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Lenggries
Sign in to saveLenggries is a municipality and a village in Bavaria, Germany. It is the center of the Isarwinkel, the region along the Isar between Bad Tölz and Wallgau. The town has about 9,500 inhabitants. By area, it is the largest rural municipality ("Gemeinde") in what was formerly West Germany, and the 7th-largest overall. (All six currently larger Gemeinden are in Brandenburg.)
Key facts
- German location.image_coa
- DEU Lenggries COA.svg
- German location.image_photo
- SchlossHohenburg.JPG
- German location.image_caption
- Schloss Hohenburg
- German location.image_plan
- Lenggries in TÖL.svg
- German location.state
- Bayern
- German location.region
- Oberbayern
- German location.district
- Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen
- German location.elevation
- 679
- German location.area
- 242.90
- German location.postal_code
- 83661
- German location.area_code
- 08042, 08045 (Fall)
- German location.licence
- TÖL
- German location.divisions
- 7 Ortsteile
- German location.Gemeindeschlüssel
- 09 1 73 135
- German location.website
- www.lenggries.de
- German location.mayor
- Stefan Klaffenbacher
- German location.leader_term
- 2020–26
- German location.party
- FW
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Lenggries is a municipality and a village in Bavaria, Germany. It is the center of the Isarwinkel, the region along the Isar between Bad Tölz and Wallgau. The town has about 9,500 inhabitants. By area, it is the largest rural municipality ("Gemeinde") in what was formerly West Germany, and the 7th-largest overall. (All six currently larger Gemeinden are in Brandenburg.)
==Etymology== The name Lenggries is derived from Lenngengrieze (long Gries), a long rubble field with deposits of debris from the bed of the Isar.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lenggries” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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