List of municipalities in the Garmisch-Partenkirchen district

Map of the district of Garmisch-Partenkirchen

The list of municipalities in the Garmisch-Partenkirchen district gives an overview of the 22 smallest administrative units in the district . Three of the municipalities are markets , there are no cities in the district. The district of Garmisch-Partenkirchen is today the only district in Germany in which the district administration is not a city, but a market. Before the territorial reforms in the various federal states, this situation was even more common. The Garmisch-Partenkirchen market with its 27,215 inhabitants is the so-called district capital of the district and also has the title of a powerful district member , so the community has tasks comparable to those of a large district town in Bavaria in the field of building supervision and water law .

In its present form, the Garmisch-Partenkirchen district was created in the course of the Bavarian territorial reform carried out in 1972 . The district became from the district of Garmisch-Partenkirchen , eleven communities of the former district of Weilheim i.OB. and a community in the former district of Schongau . The current church structure was completed in 1979. In the case of the municipalities, it is noted to which district the main town of the municipality belonged before the regional reform. The year in which they joined the municipality is noted for the suburbs of the municipalities.

description

The district can be further subdivided into four administrative communities (VG):

• VG Ohlstadt : with the communities Ohlstadt , Eschenlohe , Großweil and Schwaigen ;
• VG Saulgrub : with the communities of Saulgrub and Bad Bayersoien ;
• VG Seehausen a.Staffelsee : with the communities Seehausen a.Staffelsee , Riegsee and Spatzenhausen ;
• VG Unterammergau : with the communities Unterammergau and Ettal ;

The Garmisch-Partenkirchen , Mittenwald and Murnau a.Staffelsee markets , like the municipalities of Bad Kohlgrub , Farchant , Grainau , Krün , Oberammergau , Oberau , Uffing a.Staffelsee and Wallgau, are not members of an administrative community.

The district has a total area of ​​1,012.28 km ² . The municipality of Garmisch-Partenkirchen has the largest area within the district with 205.66 km ^2, followed by Mittenwald with 132.85 km ² and Eschenlohe with 55.05 km ² . Three municipalities have an area larger than 40 km ² , six municipalities have an area of ​​over 30 km ² , five municipalities are over 20 km ^{2 in} size, four municipalities are over 10 km ^{2 in} size and one municipality is smaller than 10 km ² . The smallest areas have the municipalities of Seehausen a.Staffelsee with 15.71 km ² , Ettal with 14.75 km ² and Spatzenhausen with 7.74 km ² . The community-free area Ettaler Forst has a size of 83.46 km ² .

Markets Garmisch-Partenkirchen with 27,215 inhabitants, Murnau a.Staffelsee with 12,180 inhabitants and Mittenwald with 7327 inhabitants have the largest share of the population of the district of 88,424 inhabitants. The municipality of Oberammergau has over 5,000 inhabitants, four municipalities have over 3,000, three over 2,000 and eight over 1,000 inhabitants. The remaining three communities have less than 1,000 inhabitants, that is Ettal with 758 inhabitants, Spatzenhausen with 736 and Schwaigen with 593 inhabitants.

The entire district of Garmisch-Partenkirchen has a population density of 87 inhabitants per km ² . The largest population density within the district are the communities Murnau a.Staffelsee with 320 inhabitants per km ² , Oberammergau with 183 and Oberau with 182. Three other communities have a population density of over 100, including Garmisch-Partenkirchen , all other 16 communities have a population density of less than 100. Of these 16 communities, only one community, Spatzenhausen , has a higher population density than the district average of 87. The most sparsely populated communities are Wallgau with 45, Eschenlohe with 29 and Schwaigen with 25 inhabitants per km ² .

Legend

• Municipality : Name of the municipality and information about the district to which the eponymous place of the municipality belonged before the regional reform
• Subsites : Enumerated are the formerly independent municipalities of the administrative unit. The year of incorporation is also given.
• VG : Indicates membership in one of the administrative communities
• Coat of arms : coat of arms of the municipality
• Map : Shows the location of the municipality in the district
• Area : Area of ​​the municipality, expressed in square kilometers
• Population : Number of people living in the municipality (as of December 31, 2019)
• Population density : The population density is given, calculated on the area of ​​the administrative unit, given in population per km ² (as of December 31, 2019)
• Altitude : Altitude of the eponymous town in meters above sea ​​level
• Image : Image from the respective municipality

Communities

local community	Sub-locations	VG	coat of arms	map	surface	Residents	EW density	height	image
Garmisch-Partenkirchen district					1,012.28	88,424	87
Bad Bayersoien (belonged to the district of Schongau before the regional reform)	Bad Bayersoien	VG Saulgrub			17.65	1,221	69	811
Bad Kohlgrub (belonged to the Garmisch-Partenkirchen district before the regional reform)	Bad Kohlgrub				32.66	2,854	87	828
Eschenlohe (belonged to the Garmisch-Partenkirchen district before the regional reform)	Eschenlohe	VG Ohlstadt			55.05	1,582	29	639
Ettal (belonged to the Garmisch-Partenkirchen district before the regional reform)	Ettal	VG Unterammergau			14.75	758	51	877
Farchant (belonged to the Garmisch-Partenkirchen district before the regional reform)	Farchant				25.76	3,611	140	672
Garmisch-Partenkirchen (Markt, Kreishauptort ) (belonged to the Garmisch-Partenkirchen district before the regional reform)	Garmisch-Partenkirchen Wamberg (1978)				205.66	27,215	132	708
Grainau (belonged to the Garmisch-Partenkirchen district before the regional reform)	Grainau				49.38	3,441	70	758
Großweil (belonged to the district of Weilheim i.OB. before the regional reform)	Großweil Kleinweil	VG Ohlstadt			22.04	1,495	68	622
Krün (belonged to the Garmisch-Partenkirchen district before the regional reform)	Krün				36.32	1.918	53	875
Mittenwald (market) (belonged to the Garmisch-Partenkirchen district before the regional reform)	Mittenwald				132.85	7,327	55	911
Murnau a.Staffelsee (Markt) (belonged to the district of Weilheim i.OB. before the regional reform)	Murnau a.Staffelsee Hechendorf (1978) Weindorf (1974)				38.05	12,180	320	688
Oberammergau (belonged to the Garmisch-Partenkirchen district before the regional reform)	Oberammergau				30.06	5.514	183	837
Oberau (belonged to the Garmisch-Partenkirchen district before the regional reform)	Oberau				17.86	3,253	182	659
Ohlstadt (belonged to the Garmisch-Partenkirchen district before the regional reform)	Ohlstadt	VG Ohlstadt			41.17	3,278	80	664
Riegsee (belonged to the district of Weilheim i.OB. before the regional reform)	Riegsee Aidling (1978)	VG Seehausen a.Staffelsee			20.44	1,193	58	658
Saulgrub (belonged to the Garmisch-Partenkirchen district before the regional reform)	Saulgrub	VG Saulgrub			35.49	1,657	47	885
Schwaigen (belonged to the Garmisch-Partenkirchen district before the regional reform)	Schwaigen	VG Ohlstadt			23.58	593	25th	656
Seehausen a.Staffelsee (belonged to the district of Weilheim i.OB. before the regional reform)	Seehausen a.Staffelsee	VG Seehausen a.Staffelsee			15.71	2,478	158	655
Spatzenhausen (belonged to the district of Weilheim i.OB. before the regional reform)	Sparrow House	VG Seehausen a.Staffelsee			7.74	736	95	666
Uffing am Staffelsee (belonged to the district of Weilheim i.OB. before the regional reform)	Uffing a.Staffelsee Schöffau				43.0	3,006	70	658
Unterammergau (belonged to the Garmisch-Partenkirchen district before the regional reform)	Unterammergau	VG Unterammergau			29.9	1,585	53	836
Wallgau (belonged to the Garmisch-Partenkirchen district before the regional reform)	Wallgau				33.96	1,529	45	866
Unregulated areas	Ettal Forest				83.46

See also

• List of places in the district of Garmisch-Partenkirchen

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "Data 2" sheet, Statistical Report A1200C 202041 Population of the municipalities, districts and administrative districts 1st quarter 2020 (population based on the 2011 census) ( help ).
2. ↑ "Data 2" sheet, Statistical Report A1200C 202041 Population of the municipalities, districts and administrative districts 1st quarter 2020 (population based on the 2011 census) ( help ).
3. ↑ BayernViewer of the Bavarian Surveying Administration (accessed on July 27, 2010)