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Fall is, or was respectively, a small village (''Kirchdorf'') in the
Lenggries Lenggries is a municipality and a town 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" ...
municipality in
Landkreis Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen In all German states, except for the three city states, the primary administrative subdivision higher than a '' Gemeinde'' (municipality) is the (official term in all but two states) or (official term in the states of North Rhine-Westphalia ...
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Upper Bavaria Upper Bavaria (german: Oberbayern, ; ) is one of the seven administrative districts of Bavaria, Germany. Geography Upper Bavaria is located in the southern portion of Bavaria, and is centered on the city of Munich, both state capital and seat o ...
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Germany Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated betwe ...
. It is located on an peninsula of Lake Sylvenstein. It is named after ''Faller Klamm'', which is located northward. Older names were ''Am Fall'' oder ''Zum Faal''. The village is mentioned first in 1280 as a farm house. In 1954, the old village was abandoned because of the construction of
Sylvenstein Dam Sylvenstein Dam is an earthen embankment dam in the Isar valley, in the alpine part of Upper Bavaria, Germany which impounds the Sylvenstein Reservoir (german: Sylvensteinspeicher). In the 1920s, several hydropower plants were built in the tr ...
(Sylvensteinspeicher). The village was flooded intentionally in 1959. A newly built village with the same name was created at a height of 773 metresBayernAtlas
/ref> and 100 metres away from the former location. As of March 20, 2015 the village had a population of 111. The village is connected via
Bundesstraße 307 The Bundesstraße 307 is a German federal highway which crosses the Bavarian Alps in a west–east direction. It is composed of three separate segments. The road begins in Vorderriß, where the continuation leads into the Austrian village of ...
. A road bridge (built in 1959) named
Faller-Klamm-Brücke Faller-Klamm-Brücke is a road bridge near Fall in the Lenggries municipality in Landkreis Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen, Upper Bavaria, Germany. The bridge bears Bundesstraße 307 and spans Lake Sylvenstein (with a water surface of 752.0 MASL The M ...
spans over the lake starting in the northeast and has a length of 329 metres.


Literature

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Ludwig Ganghofer Ludwig Ganghofer (7 July 1855 – 24 July 1920) was a German writer who became famous for his homeland novels. Biography He was born in Kaufbeuren, Bavaria, the son of forestry official August Ganghofer (1827–1900). His younger sister Ida (186 ...
, ''Der Jäger von Fall.'' 1883.
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* Anton Böhm, ''Fall – Das versunkene Dorf.'' Selbstverlag, Rottach-Egern 2003. * Anton Böhm, ''Fall – das Dorf und der Speicher (das Schicksal eines Dorfes).'' Selbstverlag, Rottach-Egern 2008. * Stephan Bammer (Hrsg.): ''Die obere Isar - eine Zeitreise: Alt-Fall, Neu-Fall, Sylvensteinspeicher.'' Eder-Verlag, Lenggries 1997, . * Vasco Boenisch, Martina Farmbauer, ''Versunkene Erinnerungen. Vor fünfzig Jahren verschwand ein ganzer Ort.'' In: ''
Süddeutsche Zeitung The ''Süddeutsche Zeitung'' (; ), published in Munich, Bavaria, is one of the largest daily newspapers in Germany. The tone of SZ is mainly described as centre-left, liberal, social-liberal, progressive-liberal, and social-democrat. History ...
.'' 14. November 2003. * ''Neu-Fall, Oberbayern.'' In: ''Baumeister.'' Band 57, 1960, S. 540 f. () * ''Ein versunkenes Dorf taucht wieder auf.'' In: ''Süddeutsche Zeitung.'' 5. Dezember 2015


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Historische Karte des Gebiets (Urpositionsblätter, Blatt RISS, 1864)


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{{Coord, 47, 34, 10, N, 11, 31, 57, E, type:city_region:DE-BY, display=title Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen Planned communities 1959 floods