oberkammerloh estate built 2 cement ovens and a mill complex. The stone for his cement factory was extracted from ''Holzwiesenthal'' quarry where he later moved his business and renamed it after his niece, Maria, to Marienstein. 1852 Herr Deuringer was given mining rights for coal by the Royal Mining Office in Munich. Marienstein became a mining centre until 1962 when the last seam was worked. After the closure of the cement factory in 1998 the community strove to turn the area into an industrial estate. External links Cement Mine at Marienstein {{Coord, 47, 45, 4, N, 11, 41, 05, E, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kloster Marienstein
Kloster is the German and Scandinavian word for monastery. It may also refer to: Places * Kloster, Styria * Kloster, Denmark * Kloster, Sweden * Klošter, settlement in Slovenia People * Asbjørn Kloster (1823–1876), Norwegian social reformer * Chuck Klosterman (b. 1972), American author and essayist * Knut Kloster (b. 1929), Norwegian shipping magnate, grandson of Lauritz * Lauritz Kloster (1870–1952), Norwegian shipping magnate, grandfather of Knut * Robert Kloster (1905–1979), Norwegian museum director and art historian Other * '' Das Kloster'', a collection of magical and occult texts compiled by Johann Scheible See also * Klosters * Closter (other) Closter may refer to: *Closter (surname) *Closter, New Jersey, a borough in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States *Closter, Nebraska Closter is an unincorporated community in Boone County, Nebraska Nebraska () is a state in the Midw ... {{Disambiguation, geo, surname Norwegian-lan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Municipality
A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the governing body of a given municipality. A municipality is a general-purpose administrative subdivision, as opposed to a special-purpose district. The term is derived from French and Latin . The English word ''municipality'' derives from the Latin social contract (derived from a word meaning "duty holders"), referring to the Latin communities that supplied Rome with troops in exchange for their own incorporation into the Roman state (granting Roman citizenship to the inhabitants) while permitting the communities to retain their own local governments (a limited autonomy). A municipality can be any political jurisdiction, from a sovereign state such as the Principality of Monaco, to a small village such as West Hampton Dunes, New York. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Waakirchen
Waakirchen is a municipality in the district of Miesbach in Bavaria in Germany. At the end of World War II, Japanese American soldiers ( Nisei from the 522nd_Field Artillery Battalion) rescued concentration camp victims on a death march at this village. References Miesbach (district) {{Miesbach-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Upper Bavaria
Upper Bavaria (german: Oberbayern, ; ) is one of the seven administrative districts of Bavaria, Germany. Geography Upper Bavaria is located in the southern portion of Bavaria, and is centered on the city of Munich, both state capital and seat of the district government. Because of this, it is by far the most populous administrative division in Bavaria. It is subdivided into four planning regions (''Planungsverband''): Ingolstadt, Munich, Bayerisches Oberland (Bavarian Highland), and Südostoberbayern (South East Upper Bavaria). The name 'Upper Bavaria' refers to the relative position on the Danube and its tributaries: downstream, Upper Bavaria is followed by Lower Bavaria, then Upper Austria, and subsequently Lower Austria. ''Landkreise'' (districts): * Altötting * Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen * Berchtesgadener Land * Dachau * Ebersberg * Eichstätt * Erding * Freising * Fürstenfeldbruck * Garmisch-Partenkirchen * Landsberg * Miesbach * Mühldorf * Munich (''München'') ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miesbach
Miesbach () is a town in Bavaria, Germany, and is the capital of the Miesbach district. The district is at an altitude of 697 metres above sea level. It covers an area of approximately 863.50 km² of alpine headlands and in 2017 had a population of 11,477. The town is located 48 km southeast of Munich. Lake Schliersee Schliersee is a small town (Markt) and a municipality in the district of Miesbach in Bavaria in Germany. It is named after the nearby Lake Schliersee. It comprises the districts Schliersee (town), , , , Josefsthal and Spitzingsee. Among the p ... and Lake Tegernsee, around which are the internationally renowned spas, Bad Wiessee, Rottach-Egern and Tegernsee, are nearby. Miesbach was founded around the year 1000 and was for hundreds of years the seat of the County of Hohenwaldeck. In the 19th century it became the center of the conservation movement for the traditional costumes, the Tracht. Miesbach also has a rich history as a pilgrimage and a mining ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Munich
Munich ( ; german: München ; bar, Minga ) is the capital and most populous city of the States of Germany, German state of Bavaria. With a population of 1,558,395 inhabitants as of 31 July 2020, it is the List of cities in Germany by population, third-largest city in Germany, after Berlin and Hamburg, and thus the largest which does not constitute its own state, as well as the List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, 11th-largest city in the European Union. The Munich Metropolitan Region, city's metropolitan region is home to 6 million people. Straddling the banks of the River Isar (a tributary of the Danube) north of the Northern Limestone Alps, Bavarian Alps, Munich is the seat of the Bavarian Regierungsbezirk, administrative region of Upper Bavaria, while being the population density, most densely populated municipality in Germany (4,500 people per km2). Munich is the second-largest city in the Bavarian dialects, Bavarian dialect area, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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