Sonnen

Sonnen () is a small municipality in the Passau district of the Lower Bavaria (Niederbayern) region of eastern Bavaria, Germany. It is located in the Danube forest, lower Bavarian forest and is located mostly in the district Passau at a height of 700 to 900 meters. Sonnen lies 28 km from Passau, 9 km from Hauzenberg and from the forest itself 13 km. Sonnen borders with upper Austria which lies only 8 km away.

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German location.image_coa: DEU Sonnen COA.svg
German location.image_photo: Pfarrkirche Sonnen.JPG
German location.image_caption: Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary
German location.image_plan: Sonnen in PA.svg
German location.state: Bayern
German location.region: Niederbayern
German location.district: Passau
German location.elevation: 836
German location.area: 16.48
German location.postal_code: 94164
German location.area_code: 08584
German location.licence: PA
German location.Gemeindeschlüssel: 09 2 75 148
German location.website: www.gemeinde-sonnen.de
German location.mayor: Klaus Weidinger
German location.leader_term: 2020–26
German location.party: CSU

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Official name: Sonnen
Population: 1400
Area: 16.48
Elevation: 836
Official website: www.sonnen.eu
Image: Pfarrkirche Sonnen.JPG
Households: 417
Dialing code: 08584
Licence plate code: PA

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Commons category: Sonnen
postal code: 8391
number of houses: 320
native label: Sonnen
hashtag: Sonnen

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Sonnen has been able to possess a rather secured boundary since the Middle Ages. Max Heuwieser writes in "The Tradition of Passau", that Sonnen received its official name somewhere between the years 1130AD and 1150AD by Baron Von Falkenstein.