 Soon the first farmsteads and farmsteads were built in forest clearings.In 1294, Count Berchtold III of Eschenlohe, who had no children, sold his counties of Mittenwald and Partenkirchen, together with the Wetterstein, to the Bishop of Freising, whose bishopric was thus elevated to a "Hochstift".The "Hochstift" of Freising merged the newly acquired counties with the "predium" of Garmisch, acquired in 1249, to form the County of Werdenfels.