Garmisch Partenkirchen Hotels

Garmisch-Partenkirchen is a market town in Bavaria, southern Germany. It is the administrative centre of the istrict of Garmisch-Partenkirchen, in the Oberbayern region, not far from the border with Austriawere separate towns for many turies, and still maintain quite separate entities.Partenkirchen originated as the Roman town of Partanum on the trade route from Venice to Augsburg and is first mentioned in the year A.D. 15. Its main street, Ludwigsstrasse, follows the original Roman roaGarmisch is first mentioned some 800 years later as Germaneskau, suggesting that at some point a Teutonic tribe took up settlement in the western end of the valley.The valley came under the rule of the Bishop of Freising and was governed by a bishop's representative known as a Pfleger from Werdenfels Castle on a cliff north of Garmisch.The discovery of America at the turn of the 16th century led to a boom in shipping and a sharp decline in overland trade, which plunged the region into a centuries-long economic depression. The valley floor was swampy and difficult to farm. Bears, wolves and lynxes were a constant threat to livestock. The population suffered from periodic epidemics, including several serious outbreaks of bubonic plague. Adverse fortunes from disease and crop failure occasionally led to witch hysteria. Most notable of these were the notorious trials and executions of 1589-1596, in which 63 victims - more than 10 percent of the population at the time - were burned at the stake or garroted.