Unterhaching

Unterhaching
Coat of arms
Unterhaching
Location of Unterhaching within Munich district
Coordinates: 48°03′57″N 11°36′36″E / 48.06583°N 11.61000°E / 48.06583; 11.61000Coordinates: 48°03′57″N 11°36′36″E / 48.06583°N 11.61000°E / 48.06583; 11.61000
Country	Germany
State	Bavaria
Admin. region	Upper Bavaria
District	Munich
Government
• Mayor	Wolfgang Panzer (SPD)
Area
• Total	8.73 km2 (3.37 sq mi)
Elevation	556 m (1,824 ft)
Population (2015-12-31)
• Total	24,437
• Density	2,800/km2 (7,200/sq mi)
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes	82008
Dialling codes	089
Vehicle registration	M
Website	www.unterhaching.de

Unterhaching (German pronun­cia­tion: [ʔʊntɐˈhaxɪŋ]) is the second largest municipality in the district of Munich in Bavaria, Germany.

Based upon the discovery of graves, the settlement of the Haching Valley can be traced back as far as 1100 B.C. The settlement of the Bavarian tribes is believed to have occurred between the fifth and eighth centuries.

The name "Haching" comes from the family name "Hacho" and the aristocracy of the Hahilinga. The name Haching is first recorded in a document from the Schäftlarn monastery in the year 806, left by the abbott Petto. Therefore, Haching is hundreds of years older than Munich.

The name "Unterhaching" (lat. inferiori hachingin) emerges for the first time in the year 1180 in a possession listing of the bishop of Freising (Freesing).

Up until the 1803 secularization the surrounding monasteries were the primary landowners in the area. Also derived from this is the municipal coat of arms, which today shows the abbott staff of the Schäftlarn monastery and the sea-rose sheet from the coat of arms of the monastery Tegernsee. Unterhaching began the 20th century as purely a farming village. The number of inhabitants exploded from 616 inhabitants in 1900 to 20,545 in 2000.

In 1955 Unterhaching split from Ottobrunn and became an independent municipality.

In 1968 the building of two new large housing estates began, "Grünau" and Fasanenpark, which began the development of the City into a modern housing development.

Unterhaching is well known in Germany for its football (soccer) team SpVgg Unterhaching, which played in the Bundesliga during the 1999/2000 and 2000/2001 seasons. In 2001 SpVgg Unterhaching won the DFB-Hallenpokal.

The Unterhaching SpVgg also has a very successful bob-sledding team, with multiple world and European titles. The Olympic gold-medalist Christoph Langen is a member.

The volleyball department is just as successful TSV Unterhaching and played for six years in German Bundesliga (first division).