Herrsching am Ammersee

Herrsching a.Ammersee
Herrsching a.Ammersee
	Aerial view
	Coat of arms
	Location of Herrsching a.Ammersee within Starnberg district
	Herrsching a.Ammersee Herrsching a.Ammersee
	Coordinates: 48°00′N 11°11′E
Country	Germany
State	Bavaria
Admin. region	Oberbayern
District	Starnberg
Subdivisions	3 Ortsteile
Government
• Mayor	Christian Schiller (Ind.)
Area
• Total	20.88 km2 (8.06 sq mi)
Elevation	568 m (1,864 ft)
Population (2018-12-31)[1]
• Total	10,702
• Density	510/km2 (1,300/sq mi)
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes	82211
Dialling codes	08152
Vehicle registration	STA, WOR
Website	www.herrsching.de

Herrsching am Ammersee is a municipality in Upper Bavaria, Germany, on the east shore of the Ammersee, southwest of Munich. The population is around 8,000 in winter, increasing to 13,000 in summer.

Situated at one terminus of the Munich S-Bahn line , the village is popular with travellers for its water-sports and as the starting point of trips to the Benedictine Andechs Abbey. Herrsching is also a stop for touring steamships of the Bavarian Seenschiffahrt or lake fleet.

Prior to WW-II Herrsching was home to the "Reichsfinanzschule Hersching" (finance school). In 1945-1946 the school was converted into a POW hospital and rehab facility for soldiers who had lost limbs.

Main sights

Notable sights include

the lake-front promenade (at about 5 km, the longest one in Germany)
Kurparkschlössl (Little castle), built in 1888 by the artist Ludwig Scheuermann
Historic paddle-wheel steamships Herrsching and Diessen docking at the harbour in summer
St. Martin's church
Zur Post Gasthof from 1567[2]
Archaeological Park, a 7th-century settlement of the Bavarians.

Personality

Rainer Rene Graf Adelmann von Adelmannsfelden (born 1948), former lawyer
Arno Assmann (1908–1979), actor
Martin Benrath (1926–2000), actor
Helene Böhlau (1856–1940), writer, buried in Widdersberg
David Coverdale (born 1951), singer of the band Deep Purple 1973-1976
Roderich Fick, (1886–1955), architect, lived and worked in the "Old Mill", Mühlfeld from 1920 to 1955
Camilla Horn (1903–1996), actress
Clemens Kuby (born 1947), documentary filmmaker and author
Christian Morgenstern (1871–1914), poet: his widow Margareta lived from 1919 until her death in 1968 in Breitbrunn.
Alfred Ploetz (1860–1940), physician
Rudi Schuricke (1913–1973), singer, actor, lived from 1955 to 1973 in Herrsching, owner of the former Hotel Seespitz
Klaus Wennemann (1940–2000), actor
Harald Winter (born 1953), artist

References

"Fortschreibung des Bevölkerungsstandes". Bayerisches Landesamt für Statistik und Datenverarbeitung (in German). July 2019.
"Hotel Gasthof zur Post". Hotel Gasthof zur Post. Retrieved 20 May 2018.

External links

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[1] "Fortschreibung des Bevölkerungsstandes". Bayerisches Landesamt für Statistik und Datenverarbeitung (in German). July 2019.

[2] "Hotel Gasthof zur Post". Hotel Gasthof zur Post. Retrieved 20 May 2018.