Urfeld am Walchensee is a village in the municipality of Kochel am See in the district of Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen in Bavaria, Germany. It lies on the northwest shore of Lake Walchensee.[1]
Famous people in Urfeld
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Urfeld am Walchensee
Lakes Walchensee and Kochelsee
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- † Johann Wolfgang von Goethe — 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 — 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 — in the period 1918–1925
- Paul Kalbeck — 1920
- Arnold Zweig — in August 1923
- Werner Heisenberg — in the period 1939–1976
- ‡ Colin Ross — April 1945
- ‡ ‡ Baldur von Schirach and Henriette von Schirach — in the period 1939–1945
- Günther Lüders — in the period 1954–1975
Notes
edit- † 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 otherwise known as the Hitlerjugend.
References
edit- ^ Gudelius, Jost: Die Jachenau. Jachenau 2008, ISBN 978-3-939751-97-7, S. 139
- ^ Wimmer, Otto, Ahnentafel der Nefenhauser in Urfeld auf CD, Pullach (2009)