Urfeld am Walchensee is a village in the municipality of

Kochel am See Kochel am See (, ) is a municipality and a town in the district of Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen in Bavaria, on the shores of Kochelsee. The municipality consists of the Altjoch, Brunnenbach, Ort, Pessenbach, Pfisterberg, Walchensee and Ried districts ...

in the district of

Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen ( Bavarian: ''Bad Däiz-Woifradshausn'') is a ''Landkreis'' (district) in Bavaria, Germany. It is bounded by (from the south and clockwise) Austria and the districts of Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Weilheim-Schongau, Starnber ...

Bavaria Bavaria, officially the Free State of Bavaria, is a States of Germany, state in the southeast of Germany. With an area of , it is the list of German states by area, largest German state by land area, comprising approximately 1/5 of the total l ...

Germany Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It lies between the Baltic Sea and the North Sea to the north and the Alps to the south. Its sixteen States of Germany, constituent states have a total popu ...

. It lies on the northwest shore of Lake Walchensee.Gudelius, Jost: ''Die Jachenau''. Jachenau 2008, , S. 139

Famous people in Urfeld

(Source:) Wimmer, Otto, ''Ahnentafel der Nefenhauser in Urfeld'' auf CD, Pullach (2009) *^†

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Johann Wolfgang (von) Goethe (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German polymath who is widely regarded as the most influential writer in the German language. His work has had a wide-ranging influence on Western literature, literary, Polit ...

— September 1786 *Ferdinand Graf von Spork — in the period 1875–1902 * Hans Freiherr von Wolzogen — in the period 1883–1898 *Hermann Rietschel — in the period 1886–1914 *Berthold Kellermann — 1884 *

Georg von Vollmar Georg Heinrich Ritter (Chevalier) von Vollmar auf Veldheim (March 7, 1850 – June 30, 1922) was a democratic socialist politician from Bavaria. Biography Vollmar was born in Munich, and educated in a school attached to a Benedictine monastery at ...

— in the period 1889–1922 * Wolfgang Heine — in the period 1905–1944 *Otto Borngräber — in the period 1905–1928 * Franz Seraph von Pfistermeister — in the period 1909–1912 *Peter Emil Recher — in the period 1913–1948 *

Lovis Corinth Lovis Corinth (21 July 1858 – 17 July 1925) was a German artist and writer whose mature work as a painter and printmaker realized a synthesis of impressionism and expressionism. Corinth studied in Paris and Munich, joined the Berlin Secessio ...

— in the period 1918–1925 *Paul Kalbeck — 1920 *

Arnold Zweig Arnold Zweig (; 10 November 1887 – 26 November 1968) was a German writer, pacifist, and socialist. Early life and education Zweig was born in Glogau, Prussian Silesia (now Głogów, Poland), the son of Adolf Zweig, a Jewish shipping agent and ...

— in August 1923 *

Werner Heisenberg Werner Karl Heisenberg (; ; 5 December 1901 – 1 February 1976) was a German theoretical physicist, one of the main pioneers of the theory of quantum mechanics and a principal scientist in the German nuclear program during World War II. He pub ...

— in the period 1939–1976 *^‡ Colin Ross — April 1945 *^{‡ ‡}

Baldur von Schirach Baldur Benedikt von Schirach (; 9 May 1907 – 8 August 1974) was a German politician who was the leader of the Hitler Youth from 1931 to 1940. From 1940 to 1945, he was the '' Gauleiter'' (district leader) and '' Reichsstatthalter'' (Reich gov ...

and Henriette von Schirach — in the period 1939–1945 *

Günther Lüders Günther Lüders (5 March 1905 – 1 March 1975) was a German actor. He appeared in more than 120 films between 1934 and 1975. He lived in Urfeld am Walchensee from 1954 until 1975. Selected filmography * ''Count Woronzeff'' (1934), as Cousin ...

— in the period 1954–1975

Notes

*† Goethe went incognito in Urfeld as "Johann Philipp Möller from Leipzig" at the beginning of his first trip to Italy on September 7, 1786. *‡ Committed suicide with his wife Elizabeth on 29 April 1945 in the house of Baldur von Schirach. *‡ ‡ Schirach and Ross were administrators of the

Hitler Youth The Hitler Youth ( , often abbreviated as HJ, ) was the youth wing of the German Nazi Party. Its origins date back to 1922 and it received the name ("Hitler Youth, League of German Worker Youth") in July 1926. From 1936 until 1945, it was th ...

otherwise known as the ''Hitlerjugend''.

References

External links

Biography: Baldur von Schirach
* Colin Ross from German Wikipedia {{coord, 47.6174, N, 11.3454, E, source:wikidata, display=title Villages in Bavaria Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen