12-657: Marktl , or often unofficially called Marktl am Inn ("little market on the River Inn "), is a village and historic market municipality in the state of Bavaria , Germany , near the Austrian border, in the Altötting district of Upper Bavaria . The most notable neighbouring town is Altötting . Marktl has approximately 2,800 inhabitants. Marktl is the birthplace of Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger (1927–2022) otherwise known as Pope Benedict XVI . Marktl's coat of arms features
24-514: A ship's hook and caper measure as symbols of navigation and trade, under the blue and white lozenges of the duchy of Bavaria. Marktl is twinned with: Inn (river) The Inn ( Latin : Aenus ; Romansh : En ) is a river in Switzerland , Austria and Germany . The 518 km (322 mi) long river is a right tributary of the Danube , being the third largest tributary of
36-460: Is a town in the district of Altötting , in Bavaria , Germany . It is situated on the river Inn , 2 km north of Altötting , about 70 km north of Salzburg , 80 southwest of Passau and almost 100 km east of Munich . It is a stop on the railway line between Munich and Simbach . Neuötting has a town square in the unique Inn-Salzach style, including two towers at each end. During
48-627: The Austrian state of Tyrol and its capital, Innsbruck ( bridge over the Inn ), and crosses the border into Bavaria near Kufstein . On Bavarian territory the river runs northwards and passes Rosenheim , Wasserburg am Inn , and Waldkraiburg ; then it turns east, runs through Mühldorf and Neuötting and is enlarged by two major tributaries, the Alz and the Salzach . From here to the Danube , it forms
60-651: The Danube by discharge. The highest point of its drainage basin is the summit of Piz Bernina at 4,049 m (13,284 ft). The Engadine , the valley of the En, is the only Swiss valley whose waters end up in the Black Sea (via the Danube). The name Inn is derived from the old Celtic words en and enios , meaning water . In a document of 1338, the river was named Wasser (German for water). The first written mention from
72-638: The Danube watershed, the Inn is considered a tributary of the Danube, which has a greater length, drains a larger surface area, and has a more consistent flow. The Inn is the only river originating in Switzerland that ends in the Black Sea (via the Danube). The average discharge at the mouth of the Inn is 735 m /s (26,000 cu ft/s). On 3 June 2013 the discharge of the Inn in Passau reached 6,820 m /s (241,000 cu ft/s) and
84-748: The area of the lakes at the Maloja Pass . A connection may exist between the name Inn and the name of the French river Ain . The source of the Inn is located in the Swiss Alps , west of St. Moritz in the Engadine region, which is named after the river ( Romansh Engiadina ; Latin vallis Eniatina ). Shortly after it leaves its source, the Inn flows through the largest lakes on its course, Lake Sils and Lake Silvaplana . It runs north-eastwards, entering Austria, and from Landeck eastwards through
96-529: The border between Germany (Bavaria) and Austria ( Upper Austria ). Towns on this last section of the river are Marktl am Inn , Simbach on Inn , Braunau am Inn and Schärding . In Passau the Inn finally enters the Danube (as does the river Ilz there). Although the Inn has a greater average flow than the Danube when they converge in Passau, and its watershed contains the Piz Bernina, the highest point in
108-578: The lower course. The Tyrolean section was first called Aenus by Venantius Fortunatus in the 6th century. The name Engadin and the Romansh name En indicate that the upper reaches of the river have always been called this way. Even though it was occasionally believed that the Inn originated near the Adige at the Reschen Pass , since the 16th century at the latest the origin has been seen uniformly in
120-408: The water levels reached 12.85 m (42.2 ft), the highest recorded historic flood level since 1501. The historic centre of Passau, where the Danube , Inn and Ilz converge, was flooded severely. Currently, there are 24 hydroelectric power plants on the Inn. 17 of them are operated by Verbund AG . The power plants are listed beginning at the headwaters: Neu%C3%B6tting Neuötting
132-608: The years 105 to 109 (Publii Corneli Taciti historiarium liber tertius) reads: " ... Sextilius Felix... ad occupandam ripam Aeni fluminis, quod Raetos Noricosque interfluit, missus... " ("... Sextilius Felix was sent to capture the banks of the Inn, which flows between the Rhaetian people and the Noric people.") The river is also mentioned by other authors of the Roman Empire as Ainos (Greek) or Aenus (Latin). In medieval Latin it
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#1732772818011144-545: Was written as Enus or Oenus . The change in the old Bavarian language from e to i turned Enus to In . Until the 17th century, it was written like this or Yn , but also Ihn or Yhn . The double-n appeared only in the 16th century, for example in the Tyrolian Landreim of 1557, and since the 18th century this spelling and pronunciation with a short vowel has been customary. The mentions in Roman times refer to
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