Gmund am Tegernsee is a

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in the district of Miesbach in

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. The town is located on the north shore of the Tegernsee Lake, and near the source of

River Mangfall The Mangfall is a river of Upper Bavaria, Germany. The Mangfall is the outflow of the Tegernsee lake and discharges in Rosenheim from the left into the Inn. It is long. Towns and villages on the Mangfall * Gmund am Tegernsee * Valley * Weyar ...

. It is from

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and from the district capital, the town of Miesbach. Famous personalities who lived in Gmund were the

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Ludwig Erhard Ludwig Wilhelm Erhard (; 4 February 1897 – 5 May 1977) was a German politician affiliated with the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), and chancellor of West Germany from 1963 until 1966. He is known for leading the West German postwar economic ...

, who is buried in Gmund's cemetery, the architect

Sep Ruf Sep Ruf (full name Franz Joseph Ruf; 9 March 1908, in Munich – 29 July 1982, in Munich) was a German architect and designer strongly associated with the Bauhaus group. He was one of the representatives of modern architecture in Germany af ...

and the clockmaker Johann Mannhardt. Reichsführer

Heinrich Himmler Heinrich Luitpold Himmler (; 7 October 1900 – 23 May 1945) was of the (Protection Squadron; SS), and a leading member of the Nazi Party of Germany. Himmler was one of the most powerful men in Nazi Germany and a main architect of th ...

and his family maintained a home there from 1934 to 1945. Gmund is served by a station on the privately owned Tegernsee-Bahn railway, and is linked to Munich by through trains of the

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