DEUTSCHLAND	GERMANY
Bundesland: Freistaat Bayern	Bavaria
Regierungsbezirk: Oberbayern
Landkreis: Garmisch-Partenkirchen

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Garmisch-Partenkirchen is situated at an elevation of 708 m on the river Loisach at the foot of the Zugspitze in the Werdenfelser Land region of Upper Bavaria. The market town has a population of about 26,000 and is the administrative seat of the district of the same name. The municipality of Garmisch-Partenkirchen was formed on 1 January 1935 by a merger of the formerly independent communities of Garmisch and Partenkirchen.

The earliest traces of human settlements date from about 2000 BC. Around 15 BC the region came under Roman rule where it remained for about 500 years. It was during this period that the Roman settlement of Partanum (today Partenkirchen) was founded. At the beginning of the 6th century the Bavarii came into the region. The earliest mention of Germareskauue (today Garmisch) is found in document dating from AD 802. In 1294 the region came in possession of the monastery of Freising. Both villages enjoyed a flourishing period during the high Middle Ages. Partenkirchen was an important trading place to and from Italy, Garmish took its main income from rafting goods on the river Loisach. However, after the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648) the whole region fell into poverty. In 1802 the county Werdenfels became part of Bavaria. After the completion in 1889 of the railroad to Munich the region became a popular tourist destination. Garmisch-Partenkirchen was the site of the IV Olympic Winter Games 1936.

Glass no. 2167 [left] shows a view of Partenkirchen.

The parish church Mariä Himmelfahrt (Assumption of the Virgin Mary) [centre, barely visible] was built in 1868–1871 in Gothic revival style by Matthias Berger.

The mountains depicted in the background of the picture are the Alpspitze (2,628 m) and the Zugspitze (2,962 m), Germany's highest mountain.