  piding is an approved climatic spa in bavaria near to the border of austria close to bad reichenhall and freilassing. ==geography== ===geographical position=== piding is located in the middle of the landkreis berchtesgadener land. the municipal area corresponds to a natural expanse: it is bounded by the mountains hochstaufen (1771 m) and fuderheuberg (1.350 m) in the south, by the river saalach in the east and by the hill hÃ¶gl in the north-west. in the north-east the saalach shapes the borderline to salzburg (austria). ===districts and neighbours=== the districts are piding, kleinhÃ¶gl, bichlbruck, urwies, mauthausen, staufenbrÃ¼cke and pidingerau. immediate neighbours are the town bad reichenhall and the municipalities ainring and anger. ==history== archaeological troves shows, that the region was already populated in the new stone age (about 2800 b.c.). during the construction of the (former) ski-lift at the fuderheuberg in 1970 copper bars from the bronze age were found. ===religions=== the catholic parish maria geburt (birth of mary) is responsible for this churches: * parish church maria geburt (piding) * st. laurentius (mauthausen) * st. johannes at johannishÃ¶gl (no regular masses) ===development of population=== 1790: 635 inhabitants, 1910: 864, 1946: 1.540, 1985: 3.996, 2000: 5.093, 2002: 5.257. ===coat of arms=== the municipal coat of arms from 1962 refers to the former relations to arch-monastery and chapter salzburg (black lion's head) and to the hÃ¶glwÃ¶rth abbey (cross-over silver keys). ==politics== ===municipal council=== *csu 8 seats(andreas argstatter, heinz bender, sabine wolf, gerhard rotter, werner seichter, johann steinbrecher, johann utz, hogger stefan) *spd 1 seats (helmut grÃ¼nÃ¤ugl) *greens 2 seat (angelika goldbrunner. dr. bernhard zimmer) *fwg 9 seats (georg dufter, bÃ¤rbel schÃ¶ndorfer, franz geigl, jochen grimm, susanne scholze, dieter schÃ¶nwÃ¤lder, walter pfannerstill, andreas reichenberger, hubert diesbacher) ===mayor=== first (governing) mayor is hannes holzner (csu), second mayor walter pfannerstill(fwg) and third mayor dr. bernhard zimmer (grÃ¼ne). ==culture and sights== ===music/tra
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