Poing is a municipality in the

Upper Bavaria Upper Bavaria (german: Oberbayern, ; ) is one of the seven administrative districts of Bavaria, Germany. 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, lying east of central

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Geography

Poing is approximately NE of Munich and is serviced by the

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(S2) and MVV 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, 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 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, the

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, 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.

Culture and sightseeing

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) (

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). There are two

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stops of the

. 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 Bavar ...

. Highway connections include Autobahn A 94 (Munich- Passau) from Parsdorf/Poing, and from Hohenlinden

Bundesstraße ''Bundesstraße'' (German for "federal highway"), abbreviated ''B'', is the denotation for German and Austrian national highways. 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 Canon Production Printing, formerly known as Océ until the end of 2019, is a Netherlands-based subset of Canon that develops, manufactures and sells printing and copying hardware and related software. The product line includes office printing and ...

. The Poing plant, with roughly 1,500 workers, produces printers. Moreover, the following firms are to be found: *

Avnet Avnet, Inc. is a distributor of electronic components headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona, named after Charles Avnet, who founded the company in 1921. After its start on Manhattan's Radio Row, the company became incorporated in 1955 and began tr ...

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 The Edeka Group is the largest German supermarket corporation , holding a market share of 20.3%. Founded in 1907, it consists today of several co-operatives of independent supermarkets all operating under the umbrella organisation ''Edeka Zentr ...

* 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 PolyGram N.V. was a multinational entertainment company and ...

*Fellow Consulting AG

References

External links

History/last days of the war in Poing
{{Authority control Ebersberg (district)