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:[3]
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.[4]
Assignments
In 1980 an area with a little less than 100 inhabitants was assigned to Tann.[5]
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.[1]
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.