Sonnen
Sign in to saveSonnen () is a small municipality in the Passau district of the Lower Bavaria (Niederbayern) region of eastern Bavaria, Germany. It is located in the Danube forest, lower Bavarian forest and is located mostly in the district Passau at a height of 700 to 900 meters. Sonnen lies 28 km from Passau, 9 km from Hauzenberg and from the forest itself 13 km. Sonnen borders with upper Austria which lies only 8 km away.
Key facts
- German location.image_coa
- DEU Sonnen COA.svg
- German location.image_photo
- Pfarrkirche Sonnen.JPG
- German location.image_caption
- Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary
- German location.image_plan
- Sonnen in PA.svg
- German location.state
- Bayern
- German location.region
- Niederbayern
- German location.district
- Passau
- German location.elevation
- 836
- German location.area
- 16.48
- German location.postal_code
- 94164
- German location.area_code
- 08584
- German location.licence
- PA
- German location.Gemeindeschlüssel
- 09 2 75 148
- German location.website
- www.gemeinde-sonnen.de
- German location.mayor
- Klaus Weidinger
- German location.leader_term
- 2020–26
- German location.party
- CSU
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Encyclopedic overview
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- The Sonnen Crest
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Sonnen () is a small municipality in the Passau district of the Lower Bavaria (Niederbayern) region of eastern Bavaria, Germany. It is located in the Danube forest, lower Bavarian forest and is located mostly in the district Passau at a height of 700 to 900 meters. Sonnen lies 28 km from Passau, 9 km from Hauzenberg and from the forest itself 13 km. Sonnen borders with upper Austria which lies only 8 km away.
Sonnen has been able to possess a rather secured boundary since the Middle Ages. Max Heuwieser writes in "The Tradition of Passau", that Sonnen received its official name somewhere between the years 1130AD and 1150AD by Baron Von Falkenstein.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sonnen” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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