Poing is a municipality in the
Upper Bavaria
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Geography
Upper Bavaria is located in the southern portion of Bavaria, and is centered on the city of Munich, both state capital and seat o ...
n district of
Ebersberg
Ebersberg is the seat of the similarly named Ebersberg ''Landkreis'' (district) in the Oberbayern ''Regierungsbezirk'' (administrative region) in Bavaria, southern Germany. The ''Ebersberger Forst'' (forest) is one of Germany’s largest continu ...
, lying east of central
Munich
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.
Geography
Poing is approximately NE of Munich and is serviced by the
Munich S-Bahn
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(S2) and
MVV
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Bus systems. Poing has two
constituent communities named Angelbrechting and Grub. Poing is bordered on the east by
Anzing
Anzing is a municipality in the Upper Bavarian district of Ebersberg.
Geography
Municipal divisions
Constituent communities include Anzing, Auhofen, Boden, Froschkern, Frotzhofen, Garkofen, Hl. Kreuz, Höggerloh, Kaisersberg, Köppelmühle, Li ...
and
Markt Schwaben
Markt Schwaben is a town in Bavaria, Germany. It lies roughly 23 km east of Munich on the northern edge of the Upper Bavarian district of Ebersberg. Neighbouring communities are Anzing, Forstinning, Pliening and Poing, (all in Ebersberg di ...
,
Pliening in the North,
Kirchheim to the West and
Parsdorf
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 Marienplatz.
Geography ...
to the South.
History
It is believed that Poing has been settled for more than 5,000 years. The ending on the community's name suggests a
Celtic
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Language and ethnicity
*pertaining to Celts, a collection of Indo-European peoples in Europe and Anatolia
**Celts (modern)
*Celtic languages
**Proto-Celtic language
* Celtic music
*Celtic nations
Sports Fo ...
origin.
Population development
Over the last few decades, Poing has developed rapidly from a small village into the second biggest community on the S-Bahn line 2 (S2) area (up to
Erding
Erding () is a town in Bavaria, Germany, and capital of the rural district of the same name. It had a population of 36,469 in 2019.
The original Erdinger Weissbier is a well-known Bavarian specialty.
Erding is located around 31 kilometers nor ...
) and into the second biggest community in Ebersberg after
Vaterstetten
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 Marienplatz.
Geography ...
. In 2006, it overtook the once dominant neighboring community of Kirchheim. The sharp rise in population is due to the many new building projects in the northern
area of the city, to which no end is yet foreseen. Therefore, even more development projects are expected.
Source: '' Statistisches Bundesamt Deutschland''
Politics
The political parties currently represented on Poing's municipal council are the
CSU
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* Channel service unit, a Wide area network equivalent of a network interface card
* Chari Aviation Services, Chad, by ICAO airline code
* Christian Social Union (UK), an Anglican social gospel organisation
* Christian Social Un ...
, the
SPD
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Saskia Esken has been t ...
, the
Greens, the
FWG Poing e. V. and the
FDP.
The last mayoral election was held in March 2020. Thomas Stark won the election after the previous mayor, Albert Hingerl (SPD) decided to retire after 20 years in the position.
Coat of arms
Poing's arms might heraldically be described thus: In azure a fess argent upon which a chevron Or below which an eight-pointed star argent.
From the Poing patrician family Prielmair's arms came both the star and the chevron. The shield's color and the silver fess hearken back to the community's former fast link with the
House of Wittelsbach
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.
Culture and sightseeing
![Wildpark Poing - fighting bears](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bf/Wildpark_Poing_-_fighting_bears.jpg)
The ''Wildpark Poing'', opened in 1970 and lies to the east of the community. In some parts of the park, visitors can walk through large outdoor enclosures containing various kinds of free roaming animals, which the public may feed.
Economy and infrastructure
Transport
Poing is serviced by the Munich S-Bahn network (S2) (
Erding
Erding () is a town in Bavaria, Germany, and capital of the rural district of the same name. It had a population of 36,469 in 2019.
The original Erdinger Weissbier is a well-known Bavarian specialty.
Erding is located around 31 kilometers nor ...
-
Petershausen
Petershausen is a municipality in the district of Dachau in Bavaria in Germany.
Geography
Petershausen is located in the valley of the Glonn with extensive floodplains. Much of the area outside of Petershausen is part of a nature preserve.
Histo ...
). There are two
S-Bahn
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stops of the
Munich S-Bahn
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. One in
Poing, the other in
Grub
Grub can refer to Grub (larva), of the beetle superfamily Scarabaeoidea, or as a slang term for food. It can also refer to:
Places
* Grub, Appenzell Ausserrhoden, Switzerland
* Grub, St. Gallen, Switzerland
* Grub (Amerang), a hamlet in Bavaria, ...
.
Highway connections include
Autobahn A 94 (Munich-
Passau
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Passau's popu ...
) from Parsdorf/Poing, and from Hohenlinden
Bundesstraße
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Germany
Germany's ''Bundesstraßen'' network has a total length of about 40,000 km.
German ''Bundesstraßen'' ...
B 12 (towards Passau).
FTO (''Flughafen-Tangente-Ost'', Airport Connector Road - St2580), connects the A 94 with
the airport. It is located east of the community, and opened for traffic on Sep. 9 2009. FTO provides a direct north-south connection from the A94 to the Airport, improving Poing's connections with Erding, Munich and the airport.
Businesses
The biggest business in town is the firm
Canon Production Printing
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. The Poing plant, with roughly 1,500 workers, produces printers. Moreover, the following firms are to be found:
*
Avnet
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EM (Logistics, Silica, Time, Memec, EBV, ALS, Avnet Abacus)
*
BayWa
BayWa AG (until 1972: ''Bayerische Warenvermittlung landwirtschaftlicher Genossenschaften AG'') is an internationally active group headquartered in Munich. Originally founded to support domestic agriculture, the company expanded its activitie ...
(
hardware and garden store)
*
Edeka
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*
Best Secret GmbH / Schustermann & Borenstein GmbH
*Stahlgruber, car replacement parts and accessories, founded in 1923
*
Oehms Classics
Oehms Classics is a German classical music label founded in 2003 by Dieter Oehms (born in Manderscheid, Bernkastel-Wittlich in 1941), a former manager for 35 years with DGG/Polygram and Arte Nova
Arte (; (), sometimes stylized in lowercase ...
*Fellow Consulting AG
See also
*
Poing station
*
Bergfeldsee
References
External links
History/last days of the war in Poing
{{Authority control
Ebersberg (district)