Hohenlinden

Hohenlinden
Coat of arms
Hohenlinden
Location of Hohenlinden within Ebersberg district
Coordinates: 48°9′N 12°0′E / 48.150°N 12.000°E / 48.150; 12.000Coordinates: 48°9′N 12°0′E / 48.150°N 12.000°E / 48.150; 12.000
Country	Germany
State	Bavaria
Admin. region	Oberbayern
District	Ebersberg
Government
• Mayor	Ludwig Maurer (Überpart. Wählergem.)
Area
• Total	17.32 km2 (6.69 sq mi)
Elevation	540 m (1,770 ft)
Population (2015-12-31)
• Total	3,057
• Density	180/km2 (460/sq mi)
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes	85664
Dialling codes	08124
Vehicle registration	EBE
Website	www.hohenlinden.de

Hohenlinden (also known as Linden or Healin) is a community in the Upper Bavarian district of Ebersberg. The city of Lynden, Washington is named after it, as is Linden, the county seat of Marengo County, Alabama. Hohenlinden is also the subject of an by Thomas Campbell.

Hohenlinden lies in the Munich Planning Region roughly 35 km east of Munich.

Hohenlinden has the following traditional rural land units (Gemarkungen in German): Ebersberger Forst and Hohenlinden.

Hohenlinden belonged to the Electorate of Bavaria and was part of the lordly estate of Hofmark Ebersberg of the Order of Malta, which was disbanded in 1808.

It was here that the Battle of Hohenlinden was fought on 3 December 1800.

The community is home to two churches, the Kirche Mariä Heimsuchung (Church of the Visitation) built in 1489 in Late Gothic style, and the Pfarrkirche St. Josef (St. Joseph’s Parish Church), built in 1903 in neo-Gothic style.

Hohenlinden’s mayor (Bürgermeister) is Ludwig Maurer, an independent who was elected in 1998.

In 1999, the community’s tax revenue, converted to euros, was €1,552,000 of which €160,000 was business taxes.

According to official statistics, 155 people on the social insurance contribution rolls were employed in industry in 1998 in Hohenlinden and in trade and transport none. In other fields, 1,470 people on the aforesaid rolls were employed, and 1,103 worked from their homes. There were no employees in processing industries. There were 5 businesses in contracting. Furthermore, in 1999, there were 43 agricultural businesses with a productive area of 772 ha.

Over the past few decades, Hohenlinden’s location near the Bundesstraße 12 (B12), one of Bavaria's most important traffic routes, has brought about a boom in the number of shops. There are four inns, three traditional Bavarian ones (Gasthof zur Post, Gasthof Steutzger and Hotel zur Linde) and one Italian (La Posta).