German Alpine Road
The German Alpine Road , also known colloquially as the Queralpenstrasse , is a holiday route that almost exclusively leads through the Bavarian Alps in Germany . According to the marketing organization Bayerische Fernwege eV, it is the oldest holiday route in Germany.
The scenic route leads over 450 km in a west-east direction from Lake Constance to Berchtesgadener Land and vice versa.
course
From Lindau (Bodensee) the road runs through Oberstaufen and past the Großer Alpsee to Immenstadt and then through part of the Illertal to Sonthofen and through the Ostrach valley to Bad Hindelang . From here it leads over the Oberjochpass ( 1178 m above sea level ) up to Oberjoch and branches off there to Unterjoch . Along the Wertach it reaches Wertach and past the Grüntensee to Nesselwang . Through Pfronten and along the Weißensee , it passes the Forggensee near Füssen and Schwangau and a little later the Bannwaldsee . Then it leads via Steingaden and Oberammergau to Farchant and in the Loisach valley to Garmisch-Partenkirchen .
The road leads past Barmsee via Krün and Benediktbeuern to Bad Tölz , then through the Isar valley to Sylvensteinsee . After two short sections over Austrian territory, the road continues over the Achenpass ( 941 m above sea level ), then along the Weißach to Rottach-Egern and thus to the Tegernsee . Along the eastern shore of the lake, through the town of Tegernsee and via Gmund and Hausham , it leads to Schliersee on the lake of the same name . Then it runs through Bayrischzell and over the Sudelfeldpass ( 1123 m above sea level ) to the Tatzelwurm waterfall . From there it goes down into the Inn Valley to Niederaudorf , further through Brannenburg and the A 93 and crossing the Inn to Nussdorf .
After Samerberg , Frasdorf , Aschau , Bernau and Grassau, the road crosses the valley of the Tiroler Achen at Marquartstein and leads through Unterwössen and over the Masererpass ( 793 m above sea level ) to Reit im Winkl . Along Weitsee , Mittersee , Lödensee and Förchensee it runs just past Ruhpolding and Inzell to Schneizlreuth , then crossing the Saalach valley to Schwarzbachwacht ( 868 m above sea level ) in the Berchtesgaden biosphere reserve . Then it leads through Ramsau , with a view of the Blaueis Glacier and the world-famous parish church of St. Sebastian , along the Ramsauer Ache , to Berchtesgaden . Then it runs south past Schönau am Königssee until the road ends at Königssee .
Federal highways
These federal highways or sections of them are part of the German Alpine Road : B 2 , B 11 , B 12 , B 13 , B 17 , B 20 , B 23 , B 305 , B 307 , B 308 , B 310 and B 472 .
history
The road was born in 1927 based on an idea by Sanitätsrat Knorz, with the aim of connecting the transverse valleys of the Alps (west-east direction) between Lake Constance and Königssee by means of a clearly defined street along the Bavarian Alps.
By including the planned Wallbergstrasse in the Queralpenstrasse projected at the time, the Rottach municipal council hoped to involve the state in the construction of Wallbergstrasse. The imaginary route would then have gone from Rottach-Egern, Wallberghaus, Plankensteinsattel, Riedereck, Sutten to the Firstalm . The Bavarian State Ministry of the Interior considered this route to be unnecessarily long and wrote to the Rottach municipal council on February 21, 1934 that the cross-alpine road from Rottach-Egern should be led over the Kühzagl-Sattel to Schliersee.
The current route was given to the German Alpine Road in the 1930s. For example, it was completely redrawn in Ramsau near Berchtesgaden. The top management for the construction work lay with Fritz Todt . During this time, the route should lead directly through the glacier garden between Weißbach an der Alpenstraße and Inzell . Although the construction team had already started the blasting work, a large part of the glacier garden was saved and is now a popular destination along the Alpine road.
Marketing is carried out by Bayerische Fernwege eV, German Alpine Road division.
literature
- Christian Prager, Rainer Höh: Deutsche Alpenstrasse , Leipzig 1996. ISBN 3-89261-196-3
- Wallbergstraße paved with the sweat of legionaries in: Tegernseer Tal , issue 94, p. 34 ff.
