Bichl is a municipality in the district of
Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen in
Bavaria
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Germany
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. It is located at , and has about 2000 residents. The village first appears in documents from 1048.
The name "Bichl" refers to hill upon which the village church, St. George, stands. The church was built by Johann Michael Fischer. The origin of the name Bichl comes from the Bavarian word for hill "Bühel" which appears in many place names, where
Austro-Bavarian
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Bavarian is spoken by approximately 12 million pe ...
dialects are spoken. For example:
Kitzbühel
Kitzbühel (, also: ; ) is a medieval town situated in the Kitzbühel Alps along the river Kitzbüheler Ache in Tyrol, Austria, about east of the state capital Innsbruck and is the administrative centre of the Kitzbühel district (). Kitzbühel ...
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Transport
The municipality has a railway station, , on the
Kochelsee Railway
The Kochelsee Railway (german: Kochelseebahn, literally "Lake Kochel Railway") is a branch line in Upper Bavaria (''Oberbayern''), Germany, that is just under 36 km long, single-tracked and fully electrified. It is operated by the Deutsche Ba ...
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