Steinhöring is a community in the
Upper Bavaria
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Geography
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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 ...
.
Geography
Steinhöring lies in the
Munich
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Region. It lies in the south-east of the ''Ebersberger Forst'' (forest) which is one of the largest continuous area of woodlands in
Germany
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.
It includes two traditional rural land units (''Gemarkungen'' in German) named Sankt Christoph and Steinhöring.
Neighbouring communities are
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 ...
,
Hohenlinden
Hohenlinden (meaning "high linden trees"; colloquially: ''Linden''; in the Bavarian dialect: ''Hea-lin'') is a community in the Upper Bavarian district of Ebersberg. The city of Lynden, Washington is named after it, as is Linden, Alabama. Hohe ...
and
Frauenneuharting.
Subdivisions
Steinhöring is divided into many boroughs:
''Sankt Christoph'' and ''Tulling''; ''Abersdorf, Berg, Endorf, Hintsberg, Schützen ''und'' Sensau;'' the hamlets ''Aschau, Au, Dichtlmühle, Dietmering, Elchering, Etzenberg, Graben, Höhenberg, Holzhäusln, Kraiß, Niederaltmannsberg, Oberseifsieden, Ötzmann, Rupertsdorf, Schechen, Sprinzenöd, Unterseifsieden, Wall, Welling, Winkl'' and ''Zaißing'' as well as the housing-groups of ''Blöckl, Buchschechen, Helletsgaden, Hofstett, Hub, Lehen, Lieging, Mayrhof, Meiletskirchen, Neuhardsberg, Oed, Oelmühle, Ranhartsberg, Salzburg, Schätzl, Schweig, Stinau, Thailing, Untermeierhof'' and ''Winkl b. Sankt Christoph.''
History
The community’s first documentary mention was in 824. By the 16th century, Steinhöring boasted a regionally important postal station. It belonged to the ' of Munich and the Court of Swabia of the
Electorate of Bavaria
The Electorate of Bavaria (german: Kurfürstentum Bayern) was an independent hereditary electorate of the Holy Roman Empire from 1623 to 1806, when it was succeeded by the Kingdom of Bavaria.
The Wittelsbach dynasty which ruled the Duchy of Ba ...
and was the seat of a
captaincy
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(Hauptmannschaft).
In 1936, the
Nazi
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racial organization
Lebensborn
Lebensborn e.V. (literally: "Fount of Life") was an SS-initiated, state-supported, registered association in Nazi Germany with the stated goal of increasing the number of children born who met the Nazi standards of "racially pure" and "healt ...
’s first “Mother-Child-Home” (''Mutter-Kind-Heim'') was opened in Steinhöring.
In the course of administrative reforms in Bavaria, the current community came into being with the community edict in 1818. In 1972, the former community of St. Christoph was amalgamated with Steinhöring.
Population development
The community’s land area was home to 2,395 inhabitants in 1970, 3,068 in 1987 and 3,540 in 2000.
Politics
The mayor (''Bürgermeister'') is Martina Lietsch (FLS). The municipal council consists of 16 politicians.
The community’s tax revenue for 2010 was €2,545,000, of which €392,000 was business taxes.
Coat of arms
Steinhöring’s arms might heraldically be described thus: Party per fess, above in argent a half ibex rampant sable, below in azure a horizontal postal horn argent.
Education
In 2010, the following institutions existed in Steinhöring:
*
Kindergarten
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s: 3 Kindergartens with, 1 of them integrates also handicapped children and works on basis of
Montessori
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pedagogics
*
Elementary school
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*School for handicapped children
Korbinianschule Steinhöring
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References
External links
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Ebersberg (district)