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Riegsee
Sign in to saveRiegsee is a municipality in the district of Garmisch-Partenkirchen, in Bavaria, Germany. The town lies on Riegsee Lake, of the same name.
Key facts
- German location.name
- Riegsee
- German location.image_photo
- Riegsee (Gemeinde) GO-4.jpg
- German location.image_caption
- General view of the village
- German location.image_coa
- DEU Riegsee COA.svg
- German location.image_plan
- Riegsee in GAP.svg
- German location.state
- Bavaria
- German location.region
- Oberbayern
- German location.district
- Garmisch-Partenkirchen
- German location.Verwaltungsgemeinschaft
- Seehausen am Staffelsee
- German location.elevation
- 668
- German location.area
- 20.44
- German location.postal_code
- 82418
- German location.area_code
- 08841
- German location.licence
- GAP
- German location.Gemeindeschlüssel
- 09 1 80 128
- German location.website
- www.riegsee.de
- German location.mayor
- Jörg Steinleinter
- German location.leader_term
- 2020–26
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Official website
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Wikidata facts
- Country
- Germany
- Located in
- District of Garmisch-Partenkirchen
- Population
- 1287
- Area
- 20.44
- Elevation
- 668
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Shares border with
- Großweil
- Official website
- www.riegsee.de
- Image
- Riegsee (Gemeinde) GO-4.jpg
- Dialing code
- 08841
- Licence plate code
- GAP
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- Commons category
- Riegsee (Municipality)
- postal code
- 82418
- member of
- Mayors for Peace
- P8168
- Albert Ellmenreich
- different from
- Riegsee
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Encyclopedic overview
3 sectionsContents
- Names
- Notable people
- References
Riegsee is a municipality in the district of Garmisch-Partenkirchen, in Bavaria, Germany. The town lies on Riegsee Lake, of the same name.
==Names== The name Riegsee derives from the personal name Ruodgis and the Old High German word for "lake", sê(o). Attested historical forms of the name include Ruodgise (1050–c. 1065), Rvodgisisse (1052–55), Roueggese (c. 1065–75), Ruodkisesse/Rotkisesse (1152–53), Ruetgisse (1193–95), Ruggessê (1193–95), Roͮikisse (12th century), Rovchse (c. 1200), Rügsee (14th century), Rugksee (1403), Ruexsee (1431), Rügksee (1501), Riechsee (c. 1583), and Riegsee (1629).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Riegsee” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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