Oberammergau lies about sixty miles distant from Munich and is embedded in the Ammer mountains, the name given to one of the most a tactive spurs of the Bavarian Alps. The mean height of the Ammer Mountains, is 2,720 feet, but the outstanding. peak' in this mountain chain of re-natively modest altitude, the Kofel, which dominates Oberammergau, tains 4361 feet. Oberammergau a typical Bavarian mountain village, enclosed by magnificent forests.
Some of the loveliest and most widely celebrated resorts in the Ba-yanan Alps are within convenient reach. For example there is Garmisch-Partenkirchen, which is famous as-a winter sport resort. This place is the starting point of three moun-{ain railways, the Kreuseckbahn, the Wankbahn, and the Zugspitzbahn: The last named conveys the visitor in less than two hours to the summit of Germany's highest mountain peak, the Zugspitze (9,633 feet). On the road from Oberammergau ' to Garmisch-Partenkirehen lies the renowned Benedictine Abbey of Ettal, with its magnificent Pilgrimage Church, 'Again, no traveller to Oberammershould fail to visit the famous warian Royal Castles. In the secluded valley of Graswang, concealed surrounding heights, is Linderhot Castle, built and sumptuously Atted out in' rococo style by King Louis From Linderhol€ the visitor may proceed to the Royal Castles of Hohenschwangau and Neuschwanstein, both of which are world-famed. Neuschwanstein, built by order of King Louis It between 1869 and 1886, in Romanes que style amid grandiose scenery fon the gigantic cliffs dominating the Poliat Gorge, is incontestably the finest modern edifice of its kind and never fails to leave an indelible impression on the mind of every visitor.
This Year's Play This year there will be 28. performances of the "Passion Play always on Sunday, Monday and. Wednesday. In view of the length of each performance, which covers an entire day, visitors usually arrange to arrive Oberammergau at least one. day previous to the performance they in-{end to witness, and to leave on the day following that performance, 'There is an unusual point about this year's celebrations, For the frst time in history tMfe people of Oberammergau are departing from—the time-honoured tradition' which says that the Passion play shall be presented once only in every ten years. The most recent performances took place in 1930. The exceptional Play "this year is distress just three hundred years ago.
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