Forstinning

Forstinning
Coat of arms
Forstinning
Location of Forstinning within Ebersberg district
Coordinates: 48°10′N 11°55′E / 48.167°N 11.917°E / 48.167; 11.917Coordinates: 48°10′N 11°55′E / 48.167°N 11.917°E / 48.167; 11.917
Country	Germany
State	Bavaria
Admin. region	Oberbayern
District	Ebersberg
Government
• Mayor	Rupert Ostermair (CSU)
Area
• Total	12.26 km2 (4.73 sq mi)
Elevation	512 m (1,680 ft)
Population (2015-12-31)
• Total	3,683
• Density	300/km2 (780/sq mi)
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes	85661
Dialling codes	08121
Vehicle registration	EBE
Website	www.forstinning.de

Forstinning is a community in the district of Ebersberg in Upper Bavaria.

Forstinning lies in the Munich region in the north of the Ebersberg district and on the northern edge of the Munich Schotterebene (a sandur) and the Ebersberg Forest. Neighbouring municipalities and unincorporated areas bordering the community are, clockwise beginning with those also in the Ebersberg district, Hohenlinden, the Ebersberg Forest (unincorporated), Anzing and Markt Schwaben, and continuing with those in the Erding district, Ottenhofen, Pastetten and Forstern.

Forstinning has only one traditional rural land unit – Gemarkung in German – also called Forstinning. Forstinning’s constituent communities include Aich, Aitersteinering, Berg, Köckmühle, Kressiermühle, Moos, Neupullach, Niederried, Salzburg, Schußmühle, Schwaberwegen, Sempt, Siegstätt, Steffelmühle, Wagmühle, Wind and Wolfmühle.

Forstinning’s history begins in Sempt, where the area’s transport hub lay, with the Grafenburg (“Count’s Castle”) as the trading post, with a market lent by the king (fiscale forum, 11th century), and the Reichshof (“Imperial Court”, curtis fiscalis, 934). The first greatness that this far-flung spot knew, however, does not date merely from Bavarii times, but from much longer ago, as witnessed by many archaeological finds nearby. The bronze ram figurine kept in the state’s prehistoric collection may relate to the Celtic square dig site near Aitersteinering whose walls have been largely flattened by earthworks over time. The most recent findings suggest that such sites served as places of worship. There are many further traces of prehistory in the area. In the nearby state forest are found large groups of barrows from Hallstatt times. A Roman villa’s remains were found a few decades ago at a remote mountain near Forstinning, and in Forstinning in 1958 a digger brought up a Bronze Age sword whose age was reckoned to be roughly 3,200 years. Only one old mill is nowadays left standing in Sempt. Now and then remnants of the old castle’s and the old church’s walls, the latter having been torn down in 1803, are brought to light when the Sempt brook overflows. This flooding sometimes also uncovers the castle graves whose loosely layered soil cannot withstand storm flooding quite as well as residual soil. Sempt Castle had the aforesaid brook as its moat.