Spiegelau is a

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality ...

in the district of Freyung-Grafenau in

Bavaria Bavaria ( ; ), officially the Free State of Bavaria (german: Freistaat Bayern, link=no ), is a state in the south-east of Germany. With an area of , Bavaria is the largest German state by land area, comprising roughly a fifth of the total l ...

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. It lies in the heart of the

Bavarian Forest The village of Zell in the Bavarian Forest The Bavarian Forest ( German: ' or ''Bayerwald''; bar, Boarischa Woid) is a wooded, low-mountain region in Bavaria, Germany that is about 100 kilometres long. It runs along the Czech border and is ...

Subdivisions

There are 33 villages in the municipality: There are also the ''

Gemarkung A ''Gemarkung'' (also ''Markung'', in Switzerland also ''Gemarchen'', in Austria '' Katastralgemeinde'') is the entirety of all land plots of a specific municipality recorded in the cadastre in the countries of Germany, Austria Austria, , ...

en'' of Spiegelau, Oberkreuzberg and Klingenbrunn.

Transport

Spiegelau lies on

Zwiesel–Grafenau railway The building of the Zwiesel–Grafenau railway, today route number 906 in the timetable, was begun in 1884 by the Royal Bavarian State Railways and taken into service on 1 September 1890. With a total length of 32 km it linked the towns of Z ...

and its station was formerly the junction to the Spiegelau Forest Railway which supporting the major logging industry in the area.

References

Freyung-Grafenau {{FreyungGrafenau-geo-stub

Subdivisions

Transport

See also

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