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37 unusual facts about Tegernsee


Adelheid of Wolfratshausen

Slightly different dates for her death are given in the necrologies of Tegernsee and the Salzburg Cathedral.

Amalie Adlerberg

She was buried in the cemetery of the Church of St. Laurentius in Rottach-Egern am Tegernsee.

Later, the Adlerbergs acquired a plot of land and built a home in the town of Tegernsee on Schwaighofstrasse 2.

Andreas Strüngmann

He currently has residences in Tegernsee, Germany, Europe and Russia and is married with two children.

Baumgartenschneid

The climb to the summit is a straightforward mountain walk, taking 2 hours to ascend the 700 metres from Tegernsee and 1½ hours for the descent.

The Baumgartenschneid is a 1,448 metre high mountain in the Bavarian Prealps above the Tegernsee to the east.

Bavarian Localbahn Society

The Bavarian Localbahn Society (Bayerischer Localbahnverein e.V. or BLV), with its headquarters in Tegernsee, is a society that is concerned with the history of the railways in Bavaria.

Blauberge

The Blauberge are part of Upper Bavaria's Mangfall Mountains or more precisely the Tegernsee Mountains and are located about 11 kilometres south of the Tegernsee lake.

Bodenschneid

The Bodenschneid rises between the lakes of Tegernsee, Schliersee and Spitzingsee and lies in the southern part of the district of Miesbach right on the boundary between the parishes of Kreuth to the west and Schliersee to the east.

The summit may be reached by foot from Fischhausen-Neuhaus (on the southern shore of Schliersee), from Spitzingsee, from the Suttengebiet (Moni Alm) or from Enterrottach (southeast of Tegernsee, parish of Rottach-Egern).

Count Nikolay Adlerberg

Nikolay and Amalie Adlerberg moved to Germany, where they settled at Maximilian Lerchenfeld's estate in Tegernsee near Munich.

Duchess Amalie in Bavaria

Amalie married Wilhelm, 2nd Duke of Urach (later Mindaugas II of Lithuania), eldest son of Wilhelm, 1st Duke of Urach and his second wife Princess Florestine of Monaco, on 4 July 1892 in Tegernsee, Kingdom of Bavaria.

Duchess Therese of Mecklenburg-Strelitz

Amalie von Sternfeld (Regensburg, 16 June 1808 – Tegernsee, 21 June 1888), married at Köfering, 31 August 1825 to Georg-Alexander, Freiherr von Krüdener (1786–1852), and had female issue

Egid Quirin Asam

Born in Tegernsee, Bavaria, Asam worked mainly together with his brother, the architect and painter Cosmas Damian Asam.

Erik Ode

Erik Ode (born Fritz Erik Signy Odemar, Berlin, 6 November 1910 - Weißach-Tegernsee, 19 July 1983) was a German actor who was most famous for playing Kommissar Herbert Keller in the German television drama Der Kommissar (The Commissioner).

Franconian Lake District

The lakes Altmühlsee, Brombachsee, Rothsee, Dennenloher See and Hahnenkammsee together form a lake district which is equal in size and infra-structure to the Upper Bavarian Lake District: the Altmühlsee, for example, is the same size as the Königssee, and the Große Brombachsee has the same area as the Tegernsee.

Friedrich Josef Rauch

According to SHAEF regulations, Rauch should have been automatically arrested due to his SS rank, but he was not interned until 27 November when a special Counter Intelligence Corps agent seized and interrogated him at Tegernsee city jail.

Grigory Gagarin

His father, Prince Grigory Ivanovich Gagarin (Saint Petersburg, 17 March 1782 - Tegernsee, 12 February 1837), was a Russian diplomat in France and later the ambassador to Italy.

Guffert

Because it projects above the Mangfall Mountains to the north by about 300 metres, the striking double peak is easily recognised from the Alpine Foreland, the Tegernsee and the Bavarian Prealps.

Hanne Haller

Hanne Haller (January 14, 1950 in Rendsburg, Germany - November 15, 2005 in Tegernsee, Germany; full name Hannelore Haller) was a German pop singer (genre known as "schlager" in German), composer, writer, producer, and sound engineer.

Hans Estner

Hans Estner (born 7 April 1951 in Tegernsee) is a West German former biathlete who competed in the 1980 Winter Olympics where he won a bronze medal in the 4x7.5 km relay.

Haymon

Thereafter, he founded the monastery Wilten which he hands over Benedictine monks from the monastery of Tegernsee.

Heinz Lorenz

During the night of 28–29 April, Hitler ordered that three copies of his political testament be hand-delivered to Field Marshal Ferdinand Schörner in Czechoslovakia, Karl Dönitz in Schleswig-Holstein, and Paul Giesler in Tegernsee by Lorenz, Willy Johannmeyer, and Martin Bormann's adjutant SS-Standartenführer Wilhelm Zander, respectively.

Joseph Karl Stieler

Stieler retired in 1855 to live at his country home in Tegernsee.

Joseph Kriechbaumer

Joseph Kriechbaumer (21 March 1819, Tegernsee- 2 May 1902), Munich was a German entomologist who specialised in Hymenoptera especially Ichneumonidae.

Karl von Eberstein

Friedrich Karl Freiherr von Eberstein (14 January 1894 in Halle – 10 February 1979 in Tegernsee) was a member of the German nobility, early member of the Nazi Party, the SA, and the SS (introducing Reinhard Heydrich to Heinrich Himmler in July 1931).

Mangfall

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Minnesang

The following love poem, of unknown authorship, is found in a Latin codex of the 12th century from the Tegernsee monastery.

Prince Max, Duke in Bavaria

She married Duke Philipp of Württemberg (son of Carl, Duke of Württemberg and Princess Diane of Orléans) in a civil ceremony in Altshausen and a religious ceremony on 27 July 1991 in Tegernsee.

Schliersee Mountains

The watershed between the lakes of Schliersee and Tegernsee crosses the mountains and forms the municipal boundary between the parishes of Rottach-Egern in the west and Schliersee in the east.

TAG Tegernsee Immobilien und Beteiligung

Until 1998 as Tegernsee-Bahn (Tegernsee Railway) it operated the railway line from Schaftlach via Gmund to Tegernsee.

Tegernsee Abbey

Settled by monks from St. Gall and dedicated to Saint Quirinus of Rome, whose relics were brought here from Rome in 804, the monastery soon spread the message of Christianity as far as the Tyrol and Lower Austria.

Both the abbey and the town that grew up around are named after the Tegernsee, the lake on the shores of which they are located.

Tegernsee Abbey or the Imperial Abbey of Tegernsee (German Kloster Tegernsee, Abtei or Reichsabtei Tegernsee) is a former Benedictine monastery in the town and district of Tegernsee in Bavaria.

Viktoria Lindpaitner

Viktoria Lindpaitner (born February 13, 1918 in Frankfurt am Main; died April 29, 1965 at the Tegernsee, Bavaria) was a German figure skater.

Viktoria Rebensburg

Viktoria Rebensburg (born October 4, 1989 in Tegernsee, Bavaria, Germany) is a champion alpine ski racer, the 2010 Olympic gold medalist in the giant slalom.

Walter Warlimont

Walter Warlimont (born 3 October 1894 in Osnabrück, Germany; died 9 October 1976 in Kreuth near the Tegernsee) was a German officer and war criminal known for his role as a deputy chief in the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (OKW), Germany's Supreme Armed Forces Command during World War II.


Gmund am Tegernsee

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.

Tegernsee Abbey

The shape of the future however was made plain with the appointment to this Bavarian abbey in 1189 of Abbot Manegold of Berg, son of the Count of Berg, as the result of political intrigue by the Counts of Andechs, Vögte (lords protectors) of Tegernsee, and Bishop Otto of Freising.