Grainau
Grainau 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.The district of Grainau is made up of:
- Obergrainau
- Untergrainau and Hammersbach
- Schmölz
- Eibsee
Notable people
- Lorenzo Quaglio the Younger painter and lithographer, painted Alm am Eibsee bey Grainau in 1831
- Alfred Gerstenberg Luftwaffe general
- Wilhelm Rudolf Mann factory manager for IG Farben and later with Bayer
- Hans Stuck motor racing driver
- Peter Schneider writer, lived in Grainau from 1945 to 1950
- Pepi Bader bobsledder, competed in the 1968 Winter Olympics and 1972 Winter Olympics winning silver medals in the two-man event
- Regina Stiefl mountain biker