Walchensee (Kochel am See)
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Walchensee
Kochel am See municipality
Coordinates: 47 ° 35 ′ 19 ″ N , 11 ° 18 ′ 47 ″ E
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| Height : | 803 m above sea level NHN |
| Residents : | 250 (2017) |
| Postal code : | 82432 |
 View of the village of Walchensee from the Herzogstand
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The climatic health resort Walchensee is a parish village in Upper Bavaria and part of the municipality of Kochel am See in the Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen district . The place is bordered by the west bank of the Walchensee and the Herzogstand massif, is at an altitude of 803 m above sea level. NN and has 250 registered residents.
history
Around 1130, Abbot Konrad von Benediktbeuern, after consultation with Bishop Heinrich I von Freising , to whom the Schlehdorf Monastery , which was part of the Walchensee, was subordinate, cleared the west bank of the lake and started the settlement there with a first house for fishermen. On March 17, 1291, Bishop Wolfahrt von Roth-Wackernitz from the Diocese of Augsburg consecrated the newly built church to St. James . In 1712 it was rebuilt in the Baroque style under the direction of the church builder Lucas Zeis and has been preserved in this form. In 1440 a mill was built on the creek north of the Lobesau and today's federal road 11 , but due to lack of water it soon ceased operations. In 1494, two years after the completion of the Alte Kesselbergstrasse , the increasing number of visitors made it necessary to open a table in the village. In 1728 the Benediktbeuern monastery expanded the previous property of the hunter family Heiß to a Schwaighof for the supply of the Taferne. The Heiss family moved to Altlach and carried out their monastic hunting services from there.
Parish
In addition to the town of Walchensee, the parish of Urfeld and Zwergern as well as Einsiedl also belong to the parish of Walchensee St. Ulrich .
particularities
- The Herzogstandbahn leads to the Herzogstand .
- The Walchensee was a meeting point for famous personalities such as the poet Goethe , the artist Lovis Corinth and King Ludwig II.
Attractions
- “Flake”, the partial replica of a Viking village that served as the backdrop for the film Wickie and the Strong Men in 2008 .
Soil monuments
Say
- The most famous legend has to do with the lake itself:
“According to the legend, a huge catfish lives at the bottom of the Walchensee , which is almost as big as the lake itself. It holds its tail in its mouth. If godlessness and iniquity should spread, however, he lets his tail out of his mouth and smashes the Kesselberg, whereupon the whole surrounding area would be flooded beyond Munich. When a new elector took office, a consecrated gold ring was thrown into the lake to appease the catfish. The abbot from Benediktbeuern regularly went to Walchensee to hold processions along the shore. "
- Furthermore, it is said that the lake is connected to the ocean and is therefore unfathomable.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Walchensee in the local database of the Bayerische Landesbibliothek Online . Bavarian State Library, accessed on December 29, 2017.
- ↑ Birk, Hildegard, Karl Meichelbecks Brief Freisingsche Chronik , Freising 2008, p. 174, ISBN 978-3-927067-38-7
- ↑ Publication "Unterwegs im Zwei-Seen-Land", Municipality of Kochel am See, March 2018, p. 21
- ↑ Gudelius, Jost, Die Jachenau , Jachenau 2008, p. 26 and 137, ISBN 3-939751-97-9
- ↑ Parish directory for Upper Bavaria
- ↑ https://tourismus.kochel.de/flake-1
- ↑ Legends of the Walchensee