Wallgau in der Alpenwelt Karwendel Bayern

Wallgau is a municipality in the district of Garmisch-Partenkirchen, in Bavaria, Germany. A few kilometers to the south runs the German - Austrian Tyrol border.  Blog Archive:  www.tyrol-guide.com, 2015.
Wallgau Hotel zur Post

Wallgau together with Krün and Mittenwald tourism composite Karwendel Alpine region, which markets the region throughout the year as the starting point for sports and recreational activities such as hiking and cross-country skiing. The community has about 1,400 inhabitants.
The development of the town is closely linked with the history of the Werdenfelser country. Wallgau was first mentioned in 763 as walhogoi in the founding document of the monastery Scharnitz ( scarantia ). The " Gau of Walchen"or "Italians" offered Roman settlers and legionnaires to maintain their tra dition after the expiry of the province of Raetia refuge from the Bavarians.In the Middle Ages large parts of the Werdenfelser country belonged to the Counts of Eschenlohe whose aristocratic family connections to the Counts of Andechs - one of the most important noble families in the Holy Roman Empire.
Lueftmalerei Wallgau

The control of the trade routes to Italy and the promotion of silver and ore deposits helped a majority of the population to prosperity and brought the county the nickname Golden Mooslandl one. Although Wallgau was tied over the Kesselberg down to Kochel am See to the main corridors of the time with the used as a pilgrimage route to Santiago de Compostela Via Regia ad Tyrolensis et Italo, the economic recovery barely touched the village. Instead, the inhabitants were engaged in ordering the barren fields, wood processing and the onset of the 12th century rafting on the Isar. At that time, the importance of waterways grew as a trading connections because the land routes were considered unsafe because of highwaymen. 

The rafts transported well as people, native products, including marble stones, chalk, charcoal and burnt limestone. In the 15th century, known as Wasserrott Association of rafters goods carried for the first time from Italy to Munich, across the Danube to Austria and Hungary. 1922 went down the last raft of Wallgau from the Isar River, before the river since 1924, the water was removed from the operation of the Walchenseekraftwerk work. Since 1990, a portion of the water is returned to the river bed.

As a result of the Spanish and Austrian Succession War at the beginning of the 18th century with raids from neighboring Tyrol as well as the Napoleonic wars impoverished the population. On August 19, 1802 kurbayerisches military occupied with a corporal and six privates Wallgau. Officially Wallgau went through in the course associated with the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss from February 25, 1803 secularization in the possession of the Electorate of Bavaria. In 1808 and 1818, several community edicts of the now King of Bavaria Wallgau developed on the basis of a political community. 

Pfarrkirche St. Jakob Wallgau

Beginning of the 20th century brought the still designated as a summer tourism, the first guests to Wallgau. 

The craftsmanship of the Lüftlmalerei since the 18th century, mainly in the Werdenfelser country and widespread in the Tyrol. In addition to religious motifs adorn Wallgau particular historical representations with narrative character - among others from the time of rafting - many facades.

One example is the 1621 built by Simon Niggl Gasthof Zum old inn with frescoes by Franz Karner Mittenwalder Lüftlmalers from the year 1763rd The resulting 1907 as a supplement to the old inn building that currently makes up the name of Hotel Zur Post. As the first post wrong line from 1665 Thurn and Taxis'sche riding post, which was in 1760 replaced by the traveling people post. On September 7, 1786, the poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe went on his trip to Italy by stagecoach through Wallgau and returned one at the inn. Heinrich Heine also made ​​there 30 years later rest. Among the prominent guests at the recent history among politicians and personalities from the entertainment industry, including U.S. actor Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor.

Source text: memim.com

Fot. Elisabeth Fazel. Archive of www.tyrol-guide.com  07/09/2015.