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6 unusual facts about Mittenwald


Arnspitze Group

Whilst the Große Arnspitze and the Arnplattenspitze may be reached either from Mittenwald via the Riedberg or from Scharnitz on a partially exposed climbing route, the ridge path of the three peaks, including the Mittlere Arnspitze requires climbing expertise of grade II standard.

County of Werdenfels

The county was divided into three administrative areas: Garmisch, Partenkirchen and Mittenwald.

Eduard Melkus

For all these recordings, Melkus played an unaltered violin by Aegidius Kloz, made in Mittenwald ca.

Ernst Heinrich Roth

Since 1985 Wilhelm Roth, the son of Ernst Heinrich III, has been active in the company, having trained at the renowned violin-making college in Mittenwald.

Paul Peter Ewald

According to Ewald, the impetus for the method came from a skiing holiday in Mittenwald, at Easter, in 1911.

Zenon Snylyk

After the war, the Snylyk family fled to Mittenwald, West Germany where they lived in a displaced persons camp from 1945 to 1949.


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History of the violin

In the 19th and 20th centuries numerous violins were produced in France, in Saxony and the Mittenwald in what is now Germany, in the Tyrol, now parts of Austria and Italy, and in Bohemia, now part of the Czech Republic.


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