Garmisch-Partenkirchen

Garmisch-Partenkirchen
Climate diagram
	Temperature in ° C , precipitation in mm
	Source: wetterkontor.de

Basic data
State :	Bavaria
Administrative region :	Upper Bavaria
County :	Garmisch-Partenkirchen
Height :	708 m above sea level NHN
Area :	205.66 km 2
Residents:	27,215 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	132 inhabitants per km 2
Postcodes :	82467, 82475
Area code :	08821
License plate :	Cap
Community key :	09 1 80 117
Market structure:	35 parts of the community
; Market administration address :	Rathausplatz 1 ; 82467 Garmisch-Partenkirchen
Website :	www.gapa.de
Mayoress :	Elisabeth Koch ( CSU )
Location of the Garmisch-Partenkirchen market in the Garmisch-Partenkirchen district

Aerial view of Garmisch-Partenkirchen, seen from the north, d. H. Facing south. Partenkirchen district on the left, Garmisch district on the right and Burgrain district in the foreground.

Garmisch-Partenkirchen is a market and at the same time the main town of the Garmisch-Partenkirchen district and the center of the Werdenfelser Land . Although Garmisch-Partenkirchen has a population of over 27,000, it is not a city , but one of 13 so-called efficient municipalities belonging to the district and a regional center in Bavaria. It is the only municipality in Germany that is the administrative seat of a district without being a city itself.

The place is also a climatic health resort .

geography

location

Garmisch-Partenkirchen is located in the middle of a wide basin at the confluence of the Loisach, coming from Tyrol, and the Partnach , which rises in the Wetterstein Mountains , between the Ammer Mountains in the northwest, Ester Mountains in the east and the Wetterstein Mountains - with Germany's highest mountain, the Zugspitze, in the southwest. Garmisch was during the last ice age - the Würme Ice Age - with an ice cover of approx. 1700 m above sea level. NN covered.

Mountains nearby

Kochelberg is the name of an 870 m high mountain in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. On the mountain is the Kochelberg Alm , which is open in summer .

The 1334.8 m high local mountain is Garmisch-Partenkirchen's local mountain . It can be reached via fairly steep, well-developed paths. In winter you can take the Hausbergbahn cable car to the summit and ski there.

Community structure

The original parish village of Partenkirchen is east of the Partnach, while the center of Garmisch is west of the river. Even today, the river is still the border between the Garmisch and Partenkirchen districts in the northern part (from around Obermühle) . In the southern part, the district boundary runs 600 to 1700 meters west of the river.

There are 35 officially named parts of the municipality (the type of settlement is given in brackets ):

Angerhütte ( wasteland )
Anzlesau ( hamlet )
Breitenau (settlement)
Burgrain (settlement)
Eckbauer (wasteland)
Esterberg (wasteland)
Gamshütte (wasteland)
Garmisch-Partenkirchen (main town with the districts Garmisch and Partenkirchen)
Griesen ( village )
Gschwandt (wasteland)
Hintergraseck (hamlet)
Höfle (hamlet)

Kainzenbad
Kaltenbrunn (village)
Knorrhütte (wasteland)
Kochelberg (hamlet)
Meilerhütte (wasteland)
Mittergraseck (wasteland)
Munich House (lodging house)
Oberreintal (wasteland)
Petersbad (wasteland)
Reinthal (wasteland)
Rieß (hamlet)
Sankt Anton (wasteland)

Schachen (wasteland)
Schlattan (village)
Schneeernerhaus (accommodation house)
Schwaigwang (wasteland)
Sonnenbichl
Streichla (wasteland)
Vordergraseck (hamlet)
Wamberg ( Kirchdorf )
Wank (wasteland)
Wettersteinalpe (wasteland)
Wildenau (hamlet)

history

Garmisch 1701 on a painting in the Fürstengang Freising

Partenkirchen 1701

Until the 18th century

Partenkirchen goes back to the Roman travel station "Partanum". This was on a pre-Roman trade route, a side branch of the Via Claudia running along the Lech , which was built after Drusus and Tiberius had conquered the northern Alpine and foothills of the Alps in 15 BC. Was expanded. The Romans called the new street “ Via Raetia ”, it was built in 200 AD and led over the Brenner Pass and Seefelder Sattel to Augsburg . The oldest surviving document that mentions Garmisch as a settlement bears the date 802.

The Freising Bishop Konrad I. von Tölz and Hohenburg acquired Garmisch in 1249 and Bishop Emicho in 1294 Partenkirchen. From 1294 the county of Werdenfels belongs to the Hochstift Freising and remained in spiritual possession until the secularization in 1802/03.

In the High Middle Ages , Partenkirchen was an important stop on the way to Italy for the Fuggers and Welsers . This resulted in an economic upswing; the place flourished as a travel and trading station between Augsburg and Venice . For Garmisch, rafting on the Loisach was the main source of income. The region became impoverished with the Thirty Years' War .

19th and 20th centuries

In 1802 the County of Werdenfels became part of Bavaria. Garmisch and Partenkirchen received their self-administration rights again with the Bavarian municipal edict in 1818 and remained two competing market communities until the 20th century . After the completion of the railway connection to Munich in 1889, tourism began. The Bavarian Zugspitzbahn was built in three sections between 1928 and 1930. On January 1, 1935, the market towns of Garmisch and Partenkirchen merged to form the Garmisch-Partenkirchen market under massive pressure from the NSDAP due to the IV Winter Olympics (1936) taking place in the following year . With participants from 28 countries, the 1936 Winter Games in Garmisch-Partenkirchen set a new record. After the cancellation of Sapporo and St. Moritz , the 5th Winter Olympic Games (1940) were also supposed to take place in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, but were canceled because of the Second World War.

On September 25, 1935, the time as a garrison of the Wehrmacht began with the groundbreaking for the Jäger barracks and later the artillery barracks . From 1960 to 1994 the 1st Mountain Division (Bundeswehr) was led from Garmisch-Partenkirchen. In 1963 the Garmisch-Partenkirchen Mountain Music Corps was stationed here.

After 1945, the recreational facilities of the US Army (later Armed Forces Recreation Center ) were used by numerous units on site. It was u. a. in autumn 1948 the increase in the number of female spa guests was reduced by an estimated 2,500. In 1954 Garmisch-Partenkirchen became the venue for the traditional Arlberg-Kandahar races .

In 1978 the first Alpine World Ski Championships took place in Bavaria; The venue was Garmisch-Partenkirchen from January 28 to February 5, 1978. The place also hosted the 2011 Alpine World Ski Championships . Together with Munich and Schönau am Königssee , Garmisch-Partenkirchen applied unsuccessfully for the 2018 Winter Olympics .

Eleven people died in an explosion caused by a defective liquefied gas line on December 27, 1986 in the Sporthotel Rießersee.

Incorporations

On May 1, 1978, the previously independent municipality of Wamberg was incorporated.

Population development

Between 1988 and 2018 the market grew from 25,908 to 27,194 by 1,286 inhabitants or 5%.

year	1840	1871	1900	1925	1939	1950	1961	1970	1987	1991	1995	2000	2005	2010	2015
Number of inhabitants	2,870	3,038	4,792	10,326	18.308	25,435	25,261	26,885	25,742	27.094	26,946	26,364	26,261	26,068	26,821

politics

The town hall in the Partenkirchen district, built on the occasion of the amalgamation of the communities of Garmisch and Partenkirchen in 1935

Garmisch-Partenkirchen is one of the traditional strongholds of the CSU. This is particularly evident in state and federal elections, in which it sometimes achieved over 70% of the vote. In local politics, the distribution of political power in the first post-war decades was significantly more even. The SPD provided Georg Schütte and Philipp Schumpp as the first mayor for a total of 20 years until 1978. The Bavarian party was initially strongly represented in the Garmisch-Partenkirchner municipal council and was able to provide the 2nd mayor at times. After the fall of the Bavarian party, the CSU was able to assert itself as the most important party at the local level. Since 1972 it has had an absolute majority in the municipal council and has been the first mayor since 1978.

Market council

In the local elections on March 2, 2008 , the absolute majority of the CSU was broken for the first time in 36 years. The Christian Social Alliance (CSB), which split from the CSU in 2007, became the strongest political force. In the term of office from 2008 to 2014, the CSB provided the majority in the municipal council with the free voters and the 2nd and 3rd mayors with Daniela Bittner (CSB) and Hannes Krätz (FW).

In the local elections on March 16, 2014 , the CSB and the Free Voters together only achieved ten out of 30 seats and thus lost the majority in the municipal council. 2nd Mayor was Wolfgang Bauer (CSU); he holds the office full-time and held it from 2002 to 2008. The office of the 3rd mayor was not filled for 2014-2020.

Results of the municipal council elections
Party / list	2008 election		Election 2014		2020 election
Party / list	Share of votes	Seats	Share of votes	Seats	Share of votes	Seats
CSU	26.0%	8th	34.5%	10		12
Green	-	-	5.1%	2		5
SPD	14.5%	4th	17.6%	5		3
Free voters	15.0%	5	10.2%	3		3
Christian Social Alliance - Citizens for Garmisch-Partenkirchen	33.9%	11	22.0%	7th		2
Bavaria Party	4.3%	1	5.6%	2		2
Garmisch + Partenkirchen together	-	-	-	-		1
Alternative for Germany	-	-	-	-		1
FDP	3.4%	1	5.0%	1		1
ÖDP	2.9%	-	-	-	-	-
total	100%	30th	100%	30th	100%	30th
voter turnout	62.1%		54.6%		54.4%

mayor

The then mayor Thomas Schmid (CSB) had to run in a runoff election against Sigrid Meierhofer (SPD) on March 30, 2014 . Meierhofer won the runoff election with 67.5% of the vote.

First mayor since Garmisch and Partenkirchen merged on January 1, 1935
Years	Surname	Political party	annotation
1935-1945	Jakob check	NSDAP	not democratically elected
1945	Franz Fux	independent	provisional
1945-1946	Georg Schütte	SPD	provisional
1946-1948	Bernhard Lödermann	CSU	first democratically elected mayor
1948-1952	Georg Schütte	SPD
1952-1956	Josef Zwerger	CSU	first directly elected mayor
1956-1959	Georg Schütte	SPD	died in office on January 23, 1959
1959-1966	August Vogel	CSU	from 1965 on leave due to illness
1966-1988	Philipp Schumpp	SPD	acting mayor since 1965
1978-2002	Toni Neidlinger	CSU
2002-2014	Thomas Schmid	COD	CSU member until 2007
2014-2020	Sigrid Meierhofer	SPD
2020-	Elisabeth Koch	CSU

coat of arms

	Blazon : “Split by silver and red; at the front of the gap a half, red armed black eagle, behind a silver bar. "

Eschenlohe
Telfs

When the municipalities were amalgamated in 1935, the municipality gave itself a coat of arms that did not follow either of the two coats of arms of the previous municipalities. It was decided to quote the coat of arms of the Counts of Eschenlohe, which is also used by the communities of Eschenlohe and Telfs . This followed the refuted assumption that the Counts of Eschenlohe were lords of the county of Werdenfels , which contained today's municipality. In fact, the county of Werdenfels is historically younger than it was then, so that the Eschenloher were never its owners. On December 3, 1935, the coat of arms was approved with the following description: The coat of arms consists of a split shield, on the right a half black double-headed eagle reinforced in red, on the left a silver crossbar in a red field.

Town twinning

Garmisch-Partenkirchen has three twin cities :

United States United States : There has been a town partnership with the US ski resort Aspen since 1966 .
France France : Since 1973 there has been a partnership with Chamonix in France and
Finland Finland : since 1987 with the Finnish city of Lahti .

Culture and sights

Arts and Culture

Around the middle of the 19th century, painters such as Lorenz Quaglio , Heinrich Bürkel , Christian Morgenstern and Max Josef Wagenbauer discovered Garmisch-Partenkirchen. With the railway connection to Munich from 1889, artists such as Ernst Kreidolf and Wilhelm Balmer increasingly came .

Garmisch-Partenkirchen also gained international renown at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. Edward Elgar composed his Songs from the Bavarian Highlands here in 1895 and the general music director Hermann Levi had his villa built by Emanuel von Seidl and Adolf von Hildebrand in 1900 , where Cosima Wagner often stayed. The writer Josef Ruederer took the Posthotel Partenkirchen as a motif for his most famous play Die Fahnenweihe , the painter Max Beckmann liked to ski in Partenkirchen. The philosopher Ernst Bloch married in Garmisch and developed the basic ideas for his main work here. The Swiss writer Walther Siegfried and his wife, the concert singer Helene Siegfried should also be mentioned .

In 1908 Richard Strauss had a villa built in Garmisch from the proceeds of his opera Salome , which was also designed by Emanuel von Seidl. Strauss lived there until his death in 1949 and wrote the Rosenkavalier and the Alpine Symphony there, among other things .

After the First World War, Garmisch experienced a very sophisticated phase. Writers such as Kurt Tucholsky , Karl Kraus , Erich Kästner or Lion Feuchtwanger , whose novel is a success in Munich and Garmisch-Partenkirchen, lived, celebrated and worked in hotels and artist pensions such as the legendary Pension Nirvana, where u. a. The writer Heinrich Mann and Michael Ende's father, the surrealist painter Edgar Ende also stayed. Arthur Schnitzler came to Partenkirchen to visit the actor Albert Steinrück . In whose house satisfaction met Jakob Wassermann , Richard Beer-Hofmann , Kasimir Edschmid and Henny Porten . The Garmisch house of the opera singer Fritzi Massary and the actor and director Max Pallenberg was also a meeting place for celebrities of their time such as Max Reinhardt , Hugo von Hofmannsthal and Alfred Polgar . The painter Alexander Kanoldt set up a painting school.

During the Nazi era , prominent NSDAP functionaries met here for summer holidays and winter holidays. At the end of April 1945, US troops (10th US Armored Division together with 103rd US Infantry Division) occupied the city, which was also a hospital town at the time . After the Second World War, the Casa Carioca nightclub with its opulent dance and ice revues was a magnet Actors like Errol Flynn , Richard Burton or Elizabeth Taylor . Swing and jazz greats were on stage there.

Garmisch-Partenkirchen is often used as a filming location for television series (e.g. Löwengrube , screenwriter: Willy Purucker , Die Garmisch-Cops ) and movies (e.g. Schwere Jungs , director: Marcus H. Rosenmüller ).

Sculpture of the ancient Morla in the Michael-Ende-Kurpark

In honor of Michael Ende , a native of Garmisch-Partenkirchen , the Garmisch Kurpark was renamed Michael-Ende-Kurpark in 2009 . In the park there are sculptures based on the author's works as well as (in the Kurhaus) a museum that houses a permanent exhibition on the life and work of Ende.

Other culturally significant institutions in Garmisch-Partenkirchen are the Richard Strauss Institute (since 1999), the Aschenbrenner Museum (since 2006), the technical schools for wood and design of the Upper Bavaria district (since 1869) and the Werdenfels Museum, which is maintained by the district. The small theater, which has existed since 1949, has been a permanent repertoire stage in the town, traditional entertainment has been offered by the Partenkirchner Bauerntheater since 1892, and cabaret and cabaret has been organized by the Kulturbag e. V., Show and Entertainment has been offering the Cabaret Royale series in the casino since 2007 . The annual cultural summer program is shaped by the Richard Strauss Festival , the concert series Musik im Park and the cultural summer in Garmisch-Partenkirchen . The Garmisch music band is a local orchestra.

The Galerie des Markt shows visual arts in changing exhibitions. The Academic Association of Artists Association Garmisch-Partenkirchen e. V. and the Werdenfelser Künstler e. V. take an active part in exhibition life.

Attractions

Garmisch-Partenkirchen from the east with Alpspitze, Zugspitze and Daniel

Zugspitze

Alpspitze with the AlpspiX viewing platform

Partnach Gorge

Riessersee

Werdenfels castle ruins , in Burgrain, which gave the Werdenfelser Land its name

Royal house on Schachen of Ludwig II.

Historic Ludwigstrasse

Olympic ski stadium with the new large Olympic hill

Richard Strauss Institute

Garmisch-Partenkirchen casino
Old parish church of St. Martin
Parish Church of St. Martin
Pilgrimage Church of St. Anton (Partenkirchen)
Neo-Gothic parish church of the Assumption of Mary
Sebastian Church
Höllentalklamm
Garmisch-Partenkirchen Congress Center
Aschenbrenner Museum
Big maple near Wamberg

Sports

The outside of the Olympic ski stadium

Garmisch-Partenkirchen has been the venue for the traditional Arlberg-Kandahar races since 1954 , which is why the downhill run in Garmisch is called the Kandahar run . The slalom course and the large Olympic hill for ski jumpers are on the Gudiberg .

The Winter Olympics were held here in 1936 and the Alpine World Ski Championships in 1978 . Garmisch-Partenkirchen joined Munich and Schönau am Königssee as the official candidate for the 2018 Winter Olympics , but lost the vote on July 6, 2011. A renewed application for the 2022 Winter Olympics failed on November 10, 2013, as in one Referendum in the market almost 52% voted against the application.

In summer 2008 Garmisch-Partenkirchen hosted the Medigames for the second time . The 2011 Alpine World Ski Championships also took place in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. In the application, the market prevailed against the Austrian Schladming after the application for the Ski World Cup 2009 against the French Val-d'Isère was lost.

Three times (1985, 1998, 2004) world championships in canoe white water racing have already taken place on the nearby natural white water course of the Loisach .

In ice hockey, SC Riessersee was German champion ten times . The club was named after the historic venue, the Riessersee , an artificially created lake south of Garmisch in the Wetterstein Mountains . In addition to the SCR, there was also the SC Garmisch-Partenkirchen , the EV Mittenwald and the EV Garmisch in Garmisch.

Every year on Epiphany (January 6), the Bavarian horn sledging championship is held on the way to the Partnachalm, which branches off the road between the ski stadium and the Partnachklamm .

Olympia Eissport Zentrum Garmisch-Partenkirchen from south-east to north-west

Garmisch-Partenkirchen is a popular starting point for transalp tours among mountain bikers . Many of these tours lead from Garmisch-Partenkirchen to Lake Garda or the Po Valley . The Albrecht route , for example, is a mountain bike route that takes seven days through various high mountain regions to Torbole . Technically and physically, the historically interesting Via Claudia Augusta is a little easier to cope with, to which there is also an access path for cyclists from Garmisch.

The DAV section Garmisch-Partenkirchen as the largest association in Garmisch-Partenkirchen with 7016 members (as of July 2018) operates seven alpine shelters and the DAV bouldering hall Garmisch-Partenkirchen.

Regular events

January 1st - New Year's competition as part of the Four Hills Tournament
January 6th - Bavarian championship in the horn sled race
January / February / March - FIS Alpine Ski World Cup
Early February - spectator rides in the historic 3-man bobsleigh on the Olympic bobsleigh run on Lake Riess
At the beginning of February - historical bobsleigh race on the Olympic bobsleigh run on the Riessersee
February - Pond Hockey Cup
April 30th - Georgimarkt in Partenkirchen
June - Zugspitz Ultratrail
June - Richard Strauss Festival
July first weekend - BMW Motorrad Days
July 15th - White Night
July / August festival weeks in Garmisch and Partenkirchen
August 26th - Mountain Festival on the Wank
September 1st - Kino am Wank
September fourth weekend - Straßen.Kunst.Festival Partenkirchen

Economy and Infrastructure

The economic structure of the municipality is mainly shaped by tourism. Garmisch-Partenkirchen is also a popular retirement home, which on the one hand brings purchasing power to the city, but is also associated with problems such as above-average demand for care services.

From the inheritance of the couple Günther and Ingeborg Leifheit , the city received 50 million euros as endowment assets with the condition that they be used for old residents and residents in need of care. The municipality plans to set up an academy for nursing professions with a link to a university. Caritas and the Rummelsberger Diakonie are under discussion as sponsors .

garrison

The George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies is located in the Sheridan Barracks and the Artillery Barracks.

traffic

Entrance building of Garmisch-Partenkirchen train station

From the north Garmisch-Partenkirchen can be reached from Landsberg am Lech and Oberammergau via the B 23 and from Munich via the B 2 . The B 2 also takes on the A 95 traffic from Munich about 15 km north of Eschenlohe . To the west, the B 23 continues through the Loisach valley to Austria , turns into Ehrwalder Strasse and meets the Fernpassstrasse at Lermoos , which connects the Oberinntal with Reutte and Füssen via the Fernpass . The B 2 continues east towards Mittenwald , Seefeld and Innsbruck .

The location on these important road connections results in considerable traffic loads for the market. On nice days, through traffic and excursion traffic often lead to long traffic jams in the town center. That a trip z. B. takes up to an hour from the Farchanter Tunnel to the Kreuzeck / Alpspitze ski area , is not uncommon. That is why there were repeated calls to advance the planning for the Kramer Tunnel and the Wanktunnel . On July 27, 2010, Prime Minister Horst Seehofer and the Parliamentary State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Transport, Andreas Scheuer, took part in the groundbreaking ceremony for the Garmisch-Partenkirchen bypass with the Kramer tunnel. The new federal highway 23 with the 3.6 kilometer long Kramer tunnel should reduce the traffic load of Garmisch by at least half. The planned bypass is one of the most expensive road construction measures in Bavaria and, according to forecasts from 2010, should cost more than 133 million euros. To date (2013), however, the calculated costs have risen to 176 million euros.

After further delays and a supplementary planning approval procedure, the renewed construction approval was granted on September 19, 2017. The contract for the further construction of the tunnel was awarded on July 29, 2019. Tunneling began in early 2020. The costs calculated to date have risen to 263.6 million euros.

Bavarian Zugspitzbahn in Garmisch-Partenkirchen

The Garmisch-Partenkirchen Station is located on the Munich-Garmisch-Partenkirchen railway and the Mittenwaldbahn (Garmisch-Mittenwald-Innsbruck). It is also the starting point of the Ausserfernbahn to Reutte in Tyrol and Kempten (Allgäu) and the Bavarian Zugspitzbahn . Regional trains run every hour to Munich and Mittenwald and every two hours to Innsbruck and Reutte with connections to Kempten. In addition, there are also individual long-distance trains specially tailored to holidaymakers, for example ICEs to Berlin , Hamburg , Dortmund , Bremen and Innsbruck.

The Garmisch-Partenkirchen municipal works operate a local bus network with lines 1 to 5, the “green bus”. In addition, a numberless regional bus line operated by the Eibsee Transport Company (EVG) runs from Partenkirchen via Garmisch to the Eibsee, known as the “white-blue bus”. Within the Garmisch-Partenkirchen district, there is a tariff cooperation between local and regional buses within the framework of the Garmisch-Partenkirchen transport association .

Garmisch-Partenkirchen is since 18 February 2006, an Intercity-Express type ICE 1 named.

Public facilities

Alpine Research Institute

Institute for Meteorology and Climate Research

Landsberg am Lech correctional facility , Garmisch-Partenkirchen branch

Children's Rheumatism Clinic , DZKJR

Garmisch-Partenkirchen Clinic

Lech-Mangfall-Kliniken at the Garmisch-Partenkirchen Clinic

Garmisch-Partenkirchen District Court

George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies

Garmisch-Partenkirchen casino

education

Werdenfels High School
St. Irmengard High School
St. Irmengard Secondary School
State Business School Garmisch-Partenkirchen
Zugspitz Realschule
Burgrain primary school
Middle school on the Gröben
Middle school and elementary school Partenkirchen
Vocational school for children's sickness and nursing
Private school for the sick at the German Center for Child and Adolescent Rheumatology
Schools for wood and design in the district of Upper Bavaria:
- Vocational school for carpenters
- Vocational school for wood carvers
- Master school for carpenters
- Specialist academy for room and object design
- Nativity School
Hotel Management School
Vocational school (IT) commercial assistants

AFN medium wave transmitter Garmisch-Partenkirchen

media

The Münchner Merkur has an offshoot with the title Garmisch-Partenkirchner Tagblatt . This daily newspaper is divided into the following valley regions:

Garmisch-Partenkirchen and the region
Murnau and the region
Ammertal
Mittenwald and Upper Isar Valley

The weekly newspaper Kreisbote is distributed free of charge in Garmisch-Partenkirchen and the surrounding area in the middle of the week and on weekends. This publisher is represented by an office.

The local radio station Radio Oberland broadcasts from Garmisch-Partenkirchen . The AFN broadcasts from Garmisch-Partenkirchen on 90.3 MHz in the VHF band and on 1485 kHz in the medium wave band (transmitter location: 47 ° 28'58 "N 11 ° 3'20" E).

Personalities

Honorary citizen

→ see: List of honorary citizens of Garmisch-Partenkirchen

Sons and daughters of the church

In chronological order:

Ferdinand Barth (1842-1892), artist

Max Schultze (1845–1926), architect and conservationist

Joseph Wackerle (1880–1959), sculptor

Edwin Hermann Henel (1883–1953), commercial artist
Franz Kreisel (1890–1960), soccer goalkeeper, ice hockey player, trainer and referee
Karl Schwabe (1897–1937), sports pilot
Martin Neuner (1900–1944), German ski jumper and Nordic combined athlete
Karl Neuner (1902–1949), German Nordic combined skier
Georg Kiste (1908–1997), artist
Bernhard Schmidt (1909–2008), engineer and manager
Matthias Wörndle (1909–1942), cross-country skier and mountaineer
Franz Klarwein (1914–1991), opera singer
Käthe Grasegger (1917–2001), ski racer
Walter Schmidinger (* 1919), former ice hockey player
Anton Biersack (1927–2007), ice hockey player
Michael Ende (1929–1995), writer
Max Schwabe (entrepreneur) (1929–1970), head of Bavaria Fluggesellschaft
Gustav Ehmck (* 1937), film director, screenwriter and film producer
Wolfgang Krieger (* 1940), mathematician
Heinz-Werner Geisenberger (* 1945), author and director
Hans-Henning Horstmann (* 1945), diplomat
Georg Kink (* 1949), ice hockey player and coach
Gertrud Koch (* 1949), film scholar and university lecturer
Stephan Lermer (* 1949), psychotherapist and coach
H. Dieter Neumann (* 1949), writer
Christian Neureuther (* 1949), ski racer
Hans-Joachim Stuck (* 1951), racing car driver
Bernhard Krieger (* 1952), painter
Martin Wild (* 1952), ice hockey player and coach
Werner Albrecht (* 1953), football player
Jörg Maurer (* 1953), cabaret artist and author
Martin Hinterstocker (* 1954), ice hockey player and coach
Franz Reindl (* 1954), ice hockey trainer and official
Willy Klüter (* 1955), composer and music producer
Peter Gailer (* 1956), ice hockey player and coach
Angelika Hofer (1957–2016), behavioral researcher and book author
Herbert Heinrich (* 1958), ice hockey player
Wolfgang Hartmann (* 1959), ski jumper and ski jumping trainer
Peter Rappenglück (* 1962), actor
Joseph "Peppi" Heiß (* 1963), ice hockey goalkeeper
Armin Bittner (* 1964) ski racer
Stefan Glowacz (* 1965), professional mountaineer and extreme climber
Rüdiger Metsch (* 1965), ice hockey player
Andrea Schöpp (* 1965), curler
Monika Wagner (* 1965), curler
Patrick Scales (* 1965), musician
Billi Bierling (* 1967), mountaineer
Martin Scales (* 1967), composer and musician
Anton Raubal (* 1968), ice hockey player and coach
Georg Büttel (* 1969), director and author
Florian Wörner (* 1970), auxiliary bishop in Augsburg
Sebastian Bezzel (* 1971), actor
Georg Gailer (* 1971), ice hockey player
Thorsten Schmugge (* 1971), soccer player
Josef Lehner (* 1972), ice hockey player
Christina Fellner (* 1973), ice hockey player
Uwe Sunde (* 1973), economist
Andreas Raubal (* 1974), ice hockey player and coach
Xaver Hoffmann (* 1974), snowboarder
Angela Hundsdorfer (* 1974), actress, director and theater educator
Peter Lieb (* 1974), military historian
Stefan Stankalla (* 1975), ski racer
Leonardo Conti (* 1978), ice hockey goalkeeper
Harti Wild (* 1979), ice hockey goalkeeper
Martina Beck (* 1979), biathlete
Christoph Klotz (1979–2010), ice hockey player
Christian Mayr (* 1979), ice hockey player and coach
Anton-Florian Bader (* 1981), ice hockey player
Benedikt Dorsch (* 1981), tennis player
Peter Strodl (* 1982), ski racer
Franziska Reindl (* 1982), ice hockey player
Thomas Gödtel (* 1983), ice hockey player
Andreas Tobias (* 1984), actor
Felix Neureuther (* 1984), ski racer
Maria Höfl-Riesch (* 1984), ski racer
Florian Vollmer (* 1984), ice hockey player
Magdalena Neuner (* 1987), biathlete
Andreas Strodl (* 1987), ski racer
Susanne Riesch (* 1987), ski racer
Martin Buchwieser (* 1989), ice hockey player
Martin Hinterstocker (* 1989), ice hockey player
Matthias Mayr (* 1989), ice hockey player
Monica Hübner (* 1990), ski racer
Miriam Gössner (* 1990), biathlete
Vincenz Mayer (* 1990), ice hockey player
Felix Schoft (* 1990), ski jumper
Veronika Gratz (* 1992), soccer player
Laura Dahlmeier (* 1993), biathlete
Florian Gruber (* 1993), kitesurfer

Personalities who lived or worked in the place