Puchheim (

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: ''Buachham'') is a

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near

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in the district of

Fürstenfeldbruck Fürstenfeldbruck () is a town in Bavaria, Germany, located 32 kilometres west of Munich. It is the capital of the district of Fürstenfeldbruck. it has a population of 35,494. Since the 1930s, Fürstenfeldbruck has had an air force base. Th ...

, in

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. It has about 20,000 inhabitants. Puchheim is divided into two parts: the old and rural part called Puchheim-Ort and the new part of Puchheim (Puchheim-Bahnhof) that was founded when the

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was built. Before that there was one of the first civil airfields in Bavaria, which was later used as a prisoner of war camp during

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. The area around the camp was dried up by workers from the

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, so that houses could be built. The old part of Puchheim is even older than Munich.

Transport

Puchheim is well connected to the regional and national traffic network by

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( S4) and

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( A 8, A 99).

Twin towns – sister cities

Puchheim is twinned with: *

Attnang-Puchheim Attnang-Puchheim is a town in Austria, located in the Vöcklabruck district, lying between the cities Vöcklabruck and Schwanenstadt. Its partner city is the city of Puchheim in Bavaria, Germany. Geography Attnang-Puchheim is centered in the ' ...

, Austria *

Nagykanizsa Nagykanizsa (; hr, Velika Kaniža/Velika Kanjiža, or just ''Kaniža/Kanjiža''; german: Großkirchen, Groß-Kanizsa; it, Canissa; sl, Velika Kaniža; tr, Kanije), known colloquially as Kanizsa, is a medium-sized city in Zala County in southw ...

, Hungary *

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, Finland *

Zalakaros Zalakaros is a town in Zala County, Hungary. Zalakaros is famous for its thermal bath, thermal spring baths. It gained its fame in 1967, when prospective oil drilling struck a nearly 96 °C (205 °F) source at a depth of 1000 metres. ...

, Hungary

References

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