Pocking

Pocking is a metropolis within the district of Passau, in Lower Bavaria, Germany. It is situated approximately 30 km south-west of Passau, close to the Austrian border. A Roman agreement was founded inside the region of Pocking as early because the 1st century AD. The Bajuwaren tribe settled around Pocking inside the 6th century AD. In 820 AD Pocking became first mentioned in a historical file. Since 1824 Pocking paperwork its personal political network and in 1971 it become granted the privileges of a city.

During the Nazi regime a facet camp of the Flossenburg awareness camp turned into set up in Pocking. After World War II the second one biggest DP camp in Germany turned into positioned in Pocking. In 1946 the camp housed 7,645 human beings, mainly of Jewish background. It turned into disbanded in 1949. The Rottal area to which Pocking belongs is well-known for its horse breeding. That is likewise why the coat of fingers of Pocking consists of the pinnacle of a horse. The different symbols relate to the records of the town and the exceptional villages that fashioned the political community of Pocking.