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{{More citations needed|date=June 2024}}{{Infobox German district
|name=Miesbach
|state=Bavaria
|image_flag=DEU Landkreis Miesbach Flag.svg
|image_coa=DEU Landkreis Miesbach COA.svg
|capital=[[Miesbach]]
|regierungsbezirk=[[Upper Bavaria]]
|area=864
|Kreisschlüssel=09182
| district_admin    = Olaf von Löwis of Menar 
| admin_party       = CSU
|carsign=MB
|url=[http://www.landkreis-miesbach.de landkreis-miesbach.de]
|map={{Germany district OSM map |parent_subdivision = Q980}}
}}
'''Miesbach''' ({{IPA|de|ˈmiːsˌbax|lang|De-Miesbach.ogg}}) is a [[Districts of Germany|''Landkreis'' (district)]] in [[Bavaria]], [[Germany]]. It is bounded by (from the west and clockwise) the districts of [[Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen]], [[Munich (district)|Munich]] and [[Rosenheim (district)|Rosenheim]], and by the [[Austria]]n state of [[Tyrol (state)|Tyrol]].

==History==
In medieval times, most of the district was occupied by clerical states.{{Citation needed|date=June 2024}} The Miesbach district today is the union of the areas that were formerly occupied by the [[Hohenwaldeck]] county, the territories owned by the powerful [[Tegernsee Abbey]], the territories owned by the [[Weyarn Abbey]] and Valley County.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Wissenswertes über den Landkreis |url=https://www.landkreis-miesbach.de/?object=tx%7c2716.88.1 |website=Landkreis Miesbach |language=de}}</ref> Hohenwaldeck was annexed by Bavaria in 1734, Valley in 1777. The clerical states were dissolved in 1803 and fell to Bavaria as well. Miesbach was established in 1803: the foundation ceremony took place in the court district of Hohenwaldeck. In 1818 Tegernsee was established. The same year the Aibling district was established too and Miesbach had to deliver 12 municipalities. In 1939 Tegernsee was merged into Miesbach. During the territorial reform in Bavaria in 1972 [[Otterfing]] was merged into Miesbach too and the district Wolfratshausen as well.{{Citation needed|date=June 2024}}

==Geography==

The southern half of the district is located in the [[Bavarian Alps]]. This section of the Alps is called [[Mangfall Mountains]] (''Mangfallgebirge'') as the [[River Mangfall]] has its source here. The most important peaks are '''Rotwand''' ("Red Wall", 1,884 m), the highest mountain in the area, and [[Wendelstein (mountain)|Wendelstein]] (1,838 m) .

The river [[Mangfall]], a short but broad affluent of the river [[Inn (river)|Inn]], flows northward with the district's municipalities on either bank. In the initial part of its course it runs through '''[[Tegernsee]]''' Lake (9&nbsp;km<sup>2</sup>).

==Coat of arms==
The coat of arms displays:<ref name=":0" />
* a red eagle and two crossed staves, symbolising the county of Hohenwaldeck
* two water lily leaves above a wavy line, the ancient arms of the monastery of [[Tegernsee Abbey|Tegernsee]]

==Government==
{| class="wikitable"
|+
|-
! Charge
! Name
! Years in office
|-
| District Minister
| Franz Xaver Steyrer <br /> Max Graf von Preysing <br /> Joseph Wiesend <br /> Wolfgang Knorr <br /> Alois Schmid <br /> Carl Bollweg
|1803–1806<br /> 1806–1813<br /> 1813–1846<br /> 1846–1848<br /> 1848–1851<br /> 1851–1862, 1874
|-
| Joint President
| Carl Bollweg<br /> Ludwig Mayr<br /> Uhl<br /> Carl Riezler<br /> Bernhard de Rudder<br /> Hermann Kopp
| 1851, 1862–1874<br /> 1874–1888<br /> 1888–1890<br /> 1890–1911<br /> 1911–1929<br /> 1929–1938, 1943
|-
|rowspan=17|District Administrator
|Kemnitzer||1943–1944
|-
|Dr. Frick||1944–1945
|-
|Dr. von Wehner||May 10, 1945 – August 1, 1945
|-
|Schindler|| August 1, 1945 – May 10, 1946
|-
||Friedrich Roith||May 11, 1946 – May 27, 1946
|-
|Freiherr von Schoen||May 28, 1946 – June 11, 1946
|-
|Friedrich Roith||June 11, 1946 – September 25, 1946
|-
|Dr. Süß||September 26, 1946 – May 31, 1948
|-
|Meissner||June 5, 1948 – December 14, 1948
|-
|Dr. Simon Beck||1949–1951
|-
|Anton Bauer||1952–1955
|-
||Dr. Walter Königsdorfer||1955–1972
|-
||Wolfgang Gröbl||1972–1987
|-
||Norbert Kerkel||1987–2008
|-
||Jakob Kreidl||2008–2014
|-
||Wolfgang Rzehak||2014–2020<ref>[http://www.landkreis-miesbach.de/Landkreis/Gru%C3%9Fwort_des_Landrats Landrat Wolfgang Rzehak], District Miesbach</ref>
|-
||Olaf von Löwis of Menar||since 2020
|}

==Towns and municipalities==
{{Imagemap Germany district MB|Municipalities in MB.svg|300px{{!}}thumb{{!}}left{{!}}Clickable map of towns and municipalities in the district}}
{|
! width=33% align=left|Towns
! width=33% align=left|[[Municipalities of Germany|Municipalities]]
! width=33% align=left|
|- valign=top
||
#[[Miesbach]]
#[[Tegernsee]]
||
#[[Bad Wiessee]]
#[[Bayrischzell]]
#[[Fischbachau]]
#[[Gmund am Tegernsee]]
#[[Hausham]]
#[[Holzkirchen, Upper Bavaria|Holzkirchen]]
#[[Irschenberg]]
||
<ol start=8>
<li>[[Kreuth]]
<li>[[Otterfing]]
<li>[[Rottach-Egern]]
<li>[[Schliersee]]
<li>[[Valley, Bavaria|Valley]]
<li>[[Waakirchen]]
<li>[[Warngau]]
<li>[[Weyarn]]
</ol>
|}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
{{commons category|Landkreis Miesbach}}
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20061008132412/http://www.landkreis-miesbach.de/ Official website] (German)

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