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Garmisch-Partenkirchen

Garmisch-Partenkirchen is a market town, and the administrative centre of the district of Garmisch-Partenkirchen, in the Oberbayern region of Bavaria, Germany, near the border with Austria.

The town lies on an Autobahn, and has railway connections to Munich, Innsbruck, Reutte in the Tirol and to the the Zugspitze, the highest mountain in Germany, which is nearby. In 1936 it was the site of the Winter Olympic Games.