Ammergau

The Oberammergau ( Ammer Valley also ) is located beside the River Ammer between Graswang / Ettal and Bad Kohlgrub area near the border with Tyrol with the main town of Oberammergau. It has its name area possibly due to the near Amber Road (see Ammer = Amber ).

Of importance is the area through special cultural achievements in the field of folk art such as wood sculpture. Famous worldwide are the since 1633 every 10 years held the Oberammergau Passion Play. The fairy tale king Ludwig II taxed the land and the people of this region particularly. He built in a valley at Graswang with Schloss Linderhof is the smallest of its royal palaces, in which he spent most of his term of office.

Upstream of the mountains are the two spas Bad Kohlgrub and Bayersoien. The used there for mud baths peat from the surrounding mountain pine bogs is considered one of the most studied in the world and is effective for ailments that occur due to circulatory problems or are accompanied by such.

Historically important, the valley was a long time as a transport route in northern Italy and Venice, as well as towards the northern Augsburg. The Benedictine Abbey of Ettal on the pass direction of Oberau, Garmisch -Partenkirchen has long been widely of the largest landowners and practiced until the secularisation and the jurisdiction to the Loisachtal with the space Staffelsee and Murnau.

The historical region bunting land in what is now Lower Saxony was formerly also Oberammergau.