Grainau
Grainau is a municipality in the district of Garmisch-Partenkirchen, in southern Bavaria, Germany. It is located at the foot of the Zugspitze mountain, the tallest mountain in Germany in the sub-mountain range of the Wetterstein Alps which is a branch off the main mountain range it is connected to, the Alps.
- Type: Locality with 3,560 residents
- Description: municipality of Germany
- Also known as: “09180118”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Waxenstein and St. Johannes der Täufer (Grainau).
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Garmisch-Partenkirchen.
Grainau
Latitude
47.4759° or 47° 28′ 33″ north
Longitude
11.0244° or 11° 1′ 28″ east
Population
3,560
Elevation
749 metres (2,457 feet)
Open location code
8FVHF2GF+9Q
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In Other Languages
From Aragonese to Waray—“Grainau” goes by many names.
- Aragonese: “Grainau”
- Armenian: “Գրայնաու”
- Basque: “Grainau”
- Bavarian: “Groana”
- Catalan: “Grainau”
- Cebuano: “Grainau (munisipyo)”
- Cebuano: “Grainau”
- Chechen: “Грайнау”
- Chinese: “格赖瑙”
- Danish: “Grainau”
- Dutch: “Grainau”
- Esperanto: “Grainau”
- Finnish: “Grainau”
- French: “Grainau”
- German: “Grainau”
- Hebrew: “גריינאו”
- Hungarian: “Grainau”
- Indonesian: “Grainau”
- Interlingue: “Grainau”
- Irish: “Grainau”
- Italian: “Grainau”
- Kurdish: “Grainau”
- Ladin: “Grainau”
- Lombard: “Grainau”
- Malay: “Grainau”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Grainau”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Grainau”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Grainau”
- Persian: “گرایناو”
- Polish: “Grainau”
- Portuguese: “Grainau”
- Romanian: “Grainau”
- Russian: “Грайнау”
- Serbian: “Грајнау”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Grainau”
- Silesian: “Grainau”
- Slovenian: “Grainau”
- Somali: “Grainau”
- Spanish: “Grainau”
- Swedish: “Grainau”
- Tatar: “Грайнау”
- Thai: “ไกรเนา”
- Turkish: “Grainau”
- Ukrainian: “Грайнау”
- Ukrainian: “Ґрайнау”
- Uzbek: “Grainau”
- Vietnamese: “Grainau”
- Volapük: “Grainau”
- Waray (Philippines): “Grainau”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Grainau and Untergrainau.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights: Badersee and Untergrainau train station.
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