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Grainau

Grainau is a municipality in the district of , in southern , . It is located at the foot of the mountain, the tallest mountain in Germany in the sub-mountain range of the Alps which is a branch off the main mountain range it is connected to, the .
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  • Type: Village with 3,470 residents
  • Description: municipality of Germany
  • Also known as: “09180118”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Waxenstein and St. Johannes der Täufer (Grainau).

Peak
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is a mountain of , .

Church
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is a church.

Church
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is a church.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Garmisch-Partenkirchen and Hammersbach.

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is in . lies at the foot of the Zugspitze in the Werdenfelser Land in Upper Bavaria and is Germany's most important winter sports metropolis, Olympic venue and important international winter sports center in the entire Alpine region.

Village
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is a village in the municipality of Grainau at the foot of the Wetterstein Mountains in South Germany. It is located at the southwestern end of the market town of and is an important base for tours by mountaineers and hikers.

Grainau

Latitude
47.4753° or 47° 28′ 31″ north
Longitude
11.026° or 11° 1′ 33″ east
Population
3,470
Elevation
749 metres (2,457 feet)
Open location code
8FVHF2GG+49
Open­Street­Map ID
node 31925464
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
6556240
Wiki­data ID
Q251136
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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: “Grainau”
  • Chinese: “格赖瑙”
  • Danish: “Grainau”
  • Dutch: “Grainau”
  • Esperanto: “Grainau”
  • Finnish: “Grainau”
  • French: “Grainau”
  • German: “Grainau”
  • 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”
  • 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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