Mittenwald, Murnau, and Bad Tölz (7/3/2019)

Wednesday, July 3, 2019 (continued)
We continued on the Alpenstrasse/Alpine Road, but took another detour to Mittenwald, considered to be one of the most beautiful towns in the Bavarian Alps.

Raking and collecting mown hay on a hillside

Mittenwald backed by the wall of Karwendel Mountains

Mittenwald Maypole

Mini-canal along the town street

Obermarkt/Upper Market in Mittenwald

Obermarkt/Upper Market with Karwendel Mountains

What happened to these beer steins?!

Katholische Pfarrkirche St Peter und Paul/Catholic
Parish Church of Sts Peter & Paul (18C)
with Lüftlmalerei/façade paintings

Upper Market Lüftlmalerei/façade paintings

Painted cow bell

Statue (1890, by Ferdinand II Freiherr von Miller)
of Matthias Klotz, violin maker

Ballenhausgasse in Mittenwald

Ballenhausgasse with carved wooden fountain

Heuschuppen/Hay shed

Back on the Alpenstrasse/Alpine Road.

Walchensee/Lake Walchen, one of Bavaria's most beautiful lakes.
at 802 m/2631' above sea level

This is my attempt to show Kesselbergstrasse, a road of 9 km/6 miles
with 14 turns and an average grade/slope of 4%, descending the
240 m/780' difference between Walchensee and Kochelsee

Outside the town of Kochel am See is the former
residence of Blaue Reiter/Blue Rider artist Franz Marc

Another detour to Murnau.

Bust of Gabriele Münter

Gabriele Münter purchased this house in 1909, where she lived for
five years with artist Wassily Kandinsky; it was a meeting place for
the Blaue Reiter/Blue Rider group until World War I

Gabriele Münter returned to the house in 1931, and hid the paintings of Kandinsky (as well as other Blaue Reiter artists) in the basement during World War II. In 1957 she donated her entire collection to the Lenbachhaus in München/Munich.
Back on the Alpenstrasse/Alpine Road.

Kalvarienberg/Calvary Hill with the Leonhardikapelle/Leonhard
Chapel (1718) and Heilig-Kreuz-Kirche/Holy Cross Church (1726)

Bad Tölz Altstadt/Old Town

Isar River looks like a typical glacial river

Marienbrunnen/Fountain of Our Lady in Bad Tölz

Schweinebraten Münchner Art/Munich style pork cutlet (with horseradish
in the breading) and Geröstete Kartoffeln/roasted potatoes

Bayerischer Wurstsalat/Bavarian sausage salad

Restrooms always had well-padded
baby-changing tables

Now we had to lop off a large chunk of the itinerary to get to the hotel before 20:00, when the reception desk closes!

Traffic jam on the Autobahn resulted in our arriving at 19:45!

Landgasthof/country inn Karner room

Landgasthof Karner room bath

Landgasthof Karner room across the hall

Landgasthof Karner entrance

Landgasthof Karner

Next: Schloss Herrenchiemsee.