Pfarrkirchen

Pfarrkirchen is a municipality in southern Lower Bavaria Germany, the capital of the district Rottal-Inn. It has about 12,500 population and is an essential faculty centre with approximately 10,000 pupils from throughout Lower Bavaria. The metropolis spreads over an area of about 52 square kilometers and lies approximately 377 meters above sea stage. Pfarrkirchen lies at the small river "Rott", which offers the "Rottal" region its call. One of Pfarrkirchen's crucial industries consist of abattoirs which is because of the agricultural surroundings.

The first settlers got here to Pfarrkirchen a few 7,000 years ago, as excavations in Untergaiching prove. The first professional written document in which the name "Pharrachiricha" is stated, seemed in between 875 and 899 AD by means of the Catholic Bishop "Engilmar". The name means "parish church". In 1262 Pfarrkirchen and the nearby "Castle Reichenberg" exceeded into the possession of the Bavarian dynasty Wittelsbach, who granted the village the proper to hold public markets in 1317. Since 1862 Pfarrkirchen can officially call itself a city, and in 1972 it have become the capital of the district Rottal-Inn.