Brannenburg - Brannenburg

Degerndorf, Brannenburg Agidius Church.jpg
Brannenburg
federal stateBavaria
Residents
6.310 (2019)
height
509 m
Tourist info(0)8034 4515
www.brannenburg.de
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Brannenburg

The vacation community Brannenburg is a state-approved climatic health resort and is located in Upper Bavarian Lower Inn Valley right on the border to Austria at the foot of the mountains of the Mangfall Mountains.

Map of Brannenburg

background

Brannenburg Castle

The first documentary mention of Brannenburg is between 993 and 1000, the name is traced back to slash and burn. In the Middle Ages, the town of Brannenburg was part of the castle and its own Hofmark Brannenburg.

The district Degerndorf am Inn is first mentioned in a document in 814, the place name is traced back to Tegardorf for Großdorf. Degerndorf initially belongs to the property of Count of Falkenstein, after the fall of the noble family around 1250, the place changes to the Wittelsbach family.

The district Großbrannenberg is the great Brannenburg, but the popular name was always "St. Margarethen".

Today's political municipality Brannenburg was created through the incorporation of the previously independent municipalities Degerndorf am Inn (1972) and Großbrannenberg (1978) into Brannenburg.

The Districts of the municipality of Brannenburg are: Bichl, Brannenburg, Brunnthal, Degerndorf, Gembachau, Gmain, Höf, Lechen, Mooseck, Ried, St. Margareten, Steg, Steinberg, Thann, Tiefenbach, Vorderkronberg, Vorderleiten, Wart.

In the 19th century, Branneburg was also the summer meeting place for a small group Artist colony around the landscape painters of the Munich School, names here are initially C. Rottmann (1798-1850, 1822 for the first time on site), followed by E. Schleich the Elder, among others. (1812-1874), Carl Spitzweg (1808-1885), F. Voltz, C. Mali and A. Breit, C. Raup and also Wilhelm Busch (1832-1908).

Dientzenhofer

Brannenburg is home to the Dientzenhofers, one from the area around Rosenheim (Bad Feilnbach) immigrant farming family. The children of the mountain farmer Georg Dientzenhofer provided some of the greatest builders of their time. As architects in the late 17th and early 18th centuries, they shaped baroque architecture in Franconia, Bohemia, Hesse and the Upper Palatinate. The family lived on the "Zum Gugg" farm above St. Margarethen.

  • Leonhard Dientzenhofer (1660-1707) the second youngest of the five Dientzenhofer brothers, after a few years in Prague he was responsible, among other things, for building the monasteries in Waldsassen and Ebrach. He lived mostly in Bamberg and was a master builder since 1690, some other works are the New residence in Bamberg (construction started 1695), Michelsberg Monastery and Banz Monastery.

getting there

Distances (road km)
Kufstein23 km
Rosenheim10 km
Munich74 km
Salzburg93 km
innsbruck86 km

By plane

  • The next major international airport is Munich Airport: Munich (Also "Franz Josef Strauss", 113 km, approx. a good hour's drive). From here, among others, offer Lufthansa and their partner of Star Alliance Connections to cities in Germany, Europe and worldwide. As the second largest airport in Germany, it is connected to a growing number of cities.
  • Other quickly accessible airports are the in innsbruck (101 km, one hour by car) and in Salzburg (86 km, one hour by car);

By train

Brannenburg station is on the Munich-Kufstein- (Innsbruck) railway line.

In the street

  • Of north (from Germany) about the Highway 93 Rosenheim / Dreieck Inntal to Kufstein (the German part of the Inntal motorway), Symbol: ASBrannenburg.
  • Of south (out Austria via the Austrian Inntal Autobahn A12 (Kufstein - innsbruck the Austrian part of the Inntal motorway), at Kufstein to Germany across the border and further to Symbol: ASBrannenburg.

mobility

  • The RVO (Regionalverkehr Oberbayern / DB) operates the bus routes in the region;
Regionalverkehr Oberbayern GmbH, Hirtenstrasse 24, D-80335 Munich; Tel .: 089 / 55164-0, Fax: 089 / 55164-199; info;

Tourist Attractions

St. Aegidius in Brannenburg
St. Margarethen
  • Parish church Assumption Day in Brannenburg: the late Gothic church building is first mentioned in a document in 1315, the interior was redesigned in Baroque style in 1670/8 and 1723/24 0. The three high altars (around 1685) and the side altars are particularly worth seeing.
  • St. Aegidius in Brannenburg, the late Gothic church is first mentioned in a document around 1180, the current building essentially dates from the second half of the 15th century and was redesigned in Baroque style from 1659 onwards.
  • Parish church Christ the King in Degerndorf: built in 1947/49 from Biberstein, modern hall church.
  • Magdalenenkirche on the Biber, emerged from a hermitage: Klausner Johannes Schelle on the Biberhöhe is the oldest hermit in the Inn Valley, his chapel was consecrated in 1636, the interior was built from 1664. In 1864 the interior was designed in a neo-Gothic style, the original baroque furnishings were restored from 1964 restored. The Way of the Cross from 1733/34 is also worth seeing.
Location: on the Biberhöhe immediately west of Brannenburg.
  • Mountain church St. Margarethen: First mentioned in a document in 1445.
Location: above Brannenburg on the access road to the Margarethen district.
  • Pilgrimage church Black lacquer, built in the late baroque style from 1750 to 1767.
Location: about two kilometers northeast of Brannenburg.

Information on the cath. Churches on: www.pfarrverband-degerndorf-brannenburg.de and to the Protestant churches www.brannenburg-evangelisch.de.

  • Brannenburg Castle, built 1872-75 by Joseph von Schmaedel for Major Max Reinhardt in the English neo-Gothic style. A boarding school (secondary school) is now housed in the castle and is not open to the public.
Location: Schloßstraße 6 in the center of Brannenburg.

activities

Wendelsteinbahn

The Wendelsteinbahn is an electrically operated rack railway and runs all year round from Brannenburg to the 1,840 m high Wendelstein: The railway line overcomes a height difference of 1,217 m from the valley station in Brannenburg with seven tunnels, eight galleries and twelve bridges. The completion of the railway in 1912 was considered a technical sensation at the time. the Secret Commerce Council Dr. h.c. Otto von Steinbeis privately financed. Steinbeis was initially a timber merchant, but he used his profits to pay for the construction of the Wendelsteinbahn, which is one of the first mountain railways in the Bavarian Alps.

The railway system technology was comprehensively modernized in 1987 with the support of the Free State of Bavaria and the Rosenheim district.

Wendelsteinbahn, Brannenburg station

Some data about the railway:

  • Stations are Brannenburg (0 m) - Talbahnhof Waching (508 m) - Aipl (972 m) - Mitteralm (1210 m) - Bergbahnhof Wendelstein (1723 m)
  • Track width: 1,000 mm (rack railway, Strub system)
  • Travel time: approx. 30 minutes, capacity: 400 people / hour;
  • Power system: 1,500 volts DC
  • Track length (since 1961): 7.66 kilometers, of which 6.15 kilometers with a rack and pinion system, at the opening the track length was almost 10 kilometers.

Wendelsteinbahn. Tel.: 49 (0)8034 308-0. Open: Hours of operation: summer 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., winter until 4 p.m.Price: single ticket adults: 17.- €; Mountain and valley: € 27.50.

summer

  • Inn shipping: In Brannenburg there is no regular boat traffic on the Inn. The next boat mooring for the Inn shipping (from spring to autumn round trips to Kufstein) is in Oberaudorf.

winter

shop

Bakeries, butchers and several grocery stores / supermarkets / discounters are represented in the local area (partly in the periphery).

kitchen

  • Gasthaus Schwarzlack, Schwarlack 1, 83098 Brannenburg, Germany. Tel.: 49 (0)8034 7990, Fax: 49 (0)8034 708640. Excursion bar at the Schwarzlack pilgrimage church, about two kilometers northeast of Brannenburg.

nightlife

accommodation

security

  • Avalanche warning service for Bavaria.
  • Avalanche warning service for Austria

health

  • General practitioners, dentists, specialists and veterinarians are represented several times in town.
  • The next Primary health care hospitals are located in Rosenheim (RoMed Klinikum) and in Kufstein (District Hospital) in Austria.
Brief information
Phone code08034
Post Code83098
MarkRO
Time zoneUTC 1
Emergency police110
Fire brigade, rescue112

Practical advice

  • The item Rockclimbing contains information on the topic Mountain hiking;
  • DHL branch: Post agency Nußdorfer Straße 2, 83098 Brannenburg (in the center);

trips

literature

  • Siegfried Bufe: Wendelsteinbahn. Bufe-Fachbuch-Verlag, 2000, ISBN 978-3922138747 .

cards

  • AV card "Mangfallgebirge Ost, Wendelstein" (first edition December 2007); (Scale 1: 50,000)
  • Bavarian Land Survey Office Mangfall Mountains, UKL12, (scale 1: 50,000), ISBN 3-86038-484-8 ;

Web links

  • Brannenburg meeting point [1]
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