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 the Marienplatz.

Geography

Location

Vaterstetten borders in the north on the community of Poing, in the northeast on the community of Anzing, in the east on the unincorporated area of the Ebersberg Forest (Ebersberger Forst), in the southeast on the community of Zorneding (all in Ebersberg district), in the southwest on the community of Grasbrunn, and in the west on the communities of Haar and Feldkirchen (all three in Munich district.

Constituent communities

The community consists of the constituent centres of Baldham, Hergolding, Neufarn, Parsdorf, Purfing, Vaterstetten and Weißenfeld.

History

Vaterstetten was founded by the Old Bavarii Fater family.

It was here in the summer of 1800 that the Parsdorf Ceasefire was signed by Major General Franz Joseph von Dietrichstein and General Jean Victor Moreau, which later came to an end with the Battle of Hohenlinden.

The current community of Vaterstetten came into being with municipal reform in 1978. The old community included all the same current centres as are now found in Vaterstetten, but it was named Parsdorf. On 1 May 1978, the community’s name was changed to Vaterstetten, by which time the community’s main centre had long been the one of that same name, along with Baldham.

Economy

Transport

Vaterstetten is part of the Munich Transport and Fare Association (Münchner Verkehrs- und Tarifverbund, or MVV). The Munich S-Bahn’s line S4 runs through the community serving the Vaterstetten and Baldham stations.

Two buslines of the Vaterstettener Innerörtlicher Personennahverkehr (Vaterstetten Local Passenger Transport, or VIP) run regularly in the local area.

The name Vaterstetten is well known to many motorists for its Autobahn roadhouse, which lies on the A99. The Autobahn itself runs by the community about a kilometre away. Through the community’s south end runs the Wasserburger Landstraße (highway), one of Munich’s main arterial roads.

Educational institutions

Within the community stand four elementary schools, a Hauptschule, a Realschule and a Gymnasium, as well as a folk high school and a music school.

Town partnerships

• since 1982 with Allauch (France)
• since 1994 with Alem Katema (Ethiopia)

Regular events

• Street Festival in June
• Töpfermarkt in the Freizeitpark, always in mid-October
• Volksfest (Folk Festival)
• Sonnwendfeuer (Solstice Festival)
• AFRICA! Festival, every other year, to be held next in 2009

Community development

Population development

Year	- Inhabitants
1867	175
1910	1,407
1925	1,565
1939	1,837
1945	1,300
1961	5,420
1987	17,843
2002	21,113
2006	21,401

(1910, 1925, 1939, 1961, 1987: census results)

External links

• Community’s official website
• Partnership with Alem Katema

References