Traunstein - Traunstein

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Traunstein
federal stateBavaria
Residents
20.520 (2019)
height
591 m
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Traunstein

Traunstein is located on the Traun and is the center of the Chiemgau. Other towns / districts are: Abstreit, Alterfing, Axdorf, Bach, Baumgarten, Bergwiesen, Buchfelln, Büchling, Daxerau, Einham, Empfing, Eppenstatt, Gamm, Geißing, Gerating, Graben, Guntramshügl, Haslach, Haunstätt, Hochberg, Hochöd, Höfen, Holzleiten, Höpperding, Hütt, Irlach, Kaltenbach, Kammer, Kirchleiten, Kotzing, Kronacker, Langmoos, Leiderting, Lüfteneck, Marberloh, Mayerhofen, Mitterbichl, Neuhausen, Neuling, Oberhaid, Obersöln, Öd in the Pechschneid, Paulöd, Preising, Reichsberg, Rettenbach , Riederting, Roitwalchen, Rutzöd, Schinagl, Schmidham, Schwaig, Schwober, Seiboldsdorf, Siegelberg, Sparz, Tinnerting, Traunstorf, Unterhaid, Untersöln, Wegscheid, Wolkersdorf

background

The year of the first documentary mention is 1245, Traunstein still belongs to Salzburg, but already from 1275 to Bavaria.

In the Middle Ages, the city gained importance due to its location on the Salt trade route and was quite wealthy, but was largely spared from the turmoil of the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648).

The nationalization of the free salt trade in 1587 and the construction of a brine pipeline from Reichenhall to Traunstein and the construction of its own salt works for salt production in the years 1616 to 1619 mitigated the consequences.

Big ones are occupied City fires in the years 1704 (by Hungarian Pandours as a result of the Spanish War of Succession) and that of 1851 without a clear cause, an alleged city fire in 1400 is controversial in science.

The high status of Customs and culture is shown in the local mountain rifle company, the traditional costume association and the community brass band and other cultural associations.

With over 14,000 jobs, Traunstein is also an important commercial location in the region today.

The city is particularly proud as "Hometown" From Pope Benedict XVI .: Joseph Ratzinger spent his youth in Traunstein, went to school here and celebrated his first class in the parish church of St. Oswald.

getting there

Distances
Bad Reichenhall34 km
Berchtesgaden38 km
Burghausen44 km
Salzburg45 km
Rosenheim53 km
Kufstein79 km
Munich111 km
Nuremberg279 km

By plane

The next major international airport is Munich Airport: Munich - Franz Josef Strauss (150 km, approx. One and a half hours by car).

The can also be reached quickly Salzburg Airport (37 km, approx. Half an hour by car);

By train

  • The 1 Traunstein train station is on the Munich – Salzburg railway line and is a stop for InterCity trains
  • Traunstein train station; Bahnhofplatz 5, 83278 Traunstein
  • Südostbayernbahn (DB): info
  • The meridian (Veolia): info Hourly departure to Munich and Salzburg

In the street

By bicycle

mobility

Map of Traunstein
  • the RVO (Regionalverkehr Oberbayern / DB) operates the bus routes in the region;
Regionalverkehr Oberbayern GmbH, Hirtenstrasse 24, D-80335 Munich; Tel .: 089 / 55164-0, Fax: 089 / 55164-199; info;
  • Night express: on the weekend Fri./Sat. and Sat./Sun. Buses connect many places in the district with Traunstein.
Ticket: 4 euros per person, valid for one night for any number of journeys, also on the Traunstein - Ruhpolding and Traunstein - Traunreut railway lines;

Tourist Attractions

Churches

St. Oswald, interior;
  • 1  Parish Church of St. Oswald, Maxplatz 8, 83278 Traunstein. A church of St. Oswald is mentioned for the first time as early as 1342; the current baroque building was built in 1675 - 77 under the Graubünden masters Caspar Zuccalli, Lorenzo Sciasca and Antonio Riva; Parish office: www.st-oswald-traunstein.de;
  • 2  Monastery church, Ludwigstrasse 10. Church of the former Capuchin monastery in Traunstein (dissolved in the secularization in 1805): "Kunstraum Klosterkirche" for concerts and art exhibitions.
  • 3  St. Rupert and Maximilian, Karl-Theodor-Platz 1. built around 1630.
  • 4  St. George and Catherine, Ludwigstrasse 19. former cemetery church.
  • 5  Church of the Resurrection, Crailsheimstrasse 10. ev.-luth. Church, built at the end of the 19th century.
  • 6  St. Vitus and Anna (Ettendorfer Church), Branch church Ettendorf, in Surberg. St. Vitus and Anna in the encyclopedia WikipediaSt. Vitus and Anna in the media directory Wikimedia CommonsSt. Vitus and Anna (Q1526720) in the Wikidata database.
Late Gothic church, the choir was built around the middle of the 15th century (according to the inscription around 1431), the nave and tower were built between 1470 and 1475;
There are three baroque altars inside the church, created by the Traunstein carpenter Johann Wolfgang Dersch.
The chapel in a picturesque location on a meadow hill was a place of pilgrimage in the late Middle Ages (1250 to 1500) and is still the destination of the Traunsteiner Georgi Ritt today.

Buildings

  • town hall
  • Home house
Bahnhofsstrasse: Art Nouveau;
  • JacklturmPart of the fortifications of the city, destroyed in the city fire in 1851, restored in its historical form in 1998.
  • Saline Chapel ("largest chapel in Germany") and Saltworks houses (Completed 1786/87, abandoned in 1912) in the Au;
  • Art Nouveau house: Bahnhofstrasse 16, award-winning design by architects and builders Josef and Sebastian Polz;

Museums

  • 7  Brewery Museum (Hofbräuhaus Traunstein, on the more than 375-year history of the brewery, brewery tours), Hofgasse 5-11, 83278 Traunstein (near town square). Tel.: 49(0)861 98866 42, Fax: 49(0)861 98866 66, Email: . last change: Feb. 2020
  • Printing Museum (at the Traunsteiner Tagblatt; Printing history from Gutenberg to the present day), Marienstraße 12, 83278 Traunstein. Tel.: 49(0)861 9877-0, Fax: 49(0)861 8305. Open: Wednesdays: 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.
  • Cat museum (Over 6000 exhibits for cat lovers: cat figurines, pictures, books, calendars, etc. on the topic), Chiemseestraße 1, 83278 Traunstein. Tel.: 49(0)861 89 83, Fax: 49(0)861 89 83, Email: . Open: Fri., Sat., Sun., from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m.
  • Heimathaus Traunstein (City history collections and toy museum), Stadtplatz 2-3, 83278 Traunstein. Tel.: 49(0)861 164786, Fax: 49(0)861 65294, Email: . Open: Apr. to Oct. and in Advent: Mon-Sat: 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. Sun: 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.Price: Admission adults: 3.- €, children 2.- €.

Streets and squares

  • Town square with Lindlbrunnen from 1526;

Parks

  • city ​​Park

activities

Jacklturm, Georgiritt
  • Traunsteiner Georgi ride, every year on Easter Monday, documented since 1492: Parade with horses, wagons, music bands and historical groups to the Ettendorfer Kircherl. Largest of its kind, in 2009 with almost five hundred horses. Historical sword dance on the town square, revived since 1925;
  • Chiemgau spring music: Chamber music series in June;
www.chiemgauer-musikfruehling.de;
  • “Summer of music between Inn and Salzach: classical music in churches, monasteries, palaces and castles of the Chiemgau, spread over the whole summer;
www.musiksommer.info;
  • Traunstein Summer Concerts: renowned chamber music festival; info;
every year in September in the Kunstraum Klosterkirche (Ludwigstrasse 10, D-83278 Traunstein);
  • Traunsteiner Benediktweg: Walks in the footsteps of the former Pope.

shop

kitchen

nightlife

  • Cafe lounge fortress info Party, concerts, dancing, eating map
  • To the Freiberger info Small dishes, Wochinger beer map

accommodation

  • 1  Park Hotel, 83278 Traunstein, Bahnhofstrasse 11. Tel.: 49(0)861 988820. With a restaurant for regional and down-to-earth dishes.Price: Single room with breakfast around 69 EUR.
  • 2  Sailer Keller (Inn, hotel), 83278 Traunstein, Herzog-Wilhelm-Strasse 1. Tel.: 49(0)861 1 66 67 70. Price: Single room with breakfast around 58 EUR.

Learn

Work

security

health

  • Traunstein Clinic (Academic teaching hospital of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich), Cuno-Niggl-Straße 3, 83278 Traunstein. Tel.: 49(0)861 705 - 0, Fax: 49(0)861 705 - 1650.

The hospital emergency department is located here: map

Practical advice

  • Tourist information Traunstein, Stadtplatz 39, 83278 Traunstein (in the city Hall). Tel.: 49(0)861 9869523, Fax: 49(0)861 9869524. Open: Opening times: Mon - Fri 8 a.m. - 12.30 p.m. 1.30 p.m. - 5 p.m., Sat 10 a.m. - 12 p.m.
  • Traunsteiner Tagblatt. Up-to-date information about Traunstein and Chiemgau.
  • Post Traunstein, Stadtplatz 30, 83278 Traunstein. Tel.: 49(0)1802 3333. Open: Mon - Fri 9 a.m. - 6 p.m., Sat 9 a.m. - 4 p.m.

trips

literature

  • Michael Petzet, Gotthard Kießling, and Dorit Reimann ; Bavaria, State Office for Monument Preservation, Munich (Ed.): Monuments in Bavaria, vol. 1/22: Traunstein district, 2 vol. Munich: Art publisher Josef Fink, 2007, Monuments in Bavaria, ISBN 978-3898703642 ; 1182 pages. List of monuments, approx. 68 €

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