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32-651: The monastery at Scheyern was established in 1119 as the final site of the community founded in around 1077 at Bayrischzell by Countess Haziga of Aragon , wife of Otto II, Count of Scheyern, the ancestors of the Wittelsbachs . The first monks were from Hirsau Abbey , of which the new monastery was a priory, founded as it was against the background of the Investiture Controversy and the Hirsau Reforms . The original site proved unsuitable for

64-463: A "Haberfeldtreiben" took place, with over 100 drivers instead. By 1900 tourism began to take off. The coat of arms in its current form has existed since 1959, with silver diamonds is reminiscent of the close historical relationship with the Wittelsbachs . From 1900 a railway was constructed along the Leitzachtal , from Munich to Bayrischzell via Westerham . On 1 October 1911, the terminus of

96-407: A cable car from Osterhofen since 1970. The Wendelstein ski resort with its 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) of slopes is a secret tip for experienced skiers. On the edge of the village is the heated open air swimming pool, "Alpenfreibad Bayrischzell". There are also tennis courts, a mini golf course and in winter an ice rink and a curling rink. In Geitau, on the western edge of the municipality, lies

128-403: A number of reasons, including difficulties with water supply, and the monastery moved in 1087 to Fischbachau . When that site too proved unsuitable, they moved to Petersberg, in 1104. When Haziga, the widowed Countess of Scheyern, left Burg Scheyern in 1119 for Burg Wittelsbach , the castle from which the family subsequently took their name, the old castle, constructed in about 940, was given to

160-490: A two-metre aperture. In addition, from 1950 to 1960 there was an observatory on the eastern summit of the Wendelstein, consisting of an observation dome and a residential house. There, the astronomer Rudolf Kühn carried out research. The facility was completely demolished in 1965, only the remains of the foundations are still visible. Where the observation dome once stood, a wind turbine was later built, but that, too,

192-551: Is October, the wettest is July, which experiences 2.6 times as much precipitation as October. Annual variations are extremely large. Only 3% of weather stations register higher annual variations. On the summit of the mountain is the Wendelstein Chapel, an observatory , a weather station , a geopark and a transmission mast for the Bayerischer Rundfunk . About a hundred metres below the summit, on

224-712: Is managed by the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising as a satellite church of the parish of Maria Himmelfahrt in Brannenburg. The Wendelstein Church's description as the "highest church in Germany" is indisputable; all other higher church buildings (such as the Zugspitze Chapel consecrated in 1981) are not churches in the ecclesiastical sense, but only chapels. Regular masses and marriage services take place in

256-576: Is still today a place of pilgrimage for this reason. By the 13th century the abbey had already gained a reputation for its school of illumination and its scriptorium . It suffered particularly severely in the Thirty Years' War and did not participate afterwards in the Baroque revival to the same extent as other monasteries in Bavaria. In the 18th century however it was refurbished in the style of

288-715: The German Meteorological Office , which is staffed around the clock, and an observatory of the Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich . The first weather observations on the Wendelstein were recorded in a makeshift observatory erected by the summit chapel by Paul Schiegg in July 1804, the records were, however, often frustrated by lightning , storms , snow and rain . In 1883

320-624: The Mangfallgebirge between Schliersee in the West and Oberaudorf in the East. It is located at the foot of Wendelstein mountain, at the foot of Sudelfeld and below the Sudelfeld pass. It lies at the northern exit of Ursprungtal . It is 23 kilometres (14 mi) southeast of Miesbach , 25 kilometres (16 mi) northwest of Kufstein , 20 kilometres (12 mi) west of Oberaudorf. In

352-454: The Rococo . On 15 November 1802 the monastery came under the governance of the territorial rulers, and on 21 March 1803 was dissolved as part of the secularisation of Bavaria. The buildings were sold, and changed hands several times in a short period. In 1838 however under Ludwig I of Bavaria the monastery was re-established, and re-settled by monks from Metten Abbey ; in 1843 it regained

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384-595: The Staatliche Berufsoberschule , a type of school which was considered very experimental at the time. It opened in 1976 and is still in operation. 48°30′05″N 11°27′10″E  /  48.50139°N 11.45278°E  / 48.50139; 11.45278 Bayrischzell Bayrischzell is a municipality in the district of Miesbach in Bavaria in Germany . Bayrischzell is located in

416-416: The 1980s. Since 1988 the facility has become purely an observatory; the dome of the coronograph is only used today for viewing purposes. Searches were conducted from the Wendelstein for extrasolar planets by evaluating occultations and research is carried out on variable stars in dwarf galaxies using an 80-cm telescope and CCD cameras . In 2012, the 80-cm telescope was replaced by an instrument with

448-661: The Geitau gliding airfield, operated by LSC Schliersee. During winter, 96 kilometres (60 mi) of groomed trails are available for cross-country skiing. In Summer there are 28 kilometres (17 mi) of marked Nordic walking trails. Wendelstein (mountain) Wendelstein is a 1,838-metre-high (6,030 ft) mountain in the Bavarian Alps in South Germany. It is part of the Mangfall Mountains ,

480-484: The Upper Triassic with dasycladales - marine algae whose natural habitat is shallow lagoons in tropical climates. The colour of the rock varies between grey white and light grey to speckled. The annual precipitation is 1,714 mm (67.5 in), which is extremely high, lying in the upper twentieth of values in Germany. 99% of German Met Office weather stations register lower values. The driest month

512-844: The Wendelsteinhaus Meteorological Station was built by Dr. Fritz Erk of the Royal Bavarian Meteorological Central Station in Munich at an altitude of 1700 m. This was the first Alpine station in the Royal Bavarian Meteorological Station Network. The delivery of mail to and from this station was carried out in winter by the members of the Wendelsteinhaus Alpine Club and in summer by tourists. In 1962,

544-576: The brown bear Bruno was killed by two hunters and a policeman by a lung shot at 150 metres (490 ft). He had come from Italy via Tyrol in May 2006. The stuffed bear has been displayed since April 2008 in Museum of Man and Nature . According to a survey by the ATS (Alpenregion Tegernsee Schliersee), Bayrischzell is the most liveable town in the district of Miesbach In autumn 2007, director Rainer Kaufmann filmed

576-926: The eastern part of the Bavarian Pre-Alps, and is the highest peak in the Wendelstein massif. It lies between the valleys of the Leitzach and Inn and is accessible via the Wendelstein Cable Car and the Wendelstein Rack Railway . On its northern foothills rises the Jenbach, which becomes the Kalten on its way to the River Mangfall . Local valley settlements include Bayrischzell , Brannenburg and Osterhofen. The mountain consists mainly of Wetterstein limestone from

608-648: The monks at Petersberg and became Scheyern Abbey, independent of Hirsau. Scheyern was considered a Wittelsbach family monastery , which they used as a place of burial until 1253. The Wittelsbachs also retained the office of Vogt . The dedication is to the Holy Cross and the Assumption of the Virgin Mary : the abbey has had in its possession since 1180 a relic of the True Cross from Jerusalem , and

640-474: The mountain church in summer. Wendelstein Church is also often called the Wendelstein Chapel, but there is a separate Wendelstein Chapel. This is dedicated to St. Wendelin and stands just below the summit. This summit chapel, made of wood, is considerably older than the church; there are reports of it going back to the early 19th century. On the summit of the Wendelstein there is a weather station belonging to

672-576: The observatory was funded by the US forces for the same purpose. Since 1949 the facility has belonged to the University of Munich. In the 1960s the observatory was enhanced with a coronagraph , a device that enabled research to be carried out on the atmosphere of the Sun. Due to increasing air pollution and research priorities switching back to night-time astronomy, scientific observations of the Sun were ceased in

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704-448: The path cannot be used in winter, there is also a lift in the middle of the mountain for employees of the observatory, weather service and transmission site, accessed from the station of the rack railway through a tunnel. The rack railway was built in 1912 by Otto von Steinbeis . Since its renovation in the early 1990s, it has been worked by modern railcars that have reduced journey times from over 50 minutes to about half an hour. Near

736-585: The present weather station was built at the summit. It is staffed around the clock with full-time staff. The observatory was founded in December 1939 by Karl-Otto Kiepenheuer as a solar observatory for the Luftwaffe . The recording of solar activity was supposed to enable the most accurate forecast possible of the optimal frequencies used for military communications . After the Second World War

768-623: The rack railway mountain station is the Wendelstein Cave with several stalactites and stalagmites , and which contain ice until well into the summer months. The foundation stone of the Wendelstein Church ( Wendelsteinkircherl ) was laid on 1 July 1889 on a rocky ridge a hundred metres below the summit. On 20 August 1890 Germany's highest church was consecrated. It is dedicated to the Patrona Bavariae and

800-621: The railway Schliersee-Bayrischzell became operational. In 1970 the Wendelstein Cable Car was completed. The German University Sports Association (Arbeitsgemeinschaft deutscher Sportreferenten) was established in 1948 in Bayrischzell even before the constitution of the Federal Republic on 2 April 1948 in Bayrischzell. On the night of 26 June 2006 on the 1,500-metre-high (4,900 ft) Kümpflalm near Rotwand ,

832-535: The re-establishment in 1838, a grammar school was opened. In 1939 all schools run by religious orders were closed, including Scheyern Abbey's. After World War II a humanistic Gymnasium was opened here. It was replaced however in 1970 by the Schyrengymnasium in Pfaffenhofen . Once the transfer to the new school was complete, the monastery set up a residential high school for vocational training,

864-504: The ridge between the Wendelstein and the Schwaigerwand, lie the mountain inn, the termini of the rack railway and cable car, the service building for the mast, the former mountain hotel (above the station), a hut for the mountain rescue service and the Wendelstein Church. The buildings around the mountain stations are linked to the summit by a metalled track, which also enables the summit to be reached by inexperienced hikers. Because

896-618: The status of an abbey. Between 1876 and 1878 the church, now serving both the community and the parish, was restored to the Romanesque style. Scheyern now also possesses a Byzantine Institute, specialising in the works of Saint John of Damascus . It also enjoys historical links with Hungary. Scheyern Abbey is a member of the Bavarian Congregation of the Benedictine Confederation . Shortly after

928-527: The television movie The best comes first for ZDF. In the 1980s Heirs to be learned was filmed in Bayrischzell. The adjoining Sudelfeld with 19 ski lifts and around 31 kilometres (19 mi) of prepared ski runs is one of the most famous ski resorts in the Bavarian Alps and the largest in the German contiguous ski area. It can be reached from the village on a chairlift. Wendelstein can be reached by

960-536: The west of the municipality, near the border with the Schliersee municipality, is the Taubensteinhaus at 1,567 metres (5,141 ft) altitude. Bayrischzell has 15 designated districts: Between 500 and 700 AD clearings were made in the area of today's municipality. In 1076 a hermitage with Margarethe chapel was founded by Haziga, the wife of Palatine Count Otto II. Of Scheyern-Wittelsbach. In 1079 this

992-627: Was converted into a monastery, but by 1085 was moved to Fischbachau . With its proximity to Tyrol , Bayrischzell was the scene of armed conflicts in both the Spanish and Austrian wars of succession and in the Napoleonic Wars and local mountain guard skirmishes with the Tyroleans. In 1811/12 the cell (or cell Margarethe) was made an independent parish . Since 1832, the town has been officially called Bayrischzell. On 5/6. December 1846

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1024-550: Was dismantled in 2007. The rack railway and gondola lift and two drag lifts serve a small ski area on the Wendelstein. Plans to link it to the Sudelfeld ski area were discarded. Because of a dispute with an alpine farmer, there was no skiing on the Wendelstein from 1995 to 1997. In spite of numerous explosions and other construction projects in the past 40 years, most of the runs on the Wendelstein are steep rugged slopes that are only suitable for experienced skiers. Throughout

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