Herrsching

A city in Upper Bavaria on the east shore of the Ammersee, full name Herrsching am Ammersee. Located southwest of Munich at 48 degrees latitude and 11 degrees 10 minutes longitude. Situated at one terminus of the Munich S-bahn line S5, the town is popular with travelers for its watersports and as the starting point of trips to the Benedictine monastery Kloster Andechs. Herrsching is also a stop for touring steamships of the Bavarian Seenschiffahrt or lake fleet. Notable sights include the lakefront promenade (at about 10 km, the longest in Germany), the Kurparkschlossl (built in 1888 by the artist Ludwig Scheuermann), St. Martin's church, and the Archaeological Park (7th century settlement by the Bajuwari, the Teutonic tribe that gave Bavaria its name).

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Bavaria: The Free State of Bavaria (German: Bayern or Freistaat Bayern), with an area of 70,553 km? (27,241 square miles) and 12.4 million inhabitants, forms the southernmost of the 16 states of Germany. Its capital is Munich....

Ammersee: Ammersee is a lake in Bavaria, Germany situated between the cities of Herrsching and Diessen. It has a surface area of approximately 47 square kilometres and a maximum depth of 81 metres. Like the other Bavarian lakes, Ammersee developed as a result of the ice age glaciers melting. Ammersee is fed b...

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