Glonn
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Glonn is a market town
in the Ebersberg district
in Upper Bavaria
, Germany
, about 30 km (18.6 mi) southeast of Munich
.
glacier
. To the south, the Alps
are clearly visible on the horizon.
The rivers Glonn
, Kupferbach and Schrannenbach rise within Glonn's municipal area, where the lake Kastensee is also to be found. Just inside the neighbouring community of Moosach
lies the Steinsee, another lake. Glonn is also home to three protected areas.
, Bruck
, Egmating
, Moosach and Oberpframmern
, which together with Glonn form an administrative community (Verwaltungsgemeinschaft).
The town of Grafing
and the centres of Kirchseeon
, Zorneding
and Höhenkirchen-Siegertsbrunn
are about 15 km away. Nevertheless it is there that regional and long-distance rail service is to be found.
Glonn lies roughly 30 km from the cities of Munich and Rosenheim
.
description of the local river Glana – "Clear".
In a donation document signed by the bishop of Freising
on 21 March 774, Glonn is named as "Glan"; this is taken to be the earliest evidence of the town's founding. From about 1015, it is known that there was a local lordly family called "da Glana", and in 1349, the building register Monumenta Boica mentioned the Church of St. Johann zu Glan.
The name changed during the 16th century to "Glon" and then later to "Glonn", as it is still known now.
In 1632, during the Thirty Years' War
, the Swedes
burnt Glonn almost down to the ground. It took a very long time for the town to build itself back up again. Only in 1823, almost two centuries after the fire, was the new church finished and consecrated.
Since 1901, Glonn has had market rights and has had leave to hold yearly markets. Since 1908 there has been electricity
, generated at the town's own power station by water power
in some of the former mills. By 1914, 50% of Glonn's households were supplied.
Glonn shifted from a mainly agrarian village with little in the way of crafts to a modern minor centre with trade and crafts for the other nearby communities. Agriculture
has sharply shrunk in importance.
After World War II
Glonn was a refugee destination for those driven out of their homelands, those whose homes were bombed out and those who had been evacuated, and this new inflow of people eventually grew to become more than a third of the town's population. Many new houses had to be built, and in 1959 it became necessary to name the streets once the house numbering system in use up to the time was no longer useful for distinguishing addresses.
parish church (St. Johannes Baptist) and an Evangelical
church (Christuskirche, modern, built 1968), each a centre of a corresponding parish.
John the Baptist
as church patron points to an early Christian baptismal church. Already by 1600 there was a Gothic
church in the middle of the village. The current parish church's sacristy is a remnant of this earlier house of worship.
On town council, the SPD/KOMMA has 10 seats, including the mayor (Bürgermeister), and the CSU has 7 (as at July 2004).
The waterwheel and the trout
refer to the area’s wealth in water and the seven former cornmills that were so important to the local economy.
With the French
village of Bonnefamille
, contact was established in 1998 and led to alternating visits of clubs and delegations.
At the beginning of 2007, an intra-Bavarian partnership with the community of Markt Schwaben
in the same district was established. The goal of this unusual pairing is to be the dovetailing of regions in the northern and southern parts of the district that are otherwise split by the Ebersberg Forest.
.
Until the mid-1990s, this apparatus was still generating electricity and feeding it into the local grid. Since then, however, it has fallen into disuse, but may be viewed on request to the owner who lives at the mill.
lying on the town’s eastern outskirts on a prominent knoll on its namesake mountain, the Zinneberg, can nowadays only just be made out through the thick woods that have grown there. Its history most likely stretches back to the 11th century, although its origins are quite uncertain. Only in 1332, in a donation document to the noble family of Preysing, was the placename “Zinnenberg” reliably mentioned. As time passed, the castle found itself owned by several noble families who were influential in Bavaria.
In 1350, Otto von Pienzenau became by marriage Lord of Zinneberg. The castle’s ownership then passed in 1596, once again by marriage, to the Fugger family, in whose hands it remained for the next 230 years. In 1632, during the Thirty Years' War, Schloss Zinneberg was burnt down. At this time arose the legend that a secret passage, allegedly still existing today, between the castle and the town afforded some of the castle’s inhabitants an escape to safety. Already by 1640, Count Johannes Friedrich, himself a Fugger, had the castle rebuilt. In 1825, the castle was bought by Bavarian Electress Maria Leopoldine, who was married to Count Ludwig of Arco. She had it remodelled to her own tastes, and the castle is still mostly in this form today. From 1850 to 1868, the castle was owned by the Marquis Fabio von Pallavicini
, who in turn sold it to Friedrich Wilhelm Scanzoni von Lichtenfels. In 1898, Baron Adolf von Büsing
-Orville
became the new lord of the castle. He was responsible for further expansions to the building, which still lend the castle a feudal character today.
Some of the town’s street names recall these noble families (“Preysingstr.”, “Pienzenauer Str.”, “Fuggerstr.”, “Arcostr.”, “von-Scanzoni-Str.”, “Büssingstr.”).
On 14 September 1927 the castle was bought for 735,000 Reichsmarks by the Sisters of the Good Shepherd (Schwestern vom guten Hirten), who run it today as a residential school for girls from difficult social backgrounds. They also run a kindergarten there.
During the First World War, part of the castle was used as a military hospital with 60 beds. After the Second World War broke out, the training building was confiscated as a reserve Wehrmacht
field hospital. In the Cold War
, underground bunkers were built whose foreseen use was as a stationary auxiliary hospital.
After the old church was destroyed in the Thirty Years’ War, a new church was begun about 1768, but finished and consecrated only in 1823. It is built in the Rococo
style and contains altar figures and a crucifix with Schmerzhafte Muttergottes (“Mater Dolorosa”) by the artist Joseph Götsch (a student of Ignaz Günther
). In 1994 the church was completely renovated.
.
In the Third Reich, however, they were expelled from the school on 25 March 1937. This led to fierce protests by the girls’ parents and in the end drew the Gestapo
’s attention when somebody put what is known locally as a Pfingstlümmel (a straw “Whitsun
doll”) on the neighbouring boys’ school roof on Whitsunday. It was wearing a brown shirt such as was commonly worn by SA
men, and also a Communist cap.
The nuns were able to start classes again after the war ended. As of 1964, there were mixed classes.
In the mid-1970s, the town acquired the convent and school building that had since been forsaken. Sometime later it was converted into a cultural and social centre for the community. The Homeland Museum mentioned above was given a home on the top floor. The “Altenstube” on the ground floor affords senior citizens a social venue. Also found in the building are the local chapter of the Bavarian Red Cross and a daycare centre. In the basement, a youth centre has been set up. For a time, the old classrooms were even once again used as such when the neighbouring elementary school needed overflow room to handle great numbers of pupils who were threatening to burst the school’s seams.
The old chapel with its sacristy and siderooms in the west part of the building is now used as an exhibition gallery. One can also rent the room for events. The community offers it as an attractive alternative to the registry office for civil marriage
ceremonies.
The neighbouring convent garden with its fountain is open to the public and serves as an oasis in the middle of the town.
In the Schrottgalerie Friedel (“Friedel Scrap Metal Gallery”) one can find all kinds of odd things made by a Glonn artist who makes sculptures out of scrap metal
, which have already found a lasting place in many households. The Steinbeißer (“Stonebiter”), as tall as a man and found on the way into town right next to the car dealership
of the same name, comes from this workshop.
Die kleine Galerie is a further platform for various artists.
, which may also be used by the public.
Various sporting grounds serve bodily fitness. The central school sporting ground and the football field in the constituent community of Adling are used for training and league games by the ASV’s (Allgemeiner Sportverein – “Common Sport Club”) football
teams. A basketball
court is also open to the town’s youth outside school hours, as are the two football pitches, each furnished with goals. A tennis court
is also available. Two public children’s playground
s fill out Glonn’s sport and leisure facilities.
The scenic countryside around the town invites hikers
and cyclists
, and when there is enough snow, the winter sport club runs a well groomed cross-country ski
loop. Two small lifts at the Finkenhöhe are used by skiers. The lakes in the area afford bathing in the summer and skating in the winter.
Many guesthouses and beer garden
s round out the town’s offerings for visitors.
, on the Sunday before Whitsun, on the first Sunday in August and on the first Sunday in October. Moreover, there is a Christkindlmarkt (“Christ Child Market”) on the second Sunday of Advent
, and regular farmer’s markets are held on the second Saturday of every month from May to October.
On one Saturday in mid-July, visitors to the Nachtflohmarkt (“Night Flea Market”) throng through the main street, mostly by candlelight and lantern light.
Known far and wide is the Glonner Dorffest (“Glonn Village Festival”) which has been put on by the bigger clubs in Glonn since 1992 (Friday to Monday on the first weekend in the Bavarian summer holidays). Since many Glonners actually belong to one of these clubs, a good time is assured.
are not far away.
Connections with neighbouring communities are provided by several buslines, which also afford connections with Munich S-Bahn
lines S4 and S6 in the Munich Transport and Tariff Association. Glonn lies in this system’s outermost fare zone.
By 1894, the local railway line between Grafing station and Glonn reached its end point at Glonn. The line was, however, abandoned in 1970 owing to low ridership. Now found where the old railway station was is a large-scale bus station
with two waiting room buildings and several bus bays. The name Bahnhofplatz – “Railway Station Square” – has been retained. The railway embankment
can still be seen running through the Glonn Valley to Moosach. A plan to turn it into a cycling path has never been realized.
Munich Airport (MUC) is roughly 60 km away.
The State Council Office (Landratsamt), the court (Amtsgericht), police headquarters and other authorities responsible for Glonn are in Ebersberg
.
Ebersberg notaries each hold, as a rule, a monthly office day at Glonn’s town hall.
The local health insurance company offers advice every month at the town hall.
Market town
Market town or market right is a legal term, originating in the medieval period, for a European settlement that has the right to host markets, distinguishing it from a village and city...
in the Ebersberg district
Ebersberg (district)
Ebersberg is a district in Bavaria, Germany. It is bounded by the districts of Erding, Mühldorf, Rosenheim and Munich.-History:...
in Upper Bavaria
Upper Bavaria
Upper Bavaria is one of the seven administrative regions of Bavaria, Germany.- Geography :Upper Bavaria is located in the southern portion of Bavaria, and is centered around the city of Munich. It is subdivided into four regions : Ingolstadt, Munich, Bayerisches Oberland , and Südostoberbayern...
, Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
, about 30 km (18.6 mi) southeast of Munich
Munich
Munich The city's motto is "" . Before 2006, it was "Weltstadt mit Herz" . Its native name, , is derived from the Old High German Munichen, meaning "by the monks' place". The city's name derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who founded the city; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat...
.
Geography
The market town of Glonn is a health spa (Erholungsort), and the Glonn Valley is ringed by wooded hills, carved by the former InnInn River
The Inn is a river in Switzerland, Austria and Germany. It is a right tributary of the Danube and is approximately 500km long. The highest point of its drainage basin is the summit of Piz Bernina, at 4,049 metres.- Geography :...
glacier
Glacier
A glacier is a large persistent body of ice that forms where the accumulation of snow exceeds its ablation over many years, often centuries. At least 0.1 km² in area and 50 m thick, but often much larger, a glacier slowly deforms and flows due to stresses induced by its weight...
. To the south, the Alps
Alps
The Alps is one of the great mountain range systems of Europe, stretching from Austria and Slovenia in the east through Italy, Switzerland, Liechtenstein and Germany to France in the west....
are clearly visible on the horizon.
The rivers Glonn
Glonn (Mangfall)
Glonn is a river of Bavaria, Germany. It has a length of 26 kilometres....
, Kupferbach and Schrannenbach rise within Glonn's municipal area, where the lake Kastensee is also to be found. Just inside the neighbouring community of Moosach
Moosach
Moosach is a municipality in the Upper Bavarian district of Ebersberg and a member of the Verwaltungsgemeinschaft of Glonn.- Geography :...
lies the Steinsee, another lake. Glonn is also home to three protected areas.
Neighbouring communities
Glonn's immediate neighbours are the communities of BaiernBaiern
Baiern is a community in the district of Ebersberg, Upper Bavaria, Germany. It is a member of the administrative community of Glonn....
, Bruck
Bruck
-People:*Charles Bruck , Hungarian-French conductor*Dietmar Bruck , German footballer*Hermann Brück , German astronomer*Ludwig Bruck, Australian physician & medical journalist...
, Egmating
Egmating
Egmating is a community in the Upper Bavarian district of Ebersberg. It is a member of the administrative community of Glonn.-Geography:Egmating lies in the Munich region...
, Moosach and Oberpframmern
Oberpframmern
Oberpframmern is a community in the Upper Bavarian district of Ebersberg and a member of the Verwaltungsgemeinschaft of Glonn. It lies roughly 24 kilometres southeast of Munich.-Geography:Oberpframmern lies in the Munich Region...
, which together with Glonn form an administrative community (Verwaltungsgemeinschaft).
The town of Grafing
Grafing
Grafing bei München is a town in the Upper Bavarian district of Ebersberg. In 2003, the town marked its 50th anniversary of being raised to town .-Geography:...
and the centres of Kirchseeon
Kirchseeon
Kirchseeon is a market town in the Upper Bavarian district of Ebersberg and lies 15 km east of Munich city limits.The nearest communities are Grafing and Ebersberg. The Bavarian capital, Munich, can be reached by S-Bahn , which runs over the Munich–Salzburg line...
, Zorneding
Zorneding
Zorneding is a community in the Upper Bavarian district of Ebersberg. It lies some 20 km east of Munich, Bavaria’s capital.-Neighbouring communities:...
and Höhenkirchen-Siegertsbrunn
Höhenkirchen-Siegertsbrunn
Höhenkirchen-Siegertsbrunn is a station on the Munich S-Bahn network. It is located in the community of Höhenkirchen-Siegertsbrunn, south-east of Munich. It has two side-platforms with a large distance between the tracks. It is serviced by the S7 line in a twenty minute rhythm...
are about 15 km away. Nevertheless it is there that regional and long-distance rail service is to be found.
Glonn lies roughly 30 km from the cities of Munich and Rosenheim
Rosenheim
Rosenheim is a town in Bavaria at the confluence of the rivers Inn and Mangfall. It is seat of administration of the district of Rosenheim, but is not a part of it.-Geography:...
.
History
Early settlement in the New Stone Age is witnessed by a number of finds, among them a dwelling pit, weapons and jewellery. The town's name derives from the CelticCeltic languages
The Celtic languages are descended from Proto-Celtic, or "Common Celtic"; a branch of the greater Indo-European language family...
description of the local river Glana – "Clear".
In a donation document signed by the bishop of Freising
Freising
Freising is a town in Bavaria, Germany, and capital of the district Freising. Total population 48,500.The city is located north of Munich at the Isar river, near the Munich International Airport...
on 21 March 774, Glonn is named as "Glan"; this is taken to be the earliest evidence of the town's founding. From about 1015, it is known that there was a local lordly family called "da Glana", and in 1349, the building register Monumenta Boica mentioned the Church of St. Johann zu Glan.
The name changed during the 16th century to "Glon" and then later to "Glonn", as it is still known now.
In 1632, during the Thirty Years' War
Thirty Years' War
The Thirty Years' War was fought primarily in what is now Germany, and at various points involved most countries in Europe. It was one of the most destructive conflicts in European history....
, the Swedes
Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....
burnt Glonn almost down to the ground. It took a very long time for the town to build itself back up again. Only in 1823, almost two centuries after the fire, was the new church finished and consecrated.
Since 1901, Glonn has had market rights and has had leave to hold yearly markets. Since 1908 there has been electricity
Electricity
Electricity is a general term encompassing a variety of phenomena resulting from the presence and flow of electric charge. These include many easily recognizable phenomena, such as lightning, static electricity, and the flow of electrical current in an electrical wire...
, generated at the town's own power station by water power
Hydroelectricity
Hydroelectricity is the term referring to electricity generated by hydropower; the production of electrical power through the use of the gravitational force of falling or flowing water. It is the most widely used form of renewable energy...
in some of the former mills. By 1914, 50% of Glonn's households were supplied.
Glonn shifted from a mainly agrarian village with little in the way of crafts to a modern minor centre with trade and crafts for the other nearby communities. Agriculture
Agriculture
Agriculture is the cultivation of animals, plants, fungi and other life forms for food, fiber, and other products used to sustain life. Agriculture was the key implement in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that nurtured the...
has sharply shrunk in importance.
After World War II
World War II
World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
Glonn was a refugee destination for those driven out of their homelands, those whose homes were bombed out and those who had been evacuated, and this new inflow of people eventually grew to become more than a third of the town's population. Many new houses had to be built, and in 1959 it became necessary to name the streets once the house numbering system in use up to the time was no longer useful for distinguishing addresses.
Religion
The town has a CatholicCatholicism
Catholicism is a broad term for the body of the Catholic faith, its theologies and doctrines, its liturgical, ethical, spiritual, and behavioral characteristics, as well as a religious people as a whole....
parish church (St. Johannes Baptist) and an Evangelical
Evangelical Church in Germany
The Evangelical Church in Germany is a federation of 22 Lutheran, Unified and Reformed Protestant regional church bodies in Germany. The EKD is not a church in a theological understanding because of the denominational differences. However, the member churches share full pulpit and altar...
church (Christuskirche, modern, built 1968), each a centre of a corresponding parish.
John the Baptist
John the Baptist
John the Baptist was an itinerant preacher and a major religious figure mentioned in the Canonical gospels. He is described in the Gospel of Luke as a relative of Jesus, who led a movement of baptism at the Jordan River...
as church patron points to an early Christian baptismal church. Already by 1600 there was a Gothic
Gothic art
Gothic art was a Medieval art movement that developed in France out of Romanesque art in the mid-12th century, led by the concurrent development of Gothic architecture. It spread to all of Western Europe, but took over art more completely north of the Alps, never quite effacing more classical...
church in the middle of the village. The current parish church's sacristy is a remnant of this earlier house of worship.
Town council
The following parties and one local political organization are active:- Social Democratic Party of GermanySocial Democratic Party of GermanyThe Social Democratic Party of Germany is a social-democratic political party in Germany...
(SPD) - Christian-Social Union in Bavaria (CSU)
- Freie Wähler (FW)
- Kommunalpolitischen Arbeitskreis (KOMMA), who form a common list with the SPD at elections.
On town council, the SPD/KOMMA has 10 seats, including the mayor (Bürgermeister), and the CSU has 7 (as at July 2004).
Coat of arms
Glonn’s arms might heraldically be described thus: In argent a four-spoked waterwheel sable above which a trout azure finned Or.The waterwheel and the trout
Trout
Trout is the name for a number of species of freshwater and saltwater fish belonging to the Salmoninae subfamily of the family Salmonidae. Salmon belong to the same family as trout. Most salmon species spend almost all their lives in salt water...
refer to the area’s wealth in water and the seven former cornmills that were so important to the local economy.
Town partnership
With the FrenchFrance
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
village of Bonnefamille
Bonnefamille
Bonnefamille is a commune in the Isère department in south-eastern France....
, contact was established in 1998 and led to alternating visits of clubs and delegations.
At the beginning of 2007, an intra-Bavarian partnership with the community of Markt Schwaben
Markt Schwaben
Markt Schwaben is a town in Bavaria, Germany. It lies roughly 23 km east of Munich on the northern edge of the Upper Bavarian district of Ebersberg...
in the same district was established. The goal of this unusual pairing is to be the dovetailing of regions in the northern and southern parts of the district that are otherwise split by the Ebersberg Forest.
Theatre
Every year in the autumn, the Glonn Costume Club’s (Trachtenverein Glonn) theatre show is held at the Neuwirtssaal. The amateur players present several locally-themed plays in Bavarian dialectAustro-Bavarian
Bavarian , also Austro-Bavarian, is a major group of Upper German varieties spoken in the south east of the German language area.-History and origin:...
.
Heimatmuseum
The Heimatmuseum Glonn (“Glonn Homeland Museum”), open at many times of the year, offers a glimpse into the town’s history. Alongside artefacts from prehistory, the visitor may wonder at paintings and books by local artists and writers. The writer Lena Christ’s home life may be glimpsed in a faithfully reconstructed room at the museum.Technological monument
The Stegmühle Glonn (“Glonn Footbridge Mill”) technological monument in the Mühltal houses the electricity-generating pumphouse (piston pumps from the firm M.A.N.) preserved in the original form from 1906, still fully functional after more than a hundred years.Until the mid-1990s, this apparatus was still generating electricity and feeding it into the local grid. Since then, however, it has fallen into disuse, but may be viewed on request to the owner who lives at the mill.
Schloss Zinneberg
Schloss Zinneberg, a local castleCastle
A castle is a type of fortified structure built in Europe and the Middle East during the Middle Ages by European nobility. Scholars debate the scope of the word castle, but usually consider it to be the private fortified residence of a lord or noble...
lying on the town’s eastern outskirts on a prominent knoll on its namesake mountain, the Zinneberg, can nowadays only just be made out through the thick woods that have grown there. Its history most likely stretches back to the 11th century, although its origins are quite uncertain. Only in 1332, in a donation document to the noble family of Preysing, was the placename “Zinnenberg” reliably mentioned. As time passed, the castle found itself owned by several noble families who were influential in Bavaria.
In 1350, Otto von Pienzenau became by marriage Lord of Zinneberg. The castle’s ownership then passed in 1596, once again by marriage, to the Fugger family, in whose hands it remained for the next 230 years. In 1632, during the Thirty Years' War, Schloss Zinneberg was burnt down. At this time arose the legend that a secret passage, allegedly still existing today, between the castle and the town afforded some of the castle’s inhabitants an escape to safety. Already by 1640, Count Johannes Friedrich, himself a Fugger, had the castle rebuilt. In 1825, the castle was bought by Bavarian Electress Maria Leopoldine, who was married to Count Ludwig of Arco. She had it remodelled to her own tastes, and the castle is still mostly in this form today. From 1850 to 1868, the castle was owned by the Marquis Fabio von Pallavicini
Pallavicini
The Pallavicini, Pallavicino, were an Italian noble family descended from Oberto I . The first Pallavicino fief was created by Oberto II, who received them it by Frederick Barbarossa in 1162...
, who in turn sold it to Friedrich Wilhelm Scanzoni von Lichtenfels. In 1898, Baron Adolf von Büsing
Busing
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-Orville
Orville
-People:*Orville E. Babcock , American general*Orville Hickman Browning , American politician*Orville Carlisle , American inventor*Orville Lloyd Douglas , Canadian poet and writer...
became the new lord of the castle. He was responsible for further expansions to the building, which still lend the castle a feudal character today.
Some of the town’s street names recall these noble families (“Preysingstr.”, “Pienzenauer Str.”, “Fuggerstr.”, “Arcostr.”, “von-Scanzoni-Str.”, “Büssingstr.”).
On 14 September 1927 the castle was bought for 735,000 Reichsmarks by the Sisters of the Good Shepherd (Schwestern vom guten Hirten), who run it today as a residential school for girls from difficult social backgrounds. They also run a kindergarten there.
During the First World War, part of the castle was used as a military hospital with 60 beds. After the Second World War broke out, the training building was confiscated as a reserve Wehrmacht
Wehrmacht
The Wehrmacht – from , to defend and , the might/power) were the unified armed forces of Nazi Germany from 1935 to 1945. It consisted of the Heer , the Kriegsmarine and the Luftwaffe .-Origin and use of the term:...
field hospital. In the Cold War
Cold War
The Cold War was the continuing state from roughly 1946 to 1991 of political conflict, military tension, proxy wars, and economic competition between the Communist World—primarily the Soviet Union and its satellite states and allies—and the powers of the Western world, primarily the United States...
, underground bunkers were built whose foreseen use was as a stationary auxiliary hospital.
Pfarrkirche St. Johann Baptist
The "Pfarrkirche St. Johann Baptist" (St. John the Baptist Parish Church) stands out prominently in the middle of town when one comes into Glonn from one of the surrounding hills.After the old church was destroyed in the Thirty Years’ War, a new church was begun about 1768, but finished and consecrated only in 1823. It is built in the Rococo
Rococo
Rococo , also referred to as "Late Baroque", is an 18th-century style which developed as Baroque artists gave up their symmetry and became increasingly ornate, florid, and playful...
style and contains altar figures and a crucifix with Schmerzhafte Muttergottes (“Mater Dolorosa”) by the artist Joseph Götsch (a student of Ignaz Günther
Ignaz Günther
Ignaz Günther was a German sculptor and woodcarver working in the Bavarian rococo tradition.He was born in Altmannstein, Germany, where he received his earliest training from his father, then studied in Munich under the court sculptor Johann Baptist Straub from 1743 to 1750 and during his...
). In 1994 the church was completely renovated.
Convent school
In 1899, building work began on a girls’ school in downtown Glonn, and on 24 October 1902 it was handed over to the then mayor “for the purpose of a girls’ school to be run by Catholic sisters”. This task was taken on by the nuns of the Maria Stern convent from AugsburgAugsburg
Augsburg is a city in the south-west of Bavaria, Germany. It is a university town and home of the Regierungsbezirk Schwaben and the Bezirk Schwaben. Augsburg is an urban district and home to the institutions of the Landkreis Augsburg. It is, as of 2008, the third-largest city in Bavaria with a...
.
In the Third Reich, however, they were expelled from the school on 25 March 1937. This led to fierce protests by the girls’ parents and in the end drew the Gestapo
Gestapo
The Gestapo was the official secret police of Nazi Germany. Beginning on 20 April 1934, it was under the administration of the SS leader Heinrich Himmler in his position as Chief of German Police...
’s attention when somebody put what is known locally as a Pfingstlümmel (a straw “Whitsun
Whitsun
Whitsun is the name used in the UK for the Christian festival of Pentecost, the seventh Sunday after Easter, which commemorates the descent of the Holy Spirit upon Christ's disciples...
doll”) on the neighbouring boys’ school roof on Whitsunday. It was wearing a brown shirt such as was commonly worn by SA
Sturmabteilung
The Sturmabteilung functioned as a paramilitary organization of the National Socialist German Workers' Party . It played a key role in Adolf Hitler's rise to power in the 1920s and 1930s...
men, and also a Communist cap.
The nuns were able to start classes again after the war ended. As of 1964, there were mixed classes.
In the mid-1970s, the town acquired the convent and school building that had since been forsaken. Sometime later it was converted into a cultural and social centre for the community. The Homeland Museum mentioned above was given a home on the top floor. The “Altenstube” on the ground floor affords senior citizens a social venue. Also found in the building are the local chapter of the Bavarian Red Cross and a daycare centre. In the basement, a youth centre has been set up. For a time, the old classrooms were even once again used as such when the neighbouring elementary school needed overflow room to handle great numbers of pupils who were threatening to burst the school’s seams.
The old chapel with its sacristy and siderooms in the west part of the building is now used as an exhibition gallery. One can also rent the room for events. The community offers it as an attractive alternative to the registry office for civil marriage
Civil marriage
Civil marriage is marriage performed by a government official and not a religious organization.-History:Every country maintaining a population registry of its residents keeps track of marital status, and most countries believe that it is their responsibility to register married couples. Most...
ceremonies.
The neighbouring convent garden with its fountain is open to the public and serves as an oasis in the middle of the town.
Exhibitions and galleries
The Galerie in der Klosterschule offers artists a platform for their work with regular thematic exhibitions.In the Schrottgalerie Friedel (“Friedel Scrap Metal Gallery”) one can find all kinds of odd things made by a Glonn artist who makes sculptures out of scrap metal
Scrap Metal
Scrap Metal were a band from Broome, Western Australia who played rock music with elements of country and reggae. The members had Aboriginal, Irish, Filipino, French, Chinese, Scottish, Indonesian and Japanese heritage. The band toured nationally as part of the Bran Nue Dae musical and with...
, which have already found a lasting place in many households. The Steinbeißer (“Stonebiter”), as tall as a man and found on the way into town right next to the car dealership
Car dealership
A car dealership or vehicle local distribution is a business that sells new or used cars at the retail level, based on a dealership contract with an automaker or its sales subsidiary. It employs automobile salespeople to do the selling...
of the same name, comes from this workshop.
Die kleine Galerie is a further platform for various artists.
Sport and leisure facilities
In the school building is maintained a small indoor swimming poolSwimming pool
A swimming pool, swimming bath, wading pool, or simply a pool, is a container filled with water intended for swimming or water-based recreation. There are many standard sizes; the largest is the Olympic-size swimming pool...
, which may also be used by the public.
Various sporting grounds serve bodily fitness. The central school sporting ground and the football field in the constituent community of Adling are used for training and league games by the ASV’s (Allgemeiner Sportverein – “Common Sport Club”) football
Football (soccer)
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...
teams. A basketball
Basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...
court is also open to the town’s youth outside school hours, as are the two football pitches, each furnished with goals. A tennis court
Tennis court
A tennis court is where the game of tennis is played. It is a firm rectangular surface with a low net stretched across the center. The same surface can be used to play both doubles and singles.-Dimensions:...
is also available. Two public children’s playground
Playground
A playground or play area is a place with a specific design for children be able to play there. It may be indoors but is typically outdoors...
s fill out Glonn’s sport and leisure facilities.
The scenic countryside around the town invites hikers
Hiking
Hiking is an outdoor activity which consists of walking in natural environments, often in mountainous or other scenic terrain. People often hike on hiking trails. It is such a popular activity that there are numerous hiking organizations worldwide. The health benefits of different types of hiking...
and cyclists
Cycling
Cycling, also called bicycling or biking, is the use of bicycles for transport, recreation, or for sport. Persons engaged in cycling are cyclists or bicyclists...
, and when there is enough snow, the winter sport club runs a well groomed cross-country ski
Cross-country skiing
Cross-country skiing is a winter sport in which participants propel themselves across snow-covered terrain using skis and poles...
loop. Two small lifts at the Finkenhöhe are used by skiers. The lakes in the area afford bathing in the summer and skating in the winter.
Many guesthouses and beer garden
Beer garden
Beer garden is an open-air area where beer, other drinks and local food are served. The concept originates from and is most common in Southern Germany...
s round out the town’s offerings for visitors.
Regular events
Since 1901, the town has been having “Market Day” four times a year on the third Sunday before LentLent
In the Christian tradition, Lent is the period of the liturgical year from Ash Wednesday to Easter. The traditional purpose of Lent is the preparation of the believer – through prayer, repentance, almsgiving and self-denial – for the annual commemoration during Holy Week of the Death and...
, on the Sunday before Whitsun, on the first Sunday in August and on the first Sunday in October. Moreover, there is a Christkindlmarkt (“Christ Child Market”) on the second Sunday of Advent
Advent
Advent is a season observed in many Western Christian churches, a time of expectant waiting and preparation for the celebration of the Nativity of Jesus at Christmas. It is the beginning of the Western liturgical year and commences on Advent Sunday, called Levavi...
, and regular farmer’s markets are held on the second Saturday of every month from May to October.
On one Saturday in mid-July, visitors to the Nachtflohmarkt (“Night Flea Market”) throng through the main street, mostly by candlelight and lantern light.
Known far and wide is the Glonner Dorffest (“Glonn Village Festival”) which has been put on by the bigger clubs in Glonn since 1992 (Friday to Monday on the first weekend in the Bavarian summer holidays). Since many Glonners actually belong to one of these clubs, a good time is assured.
Transport
Glonn’s municipal area is crossed by district roads (Kreisstraßen) EBE 13 and EBE 14 as well as state roads (Staatsstraßen) St 2079 and St 2351. The nearest interchanges with the Bundesautobahn 99Bundesautobahn 99
- History :A ring Autobahn round Munich was planned in 1938, but war intervened and construction was deferred. Sections of the road were constructed to the north and east of the city in the 1960s and 1970s, following a route significantly further from the city centre than the ring planned in the...
are not far away.
Connections with neighbouring communities are provided by several buslines, which also afford connections with Munich S-Bahn
Munich S-Bahn
The Munich S-Bahn is an electric rail transit system in Munich, Germany. "S-Bahn" is the German abbreviation for stadtschnellbahn , and the Munich S-Bahn exhibits characteristics of both rapid transit and commuter rail systems.The Munich S-Bahn network is operated by S-Bahn München, a subsidiary...
lines S4 and S6 in the Munich Transport and Tariff Association. Glonn lies in this system’s outermost fare zone.
By 1894, the local railway line between Grafing station and Glonn reached its end point at Glonn. The line was, however, abandoned in 1970 owing to low ridership. Now found where the old railway station was is a large-scale bus station
Bus station
A bus station is a structure where city or intercity buses stop to pick up and drop off passengers. It is larger than a bus stop, which is usually simply a place on the roadside, where buses can stop...
with two waiting room buildings and several bus bays. The name Bahnhofplatz – “Railway Station Square” – has been retained. The railway embankment
Embankment (transportation)
To keep a road or railway line straight or flat, and where the comparative cost or practicality of alternate solutions is prohibitive, the land over which the road or rail line will travel is built up to form an embankment. An embankment is therefore in some sense the opposite of a cutting, and...
can still be seen running through the Glonn Valley to Moosach. A plan to turn it into a cycling path has never been realized.
Munich Airport (MUC) is roughly 60 km away.
Established businesses
The following enterprises employing 50 or more workers each are to be found in Glonn:- Busreisen Ettenhuber GmbH (bus trips)
- Glonntaler Fleisch- und Wurstwaren GmbH (meat and sausages)
- Hans Brunner GmbH & Co. KG (chocolate moulds)
- Herrmannsdorfer Landwerkstätten (handmade “ecological-quality” foods, Herrmannsdorfer Schweinsbräu brewery)
- MVG Voglrieder GmbH (furniture shop specializing in rattanRattanRattan is the name for the roughly 600 species of palms in the tribe Calameae, native to tropical regions of Africa, Asia and Australasia.- Structure :...
and wooden furniture)
Public institutions
Glonn is seat of the community administration and of the administrative community (Verwaltungsgemeinschaft) of Glonn.The State Council Office (Landratsamt), the court (Amtsgericht), police headquarters and other authorities responsible for Glonn are in Ebersberg
Ebersberg
Ebersberg is the district seat of the similarly named Landkreis in the Regierungsbezirk of Oberbayern in southern Germany. The Ebersberger Forst is one of Germany’s largest continuous area of woodlands....
.
Ebersberg notaries each hold, as a rule, a monthly office day at Glonn’s town hall.
The local health insurance company offers advice every month at the town hall.
Education
- Volksschule Glonn (Grundschule and HauptschuleHauptschuleA Hauptschule is a secondary school in Germany and Austria, starting after 4 years of elementary schooling, which offers Lower Secondary Education according to the International Standard Classification of Education...
) - MusikschuleMusic schoolThe term music school refers to an educational institution specialized in the study, training and research of music.Different terms refer to this concept such as school of music, music academy, music faculty, college of music, music department or conservatory.Music instruction can be provided...
/VolkshochschuleFolk high schoolFolk high schools are institutions for adult education that generally do not grant academic degrees, though certain courses might exist leading to that goal...
Grafing/Ebersberg - Girls' boarding schoolBoarding schoolA boarding school is a school where some or all pupils study and live during the school year with their fellow students and possibly teachers and/or administrators. The word 'boarding' is used in the sense of "bed and board," i.e., lodging and meals...
at the “Good Shepherdesses’” convent, Schloß Zinneberg
Other institutions
- Gemeindebücherei Glonn
- Bürgersaal
- KindergartenKindergartenA kindergarten is a preschool educational institution for children. The term was created by Friedrich Fröbel for the play and activity institute that he created in 1837 in Bad Blankenburg as a social experience for children for their transition from home to school...
s:- Pfarrkindergarten (parish)
- AWO-Kindergarten (workers’ welfare)
- KiJuFa-Kindergarten
- Kindergarten der Herrmannsdorfer Landwerkstätten
- Kinderhort und Mittagsbetreuung Glonn (daycare)
- CaritasCaritas (charity)Caritas Internationalis is a confederate of 164 Roman Catholic relief, development and social service organisations operating in over 200 countries and territories worldwide....
-Seniorenheim "Marienheim" (home for the elderly)
Sons and daughters of the town
- Michael and Johann Beham, artists and restaurateurs
- Wolfgang Wagner senior (15 February 1834 — 6 February 1902), Member of Bavarian Landtag and the Reichstag
- Wolfgang Wagner junior (9 May 1865 — 8 August 1912), Member of Bavarian Landtag for the German Centre Party 1907-1912
- Lena Christ (30 October 1881 — 30. Juni 1920), writer
- Prof. Dr. Max Lebsche (11 September 1886 — 22 September 1957), physician, heart surgery pioneer, founder and chief doctor of the Maria-Theresia-Klinik in Munich
- Georg Lanzenberger (born 1897), painter
- Karl KollerKarl Koller (general)Karl Koller was a German General der Flieger and the Chief of the General Staff of Nazi Germany's Luftwaffe during World War II....
(22 February 1898 — 22 December 1951), pilot, distance record in 1921 in gliding with 5 km, first 360°-circle flight without loss of height in a glider in 1921, last Chief of the LuftwaffeLuftwaffeLuftwaffe is a generic German term for an air force. It is also the official name for two of the four historic German air forces, the Wehrmacht air arm founded in 1935 and disbanded in 1946; and the current Bundeswehr air arm founded in 1956....
General Staff in the Second World War from November 1944 until war’s end in 1945 - Wolfgang Koller (6 November 1904 — 28 April 1974), teacher, writer and poet
- Bernhard Koller, lyricist
- Richard Gürteler (23 June 1936 — 22 October 2000), master baker, Member of Bavarian Landtag 1974-1994
- Dr. Roland Koller, Police President in the Munich Police Presidium 1988-2003, State Secretary in the Lower SaxonyLower SaxonyLower Saxony is a German state situated in north-western Germany and is second in area and fourth in population among the sixteen states of Germany...
Interior Ministry 2003-2006
Other well known citizens
- Franz Kaltner (8 Mai 1721 — 9 September 1766), priest and composer
- Hans Ernst, (1904 — 1984), local writer
- Gerda Bialas (1906 — 1995), singer
- Prof. Günter BialasGünter Bialas-Life:Bialas was born in Bielschowitz in Prussian Silesia. The adolescent Bialas received lessons in piano and music theory from Fritz Lubrich, a former student of Max Reger, in Kattowitz between 1922 and 1925...
(1907 — 1995), composer - Karl Ludwig Schweisfurth (30 July 1930), entrepreneur, pioneer of ecological food creation and processing, founder of the Schweisfurth Foundation and the Herrmansdorfer Landwerkstätten
- Susanne OsthoffSusanne OsthoffSusanne Kristina Osthoff is a German archaeologist who had worked in Iraq since 1991 until being taken hostage there on November 25, 2005. She was freed by her captors on December 18, 2005.- Biography :...
(7 March 1962), archaeologist, seized and held hostage for three weeks in Iraq in November 2005 (her last known German address before this, until May 2005, was in Glonn)
Further reading
- Bildband "Glonn im Wandel der Zeit", 1. Auflage 1988, Geiger-Verlag Horb am NeckarHorb am NeckarHorb am Neckar is a town in the southwest of the German state of Baden-Württemberg. It is located on the Neckar river, between Offenburg to the west and Tübingen to the east . It has around 25,000 inhabitants, of whom about 6,000 live in the main town of Horb, and the remainder in 18 associated...
, ISBN 3-89264-286-9 - Maria Sedlmair (Hrsg.): "Glonn - meine Heimat", 1. Auflage 1991, Selbstverlag: Maria Sedlmair, Senderstr. 30, 85737 IsmaningIsmaningIsmaning is a municipality in Bavaria, Germany, located near Munich. In 2006 it had 14,638 inhabitants. Near Ismaning there is a large broadcasting facility called Transmitter Ismaning....
- Hans Obermair: "Glonner Geschichte und Geschichten", 1. Auflage 1999, Herausgeber im Selbstverlag: CSU Glonn, Grottenweg 5, 85625 Glonn
- Johann-B. Niedermair "Glonn und Umgebung" 1. Auflage 1939 Salesianerverlag München 11, Nachdruck 1989 durch Kulturverein Glonn. Zu beziehen über Gemeinde Glonn
- Wolfgang Koller "Geschichte und Geschichten" Festschrift zum 1200-Jahre Jubiläum 1974, herausgegeben von der Marktgemeinde Glonn
- Rudolf Gerer "100 Jahre Klosterschule Glonn" Selbstverlag Kulturverein 85625 Glonn 2002,
- Kulturverein Glonn eV, Wanderkarte Markt Glonn und Umgeb. 2004, zu beziehen bei Marktgemeinde Glonn
- Hans Obermair, "Glonn und Lena Christ" Herausgeber Kulturverein Glonn 2006, zu beziehen über die Marktgemeinde Glonn
- Hans Obermair, "300 Jahre Kirche Frauenreuth", Herausgeber Pfarrei Glonn 2007, zu beziehen über Pfarramt 85625 Glonn.