Tutzing

Coordinates: 47°54′32″N 11°16′53″E / 47.90889°N 11.28139°E / 47.90889; 11.28139
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Tutzing
Tutzing
Tutzing
Coat of arms of Tutzing
Location of Tutzing within Starnberg district
AmmerseeLake StarnbergBad Tölz-WolfratshausenFürstenfeldbruck (district)Landsberg (district)Munich (district)Weilheim-SchongauMunichAndechsBergFeldafingGautingGilchingHerrsching am AmmerseeInning am AmmerseeKraillingPöckingSeefeldStarnbergTutzingWeßlingWörthsee
Oberbayern
DistrictStarnberg
Government
 • Mayor (2018–24) Marlene Greinwald[1] (FW)
Area
 • Total35.63 km2 (13.76 sq mi)
Elevation
611 m (2,005 ft)
Population
 (2022-12-31)[2]
 • Total10,106
 • Density280/km2 (730/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes
82327
Dialling codes08158
Vehicle registrationSTA
Websitewww.tutzing.de

Tutzing is a

Starnberger See. Just 40 km south-west of Munich
and with good views of the Alps, the town was traditionally a favourite holiday spot for those living in the city.

In 1873

. A small lakeside park is dedicated to him, and a plaque stands near the large house where he lived and worked.

The town of 10,000 is home to many commuters to Munich, as well as to retirees. Tutzing station is both a terminus of Munich's S-Bahn rail network and a regional train hub serving Innsbruck, Mittenwald, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Reutte, Kochel and Oberammergau.

Tutzing has a regional hospital and various clinics. It hosts the conference centre Evangelische Akademie Tutzing, founded in 1947.

Tutzing has been home to various German celebrities, including the former president of the Federal Constitutional Court Hans-Jürgen Papier, musicians Peter Maffay, Leslie Mándoki, and Elly Ney, the late Guido Dessauer, and the military general and theorist Erich Ludendorff, who died and is buried in the town.

During the Nazi period, Trutskirch-Tutzing (Dornier), a forced-labour factory for the Dornier-Werke GmbH aircraft concern, was a sub-camp of Dachau Concentration Camp.[3] The town was also a stop on the "trail of tears" of inmates forcibly marched south in 1945; a plaque at the town hall commemorates them.

Personalities related to Tutzing

Georg Ebers
Erich Ludendorff

References

  1. Bayerisches Landesamt für Statistik
    , accessed 19 July 2021.
  2. ^ Genesis Online-Datenbank des Bayerischen Landesamtes für Statistik Tabelle 12411-003r Fortschreibung des Bevölkerungsstandes: Gemeinden, Stichtag (Einwohnerzahlen auf Grundlage des Zensus 2011) (Hilfe dazu).
  3. ^ "Full Listing of Concentration Camps".
  4. ^ "Thailand's king should not reign from German soil, Berlin says". Deutsche Welle. Archived from the original on October 19, 2020. Since 2007, the Thai king has spent long periods of time in Bavaria in southern Germany. He owns a villa in the lakeside town of Tutzing, but recently also sojourned at the Sonnenbichl Hotel in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. The king's 15-year-old son even goes to school in Bavaria.

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