Garmisch-Partenkirchen
Garmisch-Partenkirchen is a town of Germany located in Bavaria, close to the Austrian border, connected to Munich and Innsbruck by rail link and highway. It is the result of the fusion of two communes, Garmisch and Partenkirchen.
26.249 inhabitants in 2005.
Winter sports resort (alt. 708-2963 m), Garmisch-Partenkirchen accommodated the IVes Winter Olympics of winter in 1936 and should also have received the Winter Olympics of 1940, cancelled thereafter.
The top of the Germany, the Zugspitze is on its district at the border with the Austria; one reaches it by a train crémaillière, the Railroad of Zugspitze.
Organized events passed and future
Personalities related to the commune
- the musician Richard Strauss bought a villa in 1908 there and there lived until its death in 1949.
- Armin Bittner, alpine skier.
- Christian Neureuther, alpine skier.
- Felix Neureuther, alpine skier and wire of the precedent.
- Maria Riesch, alpine skier.
See too
- Official site of the commune
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