Schliersee is a small town (Markt) and a municipality in the district of
Miesbach
Miesbach () is a town in Bavaria, Germany, and is the capital of the Miesbach district. The district is at an altitude of 697 metres above sea level. It covers an area of approximately 863.50 km² of alpine headlands and in 2017 had a popul ...
in
Bavaria
Bavaria ( ; ), officially the Free State of Bavaria (german: Freistaat Bayern, link=no ), is a state in the south-east of Germany. With an area of , Bavaria is the largest German state by land area, comprising roughly a fifth of the total lan ...
in
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 named after the nearby
Lake Schliersee
Schliersee is a natural lake in Upper Bavaria in the Bavarian Alps. It is located next to the small town of Schliersee in the Miesbach district.
The lake has a surface of at an elevation of AMSL, expanding by maximum. The average depth is ...
. It comprises the districts Schliersee (town), , , ,
Josefsthal and
Spitzingsee
Spitzingsee is a lake in Bavaria, Germany. At an elevation of 1084 m, its surface area is . Geography
The Spitzingsee is located about five kilometers south of the Schliersee and a few hundred meters south of the Spitzingsattels at an altitude of ...
.
Among the points of interest in Schliersee, a climatic health resort, is the St Sixtus church with a Holy Trinity group by
Erasmus Grasser
Erasmus Grasser (c. 1450 – c. 1515) was a leading master builder and sculptor in Munich in the early 16th century.
Biography
He developed in an animated and realistic style, furthering on the works of Nikolaus Gerhaert.
Grasser worked mainly i ...
and wall and ceiling frescoes by
Johann Baptist Zimmermann
Johann Baptist Zimmermann (3 January 1680, Gaispoint — 2 March 1758, Munich) was a German painter and a prime stucco plasterer during the Baroque.
Zimmermann was born in Gaispoint, Wessobrunn. He and his brother Dominikus Zimmermann were ...
. The excellent quality of the water in the Schliersee is due in large part to the construction of a system for purifying waste water from the area surrounding the lake, which was supported by the state of Bavaria with large subsidies and low-interest loans.
Geography
Schliersee is located on the northeastern shore of the lake of the same name and is a well known resort in the Bavarian Alps. Schliersee provides scenic views of the surrounding mountains, in particular
Aiplspitz,
Jägerkamp (German),
Brecherspitz
The Brecherspitz is a mountain in Bavaria, Germany. It is about 18 minutes from nearby towns of Fischbachau and Schliersee. From the top, you can see views of small lake Spitzingsee, Miesbach District, and Austria
Austria, , bar, Öst ...
and
Bodenschneid
The Bodenschneid is a 1,668 m high mountain in the Schliersee Mountains in the Mangfall range in the German Free State of Bavaria.
Location and area
The Bodenschneid rises between the lakes of Tegernsee, Schliersee and Spitzingsee and lies in t ...
, all belonging to the
Mangfallgebirge
The Mangfall Mountains (german: Mangfallgebirge), or sometimes Mangfall Alps, are the easternmost part of the Bavarian Prealps that, in turn, belong to the Northern Limestone Alps. The name comes from the river Mangfall, whose tributaries, the R ...
range. The
Spitzingsee
Spitzingsee is a lake in Bavaria, Germany. At an elevation of 1084 m, its surface area is . Geography
The Spitzingsee is located about five kilometers south of the Schliersee and a few hundred meters south of the Spitzingsattels at an altitude of ...
area is at an elevation of 1,090 meters high and is a well known winter sports and mountain hiking centre.
Transport
Schliersee lies on the B307, 7 km south of Miesbach, 17 km from the motorway A8 (exit
Weyarn
Weyarn is a municipality in the district of Miesbach in Bavaria in Germany.
It dates back to a monastery that was founded by Siboto II, count of Falkenstein in 1133. It is located 38 km southeast of Munich and can be easily reached on high ...
), 32 km from
Rosenheim
Rosenheim is a city in Bavaria, Germany. It is an independent city located in the centre of the district of Rosenheim (Upper Bavaria), and is also the seat of its administration. It is located on the west bank of the Inn at the confluence of the ...
and 53 km from the state capital
Munich
Munich ( ; german: München ; bar, Minga ) is the capital and most populous city of the States of Germany, German state of Bavaria. With a population of 1,558,395 inhabitants as of 31 July 2020, it is the List of cities in Germany by popu ...
.
Schliersee
terminal station
A train station, railway station, railroad station or depot is a railway facility where trains stop to load or unload passengers, freight or both. It generally consists of at least one platform, one track and a station building providing such ...
lies on the Holzkirchen-Schliersee railway line and the Schliersee-Bayrischzell railway operated by the
Bavarian Oberland Bahn. Trains run from Munich via
Holzkirchen to
Bayrischzell
Bayrischzell is a municipality in the district of Miesbach in Bavaria in Germany.
Geography
Bayrischzell is located in the Mangfallgebirge between Schliersee in the West and Oberaudorf in the East. It is located at the foot of Wendelstein moun ...
through Schliersee station and Fischhausen-Neuhaus. At peak hours, the service operates every 30 minutes (commuting) and hourly at other times.
There are regular busses to Spitzingsee with some continuing to
Valepp. Buses operate via Hausham to Tegernsee (town) and from June to October to
Kufstein
Kufstein (; Central Bavarian: ''Kufstoa'') is a town in the Austrian state of Tyrol, the administrative seat of Kufstein District. With a population of about 19,600 it is the second largest Tyrolean town after the state capital Innsbruck. The great ...
in
Tyrol
Tyrol (; historically the Tyrole; de-AT, Tirol ; it, Tirolo) is a historical region in the Alps - in Northern Italy and western Austria. The area was historically the core of the County of Tyrol, part of the Holy Roman Empire, Austrian Emp ...
via
Thiersee
Thiersee is a large municipality in the Kufstein district in the Austrian state of Tyrol located 5 km west of Kufstein, below the northern border with Bavaria, Germany.
The village was mentioned for the first time in documents in 1224 and ...
.
Coat of arms
After Schliersee was raised to 'Markt' status in 1919, the town applied for the authorisation to use the local colours of cornflower blue / gold yellow. However this encountered difficulties, since in the opinion of the Bavarian State Archives, the main colours of the Schliersee emblem are blue / white and not cornflower blue / gold yellow.
Then town then commissioned Prof. Otto Hupp, to revise the Schliersee coat of arms. On August 24, 1926, the market council approved the new coat of arms.
It had the following description:
"
Pope
The pope ( la, papa, from el, πάππας, translit=pappas, 'father'), also known as supreme pontiff ( or ), Roman pontiff () or sovereign pontiff, is the bishop of Rome (or historically the patriarch of Rome), head of the worldwide Cathol ...
martyr
A martyr (, ''mártys'', "witness", or , ''marturia'', stem , ''martyr-'') is someone who suffers persecution and death for advocating, renouncing, or refusing to renounce or advocate, a religious belief or other cause as demanded by an externa ...
Sixtus II
Pope Sixtus II ( el, Πάπας Σίξτος Β΄), also written as Pope Xystus II, was bishop of Rome from 31 August 257 until his death on 6 August 258. He was martyred along with seven deacons, including Lawrence of Rome, during the persecutio ...
sitting on a Faldistorium on blue field, in golden
cope
The cope (known in Latin as ''pluviale'' 'rain coat' or ''cappa'' 'cape') is a liturgical vestment, more precisely a long mantle or cloak, open in front and fastened at the breast with a band or clasp. It may be of any liturgical colours, litu ...
with
Papal tiara
The papal tiara is a crown that was worn by popes of the Catholic Church from as early as the 8th century to the mid-20th. It was last used by Pope Paul VI in 1963 and only at the beginning of his reign.
The name "tiara" refers to the entire h ...
, offers blessing holding in his left hand lowered sword."
This new coat of arms and the local colour "cornflower blue / gold yellow" were approved by resolution of the Bavarian Ministry of the Interior of 27 November 1926.
History
An act of the Prince-Bishopric of
Freising
Freising () is a university town in Bavaria, Germany, and the capital of the Freising ''Landkreis'' (district), with a population of about 50,000.
Location
Freising is the oldest town between Regensburg and Bolzano, and is located on the Is ...
on 21 January 779, confirms that five brothers founded on "Slyrse" a monastic cell, together with a small consecrated church founded by the bishop Arbeo. This monastery was on the Kirchbichl, north of the present church. During the Hungarian invasions in the tenth century it was probably destroyed by Bishop Otto of Freising, but in 1141 was refounded at the site of the present church St. Sixtus and in 1260 converted to a
Collegiate church In Christianity, a collegiate church is a church where the daily office of worship is maintained by a college of canons: a non-monastic or "secular" community of clergy, organised as a self-governing corporate body, which may be presided over by a ...
. The canons lived on small farms around the church with which they made their livelihood. In 1493/95, against the will of the canons, the Frauenkirche was moved to Munich, where in 1803 it was closed down following secularization.
From the 12th century, power over the area was vested Hohenwaldeck counts. This period also saw the decline in importance of castle Hohenwaldeck above Schliersee. In the 15th century the bishopric of Freising was given supremacy over the territory and in 1454
Imperial immediacy
Imperial immediacy (german: Reichsfreiheit or ') was a privileged constitutional and political status rooted in German feudal law under which the Imperial estates of the Holy Roman Empire such as Imperial cities, prince-bishoprics and secular pri ...
was given. However the main county town was Miesbach and
Castle Waldeck (German). By 1483 the family of the Counts of Waldeck died out. Following inheritance disputes, the territory was eventually acquired by Wolfgang von
Maxlrain (German) in 1516. The rule of Maxlrain over Schliersee lasted until 1734. Thereafter, the county and area around Schliersee passed to the Electorate of Bavaria. Over the same time, the prerogatives of the manorial church Frauenstift Munich and Maxlrain were gradually lost. Residents were able to purchase or sell, new houses were built, the population structure transformed land, and gradually a community formed. In implementing the Bavarian Constitution of 1808 through the first municipality edict, Schliersee became an independent rural community in that year. In 1919 Schliersee became a 'markt' town.
By 1880, the beginnings of industry could be seen in Schliersee. From 1867 to 1914 there was a glassworks in Breitenbach.
In the second third of the 19th century Munich artists discovered the quiet and romantic Schliersee and its reputation spread as an idyllic holiday destination. On August 1, 1869, Schliersee was connected to Munich by railway, which resulted in a boom of tourism. Trails were created, bathhouses, new restaurants and hotels and other recreational facilities were built. In 1888 the local folklore society was formed and in 1892 the Schliersee farmers theatre was formed, the first Bavarian folk theatre. In the 20th century numerous celebrities chose Schliersee as a main or second home.
In the late 1880s the Winter pleasure of skiing was brought to Schliersee Mountains. At the turn of the 20th century, Schliersee pioneered Bavarian Winter sports development. In 1902 the first official cross country ski event was organised through the village, and four years later the local ski club was created. Also in 1906 was the first "Bavarian ski championship" took place in the area around Schliersee with a distance of 25 km. The Red Cross in Schliersee suggested the birth of the mountain rescue service: A group of skiers founded there in 1911 the "first German-skiing voluntary rescue unit".
Politics
Council
The council has 20 seats, since the local elections on March 16, 2014, comprising as follows:
Bayerisches Landesamt für Statistik und Datenverarbeitung, Kommunalwahlen
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In addition, the council also has its first mayor.
Twin towns
Schliersee is partnered with the Italian Barberino Val d'Elsa
Barberino Val d'Elsa is a ''frazione'' of Barberino Tavarnelle which was until December 2018 a sovereign ''comune'' (municipality).
Barberino Val d'Elsa is located above the valley from which it takes its name. The centre of town is still ringed b ...
in Tuscany
Tuscany ( ; it, Toscana ) is a Regions of Italy, region in central Italy with an area of about and a population of about 3.8 million inhabitants. The regional capital is Florence (''Firenze'').
Tuscany is known for its landscapes, history, art ...
.
Culture and attractions
Theatre
The Schliersee farmers theatre (founded in 1892) is the oldest theatre of this type.
Museums
The Schliersee museum (built around 1500) shows the rural life and work over the past 500 years in one of the oldest houses in the village. In addition to the living rooms and bedrooms, an open Rauchkuchel, a court and a prison can be seen. The collection includes furniture and miscellaneous items and a collection of glass objects from the Schliersee glass works.
The Markus Wasmeiern farming and Winter Sports Museum (in German) is an outdoor museum on the southern edge of Schliersee. The museum is dedicated to rural life from the beginning of the 18th century. Old farms from upper Bavaria were dismantled, moved from their original locations then restored and rebuilt in the museum.
Churches and chapels
On the Weinberg hill stands the Gothic chapel of St. George from the 14th century with a baroque altar of 1624. On the north wall stand the figures of St. Sixtus and St. Barbara. There is a memorial plaque for the German casualties of the Battle of Annaberg
The Battle of (the) Annaberg ( pl, Bitwa o Górę Św. Anny) was the biggest battle of the Silesian Uprisings. The battle, which took place between May 21–26, 1921, was fought at the Annaberg (Polish: ''Góra Św. Anny''), a strategic hill ...
in 1921. From the Weinberg there is a nice view of the town and the lake. At the northern entrance to the village is the baroque church of St. Martin containing 's grave. Finally, located in the centre, which was built in 1712–1715, there is the Parish Church St.Sixtus, with works by Jan Polak, Erasmus Grasser
Erasmus Grasser (c. 1450 – c. 1515) was a leading master builder and sculptor in Munich in the early 16th century.
Biography
He developed in an animated and realistic style, furthering on the works of Nikolaus Gerhaert.
Grasser worked mainly i ...
and Johann Baptist Zimmermann
Johann Baptist Zimmermann (3 January 1680, Gaispoint — 2 March 1758, Munich) was a German painter and a prime stucco plasterer during the Baroque.
Zimmermann was born in Gaispoint, Wessobrunn. He and his brother Dominikus Zimmermann were ...
.
Industry
Schliersee is the home to the Slyrs
Slyrs () is a German whisky distillery in Schliersee, a small town in the Oberbayern region of Bavaria. The distillery is controlled by the Stetter family, which also operates a schnapps distillery previously used to distill Slyrs whisky.
Ac ...
Bavarian Malt whisky distillery.
Leisure
Since late 2008 on lakefront is the ''Vital world Schliersee''.
Literature
The Bavarian writer Manfred Böckl
Manfred Böckl (born 2 September 1948) is a German writer who specialises in historical fiction. Since the 1980s, he has written novels that often revolve around Bavaria, crime, abuse of power and historical renegades and seers. He had a local b ...
wrote a novel about the famous Schliersee inhabitant and poacher George Jennerwein. The book is entitled ''Jennerwein''.
Film
In Schliersee during September 2007, Joseph Vilsmaier
Joseph Vilsmaier (, 24 January 1939 – 11 February 2020) was a German film director who began his career as a technician and cameraman. He is internationally known for films such as ''Comedian Harmonists (film), Comedian Harmonists''.
Life
Bo ...
filmed ' with Franz Xaver Kroetz
Franz Xaver Kroetz (; born 25 February 1946) is a German author, playwright, actor and film director. He achieved great success beginning in the early 1970s. ''Persistent'', '' Farmyard'', and ''Request Concert'', all written in 1971, are some o ...
as Brandner Kaspar and Michael Herbig
Michael may refer to:
People
* Michael (given name), a given name
* Michael (surname), including a list of people with the surname Michael
Given name "Michael"
* Michael (archangel), ''first'' of God's archangels in the Jewish, Christian and ...
as Boandlkramer. The film was released in October 2008.
Notable people
* Minna Blüml (born 1920), luge
A luge is a small one- or two-person sled on which one sleds supine (face up) and feet-first. A luger steers by using the calf muscles to flex the sled's runners or by exerting opposite shoulder pressure to the seat. Racing sleds weigh for s ...
r
* Charlotte Dietrich (born 1935), artist
* (1864–1939), painter
* Rolf Singer
Rolf Singer (June 23, 1906 – January 18, 1994) was a Germany, German-born mycologist and one of the most important Taxonomy (biology), taxonomists of gilled mushrooms (agarics) in the 20th century.
After receiving his Ph.D. at the University ...
(1906–1994), German-US-American Mycology
Mycology is the branch of biology concerned with the study of fungi, including their genetic and biochemical properties, their taxonomy and their use to humans, including as a source for tinder, traditional medicine, food, and entheogens, as ...
and High school teacher
* Markus Wasmeier
Markus Wasmeier (; born 9 September 1963 is a former World Cup alpine ski racer from Germany. He was world champion and twice Olympic champion.
At the 1985 World Championships at Bormio, Italy, he won the Giant Slalom at age 21, before recor ...
(born 1963), Skier. 1985 World slalom champion in Bormio
Bormio ( lmo, Bormi, rm, italic=yes, , german: Worms im Veltlintal) is a town and ''comune'' with a population of about 4,100 located in the Province of Sondrio, Lombardy region of the Alps in northern Italy.
The centre of the upper Valtellina ...
(Italy), 1994 double Olympic champion in Lillehammer (Norway) in the super-G and giant slalom.
Other personalities
* Josef Achmann (1885–1958), painter, lived from 1940 until his death in Schliersee
* Michael Ande
Michael Ande (born 5 October 1944, Bad Wiessee) is a German actor, best-known for his role as Gerd Heymann in the West German crime-drama television series ''The Old Fox'' which he played between 1977 and 2016.
He was a well-known German film ch ...
(1944), actor, lives in Schliersee
* Hans Rudolf Beierlein (born 1929), music manager, lives in Schliersee
* Hans Frank
Hans Michael Frank (23 May 1900 – 16 October 1946) was a German politician and lawyer who served as head of the General Government in Nazi-occupied Poland during the Second World War.
Frank was an early member of the German Workers' Party ...
(1900–1946), Nazi politician, lived from 1936 in Neuhaus am Schliersee
* Gustav Berauer
Gustav "Gustl" Berauer (5 November 1912 – 18 May 1986) was an ethnic German Czechoslovak nordic combined skier who competed in the 1930s. He was born in Petzer, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary, which is now known as Pec pod Sněžkou in the Czech Re ...
(1912–1986), world champion Nordic skiing in 1939, died in Schliersee
* Werner Bochmann
Werner Bochmann (17 May 1900, Meerane, Kingdom of Saxony – 3 June 1993) was a German composer.
Selected filmography
* ''Playing with Fire (1934 film), Playing with Fire'' (1934)
* ''The Island (1934 film), The Island'' (1934)
* ''One Too Many o ...
(1900–1993), composer, lived for over 50 years until his death in Schliersee
* Albert Singer (1869–1922), German hunting and landscape painter. Lived and worked in Schliersee
* Hubert Haider (1879–1971), landscape painter, son to Karl Michael Haider, lived at times in Schliersee
* Karl Michael Haider
Karl Michael Haider (1846–1912), was a Bavarian landscape and portrait painter.
Early life and education
Haider was born on 6 February 1846 in Munich, the son to Max Haider (1807–1873), a forester from Anzing, and his wife Therese Fäß ...
(1846–1912), Bavarian landscape and portrait painter, lived from 1896 until his death in Schliersee
* George Jenner wine (1848–1877), legendary poacher, buried in Schliersee-west Hofen
* Anton von Perfall (1853–1912), hunting writer, lived in Schliersee. Many of his stories take place around Schliersee.
* Gerhard Polt
Gerhard Polt (born 7 May 1942 in Munich) is a German writer, filmmaker, actor and satirical cabaret artist from Bavaria.
Gerhard Polt's main topics are Bavarian people, culture and politics. On stage he often plays the role of an ignorant Bava ...
(born 1942), Bavarian cabaret artist, lives in Schliersee.
* Xaver Terofal (1862–1940), actor, founder of Schlierseer Bauer Theatre
* Wolfgang Vogel
Wolfgang Vogel (30 October 1925 – 21 August 2008) was a German lawyer active in East Germany at the time of the Cold War who had brokered some of the most famous swaps of spies or exchanges against ransom of political prisoners between the Sov ...
(1925–2008), lawyer and negotiator for the GDR
East Germany, officially the German Democratic Republic (GDR; german: Deutsche Demokratische Republik, , DDR, ), was a country that existed from its creation on 7 October 1949 until its dissolution on 3 October 1990. In these years the state ...
in the "Sale of prisoners' freedom". Following reunification lived until his death in Schliersee.
* Georg Vogelsang (1883–1952), popular actor, died in Schliersee
* Vanessa Hinz
Vanessa Hinz (born 24 March 1992) is a former German biathlete and cross-country skier. Hinz started in her first world cup races at the end of the 2012/13-season. At the 2013 European Championships she won a gold medal with the German relay te ...
(born 1992), biathlete, grew up in Schliersee and competes for the SC Schliersee
Regular events
* Ski carnival on the Firstalm (Carnival Sunday)
* Alpen-Triathlon (June / July)
* Schliersee lake festival (July / August)
* Old-Schliersee Church day (August)
* Lake festival on Spitzingsee (August)
* Leonhardifahrt (November)
* Schliersee Advent. Advent with Bavarian advent music and pastoral play (1st and 2nd Advent-Saturday)
References
External links
www.schliersee.de
Markt Schliersee – Official Website
www.verwaltungsservice.bayern.de
Management service of Bavaria: Markt Schliersee
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Schliersee (Municipality): Official Statistics
of LfStat
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