Grafing bei München (officially: Grafing b.München) is a

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in the district of Ebersberg,

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Geography

Grafing is in the

Munich Munich is the capital and most populous city of Bavaria, Germany. As of 30 November 2024, its population was 1,604,384, making it the third-largest city in Germany after Berlin and Hamburg. Munich is the largest city in Germany that is no ...

Region, about southeast of the state capital, where the Urtelbach and Wieshamer Bach both empty into the

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River. The distance is roughly the same to

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and

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. Nearby municipalities are the district capital

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about to the north,

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and

Kirchseeon Kirchseeon is a market town in the Upper Bavarian district of Ebersberg and lies 15 km east of Munich city limits. The nearest communities are Grafing and Ebersberg. The Bavarian capital, Munich, can be reached by S-Bahn (line S4), which run ...

. The town has the following traditional rural land units (''Gemarkungen'' in German): Elkofen, Grafing b.München, Nettelkofen, Oexing and Straußdorf.

Grafing station Grafing station (, rather than ''Bahnhof Grafing'', because it serves the town but is not located in it) is a station in the Bavarian town of Grafing and a station of the Munich S-Bahn. There is also the S-Bahn station of ''Grafing Stadt'' ("Gra ...

, which is to the west of the town, has access to the

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network, as well as to

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and

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trains of the national

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railway company on the Munich–Salzburg railway line opened in 1870. Here the '' Filzenexpress'' line branches off to Wasserburg, served by

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trains. There is also a station called ''Grafing Stadt'' in the town, which is served by the S-Bahn.

History

The town, founded about 960 as ''Gisling'', belonged to the Munich ' and the Swabian legal district in the

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. During the

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, Grafing was looted and set on fire by

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troops in 1632. Only the castle Elkofen, so the legend, was overlooked by Swedish troops. Burg Elkofen-9

In the course of administrative reform in the Bavarian kingdom, the Grafing municipality was established by the royal 1818 community edict. The neighbouring village of Oexing was incorporated into Grafing on 1 August 1933, after the two settlements had grown together over the decades. Several polls were held, until the citizens chose to assume the name Grafing. All that nowadays remains to recall the former two localities are the two parish churches, one in Grafing proper and the other one in former Oexing and the local ice hockey team, Oexing Killers. Grafing moreover was home to a market court with far-reaching judicial autonomy. In 1953 the united municipality received

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, and with regional reform in 1978, the former communities of Elkofen, Nettelkofen and Straußdorf were merged into it.

Population

*1950: 6763 *1970: 9426 (+39.4%) *1987: 11039 (+17.1%) *2003: 12395 (+12.3%) *2004: 12493 (+0.8%) *2006: 12543 (+0.4%) *2009: 12761 (+1.7%) *2012: 12935 (+1.4%) *2014: 13368 (+3.3%) *2018: 13800 (+3.2%)

Politics

Since 2020 the mayor (''Bürgermeister'') is Christian Bauer (

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). Town council seats are apportioned thus: *

(9) * Greens (7) *

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(3) *

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(2) *

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(1) * FDP (1) * The Left (1) In 1999, the town's tax revenue, converted to euros, was €7,703,000, of which €1,654,000 was business taxes.

Coat of arms

Grafing's arms might heraldically be described thus: In Or a bear rampant sable armed and langued sable. The local lore has it that Emperor

Ludwig the Bavarian Louis IV (; 1 April 1282 – 11 October 1347), called the Bavarian (, ), was King of the Romans from 1314, King of Italy from 1327, and Holy Roman Emperor from 1328 until his death in 1347. Louis' election as king of Germany in 1314 was cont ...

granted the town these arms in 1325. The Grafingers had taken part in the great battle near Ampfing-Mühldorf between Kaiser Ludwig and Duke Friedrich the Handsome of Austria in 1322 with that little flag at the Emperor's side, and fought in this battle, it is said, “like bears”.

Education

Schools

*Grundschule Grafing (

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) *Georg-Huber-

Hauptschule A ''Hauptschule'' (, "general school") is a secondary school in Germany, starting after four years of elementary schooling (''Grundschule''), which offers Lower Secondary Education (Level 2) according to the International Standard Classification ...

* Gymnasium Grafing *Johann-Comenius-Schule (special pedagogical continuing education centre) *Gymnasium im Collegium Augustinum

Other educational institutions

Volkshochschule Folk high schools (also ''adult education center'') are institutions for adult education that generally do not grant academic degrees, though certain courses might exist leading to that goal. They are most commonly found in Nordic countries and ...

Grafing * Musikschule *Kreisbildungswerk (“District Education Works”) * Evangelisches Bildungswerk

Sightseeing

*Rathaus (town hall) *Pfarrkirche St. Ägidius (parish church) *Marktkirche (church) *Leonhardikirche (church) *Wildbräugebäude (building) *Schloss Elkofen (castle) *Mariensäule (column) *Heimatmuseum im Rieperdinger-Haus (“Homeland Museum”)

Sport clubs

The best known Grafing sport club beyond the region is EHC Klostersee. It is named after the Klostersee (lake) lying in the neighbouring town of

where the first

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games were held in the 1950s. Early on the club moved to Grafing, although it kept its name. Games are nowadays played in a purpose built arena with a first class Italian Restaurant which overlooks the playing area The club's claim to fame is that it is the first men's hockey team to play in the Federation-wide ''Oberliga'' (Third League). The club has also won national titles in

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and shorttrack speed skating events. Local shorttracker Susanne Rudolph also competed in the Olympic Winter Games in Turin. The sport club with the most members of any in town is TSV Grafing von 1864. As well as the

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division with two men's, one women's and numerous youth teams, there are also many smaller divisions within the club. Especially successful among these are the men's

volleyball Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules. It has been a part of the official program of the Summ ...

team, which currently plays in the Second ''Bundesliga'' South, and the women's

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team, which has met with success in the Bavarian League.

Pictures

Twin towns

Grafing is twinned with: *

Saint-Marcellin, Isère Saint-Marcellin () is a commune in the Isère department, in southeastern France, 51 km from Grenoble. The town is served by a railway station, on the line from Valence to Grenoble. Population Twin towns Saint-Marcellin is twinned w ...

, France, since 1993

Notable people

* Max Joseph Wagenbauer (1775-1829), landscape and animal painter / lithographer, royal court painter and gallery inspector * Josef Schuster (1906-1996), German weightlifter

References

External links

The town’s website

Information from the travel club

Town of Grafing Museum
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