Hauptstraße
Hauptstraße 13.
Plaster reliefs by A. Leismüller.
Hauptstraße 19.
While the signature under this sgraffito only lists “MARCHLOWITZ” in “1959,” Hermann Bierl notes in his book, Garmisch-Partenkirchen und seine Lüftlmalereien (2002), that this image was first made by “Hitzberger” and subsequently restored by Kurt Marchlowitz.1
Hauptstraße 25, the “Advocaten Haus,” with legal themed lüftlmalerei advertising the lawyers’ office there.
Blind justice.
Hauptstraße 27, “Gästehaus Sonnenschein,” or “Guest House Sunshine,” has an appropriately themed lüftlmalerei of a sun shining down on Hauptstraße painted by Stephan Pfeffer.
Hauptstraße 29.
Patrona Bavariae by Sebastian Pfeffer, 1982.
In 2019-2020, the nearby Saint Irmengard Catholic School was renovated and an addition was added. With all that construction, the building that had been at Hauptstraße 43 was razed.
On the gable facing the street, however, had been a lüftlmalerei by Sebastian Pfeffer which concisely illustrated the religious and political history of the region.
Now its gone.
Hauptstraße 45, the Saint Irmengard Catholic School.
Hauptstraße 52.
A lüftlmalerei of John the Baptist baptizing Jesus by Sepp Guggemoos, 1989.
Hauptstraße 70, the School of Wood and Design.
Two sundials on opposite corners of the building and, in the center, a mural depicting various wood working artists
Lüftlmalerei by H. Kasbar, 1962.
Hauptstraße 78.
Lüftlmalerei of Saint George slaying a dragon by August Maninger.
Hauptstraße 85, “Haus Mittermaier,” home to Biermaier Sports Clothing, is literally covered in unconventional sports themed lüftlmalerei painted by Christoph Hodgson in 1989.
Hauptstraße 86.
Lüftlmalerei of Henry II, Duke of Bavaria, by August Maninger.
Henry II (951 – 995), called “The Wrangler” or “The Quarrelsome” (German: Heinrich der Zänker), a member of the German royal Ottonian dynasty, held the title of Duke of Bavaria from 955 to 976, and that title again as well as Duke of Carinthia from 989 to 995.
Hauptstraße 87a.
Saint Elisabeth by R. Vieröther, 1958.2
Hauptstraße 88.
The Parable of the Good Samaritan by Heinrich Bickel.
- Bierl, Hermann. "Garmisch-Partenkirchen und seine Lüftlmalereien." Mohr, Löwe, Raute. Beiträge zur Geschichte des Landkreises Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Band 18, Verein für Geschichte, Kunst- und Kulturgeschichte im Landkreis Garmisch-Partenkirchen, 2020, p. 104: "260 Hauptstraße 21 Hitzberger rest. Marchlowitz Farchant 1959".
- Bierl, Hermann. "Garmisch-Partenkirchen und seine Lüftlmalereien." Mohr, Löwe, Raute. Beiträge zur Geschichte des Landkreises Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Band 18, Verein für Geschichte, Kunst- und Kulturgeschichte im Landkreis Garmisch-Partenkirchen, 2020, p. 117: "298 Hauptstraße 87a Hl. Elisabeth R. Vieröther 1958".