Grainau

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Municipality in Bavaria, Germany

Coat of arms

Location of Grainau within Garmisch-Partenkirchen district

(2020–26) Stephan Märkl^[1] (CSU)Area

• Total49.38 km² (19.07 sq mi)Elevation

758 m (2,487 ft)Population

(2022-12-31)^[2]

• Total3,567 • Density72/km² (190/sq mi)Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)Postal codes

82491

Dialling codes08821Vehicle registrationGAPWebsitewww.grainau.de

Grainau is a municipality in the district of Garmisch-Partenkirchen, in southern Bavaria, Germany.^[3] It is located at the foot of the Zugspitze mountain, the tallest mountain in Germany in the sub-mountain range of the Wetterstein Alps which is a branch off the main mountain range it is connected to, the Alps. Lake Eibsee in Grainau lies at the foot of the Zugspitze surrounded by forest.

Geography

Grainau lies at the foot of the Zugspitze in the Wetterstein Mountains. It is part of the seven municipalities of the former County of Werdenfels, along with Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Farchant, Mittenwald, Krün and Wallgau. Grainau is also home to two mountain lakes, the Badersee and the Eibsee. Waxenstein mountain sits to the south, while the Kramerspitz mountain and Ammergau Alps sit to the north.^[4]

The district of Grainau is made up of:^[5]

Obergrainau (parish village)
Untergrainau and Hammersbach (church village)
Schmölz (village)
Eibsee (hamlet)

Notable people

Lorenzo Quaglio the Younger (1793–1869) painter and lithographer, painted Alm am Eibsee bey Grainau in 1831
Alfred Gerstenberg (1893 in Grainau – 1959 in Bad Tölz) Luftwaffe general
Wilhelm Rudolf Mann (1894 in Wiesbaden – 1992 in Grainau) factory manager for IG Farben and later with Bayer
Hans Stuck (1900 in Warsaw – 1978 in Grainau) motor racing driver
Peter Schneider (born 1940, in Lübeck) writer, lived in Grainau from 1945 to 1950
Pepi Bader (born 1941 in Grainau) bobsledder, competed in the 1968 Winter Olympics and 1972 Winter Olympics winning silver medals in the two-man event
Regina Stiefl (born 1966 in Grainau) mountain biker

References

^ Liste der ersten Bürgermeister/Oberbürgermeister in kreisangehörigen Gemeinden, Bayerisches Landesamt für Statistik, 15 July 2021.
^ Genesis Online-Datenbank des Bayerischen Landesamtes für Statistik Tabelle 12411-003r Fortschreibung des Bevölkerungsstandes: Gemeinden, Stichtag (Einwohnerzahlen auf Grundlage des Zensus 2011).
^ "Bayerische Landesbibliothek Online (BLO)". www.bayerische-landesbibliothek-online.de (in German). Retrieved 2018-08-13.
^ "Grainau (Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Bavaria, Germany) - Population Statistics, Charts, Map, Location, Weather and Web Information". www.citypopulation.info. Retrieved 2018-08-13.
^ "Bayerische Landesbibliothek Online (BLO)". www.bayerische-landesbibliothek-online.de (in German). Retrieved 2018-08-13.