Zeilarn () is a municipality in the district of Rottal-Inn in Bavaria, Germany.
Geography
Geographical position Zeilarn is located in the region Landshut in a characteristic Lower Bavarian landscape of hills directly along the B20 about 14 km southeast of Eggenfelden, 18 km northeast of Altötting, 20 km north of Burghausen, 17 km northwest of Simbach and 20 km southwest of the county town Pfarrkirchen. The nearest train station is situated in Marktl.
Municipal structure The civil parish Zeilarn has 87 officially named districts:
Aiching Babing Baumgarten Berg Berger Berghäusl Bildsberg Binderhäusl Brandstetten Breitreit Dambach Dofler Dornlehen Eben Edstall Enghasling Feichting Fingerer Fixing Frieding Gasteig Gehersdorf Gitzelhub Gitzelmühle Griesmühle Grillenhögl Großstraß Grub Grubwies Gumpersdorf Haid Hasling Haus Hempelsberg Hinterau Hochwimm Höllgrub Holzleithen Kagerwies Kellndorf Kleinstraß Knogler Kochsöd Kohlöd Königsöd Köpfing Kreimel Lanhofen Lederschmid Lehen Lueg Maisthub Mannersdorf Narrenham Oberlehen Oberndorf Obertürken Ofenschwarz Passelsberg Pirach Plöcking Prehof Rupprechtsaign Schallhub Schatzlöd Schildthurn Schmiding Schreding Schwertfelln Sonnertsham Speckhaus Stockwimm Straß Thalreuth Thannenthal Thurnöd Vorderau Waldmann Walln Wetzl Wiesmühle Wiesmühle am Türkenbach Wimmhäusl Wolfgrub Zantlbauer Zauner am Högl Zeilarn
History The first time Zeilarn was mentioned in a document was in 788 as Cidlar in the index of the archdiocese Salzburg. Later the village belonged to the county Leonberg, after its extinction in 1319 the counts of Hals inherited the properties. Until the administrative reform in Bavaria in 1818 Zeilarn belonged to the revenue office Landshut and the district court Eggenfelden. Afterwards the boroughs Obertürken, Gumpersdorf and Schildthurn emerged.
Incorporations
Today's Zeilarn is the result of the consolidation under the local government reorganization in Bavaria in 1971.
Assignments
In 1980 an area with a little less than 100 inhabitants was assigned to Tann.
Population development 1961: 1897 inhabitants 1970: 2071 inhabitants 1987: 2053 inhabitants 1994: 2218 inhabitants 2000: 2221 inhabitants 2011: 2174 inhabitants 2012: 2131 inhabitants 2013: 2117 inhabitants
Politics Werner Lechl is the mayor, first elected in 2014, and re-elected in 2020.
Tax receipts in 1999 amounted to €1,034,000, thereof the business tax revenues (net) amounted to €390,000.
Economy and infrastructure
Economy, agriculture and forestry Going by official statistics there were 243 employees subject to social insurance contributions in manufacturing industries and none in retail businesses. In other economic sectors there were 46 employees subject to social insurance contributions. There was a total of 672 employees subject to social insurance contributions. There were no companies in the manufacturing sector and four in the main construction trades. In addition there were 115 agricultural holdings with a total area of 1,601 ha, thereof 914 ha fields and 682 ha permanent grassland.
Bildung There are the following facilities: kindergarten: 50 places elementary school: 74 pupils
Sights The late Gothic parish church St. Martin was expanded in 1888. It has late Gothic furnishings with some Gothic and Baroque figures and tombstones.
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