Bavarian Oberland - Bayerisches Oberland

The Bavarian Oberland located in Upper Bavaria and is the foothills of the Alps between Lech and Isar up to Tegernsee valley and Lower Inn Valley.

Regions

• The church rich Pfaffenwinkel;

• The Tölzer Land with the Isarwinkel and the Jachenau;

• The Werdenfelser Land, also "Goldenes Landl", the alpine picture book holiday landscape at the foot of the Zugspitze;

• The blue land, Holiday region at the Staffelsee and the Riegsee;

• The Tegernsee valley: Baths, health resorts and artist colonies;

• The mountains in the foothills of the Alps are the Walchensee Mountains, the Ester Mountains and the Mangfall Mountains with the Tegernsee and Schlierseer Mountains and the Wendelstein group.

places

in the Pfaffenwinkel:

• Bernried on Lake Starnberg, "Most beautiful village in Bavaria" with the Buchheim collection.
• Dießen am Ammersee, former Augustinian canons monastery
• Rottenbuch, former Augustinian monastery in the valley of the Ammer.
• Schongau.
• Steingaden, with the Premonestratian monastery still founded by the Guelphs.
• Seeshaupt at Lake Starnberg.
• Weilheim, with a historic city center.
• Wessobrunn with the famous monastery.

in the Werdenfelser Land:

• Garmisch-Partenkirchen: 700-800 m; Health resort and international tourism and winter sports center.
• Grainau (750 m), Zugspitzdorf and high altitude health resort.
• Mittenwald (913 m), violin maker and climatic health resort, tourist center at the foot of the western Karwendelspitze.

The blue land:

• Murnau am Staffelsee (650-730 m) at the Staffelsee, art (the blue rider) and tourism.

in the Ammergau

• Oberammergau, Schnitzerdorf, Lüftlmalerei and world-famous Passion Play location.
• Saulgrub (859 m).
• Bad Kohlgrub (828 m), the highest German mud bath.
• Bad Bayersoien (812 m) spa and moor spa.

in the Tölzer Land:

• Bad Tölz in the Isarwinkel.
• Jachenau, Idyll in the Isarwinkel.
• Kochel am See with the Kochelsee.
• Lenggries Flößerdorf, climatic health resort and winter sports community.
• Walchensee.
• Wolfratshausen, Rafting town.

At the Tegernsee:

• Bad Wiessee the world bath with the iodine-sulfur springs.
• Kreuth known in the media also through the district "Wildbad Kreuth" as a regular meeting point of the Bavarian CSU.
• Tegernsee (city) with the castle and its baroque monastery church, the local museum and the brewery bar.
• Rottach-Egern with the 800 year old parish church and the cemetery with the artists' graves.
• Gmund with the parish church from 1675 and the Quirinus spring, the oldest healing spring on the Tegernsee.

in the Miesbacher Oberland:

• Bayrischzell (800 m), winter sports and climatic health resort.
• Fischbachau , (771 m), winter sports and summer retreat and former monastery with St. Martin, the oldest Romanesque basilica in Upper Bavaria.
• Schliersee (784 m), lake, winter sports and market town.
• Miesbach, (697 m) the district town.

Other goals

Panoramic mountains

There are plenty of mountains in the Oberland, but a few peaks are particularly exposed in terms of their views:

• The Zugspitze (2,962 m), there is no more exposed way in Germany, the view from the summit extends over several hundred kilometers in the Eastern Alps if the weather permits Grossglockner to Ötztaler Wildspitze. The summit is easy to reach with several mountain railways.

• The Wendelstein (1,838 m) in the east of the Oberland has a wide view over the Inn Valley, the foothills of the Alps and up to the Tauern. Two tracks lead almost to the summit.

• The High Peissenberg (988 m), located in the west of the region, is advertised with a 360 ° panorama in the foothills of the Alps and the "most beautiful panoramic view of Bavaria". The road leads to the parking lot almost at the summit.

• The Schachen is a small peak on the north side of the Wetterstein and known for the royal house of Ludwig II. From here there is a wide view of the whole mountains and that Werdenfelser Land, the Schachen-Alpe can be reached on foot or by bike.

Zugspitze and Schachen are actually already in the high mountains and, in the strict sense, are no longer part of the Oberland foothills, but they have a wide view.

Lakes and bodies of water:

• The alpine lakes Tegernsee, Kochelsee and Walchensee and the Sylvenstein Speicher;

• The Five Lakes Land with the starnberger Lake the Ammersee and many other lakes are connected to the north;

• The Spitzingsee, Hamlet and largest high mountain lake in Germany, much-visited destination in summer and winter;

background

The region essentially corresponds to the Bavarian planning region of the same name Oberland, consisting of the four Upper Bavarian districts of Weilheim-Schongau, Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen, Garmisch-Partenkirchen and Miesbach.

language

getting there

mobility

Tourist Attractions

• The monasteries in Andechs, Benediktbeuern, Schäftlarn, Schlehdorf, Steingaden and Wessobrunn;

• Wieskirche, Rococo - pilgrimage church "to the Scourged Savior" and part of the UNESCO world cultural heritage;

• The museums of the expressionism in the foothills of the Alps: in Bernried on Lake Starnberg the Book House Museum, in Kochel am See the Franz Marc Museum and in Murnau am Staffelsee the Castle Museum and the Münter House;

activities

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literature

Web links

• Upper Bavaria Tourist Association;