Land: Bavaria
Situation and characteristics
Garmisch-Partenkirchen, on the Deutsche Alpenstrasse, is one of the busiest tourist and holiday places in the Bavarian Alps, a well known climatic resort and the leading German winter sports resort. The Winter Olympics of 1936 and the International Alpine
Skiing Championships of 1978 were staged here.
The wide valley of the Loisach is enclosed by mighty mountain massifs - to the north Kramer and the Wank, to the south the towering Wetterstein group, with the Kreuzeck, the jagged Alpspitze and the Dreitorspitze, and, rearing up behind the Grosser Waxenstein, the Zugspitze, Germany's highest mountain (2,963 m/9,722ft).
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