Neumarkt-Sankt Veit (until 1934 Neumarkt an der Rott) is a

town A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world. Origin and use The word "town" shares an ori ...

in the district of Mühldorf, in

Bavaria Bavaria ( ; ), officially the Free State of Bavaria (german: Freistaat Bayern, link=no ), is a state in the south-east of Germany. With an area of , Bavaria is the largest German state by land area, comprising roughly a fifth of the total lan ...

Germany Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated betwe ...

. It is located on the river Rott, 10 kilometers north of

Mühldorf Mühldorf am Inn (Central Bavarian: ''Muihdorf am Inn'') is a town in Bavaria, Germany, and the capital of the district Mühldorf on the river Inn. It is located at , and had a population of about 17,808 in 2005. History During the Middle Ages, ...

, and 33 kilometers southeast of

Landshut Landshut (; bar, Landshuad) is a town in Bavaria in the south-east of Germany. Situated on the banks of the River Isar, Landshut is the capital of Lower Bavaria, one of the seven administrative regions of the Free State of Bavaria. It is also t ...

Mayor

Since 2002 Erwin Baumgartner (UWG) is the mayor, he was reelected in 2008, 2014 and 2020.

Twin towns

Neumarkt-Sankt Veit is twinned with: *

Caneva Caneva is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Pordenone in the Italian region Friuli-Venezia Giulia, located about northwest of Trieste and about west of Pordenone. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 6,374 and an area o ...

, Italy, since 2002

Sons and daughters of the town

August Hauner August Hauner (29 October 1811 – 11 June 1884) was a German pediatrician and founder of the ''Dr. von Haunerschen Kinderspitals'' (Hauner Children's Hospital) in Munich, which today is part of the University of Munich hospital complex.Dr. v ...

(1811-1884), pediatrician and university lecturer, founder of the Hauner Children Hospital in Munich *

Franz Ackermann Franz Ackermann (born 1963 in Neumarkt-Sankt Veit, Bavaria) is a German painter and installation artist based in Berlin. He makes cartoonish abstraction. Life He attended the Akademie der Bildenden Kunste in Munich from 1984 to 1988 and the Ho ...

(born 1963), artist

References

External links

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Verwaltungsgemeinschaft Neumarkt-Sankt Veit
Mühldorf (district) {{Mühldorfdistrict-geo-stub