Siegsdorf is a

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality ...

in the district of Traunstein 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 l ...

Germany Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG),, is a country in Central Europe. It is the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany lies between the Baltic and North Sea to the north and the Alps to the sou ...

Famous residents

Siegsdorf is the home town of ski jumper Markus Eisenbichler and imposter and murderer Christian Gerhartsreiter. Jimmy Carl Black of Frank Zappa's Mothers of Invention lived the last years of his life in Siegsdorf.

References

Traunstein (district) {{Traunsteindistrict-geo-stub

Famous sights

Mammoths Southeast Bavarian Natural History and Mammoth Museum Siegsdorf

Traffic

Siegsdorf is located directly on the A 8 from Munich to Salzburg and can be reached via the Siegsdorf-West (AS 111) or Traunstein / Siegsdorf-Ost (AS 112) exits. Federal road 306 (Traunstein ↔ Inzell) runs east of the main town. Siegsdorf is also on the Traunstein – Ruhpolding railway line.