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| Eching am Ammersee | ||
| federal state | Bavaria | |
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| Residents | 1.729 (2019) | |
| height | 602 m | |
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Eching am Ammersee is at the north end of the Ammersee in Upper Bavaria. The community is popular destination for the near Munich.
background
Because of the local ending -ing, Eching is considered a Bavarian foundation in the early Middle Ages. The first documentary mention as Ehingun is the year 1065, the place then belonged to the domain of the barons of Perfall from the nearby Greifenberg for a long time and was a farming and fishing village in the Middle Ages.
The politically independent municipality of Eching was created in the course of the Bavarian administrative reforms in 1818 and is now a member of the administrative community Schondorf.
Another district of Eching am Ammersee is Gießübl.
getting there
| Distances (road km) | |
| Herrsching | 16 km |
|---|---|
| Landsberg | 20 km |
| Starnberg | 28 km |
| Munich | 41 km |
| augsburg | 55 km |
| Garmisch | 110 km |
By plane
The nearest commercial airport is the Munich Airport
(IATA: MUC), also “Franz Josef Strauss”, 66 km, approx. 45 minutes by car).
By train
The nearest train station is in Schondorf (approx. 4 km) at the Ammerseebahn from augsburg to Weilheim; In Augsburg, the trains are connected to the ICE network of Deutsche Bahn.
The next stations of the Munich S-Bahn network are in Türkenfeld and Grafrath, line S4, distance from Eching each approx. 10 km.
- Info for the Munich S-Bahn and bus routes, see MVV.
In the street
- Via the Autobahn
(Munich - Lindau):- Coming from the east (Munich):
Ammersee Ost (Inning), and further about one kilometer to Eching; - Coming from the west (Lindau): Ammersee West (Greifenberg / Schondorf), and further about one kilometer to Eching;
- Coming from the east (Munich):
- The motorway passes Eching immediately to the south, but disappears here in a tunnel.
mobility
- The Landsberger Verkehrsgemeinschaft operates the bus routes in the Landsberg am Lech district on behalf of the District Office LVG; Eching is served several times a day by lines 40, 41 and 913.
- The next dock for that Ammerseeschifffahrt is located in nearby Stegen, a district of Inning am Ammersee, and can be reached on foot in around 20 minutes from Eching.
- Other moorings for the passenger ships are (clockwise around the lake) Buch, Breitbrunn, Herrsching, Dießen, Riederau, Holzhausen, Utting and Schondorf.
- Northern tour Stegen - Herrsching and back: Duration approx. 2 hours, one-time break in the journey is permitted.
- Operating time from around the beginning of April to the end of October.
Tourist Attractions
- Catholic parish church 1 St. Peter and Paul
: The church dates from 1766 and was built and designed by the most important Munich artists at the time: The church building was built by the court mason Leonhard Mathäus Gießl (born in Vienna), who is considered the last great rococo master builder in Upper Bavaria. Particularly worth seeing inside the church are the frescoes by court painter Christian Wink and the high altar from the end of the Rococo. The late Gothic west tower is from the previous building from the end of the 15th century. The church of St. Peter and Paul is rated as one of the most beautiful architectural monuments in the Ammersee region.
- Plague chapel (Chapel St. Sebastian), built in 1651. The stucco in the chapel comes from Franz Xaver Schmuzer from the Wessobrunn stucco school.
- The tufa wayside shrine with lantern ("epidemic column") on the chapel probably dates from 1548.
- Location: at the entrance to the village at the Windach Bridge.
- Further information to the Echingen churches at the parish: www.pfarrgemeinde-eching.de;
activities
- Recreation area Eching am Ammersee: Kiosk, extensive lawns, boat moorings, children's playgrounds, cafeteria, toilets, showers, nudist area, windsurfing school, water watch station and of course parking spaces. Admission is free.
- Because of the flat bank zone, Eching is a very popular practice area for surfing beginners.
- Location: directly on the B 12 Munich - Landsberg.
- hikes in the nature reserve directly adjacent to Eching Ampermoos.
shop
kitchen
- Gasthof Eberhardt (Guest room, home cooking), Stegener Strasse 8, 82279 Eching. Tel.: 49 8143 1337, Fax: 49 8143 95046.
- Country inn Roming (Bavarian home-style cuisine), Ringstrasse 18, 82279 Eching, Germany. Tel.: 49 8143 1449.
- Lakeside restaurant, Kaagangerstr., 82279 Eching. Tel.: 49 8143 992057.
nightlife
accommodation
health
General practitioners are represented in Eching.
| Brief information | |
| Phone code | 08143 |
|---|---|
| Post Code | 82279 |
| Mark | LL |
| Time zone | UTC 1 |
| Emergency call | 112 / 110 |
Practical advice
trips
literature
Web links
- http://www.eching.info - Official website of Eching am Ammersee
- Art on the Ammersee, a presentation by artists on the Ammersee: www.kunst-am-ammersee.de;
- Ammersee-Lech tourist office www.ammerseelech.de;
- court House Landsberg am Lech: www.lra-ll.de;
- Starnberg Five-Lakes Tourist Association: www.sta5.de;
- Tourism Association Upper Bavaria: www.oberbayern-tourismus.de (supraregional);
