Walchensee is a small
fishing village in the
Kochel municipality (Landkreis
Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen
Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen ( Bavarian: ''Bad Däiz-Woifradshausn'') is a ''Landkreis'' (district) in Bavaria, Germany. It is bounded by (from the south and clockwise) Austria and the districts of Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Weilheim-Schongau, Starnber ...
,
Upper Bavaria) at a height of 803 metres and a population of 250 plus tourists. It is located directly on the western banks of the
Lake of the same name.
Human settlement begun around 1130 by erection of a house for fishermen.
The federal highway
Bundesstraße 11
The Bundesstraße 11 (abbr. B11) is a German federal highway. It is the first regional federal highway in the German federal highway numbering system and leads from the Czech border near Bayerisch Eisenstein past Deggendorf, Landshut and Munich ...
runs through the town which is heavily visited by tourists (
outdoor recreation). The nearest train station is Kochel a. See (11.2 km) which is connected by bus (line # by Regionalverkehr Oberbayern / DB Oberbayernbus). The
aerial tramway Herzogstand Cable Car starts here.
[Am Tanneneck 6, 82432 Walchensee]
References
Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen
Villages in Bavaria
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