Germering

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  maikel

  At first sight an archetypical satellite city on the Western outskirts of Munich, Germering has been a continuous settlement since the late stone age, and has been chartered since 769 AD -- making it roughly four centuries older than its larger neighbour. There are remains of stone age and bronze age graves, of a Roman villa rustica, and of the grave of a Mongolian woman. The original city name "Germana vel ad monte" means "the germane / sisterly one well near the hill", referring to the slight but historically important elevation of Parsberg ("pass hill") to the West. The construction of the railway line Munich-Herrsching in 1902 and the establishment of two stations on the communter train system "S-Bahn", opened for the 1972 Munich Olympics, lead to a profound boom of the previously independent small farming villages of Germering and Unterpfaffenhofen ("lower priest's house"), which were consolidated into a single administrative unit, now named simply Germering, in 1978. Germering now has 37k inhabitants, all mod cons except a hospital, and now bears the title of "large city of the county" ("Große Kreisstadt"). It is home to the chart-topping neo-rock band "Sportfreunde Stiller".

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