Grainau
Sign in to saveGrainau (Southern Bavarian: Groana) is a municipality in the district of Garmisch-Partenkirchen, in southern Bavaria, Germany. It is located at the foot of the Zugspitze mountain, the tallest mountain in Germany in the sub-mountain range of the Wetterstein Alps which is a branch off the main mountain range it is connected to, the Alps. Lake Eibsee in Grainau lies at the foot of the Zugspitze surrounded by forest.
Key facts
- German location.name
- Grainau
- German location.image_photo
- Grainau 1.JPG
- German location.image_caption
- View of Grainau's church with the Zugspitze behind
- German location.image_coa
- DEU Grainau COA.svg
- German location.image_plan
- Grainau in GAP.svg
- German location.state
- Bayern
- German location.region
- Oberbayern
- German location.district
- Garmisch-Partenkirchen
- German location.elevation
- 758
- German location.area
- 49.38
- German location.postal_code
- 82491
- German location.area_code
- 08821
- German location.licence
- GAP
- German location.Gemeindeschlüssel
- 09 1 80 118
- German location.website
- www.grainau.de
- German location.mayor
- Stephan Märkl
- German location.leader_term
- 2020–26
- German location.party
- CSU
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Wikidata facts
- Country
- Germany
- Located in
- District of Garmisch-Partenkirchen
- Population
- 3621
- Area
- 49.38
- Elevation
- 758
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Official website
- www.grainau.de
- Image
- Grainau 1.JPG
- Dialing code
- 08821
- Licence plate code
- GAP
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- Grainau
- Commons category
- Grainau
- topic's main category
- Category:Grainau
- postal code
- 82491
- P8168
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Grainau (Southern Bavarian: Groana) is a municipality in the district of Garmisch-Partenkirchen, in southern Bavaria, Germany. It is located at the foot of the Zugspitze mountain, the tallest mountain in Germany in the sub-mountain range of the Wetterstein Alps which is a branch off the main mountain range it is connected to, the Alps. Lake Eibsee in Grainau lies at the foot of the Zugspitze surrounded by forest.
== Geography == Grainau lies at the foot of the Zugspitze in the Wetterstein Mountains. It is part of the seven municipalities of the former County of Werdenfels, along with Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Farchant, Mittenwald, Krün and Wallgau. Grainau is also home to two mountain lakes, the Badersee and the Eibsee. Waxenstein mountain sits to the south, while the Kramerspitz mountain and Ammergau Alps sit to the north.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Grainau” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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