Starnberg

Starnberg is the county seat of the district of the identical call within the administrative district of Upper Bavaria. Starnberg is positioned approximately 25 km southwest of Munich at the northern end of Lake Starnberg and is a destination and hotel. 948 o 957 Sternberg’s ultra modern district Achheim become first referred to in files as "Ouiheim". The call "Starnberch", but, can handiest be located in 1226. It refers to a settlement north of Ouiheim. 1244 changed into observed by way of the first mention of "Starnberch Cestrum", a fortress, that's at this time in the possession of the counts of Andechs Meranien.

The call is said to come from the 1208 cited knight Wernher Miles de Starnberk, a ministerial of the Counts of Andechs Meranien, whose sex is stated to have sat at the Starnberg fort. After the disempowerment of the Andechs Meranier fortress become in 1246 inside the possession of the Wittelsbach dukes. With the growing significance of the close by city of Munich as a residence town of the sub-Duchy of Bavaria-Munich, the authentic function of the vintage Veste modified in the fifteenth century as a protecting device to the summer time house of the Munich court society.