The development of the town, first mentioned in a 1208 deed, was decisively pushed by the inauguration of the Emperor Franz Joseph Railway from Vienna to Prague in 1869.
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Situated on the Lainsitz (Lužnice) river where it forms the border with České Velenice in the Czech Republic, it is an important road and railway crossing point, next to the Blockheide protected area.
Production started in 1948 at Gmünd, Austria, where approximately 50 cars were built.
The aluminum roadster body of the 356/1 was designed by Porsche employee Erwin Komenda in April 1948 at Gmünd and completed only a month later.
In 1950, Porsche KG, which had re-established itself after the war in Gmünd, Austria, returned to Stuttgart by establishing its headquarters in Zuffenhausen.
Schwäbisch Gmünd | Gmünd | Gmünd, Carinthia | Gmund | Gmund am Tegernsee |
Fameous personalities who lived in Gmund were the Federal Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany Ludwig Erhard and the architect Sep Ruf.
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Gmund is served by a station on the privately owned Tegernsee-Bahn railway, and is linked to Munich by through trains of the Bayerische Oberlandbahn.
miniatur|Der Mangfall-Steg bei Gmund am Tegernsee|Gmund
Maria Lanc (born Maria Jenewein; born 1911) lived in Gmünd, Lower Austria with her husband Arthur Lanc, a medical officer, in 1944.
Until 1998 as Tegernsee-Bahn (Tegernsee Railway) it operated the railway line from Schaftlach via Gmund to Tegernsee.
Vitus Miletus (surname originally Möller) (born at Gmünd, Swabia, 1549; died at Mainz, 11 September 1615) was a German Roman Catholic theologian.
