With a new image folder and host listing the market municipality Murnau and the sieved further places of the tourism community introduce themselves approximately around the Staffelsee - Seehausen, Uffing, Eglfing, Riegsee, Großweil, Grafenaschau and Spatzenhausen - with a new name, a new signature and a stronger positioning: THE BLUE COUNTRY

The term the BLUE COUNTRY for the Alpine foreland around Murnau was coined/shaped approximately by the world-well-known artists of the "blue rider" Franz Marc, Gabriele Muenter and Wassily Kandinsky - in the resemblance to the special light and colour tendencies, which lakes, moorlands and mountains into pictorial blue tones to often dip. The colour blue refers naturally also to Murnau as place of birth of the "blue rider", the 1911 created group of artists of the same name.

The BLUE COUNTRY documents an inheritance, of whom Murnau is proud. It opens an inestimable advantage with the marketing of a vacation region, in which nature, art and culture a connection unmistakable in this form are received. The combination of nature and culture leads away from the exchangeable one, the "product blue country" receives a still more differentiated profile.

Made with a "museum route" art-interested beside the lock museum and Muenterhaus also on surrounding museums the topic attentive. Numerous guest programs dedicate themselves to the pictorial landscape in the BLUE COUNTRY, of MOO guidance by the largest intact moorland in the alps over excursion ions by the Seidlpark up to the bird voice migration "on the traces of the quail king". Apart from led wheel and moving routes special arrangements load like e.g.. "moving and biking on the traces of the blue rider" to experience nature.

Further information: Tourism community the BLUE COUNTRY, Traffic department Murnau, Kohlgruber road 1, 82418 Murnau A. relay lake telephone: 0 88 41/61 41 - 0 or - 11 E-Mail: verkehrsamt@murnau.de