Pfaffenwinkel

Pfaffenwinkel (the " Corner of the curés" or rather of the " calotins"), is located in Préalpes of High-Bavaria between the rivers Lech, Ammer and Loisach, the southern part of the lake Ammersee and the southern extremity of the Lac of Starnberg to the mountains of the Ammergau.

The name comes owing to the fact that the churches and abbeys are more numerous there than everywhere else.

The church of pilgrimage " Auf DER Wies " (cultural heritage of UNESCO), the church of Steingaden, the old abbey one of Rottenbuch, the center of pilgrimage of Hoher- Peissenberg, Altenstadt and its basilica Romance E are only some of curiosities of the sacred art. The Prayer of Wessobrunn, written towards 814 as former high-German, is the German text oldest which was preserved and marks to some extent the beginning of the German Littérature.

The altitude particularly favorable of 500 m to 900 m gives a truly ideal climate.

The central situation of Pfaffenwinkel in fact an ideal starting point to make excursions in the surroundings close or more moved away, Munich, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, the castles built by the king Louis II of Bavaria of Neuschwanstein, Hohenschwangau and Linderhof.

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