Rosenheim

Sister cities

• Lazise
• Beersheba
• Greiz
• Ichikawa
• Briançon

History

Rosenheim's development can be traced from its location on intersecting major trade routes. Even in early times, the town's intersecting traffic stimulated its development as a market town. It subsequently evolved from a market to a salt trade and then railway town to today's wood and college city. Crucial to the establishment of Rosenheim were the Inn and the corresponding Inn valley. The Romans arrived in the year 15 BC under the leadership of Drusus and Tiberius. They founded the province Noricum to the East of the Inn and Rhaetia to the west of the Inn. The colonizers built a road through the Brenner to Castra Regina, and an east–west road from Iuvavum to Augusta Vindelicum. The intersection of these two enormously important trade routes were protected by a military station whose name was "Pons Aeni". Less frequently used terms were "Ponte Aoni", "Ad enum" or "stations Enensis". The Romano Celtic settlement existed for some 500 years with that name. Pons was between Aeni Isinisca (Aying) and (today part of Seeon-Seebruck), as shown on the Roman road map Tabula Peutingeriana from the 4th century. The name "Pons Aeni" can still be recognised in local place names, "Pfunzen" in the name of the district "Langenpfunzen" and "Leonhardspfunzen". The origin of the city's name is not entirely clear. First mentioned in 1234, Rosenheim castle is on the eastern bank of the Inn, on today's castle hill, overlooking a new bridge over the Inn. One theory is that the name comes from the Rosenheim Rose emblem of the Wasserburger Earl Hall, who built the castle. Another theory is that the name Ross derives from the Rössern steeds that were used in medieval times to pull the river transport vessels, and for which there were large stables in Rosenheim. The street names Am Esbaum (the…

Geography

The population of the actual city is approximately 60,000 inhabitants with up to 125,000 in the surrounding area. Rosenheim is situated in the Upper-Bavarian Alpine Foothills, above sea level and covers an area of . The capital of Bavaria, Munich, is North-West of Rosenheim. Rosenheim station is at the junction of the Munich–Rosenheim, the Rosenheim–Salzburg and the Munich–Innsbruck lines. The landscape around Rosenheim was formed during the last ice age from the advancement of the Inn Valley Glacier and later the Rosenheim lake. The lake existed about 10,000 years ago, covering the whole Inn valley as far as Wasserburg am Inn, about north of Rosenheim. Even today in many places around the city the former shoreline can be recognised where the former flat lake bed changes suddenly into relatively steep embankment.

Most-observed species

• Eurasian Blackbird

  Turdus merula Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  759
• Great Tit

  Parus major Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  677
• Common Chaffinch

  Fringilla coelebs Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  596
• Eurasian Blue Tit

  Cyanistes caeruleus (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  593
• Mallard

  Anas platyrhynchos Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  508
• Carrion Crow

  Corvus corone Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  507
• European Robin

  Erithacus rubecula (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  502
• Great Spotted Woodpecker

  Dendrocopos major (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  493

Most recent

• M 3.7 — 2021-08-16
  1 km S of Niederau, Austria
• M 3.8 — 2019-10-22
  4 km SE of Ebbs, Austria
• M 2.5 — 2017-11-20
  3 km SE of Medraz, Austria
• M 3.5 — 2017-11-03
  2 km N of Telfes im Stubai, Austria
• M 3.7 — 2013-08-09
  1 km ESE of Aldrans, Austria
• M 4 — 2010-10-19
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