Eichenau

Eichenau
Eichenau
Municipality
	Town hall
	Coat of arms
	Location of Eichenau within Fürstenfeldbruck district
	Eichenau Eichenau
	Coordinates: 48°10′N 11°19′E / 48.167°N 11.317°E
Country	Germany
State	Bavaria
Admin. region	Oberbayern
District	Fürstenfeldbruck
Government
• Mayor (2016–22)	Peter Münster (FDP)
Area
• Total	6.98 km2 (2.69 sq mi)
Elevation	522 m (1,713 ft)
Population (2022-12-31)
• Total	11,867
• Density	1,700/km2 (4,400/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes	82223
Dialling codes	08141
Vehicle registration	FFB
Website	www.eichenau.de

Eichenau is a municipality in Fürstenfeldbruck, Bavaria, Germany. It is 20 km west of Munich (centre).

Eichenau was named in 1907 as a separate settlement from the community of Alling. It is at the railway station on the line Munich to Lindau. Josef Nibler district commissioner planned the community since 1916. He founded the Baugenossenschaft Eichenau and with 60 hectares of land for housing after the First World War. Most people living in Eichenau commute to Munich. The town now has a large sports centre with outdoor beach volleyball courts and tennis courts.

Twin towns

Budrio, Italy, since 1990.
Vyshhorod, Ukraine, since 1994.

Satellite Images

http://www.wikimapia.org/#lat=48.&lon=11.&z=14&l=5&m=a&v=2

Famous people

George Bouzianis (1885–1959), Greek painter
Georg Spillner (1908–1998), clown Nuk
Claus Biederstaedt (born 1928), German actor
Herbert Riehl-Heyse (1940–2003), German journalist und author
Alma Hagenbucher (born 1922), German businesswoman
Hejo Busley (born 1930), German historian
Claus Jürgen Diederichs (born 1941), German engineer
Josef Dering (1910–1999], German artist
Josefine Frühschütz ( unbek.–1998), midwife
Helmut Gneuss, (born 1927), German anglicist
Roland Helmer (born 1940), German painter
Widukind Lenz (1919–1995), German scientist
Zoltán Jókay (born 1960) Fotokünstler
Martin Kälberer (born 1968), German musician
Heiner Link (1960–2002), German writer.
Georg Metzger (born 1946), German footballer
Josef Nibler ( 1912 – unbek.), German civil servant, founder of Eichenau
Alfons Reckermann (born 1947), German philosopher
Ingrid Redlich-Pfund (born 1947) German painter
Franz Leonhardt Schadt (1910–2009), Germanpuppet player
Helmut Rehder (born 1927), German biologist und philosopher
Inge Seeliger (born 1930), German potter
Werner Stückmann (born 1926), German singer
Uta Titze-Stecher (born 1942), German politician MdB
Georg Maximilian Trenz (born 1962) German artist
Bennsi (born 2005), der unsichtbare
Passiwildie (born 2005), der vom Glück verlassene

Literature

Hejo Busley, Angelika Schuster-Fox, Michael Gumtau (Hrsg.): Geschichte im Schatten einer Großstadt. Eichenau 1907–2007. Herbert Utz Verlag, München 2007, ISBN 3-8316-0717-6 (ISBN ) bzw. ISBN 978-3-8316-0717-4 (ISBN )
Landratsamt Fürstenfeldbruck: Der Landkreis Fürstenfeldbruck – Natur, Geschichte, Kultur, Fürstenfeldbruck 1992

References

Other websites

http://eichenau.de official webpage
http://www.myheimat.de/fuerstenfeldbruck/beitrag/26518/rundgang-durch-eichenau-in-30-schritten-und-ein-video-versuch/ Archived 2008-05-26 at the Wayback Machine virtual tour of the town
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