Tyrlaching is a

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality' ...

in the district of

Altötting Altötting (, , in contrast to "Neuötting, New Ötting"; , ) is a Town#Germany, town in Bavaria, capital of the Altötting (district), district Altötting of Germany. For 500 years it has been the scene of religious pilgrimages by Catholics in ...

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. It is part of the

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(''Verwaltungsgemeinschaft'')

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Geography

Tyrlaching is situated on the northern edge of the historic

Rupertiwinkel The Rupertiwinkel is a small historic region on the southeastern border of Bavaria, Germany. Part of the Archbishopric of Salzburg until the early 19th century, it is named after the first Salzburg bishop Saint Rupert (c.660–710), apostle to the ...

region, near the border with

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. It is the district's southernmost municipality, located at the boundary with

Traunstein Traunstein (; ) is a Town#Germany, town in the south-eastern part of Bavaria, Germany, and is the administrative center of a much larger Traunstein (district), district of the same name. The town serves as a local government, retail, health se ...

district. The municipal area comprises the Rainbichl hill, with the highest point of Altötting district, offering a panoramic view to the mountain chain of the

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in the south.

History

The settlement of ''Deolekingas'' in the German

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was first mentioned about 790 AD, then a possession of

St Peter's Abbey, Salzburg St Peter's Abbey (), or St Peter's Archabbey (German: ''Erzabtei Stift Sankt Peter'', ), is a Order of Saint Benedict, Benedictine monastery and former cathedral in the Austrian city of Salzburg. It is considered one of the oldest monasteries in ...

. Temporarily the seat of a local ''

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'' administration of the episcopal lands, it became part of the immediate

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in the late 13th century. Upon the

German mediatization German mediatisation (; ) was the major redistribution and reshaping of territorial holdings that took place between 1802 and 1814 in Germany by means of the subsumption and Secularization (church property), secularisation of a large number of ...

of 1803, Tyrlaching and the whole Rupertiwinkel region passed to the short-lived

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under Grand Duke

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and fell to the newly established

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according to the 1805 Peace of Pressburg. In 1809/10 Austria had to cede the Salzburg Rupertiwinkel to the

Kingdom of Bavaria The Kingdom of Bavaria ( ; ; spelled ''Baiern'' until 1825) was a German state that succeeded the former Electorate of Bavaria in 1806 and continued to exist until 1918. With the unification of Germany into the German Empire in 1871, the kingd ...

. The Tyrlaching municipality was incorporated into Altötting district in the course of a 1972 administrative reform.

References

{{Authority control Altötting (district)