Eichenau is a municipality in Fürstenfeldbruck, Bavaria, Germany. It is 20 km west of Munich (centre).
Eichenau was named in 1907 as a separate settlement from the community of Alling. It is at the railway station on the line Munich to Lindau. Josef Nibler district commissioner planned the community since 1916. He founded the Baugenossenschaft Eichenau and with 60 hectares of land for housing after the First World War. Most people living in Eichenau commute to Munich. The town now has a large sports centre with outdoor beach volleyball courts and tennis courts.
Twin towns
Budrio, Italy, since 1990. Vyshhorod, Ukraine, since 1994.
Satellite Images
http://www.wikimapia.org/#lat=48.&lon=11.&z=14&l=5&m=a&v=2
Famous people
George Bouzianis (1885–1959), Greek painter
Georg Spillner (1908–1998), clown Nuk
Claus Biederstaedt (born 1928), German actor
Herbert Riehl-Heyse (1940–2003), German journalist und author
Alma Hagenbucher (born 1922), German businesswoman
Hejo Busley (born 1930), German historian
Claus Jürgen Diederichs (born 1941), German engineer
Josef Dering (1910–1999], German artist
Josefine Frühschütz ( unbek.–1998), midwife
Helmut Gneuss, (born 1927), German anglicist
Roland Helmer (born 1940), German painter
Widukind Lenz (1919–1995), German scientist
Zoltán Jókay (born 1960) Fotokünstler
Martin Kälberer (born 1968), German musician
Heiner Link (1960–2002), German writer. Georg Metzger (born 1946), German footballer Josef Nibler ( 1912 – unbek.), German civil servant, founder of Eichenau Alfons Reckermann (born 1947), German philosopher Ingrid Redlich-Pfund (born 1947) German painter Franz Leonhardt Schadt (1910–2009), Germanpuppet player Helmut Rehder (born 1927), German biologist und philosopher Inge Seeliger (born 1930), German potter Werner Stückmann (born 1926), German singer Uta Titze-Stecher (born 1942), German politician MdB Georg Maximilian Trenz (born 1962) German artist Bennsi (born 2005), der unsichtbare Passiwildie (born 2005), der vom Glück verlassene
Literature
Hejo Busley, Angelika Schuster-Fox, Michael Gumtau (Hrsg.): Geschichte im Schatten einer Großstadt. Eichenau 1907–2007. Herbert Utz Verlag, München 2007, (ISBN ) bzw. (ISBN ) Landratsamt Fürstenfeldbruck: Der Landkreis Fürstenfeldbruck – Natur, Geschichte, Kultur, Fürstenfeldbruck 1992
References
Other websites
http://eichenau.de official webpage
http://www.myheimat.de/fuerstenfeldbruck/beitrag/26518/rundgang-durch-eichenau-in-30-schritten-und-ein-video-versuch/ virtual tour of the town :de:Eichenau
Fürstenfeldbruck (district)