{{Infobox German location |name = Herrsching am Ammersee |image_coa = Wappen Herrsching.svg |image_photo = Luftaufnahme Herrsching am Ammersee.jpg |image_caption = Aerial view |coordinates = {{coord|48|00|N|11|11|E|format=dms|display=inline,title}} |image_plan = Herrsching am Ammersee in STA.svg |state = Bayern |region = Oberbayern |district = Starnberg |elevation = 568 |area = 20.88 |postal_code = 82211 |area_code = 08152 |licence = STA, WOR |Gemeindeschlüssel = 09 1 88 124 |divisions = 3 Ortsteile |website = [https://www.herrsching.de/ www.herrsching.de] |mayor = Christian Schiller<ref>[https://www.statistik.bayern.de/wahlen/kommunalwahlen/bgm/ Liste der ersten Bürgermeister/Oberbürgermeister in kreisangehörigen Gemeinden], Bayerisches Landesamt für Statistik, 15 July 2021.</ref> |leader_term = 2020–26 |party = Ind }}
'''Herrsching am Ammersee''' ({{IPA|de|ˈhɛʁʃɪŋ ʔam ˈʔamɐˌzeː|-|LL-Q188 (deu)-Michael Schoenitzer (MichaelSchoenitzer)-Herrsching am Ammersee.wav}}, {{lit|Herrsching on the Ammersee}}) is a municipality in Upper Bavaria, Germany, on the east shore of the Ammersee, southwest of Munich. The population is around 8,000 in winter, increasing to 13,000 in summer.
Situated at one terminus of the Munich S-Bahn line S8, the village is popular with travellers for its water-sports and as the starting point of trips to the Benedictine Andechs Abbey. Herrsching is also a stop for touring steamships of the Bavarian ''Seenschiffahrt'' or lake fleet.
Herrsching is home for the unit finance of "college of public service in Bavaria". Prior to the Second World War, it was there the ''Reichsfinanzschule Hersching''. From 1943 to 1946, the school was converted into a hospital and rehab facility for soldiers who had lost limbs.
==Main sights== Notable sights include *the lake-front promenade (at about 5 km, the longest one in Germany) *''Kurparkschlössl'' (Little castle), built in 1888 by the artist Ludwig Scheuermann *Historic paddle-wheel steamships ''Herrsching'' and ''Diessen'' docking at the harbour in summer *St. Martin's church *''Zur Post'' Gasthof from 1567<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.post-herrsching.com/history.html |title=Hotel Gasthof zur Post |publisher=Hotel Gasthof zur Post |access-date=20 May 2018 }}</ref> *Archaeological Park, a 7th-century settlement of the Bavarians.
==Personality== * Rainer Rene Graf Adelmann von Adelmannsfelden (born 1948), former lawyer * Arno Assmann (1908–1979), actor * Martin Benrath (1926–2000), actor * Helene Böhlau (1856–1940), writer, buried in Widdersberg * David Coverdale (born 1951), singer of the band Deep Purple 1973-1976 {{Citation needed|reason=Linked page makes no reference to Herrsching or Ammersee|date=April 2017}} * Roderich Fick, (1886–1955), architect, lived and worked in the "Old Mill", Mühlfeld from 1920 to 1955 * Camilla Horn (1903–1996), actress * Clemens Kuby (born 1947), documentary filmmaker and author * Christian Morgenstern (1871–1914), poet: his widow Margareta lived from 1919 until her death in 1968 in Breitbrunn. * Burkard Freiherr von Müllenheim-Rechberg (1910—2003), naval officer and diplomat * Alfred Ploetz (1860–1940), physician and eugenicist * Rudi Schuricke (1913–1973), singer, actor, lived from 1955 to 1973 in Herrsching, owner of the former Hotel Seespitz * Klaus Wennemann (1940–2000), actor * Harald Winter (born 1953), artist
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== {{Commonscat|Herrsching am Ammersee}} * [https://www.herrsching.de/ official website] * [http://www.5sli.de/5seen-english.htm Five Lake County tourist information]
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