Riessersee

Ten German championships stand next to Riessersee's name, spread from 1927 to 1981. The last of the ten titles came in 1981, and the Bundesliga years that followed it thinned out fast — relegation arrived in 1990, and the club has not been back to Germany's top flight since.

Founded on 12 October 1920 in the Kurhotel Riessersee, the club had already built most of its reputation by the time the Bundesliga was created in 1958 — Riessersee was among its founding members, arriving with silverware rather than ambition. Franz Reindl belongs to that earlier era in a different way: an Olympic bronze medallist with the club in 1976, he went on to run German ice hockey itself as president of the federation, carrying the name of Garmisch-Partenkirchen into a role far from the rink.

The fixture that still defines the club's calendar is the Oberlandderby against Tölzer Löwen, played on Christmas Day and spoken of as the standout date on the German hockey calendar; EV Füssen carries an older, quieter rivalry alongside it. During the 2012–13 NHL lockout the club briefly hosted Rick DiPietro and Matt D'Agostini, a reminder that even outside the top division, Garmisch-Partenkirchen could still draw attention.

Home games are played in white and blue at the Olympia-Eissport-Zentrum, built for the Winter Olympics the town once staged, holding just under 7,000 in a resort better known for its mountains than for what happens on the ice beneath them.