Waakirchen
Sign in to saveWaakirchen () is a municipality in the district of Miesbach in Bavaria in Germany. At the end of World War II, Japanese American soldiers (Nisei from the 522nd Field Artillery Battalion) rescued concentration camp victims on a death march at this village.
Key facts
- German location.image_coa
- DEU Waakirchen COA.svg
- German location.image_plan
- Waakirchen in MB.svg
- German location.image_photo
- Waakirchen.jpg
- German location.image_caption
- Waakirchen
- German location.state
- Bayern
- German location.region
- Oberbayern
- German location.district
- Miesbach
- German location.elevation
- 759
- German location.area
- 42.32
- German location.postal_code
- 83666
- German location.area_code
- 08021
- German location.licence
- MB
- German location.Gemeindeschlüssel
- 09 1 82 134
- German location.divisions
- 7 Ortsteile
- German location.website
- www.waakirchen.de
- German location.mayor
- Norbert Kerkel
- German location.leader_term
- 2020–26
- German location.party
- FW
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Wikidata facts
- Country
- Germany
- Located in
- District of Miesbach
- Population
- 5843
- Area
- 42.31
- Elevation
- 759
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Shares border with
- Bad Wiessee
- Official website
- www.waakirchen.de
- Image
- Waakirchen.jpg
- Dialing code
- 08021
- Licence plate code
- MB
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- Waakirchen
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- Waakirchen
- postal code
- 83666
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Waakirchen () is a municipality in the district of Miesbach in Bavaria in Germany. At the end of World War II, Japanese American soldiers (Nisei from the 522nd Field Artillery Battalion) rescued concentration camp victims on a death march at this village.
==References==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Waakirchen” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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