Urfeld am Walchensee

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

Urfeld am Walchensee

Lakes Walchensee and Kochelsee
(NASA satellite image)

(Source:) ^[2]

• ^† 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

• † 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.