The Tegernsee valley located in the south Bavaria between the Tegernsee mountains and the Schlierse mountains in the Mangfall Mountains in the Bavarian Alps.
Regions
The mountains immediately around the Tegernsee belong to the western part of the Mangfall Mountains.
This closes south of the Tegernsee valley Kreuther valley to: it leads to Achenpass shortly before the Austrian border, in Austria closes the region around the Achensee at. The Kreuther Tal is drained from the Weißach into the Tegernsee and is added to the Tegernsee valley on various occasions.
places
- 1 Bad Wiessee
- (740 m), the world bath with the iodine-sulfur springs;
- 2 Kreuth - (787 m), known in the media also through the district "Wildbad Kreuth"as a regular meeting point for the Bavarian CSU;
- 3 Tegernsee - (752 m), with the castle and its baroque monastery church, the local history museum and the Braustüberl;
- 4 Rottach-Egern - (736 m), with the 800 year old parish church and the cemetery with the artists' graves;
- 5 Gmund am Tegernsee - (740 m), with the parish church from 1688 and Gut Kaltenbrunn;
background
Administratively, the Tegernsee valley belongs to the Miesbach district.
Tegernsee (lake)
The lake Tegernsee has a length of approx. 6.5 km, a width of approx. 1.4 km and an area of approx. 9 km² at a depth of almost 72 m. The shore length is approx. 20 km, the lake level is 725.5 m above sea level. NN. The Tegernsee, framed by the Tegernsee Alps, is one of the most beautiful lakes in the Bavarian Alps. It is fed in the south by the mountain streams Weißach and Rottach and has its outflow at the north end in the Mangfall in Gmund.
The Tegernsee owes its formation, like other pre-alpine lakes, to the excavations of the Tegernsee glacier at the end of the last ice age.
One possible interpretation of the name is the derivation of the old Bavarian word "teger" meaning large.
The Tegernsee and its entire immediate surroundings are under landscape protection.
Thanks to a circular sewer system (since 1965), the lake's water is very clean (quality class I). Motor boats are not allowed, but there are a variety of boat rentals / rowing boats.
In addition to its tourist importance, the lake is also used by three professional fishermen.
Fish stocks
The stocks of edible fish in Tegernsee are estimated at around 2.5 million whitefish, 100,000 char as well as around 40,000 trout and sandflies each. The fish are reared in the Bad Wiesse fish hatchery: the dams are caught in the lake in winter, their eggs are stripped and then artificially fertilized. In spring, when the water temperature and nutritional requirements are right, the young fish are released into the lake under favorable conditions.
Other food fish are the Tegernsee pike, the predator reaches lengths of over one meter in special cases under the favorable conditions in the Tegernsee, perch and also eels.
Authorization cards for fishing in Tegernsee are available in Tegernsee at Master fisherman.
Settlement pressure and the building boom
The highly attractive location of the Tegernsee Valley in the Bavarian Prealps, the many opportunities for recreational activities close to nature and the proximity to Munich make the Tegernsee a popular excursion destination but also a sought-after residential area. While only around a thousand people lived in the region in the Middle Ages, the population grew to more than twenty thousand in the late last century. The increasing demand for living space and infrastructure led to a reduction in the area in the valley that was previously used for purely agricultural purposes. In many places new settlements in the modern country house style emerged, which differed from the architectural style of the older Tegernsee farmhouses.
Due to the limited capacity of the circular sewer system opened in 1965, excessive development and the rapid growth of the population in the valley were slowed down from 1971 onwards. The building rights around the Tegernsee were mainly determined by the so-called population equivalents, which stipulated the maximum amount of wastewater that can be fed into a plot of land. As a result, an excessive burden on nature could largely be avoided, despite some interventions in the landscape protection area around the Tegernsee.
getting there
| Distances | |
| Rosenheim | 46 km |
|---|---|
| Munich | 53 km |
| Kufstein | 67 km |
| Mittenwald | 75 km |
| innsbruck | 85 km |
| Salzburg | 119 km |
By plane
The next major international airport is Munich Airport (also "Franz Josef Strauss") north of Munich (About 87 km away, a good hour's drive). Other, quickly accessible airports are in innsbruck (86 km) and Salzburg (108 km).
By train
The train stations in Gmund and Tegernsee are provided every hour by the Bavarian Oberlandbahn Munich connected.
Info: www.bayerische-oberlandbahn.de;
In the street
- On the A8 motorway (Munich-Salzburg), Holzkirchen, Weyarn or Irschenberg exits.
- From Austria, Inntal motorway: exit Achensee / Zillertal and over the Achenpass;
The federal highways 307 (east side) and 318 (west side) frame the lake. On weekends with excursion weather, "stop and go" traffic can be expected on these routes from the afternoon at the latest.
mobility
Shipping Tegernsee
The Tegernsee ship fleet consists of eight passenger ships with capacities from 29 ("MS St.Quirin") to 164 people ("MS Tegernsee"). Due to the short travel times, catering on the ships takes place only on the large boats, these are the "MS TEGERNSEE" and the "MS ROTTACH-EGERN".
Moorings of the boats are: Gmund, Kaltenbrunn, Wiessee-Bad, Wiessee-Ort, Abwinkel, Rottach-Egern, Tegernsee-Braustüberl, Tegernsee-Rathaus, Tegernsee - Cafe am See and St.Quirin. In summer approx. Every quarter of an hour, otherwise translation traffic approx. Every half an hour; Round trip approx. 1 3/4 hours, one-time break allowed.
Operating time all year round, in winter as far as possible from the ice formation;
Info: Maritime shipping
Achenpass
The Achenpass (941 m) is a relatively low alpine crossing, which is usually easy to drive even in winter: the German federal highway 307 from the Tegernsee valley and the federal highway 13 from the area around Bad Tölz, Lenggries and the Sylvensteinspeicher meet shortly before the pass, the route leads after the Achenpass as the Austrian federal highway 181 past the Achensee and further into the Austrian Lower Inn Valley. The road section between Achenpass and Tegernsee is part of the German Alpine Road.
Tourist Attractions
activities
- Diving permitted in the lake for diving with a breathing apparatus for public use (Art. 21 Para. 1 Clause 3 in conjunction with Art. 22 Bavarian Water Act) in accordance with general regulations
- responsible: District Office Miesbach; Tel. (0 80 25) 7 04-0;
Regular events
- Tegernsee valley Montgolfiade, annually at the end of January, hot air balloon festival; www.ti-bad-wiessee.de/Montgolfiade; current information Montgolfiade
- Tegernsee Valley MTB Festival, every summer;
- Oleg Kagan Music Festival in Wildbad Kreuth; Festival for music between classical and modern; annually 14 days in June / July;
- International Mountain Film Festival Tegernsee, annual film festival in autumn with feature films, documentaries, reports and portraits of mountains from all over the world, film prize "Grand Prize of the City"; www.bergfilm-festival-tegernsee.de;
- Tegernsee week, Events on regional customs and culture such as folk music, classical music, songs, theater and literature, as well as exhibitions and guided tours. Every year in autumn.
kitchen
- The 1 Natural cheese dairy Tegernseerland in Kreuth is a cooperative association of dairy farmers from the valley with the aim of direct marketing of their dairy products.
- The 2 Ducal fish farm in Wildbad Kreuth offers trout and char from our own farm, smoked or fresh.
security
- Storm warning via the rotating spotlights at the lake:
- 40 light flashes per minute = advance warning;
- 90 flashes of light per minute = storm warning;
climate
trips
- to the near Sylvenstein Speicher, to the neighboring Achensee, Schliersee, and Spitzingsee, or to the Chiemsee;
- in the neighboring Karwendel Mountains, in the Rofan or in the Tegernsee and Schlierseer mountains;
literature
- Map of the Bavarian Land Surveying Office "UK2" (1:25 000);
Web links
- Tegernsee Tourist Info - official page
- The Tegernsee at the D.L.R.G: www.tegernsee.dlrg.de;
- House of Bavarian History (www.hdbg.de) : Monasteries in Bavaria, Tegernsee Monastery;
- District of Miesbach: www.landkreis-miesbach.de;
- Bavarian Administration of State Palaces, Gardens and Lakes: www.schloesser.bayern.de;
- Tourism Association Upper Bavaria: www.oberbayern-tourismus.de (supraregional);
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