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Lock Elmau (Upper Bavaria) is a conference hotel at the foot of the weather stone comb, above the locality Klais (municipality lain between mixes and center forest.

Lock Elmau became 1916 of Johannes Mueller by Elsa countess whale the lake and its brother-in-law, Carlo upholsterer builds architects for which, for its friends and artists. In the meantime the several times extended lock, which is led in the third generation by Dietmar and Heidrun Mueller Elmau, functioned on the one hand as hotel and housing estate, is however on the other hand - in this characteristic also the public public accessible - place of event of chamber music and Jazzfestivals (among other things the European Jazzfestival), with which many of the most important international musicians to guest is regular, of kosmopolitisch occupied science symposiums, political debates, author readings as well as of more than 100 single concerts in the Jahr.In the early morning hours 7 of August 2005 broke out a devastating fire in the lock, which destroyed nearly the entire attic. Approximately 400 and approximately 50 employees could be evacuated; it gave up to noon of the day of the fire around the ten predominantly easily hurt persons. The fire broke out first realizations according to by a defective heating cover in the room of the of former managing director Ducci Mesirca in the attic of the lock.

While in the meantime the relatively new cultivation to see (in the picture left in the background) is again in enterprise, the lock probably only 2007 is again-opened. In the course of the reconstruction is planned to revalue and to make a prominent enterprise in Europe the hotel further.

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