Töging am Inn 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 o ...

of 9,382 inhabitants in the district of Altötting,

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. It lies on the river Inn.

History

Thanks to an artificial water canal, the town is adjacent to a large water power plant, which used to power e.g. an aluminum furnace. Because of many factories in the area, slave workers from the

Dachau concentration camp , , commandant = List of commandants , known for = , location = Upper Bavaria, Southern Germany , built by = Germany , operated by = ''Schutzstaffel'' (SS) , original use = Political prison , construction ...

were located nearby during

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,.Edward Victor.''Alphabetical List of Camps, Subcamps and Other Camps.''www.edwardvictor.com/Holocaust/List %20 of % 20 camps.htm The town hit the news on 7 February 2006, when the roof of the local Netto

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collapsed. Nobody was hurt in the inciden

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* Populated places on the Inn (river) {{Altötting-geo-stub