Stamsried
Sign in to saveStamsried is a village and municipality in the district of Cham in the Upper Palatinate region of Bavaria, Germany, near the Czech border. It is also located in the Roman Catholic diocese of Regensburg. Stamsried has a population of 2,319 as of June 2004 and an area of which includes surrounding countryside outside the built up area of the village itself, the population density is . Stamsried is located above sea level and contains rolling hills as high as .
Key facts
- German place.image_coa
- DEU Stamsried COA.svg
- German place.image_plan
- Stamsried in CHA.svg
- German place.image_photo
- Rathaus Stamsried.JPG
- German place.image_caption
- Town hall
- German place.state
- Bayern
- German place.region
- Oberpfalz
- German place.district
- Cham
- German place.Verwaltungsgemeinschaft
- Stamsried
- German place.elevation
- 453
- German place.area
- 43.44
- German place.postal_code
- 93491
- German place.area_code
- 0 94 66
- German place.licence
- CHA
- German place.Gemeindeschlüssel
- 09 3 72 161
- German place.website
- www.stamsried.de
- German place.mayor
- Herbert Bauer
- German place.leader_term
- 2020–26
- German place.party
- CSU
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Stamsried is a village and municipality in the district of Cham in the Upper Palatinate region of Bavaria, Germany, near the Czech border. It is also located in the Roman Catholic diocese of Regensburg. Stamsried has a population of 2,319 as of June 2004 and an area of which includes surrounding countryside outside the built up area of the village itself, the population density is . Stamsried is located above sea level and contains rolling hills as high as .
Stamsried is located near the Upper Bavarian Forest Nature Park and therefore tourism makes up a portion of its economy as shown by the number of small hotels and "pensions" or bed and breakfasts. Sites of interest within Stamsried itself include the Catholic parish church of St. John the Baptist built in 1719. Near the church there is a square with the Mariensäule or Marian column erected in 1729 and four other statues of saints erected in 1735 (St. Florian, St. Sebastian, John the Baptist and John of Nepomuk).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Stamsried” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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