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Icking

municipality in Bavaria, Germany

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 27, 2026
Entity authorityQ254148
Source-derived summary

Icking is a municipality in the district of Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen in Bavaria in Germany.

People

Anita Augspurg, lived in Icking from 1916 until she fled the Nazis.

Dieter Borsche, actor, lived in Icking in the beginning of the '60s.

Bernhard Buttersack, painter, died in 1925 in Icking.

Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach, painter.

Klaus Doldinger, jazz musician.

O. W. Fischer, Austrian actor, lived in Irschenhausen in the '60s.

Gert Fröbe, actor, buried in Icking in 1988.

Max W. Kimmich, scriptwriter, lived in Icking until he died.

D. H. Lawrence, English writer, lived in Icking in September 1927.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Icking” is municipality in Bavaria, Germany. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Icking, municipality and Bavaria, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1916, 1925, 1988, 1927—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Icking, municipality and Bavaria is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “municipality in Bavaria, Germany” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 27, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q254148. VIAF identifies the subject as 244161606. Authority coordinates are 47.950, 11.433. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1916, 1925, 1988 and 1927.

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This entry incorporates text from Icking” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.