Zugspitzland
The Zugspitzland comprises the following municipalities in the Garmisch-Partenkirchen district , in the order from northeast to southwest:
| local community | Area km² |
Population 12/31/2005 |
Population / km² |
| Ohlstadt | 41.16 | 3299 | 80.2 |
| Eschenlohe | 55.04 | 1611 | 29.3 |
| Oberau | 17.86 | 3113 | 174.3 |
| Farchant | 25.76 | 3767 | 146.2 |
| Garmisch-Partenkirchen | 205.66 | 26261 | 127.7 |
| Grainau | 49.39 | 3680 | 74.5 |
| Zugspitzland | 394.87 | 41731 | 105.7 |
The community centers are all in the Loisachtal ( upper and middle reaches ) on the road from Murnau to Ehrwald ( Bundesstrasse 2 to Garmisch-Partenkirchen and Bundesstrasse 23 from Garmisch-Partenkirchen to the Austrian border near Ehrwald, continued on the Austrian side as B 187 ).
The term Zugspitzland does not designate an administrative institution or geo-historically founded region, but rather an initiative for location marketing and regional management on the German side of the border. It was named after the Zugspitze , Germany's highest mountain in the municipality of Grainau on the border with Austria .
The tourist information offices of the communities of Farchant, Oberau and Eschenlohe have come together under the name of the Zugspitzland holiday region . In contrast, the name Zugspitz Region is used by the Zugspitz Region GmbH, based in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, for the purpose of promoting the economy and tourism in the Garmisch-Partenkirchen district . The tourist region Zugspitz region of the official statistics of the Bavarian State Office for Statistics also refers to the entire district of Garmisch-Partenkirchen.
The southern part of the Zugspitzland (communities Farchant, Garmisch-Partenkirchen and Grainau) also belong to the Werdenfelser Land , which otherwise extends further east.
Web links
- Holiday region Zugspitzland (Farchent, Oberau, Eschenlohe)
- Zugspitz region
- Website of the Zugspitz Region GmbH