Berchtesgadener Land (tourist region)

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The Watzmann with Berchtesgaden in the foreground
Berchtesgadener Land tourist region
Church of St. Sebastian in the mountaineering village of Ramsau near Berchtesgaden
St. Bartholomä landing stage at Königssee
Old Saline Bad Reichenhall with the Bad Reichenhall Philharmonic
Salzach Bridge in Laufen

The Berchtesgadener Land is a tourism region of the official tourism statistics of the Bavarian State Office for Statistics , which includes the district of Berchtesgadener Land .

The cultural landscape of the same name, Berchtesgadener Land, represents the southern part of the tourist region, followed by the Bad Reichenhaller area in the middle and the southern part of the Rupertiwinkel in the north .

The region records 3.5 million overnight stays, over 700,000 guests and 28,000 beds every year. The marketing organization for the entire tourism region is Berchtesgadener Land Tourismus GmbH .

history

prehistory

The first noteworthy tourist developments in the region arose in the course of the annexation of the formerly imperial prince provost of Berchtesgaden to the Kingdom of Bavaria . The royal family was soon followed by others to spend the summer in Berchtesgaden . Works by famous painters who visited the region, such as B. the painters' colony at Hintersee , they carried into the world. After the town fire of 1834, the brine springs of Bad Reichenhall also became the basis for the development of the spa. In 1846, the first spa hotel, the Axelmannstein, opened in Reichenhall , guests used the saline's graduation house to inhale and a beautification association was founded. The Bad Reichenhall Philharmonic has been entertaining the spa guests since 1868 .

The later Hotel Geiger near Berchtesgaden opened as a guesthouse in 1866 . This was followed in 1871 by the establishment of the Berchtesgaden Beautification Association. In 1878 the Pension Moritz (later Platterhof , or Hotel General Walker ) started operations on Obersalzberg . Reichenhall was officially given the addition of bath in 1899 and it became the Bavarian state bath . In 1910, shipping on the Königssee was switched to electric boats. The Predigtstuhlbahn opened in Bad Reichenhall in 1928 . In the 1920s, Adolf Hitler first stayed at Obersalzberg, which he eventually expanded into a second center of power . After the end of the war, the large hotels in the Berchtesgaden area occupied by the American occupation forces in Bad Reichenhall were largely unusable due to bomb damage. Then there were the billeting of refugees. The new beginning in tourism was therefore difficult. 1950 saw the establishment of the predecessor organization of what is now the Berchtesgaden-Königssee Tourist Region Association, which bundles tourism interests in the Berchtesgaden valley basin. With the Kehlsteinhaus , the Americans opened the region's most famous building in Nazi history in 1952. A year later the Jennerbahn started operating.

Information board for the tourist region on the federal motorway 8

In 1967 the world's first alpine ski world cup race took place on Jenner . The Königssee artificial ice rink was put into operation in 1969 as the world's first artificial ice rink. In 1972, as part of the Bavarian regional reform, the district was created in its current size, but the tourist structures did not change. The Watzmann Therme in Berchtesgaden opened in 1997. The Kur GmbH Bad Reichenhall / Bayerisch Gmain was founded in Bad Reichenhall. The 1999 Snowboard World Championships in Berchtesgadener Land were the first in Germany.

Berchtesgadener Land tourism company

In 2005, the “Berchtesgadener Land Tourismus GmbH”, a district-wide tourism organization, started its activities for the first time. The three regional organizations, Zweckverband Tourismusregion Berchtesgaden-Königssee , Kur- und Verkehrsverein Bad Reichenhall - Bayerisch Gmain and Erlebnisregion Berchtesgadener Land - Rupertiwinkel - eV remained in existence and are the shareholders of the joint GmbH. In the same year, the Rupertustherme in Bad Reichenhall and the Interconti Berchtesgaden Resort (today Kempinski Hotel Berchtesgaden) opened.

organization

With Berchtesgadener Land Tourismus GmbH, the Berchtesgadener Land tourist region has a marketing company that operates for the entire region. She has taken on the outdoor advertising for the entire tourist region. The primary task of the marketing company is to attract new guests to the region. Your seat is in Berchtesgaden .

The three sub-regions

look after the guests on site and are responsible for the tourist facilities. Your organizations Zweckverband Tourismusregion Berchtesgaden-Königssee , Kur- und Verkehrsverein Bad Reichenhall / Bayerisch Gmain and Erlebnisregion Berchtesgadener Land - Rupertiwinkel - eV are the three shareholders of Berchtesgadener Land Tourismus GmbH and finance and control them.

The communities of Ainring and Schneizlreuth no longer belong to the Berchtesgadener Land - Rupertiwinkel eV adventure region and are therefore not organized. However, they are included in the official tourism statistics under the Berchtesgadener Land.

Tourist places and destinations in the region

All 15 municipalities in the tourism region are rated health resorts. With the Bad Reichenhall - Bayerisch Gmain state bath, the Berchtesgadener Land has the only state bath in Upper Bavaria. The five municipalities of the Berchtesgaden valley basin, Berchtesgaden, Schönau am Königssee, Ramsau, Bischofswiesen and Marktschellenberg are all climatic health resorts and form the only contiguous climatic health resort in Germany, it covers more than 125 km² at an altitude of 480 m to 2,713 m. Ainring and Piding are climatic health resorts, the other municipalities are recreational areas .

The most important tourist destinations in the Berchtesgadener Land are:

The tourist region has a variety of attractions, for example

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bavarian State Office for Statistics: Tourism Regions in Bavaria (PDF); Jan. 1, 2019; accessed on August 16, 2019
  2. ↑ Berchtesgadener Land Tourismus GmbH: 10 years of Berchtesgadener Land Tourismus GmbH - key figures and facts , Festschrift (PDF), Berchtesgaden 2014, accessed on December 17, 2017, p. 12, online at www.berchtesgadener-land.com .
  3. ↑ Berchtesgadener Land Tourismus GmbH: 10 years of Berchtesgadener Land Tourismus GmbH - key figures and facts , Festschrift (PDF), Berchtesgaden 2014, accessed on December 17, 2017, p. 7, online at www.berchtesgadener-land.com .
  4. ↑ Berchtesgadener Land Tourismus GmbH: 10 years of Berchtesgadener Land Tourismus GmbH - key figures and facts , Festschrift (PDF), Berchtesgaden 2014, accessed on December 17, 2017, p. 6, online at www.berchtesgadener-land.com .

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