Ammergau

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The Ammergau (also the Ammertal ) is an area between Graswang / Ettal and Bad Kohlgrub an der Ammer near the border with Tyrol with the main town of Oberammergau . The area possibly got its name from the nearby Amber Road (cf. Ammer = Amber ).

The Ammergau dialect is southern Bavarian with clearly audible influences from the neighboring Allgäu Swabian .

The area is important for its special cultural achievements in the field of folk art such as wood carving . The Oberammergau Passion Play , which has been taking place every 10 years since 1633, is famous worldwide . The fairy tale king Ludwig II particularly valued the country and the people of this region. He had the smallest of his royal castles built in a side valley near Graswang with Linderhof Palace , in which he spent most of his term of office.

In front of the mountains are the two therapeutic baths Bad Kohlgrub and Bad Bayersoien . The there for mud baths used peat from the surrounding mountain pine - bogs is considered one of the most studied in the world and is effective for suffering caused by circulatory problems occur or are accompanied by such.

The valley was historically important for a long time as a traffic route to northern Italy and Venice as well as to Augsburg in the north. The Ettal Benedictine Abbey on the top of the pass in the direction of Oberau and Garmisch-Partenkirchen was the largest landowner for a long time and, until secularization, also exercised jurisdiction as far as the Loisach Valley with the Staffelsee and Murnau areas .

The historical Ammerland region in what is now Lower Saxony was formerly also called Ammergau .

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Wikivoyage: Ammergau  - travel guide