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Pocking
Sign in to savePocking (; ) is a town in the district of Passau, in Lower Bavaria, Germany. It is situated about 30 km south-west of Passau, close to the Austrian border.
Key facts
- German location.type
- Stadt
- German location.image_photo
- Pfarrkirche Pocking.JPG
- German location.image_caption
- Church of Saint Ulrich
- German location.image_coa
- DEU Pocking COA.svg
- German location.image_plan
- Pocking in PA.svg
- German location.state
- Bayern
- German location.region
- Niederbayern
- German location.district
- Passau
- German location.elevation
- 323
- German location.area
- 68.86
- German location.postal_code
- 94060
- German location.area_code
- 08531
- German location.licence
- PA
- German location.Gemeindeschlüssel
- 09 2 75 141
- German location.website
- www.pocking.de
- German location.mayor
- Franz Krah
- German location.leader_term
- 2020–26
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Wikidata facts
- Population
- 16509
- Area
- 68.86
- Elevation
- 323
- Official website
- www.pocking.de
- Image
- Rathaus Pocking.JPG
- Households
- 4482
- Dialing code
- 08531
- Licence plate code
- PA
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- Commons category
- Pocking
- postal code
- 94060
- short name
- Pok
- number of houses
- 2993
- P8168
- Sebastian Köber
- hashtag
- Pocking
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Pocking (; ) is a town in the district of Passau, in Lower Bavaria, Germany. It is situated about 30 km south-west of Passau, close to the Austrian border.
==History== A Roman settlement was founded in the area of Pocking as early as the 1st century AD. The Bajuwaren tribe settled around Pocking in the 6th century AD. In 820 AD Pocking was first mentioned in a historic document. Since 1824 Pocking forms its own political community and in 1971 it was granted the privileges of a town.
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