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Sightseeing Tours in MunichActivities in Munich1. St. Ludwig
Get Ticket*The Catholic Parish and University Church St. Louis, called Ludwigskirche, in Munich is a monumental church in Neo-Romanesque style with the second-largest altar fresco of the world. The building, with its round arches called the Rundbogenstil, strongly influenced other church architecture, train stations and synagogues in both Germany and the United States.
2. Olympiapark
Get Ticket*The Olympiapark in Munich, Germany, is an Olympic Park which was constructed for the 1972 Summer Olympics. Located in the Oberwiesenfeld neighborhood of Munich, the Park continues to serve as a venue for cultural, social, and religious events, such as events of worship. It includes a contemporary carillon. The Park is administered by Olympiapark München GmbH, a holding company fully owned by the state capital of Munich. The Olympic Park Munich was also considered to be an architectural marvel during the 1972 Olympics in Munich, Germany.
3. Glockenspiel
Get Ticket*A carillon is a mechanical construction attached to or in historic buildings that produces melodies through bells at fixed times or on request and often has a mechanically moving figurative representation. The bells can be made of metal, porcelain, ceramics or even glass.
4. Alte Pinakothek
Get Ticket*The Alte Pinakothek is an art museum located in the Kunstareal area in Munich, Germany. It is one of the oldest galleries in the world and houses a significant collection of Old Master paintings. The name Alte (Old) Pinakothek refers to the time period covered by the collection—from the fourteenth to the eighteenth century. The Neue Pinakothek, re-built in 1981, covers nineteenth-century art, and Pinakothek der Moderne, opened in 2002, exhibits modern art. All three galleries are part of the Bavarian State Painting Collections, an organization of the Free state of Bavaria.
5. Kriechbaumhof
Get Ticket*The Kriechbaumhof in Munich-Haidhausen is a building built in the 17th century in the style of an alpine farm at Preysingstraße 71. Due to dilapidation, the farm had to make way for its historic location on Wolfgangstraße in 1976. The building was demolished and the individual parts were stored. In 1985 it was rebuilt with many original components.
6. Nymphenburg Palace
Get Ticket*The Nymphenburg Palace is a Baroque palace situated in Munich's western district Neuhausen-Nymphenburg, in Bavaria, southern Germany. The Nymphenburg served as the main summer residence for the former rulers of Bavaria of the House of Wittelsbach. Combined with the adjacent Nymphenburg Palace Park it constitutes one of the premier royal palaces of Europe. Its frontal width of 632 m (2,073 ft) even surpasses Versailles.
7. Siegestor
The Siegestor in Munich is a three-arched memorial arch, crowned with a statue of Bavaria with a lion-quadriga. The monument was originally dedicated to the glory of the Bavarian army. Since its restoration following World War II, it now stands as a reminder to peace.
8. Karolinenplatz
The obelisk on Karolinenplatz is a memorial in Munich. It was built in 1833 by King Ludwig I by the architect Leo von Klenze for the 30,000 Bavarian soldiers who had fallen in the Napoleonic Russian campaign of 1812.
9. St. Peter
Join Free Tour*St. Peter's Church is a Roman Catholic parish church in the inner city of Munich, southern Germany. Its 91-metre (299 ft) tower is commonly known as "Alter Peter"—Old Peter—and is emblematic of Munich. St Peter's is the oldest recorded parish church in Munich and presumably the originating point for the whole city.
10. Alter Hof
Join Free Tour*The Alter Hof in the center of Munich is the former imperial residence of Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor and consists of five wings: Burgstock, Zwingerstock, Lorenzistock, Pfisterstock and Brunnenstock. Like most of the old town, it was rebuilt after being destroyed in World War II.
11. St. Michael
Join Free Tour*St Michael in Berg am Laim is a church in Munich, Bavaria, built from 1738 to 1751 by Johann Michael Fischer as Court Church for Elector and Archbishop Clemens August of Cologne, a brother of Emperor Charles.
12. Alte Utting
Join Free Tour*The Alte Utting is a bar, nightclub and music venue in Munich. The decommissioned, land-bound passenger ship is placed on a railway bridge that crosses an inner-city arterial road, and is regarded as one of the most spectacular nightlife spots of the city.
13. Oktoberfest
Oktoberfest is the world's largest Volksfest, featuring a beer festival and a travelling carnival, and is held annually in Munich, Bavaria, from mid- or late-September to the first Sunday in October, with more than six million international and national visitors attending the event. Locally, it is called d'Wiesn, after the colloquial name for the fairgrounds, Theresienwiese. Oktoberfest is an important part of Bavarian culture, having been held since the year 1810. Other cities across the world also hold Oktoberfest celebrations that are modeled after the original Munich event.
14. Feldherrnhalle
The Feldherrnhalle is a monumental loggia on the Odeonsplatz in Munich, Germany. Modelled after the Loggia dei Lanzi in Florence, it was commissioned in 1841 by King Ludwig I of Bavaria to honour the tradition of the Bavarian Army.
15. Fischbrunnen
The Fischbrunnen is a small fountain in the Munich district of Pasing. It was created in 1938 by the Pasing sculptor Hans Osel in connection with the relocation of the Pasing Viktualienmarkt to the courtyard of the newly built market hall.
16. Fischbrunnen
The Fischbrunnen is a fountain in the center of Munich, whose history can be traced back to the Middle Ages. In 1954, Josef Henselmann created the fountain in its present form, using parts of Konrad Knoll’s neo-gothic fountain that was destroyed during the Second World War.
17. Richard Wagner
The Richard Wagner Monument is a monumental seat monument to the composer Richard Wagner created by the sculptor Heinrich Waderé. It is located in a green area on Prinzregentenplatz in Munich's Bogenhausen district between the Prinzregententheater and the Prinzregentenstadion. After a selection from various drafts, it was the turn of the one who shows Richard Wagner in a similar pose to Goethe in his portrait of Goethe in the Campagna.
18. Bavaria
Bavaria is the female symbolic figure and secular patron of Bavaria and appears as a personified allegory for the state of Bavaria in various forms and manifestations. She thus represents the secular counterpart to Mary as the religious Patrona Bavariae.
19. Peterl-Brunnen
This page gives an overview of fountains in the city of Munich that are open to the public. There are almost 700 fountains throughout Munich, 190 are operated by the state capital of Munich, and others by the Free State of Bavaria or by public or private institutions. Most fountains are only for decoration; 125 municipal fountains are fed with drinking water, 48 fountains are designated as official drinking fountains.
20. Rumford-Haus
The Englischer Garten is a large public park in the centre of Munich, Bavaria, stretching from the city centre to the northeastern city limits. It was created in 1789 by Sir Benjamin Thompson (1753–1814), later Count Rumford, for Prince Charles Theodore, Elector of Bavaria. Thompson's successors, Reinhard von Werneck (1757–1842) and Friedrich Ludwig von Sckell (1750–1823), advisers on the project from its beginning, both extended and improved the park.
21. Mayer'sche Hofkunstanstalt GmbH
Franz Mayer of Munich is a German stained glass design and manufacturing company, based in Munich, Germany and a major exponent of the Munich style of stained glass, that has been active throughout most of the world for over 170 years. The firm was popular during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, and was the principal provider of stained glass to the large Roman Catholic churches that were constructed throughout the world during that period. Franz Mayer of Munich were stained glass artists to the Holy See and consequently were popular with Roman Catholic clients. The family business is nowadays managed by the fifth generation and works in conjunction with renowned artists around the world.
22. Pfarrkirche St. Matthäus
The Evangelical Lutheran parish church of St. Matthew, also known as St. Matthew's Church, was the first Protestant church in Munich. The current building, which was built according to plans by Gustav Gsaenger between 1953 and 1957, is the successor to the first post-classicist Protestant church building, which was demolished in 1938. St. Matthäus is a bishop's church of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria.
23. Futuro-Haus
A Futuro house, or Futuro Pod, is a round, prefabricated house designed by Finnish architect Matti Suuronen, of which fewer than 100 were built during the late 1960s and early 1970s. The shape, reminiscent of a flying saucer, and the structure's airplane hatch entrance has made the houses sought after by collectors. The Futuro is composed of fiberglass-reinforced polyester plastic, polyester-polyurethane, and poly(methyl methacrylate), measuring 4 metres high and 8 metres in diameter.
24. Alpines Museum
The Alpine Museum in Munich is an institution of the German Alpine Club (DAV), a cultural centre with a library, archive and collection on the history of alpinism. It houses the joint Historical Alpine Archive of the German Alpine Club (DAV), the Austrian Alpine Club (ÖAV) and the Alpine Club South Tyrol (AVS). The museum building is the meeting place and event venue of the German Alpine Club with its 355 sections with a total of 1,520,381 members, a place that offers DAV members and the general public the opportunity to exchange ideas on alpine topics.
25. Thomassteg
There are more than 1000 bridges in the Bavarian capital of Munich. Particularly well-known and characteristic of the cityscape are the bridges over the Isar and over the wide railway line of Munich Central Station. Others, on the other hand, are hardly recognizable in the streetscape, as they lead over city streams that are now arched or disused and filled in.
26. BMW Headquarters
The BMW Headquarters, also known as the BMW Tower, is a high-rise building located in the Am Riesenfeld area of Munich, Germany. The building has served as the global corporate headquarters of German automaker BMW since 1973. It was declared a protected historic building in 1999, and it is often cited as one of the most notable examples of modern architecture in Munich. Extensive renovations commenced in 2004 and were completed in 2006.
27. Maria-Hilf-Kirche
The Catholic parish church of Maria Hilf in der Au, called Mariahilfkirche, is the main parish church of the Au. It was started between 1831 and 1839 by Joseph Daniel Ohlmüller and completed by Georg Friedrich Ziebland. The landmark of the Au is considered an archetype of neo-Gothic church building of the 19th century. It is one of the three "neo-Gothic siblings of Munich", the Holy Cross Church and St. Johann Baptist, all three of which have a similar monumental brick architectural style and are located east of the Isar.
28. St. Korbinian
St. Korbinian is a Roman Catholic church on Valleystrasse 24 in the Munich district of Munich. It is the only church in the city of Sankt Korbinian, the patron saint of the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising.
29. Brainlab Tower
Munich-Riem Airport was an international airport of Munich, the capital city of Bavaria and third-largest city of Germany. It was closed down on 16 May 1992, the day before the new Munich Airport commenced operations. It was located near the old village of Riem in the borough of Trudering-Riem in the east of Munich.
30. Kirche St. Ursula
The Catholic parish church of St. Ursula is the second parish church in the Munich district of Schwabing, in the district of Schwabing-Freimann. At the same time, St. Ursula is the first sacred building in Munich to turn away from medieval architectural models and thus take on a bridging function between historicism and Art Nouveau/modernism.
31. Angergymnasium
The Theresia-Gerhardinger-Gymnasium am Anger is a girls' school at Blumenstraße 26 in the Angerviertel in Munich under the auspices of the Poor School Sisters of Our Lady. It is a state-approved school with linguistic, musical and economic branches. The building also houses a primary school for girls, a kindergarten and a student dormitory of the Poor School Sisters.
32. Theatinerkirche St. Kajetan
The Theatine Church of St. Cajetan and Adelaide is a Catholic church in Munich, southern Germany. Built from 1663 to 1690, it was founded by Elector Ferdinand Maria and his wife, Henriette Adelaide of Savoy, as a gesture of thanks for the birth of the long-awaited heir to the Bavarian crown, Prince Max Emanuel, in 1662. Now administered by the Dominican Friars, it is also known as the Dominican Priory of St. Cajetan.
33. Paul-Gerhardt-Kirche
The Paul-Gerhardt-Kirche is an Evangelical Lutheran church in Munich-Laim. The entire complex was planned by Johannes Ludwig (1904–1996) and built in several sections in the 1950s. As an important example of Munich's post-war architecture, which was trend-setting for subsequent church buildings at the time of its construction, it has been a listed building since 2001. The congregation is known for its church music work (Paul Gerhardt Choir) and above all for its charismatic-evangelical character.
34. Musiklabor
The University of Music and Theatre Munich, also known as the Munich Conservatory, is a performing arts conservatory in Munich, Germany. The main building it currently occupies is the former Führerbau of the NSDAP, located at Arcisstraße 12, on the eastern side of the Königsplatz. Teaching and other events also take place at Luisenstraße 37a, Gasteig, the Prinzregententheater, and in Wilhelmstraße (ballet). Since 2008, the Richard Strauss Conservatory, until then independent, has formed part of the university.
35. St. Georg
The Catholic branch church of St. Georg is the former village church of Bogenhausen and was its spiritual centre until the church of the Holy Blood was built. Today it is best known for its Bogenhausen cemetery, where many celebrities found their final resting place.
36. BMW Welt
The BMW Welt is a combined exhibition, delivery, adventure museum, and event venue located in Munich's district Am Riesenfeld, next to the Olympic Park, in the immediate vicinity of the BMW Headquarters and factory. It was built from August 2003 to summer 2007. A solar system with 800 kW of power is installed on the roof of the main building. The opening took place on 17 October 2007. The BMW Welt is the most visited tourist attraction in Bavaria.
37. St. Sebastian
The Catholic parish of St. Sebastian belongs to the deanery of the city center and is located in the Munich district of Schwabing-West. Since 2014, it has been the seat of the parish association "Am Luitpoldpark", which was founded together with the sister parish Maria vom Guten Rat.
38. Bayerisches Nationalmuseum
The Bavarian National Museum in Munich is one of the most important museums of decorative arts in Europe and one of the largest art museums in Germany. Since the beginning the collection has been divided into two main groups: the art historical collection and the folklore collection.
39. Alte Pfarrkirche St. Margaret
The old parish church of St. Margaret in Untersendling is an art-historically interesting and historically significant church building in the style of Upper Bavarian-Baroque village churches. The church is dedicated to St. Margaret of Antioch.
40. Maria Schutz
The parish church of Maria Schutz is a Catholic parish church in the Pasing district of Munich, Germany. She belongs to the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising, her patronage is on May 1, the day of Mary, the patron saint of Bavaria. The associated festival is celebrated on the first Sunday in May.
41. Olympiaturm
The Olympic Tower in the Olympic Park, Munich has an overall height of 291 m (955 ft) and a weight of 52,500 tons. At a height of 190 m (620 ft) there is an observation platform as well as an exhibition commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Tower. Previously in that space was a small rock-and-roll museum housing various memorabilia. Since its opening in 1968, the tower has registered over 43 million visitors. At a height of 182 m (597 ft) there is a revolving restaurant, which seats 230 people. A full revolving takes 53 minutes. The tower also serves as a broadcast tower, and has one Deutsche Telekom maintenance elevator with a speed of 4 m/s (13 ft/s), as well as two visitor lifts with a speed of 7 m/s (23 ft/s) which have a capacity of about 30 people per car. The travel time is about 30 seconds. The tower is open daily from 09:00 to 24:00.
42. Tierpark Hellabrunn
Hellabrunn Zoo is a 40 hectare zoological garden in the Bavarian capital of Munich. The zoo is situated on the right bank of the river Isar, in the southern part of Munich near the quarter of Thalkirchen.
43. Wallfahrtskirche St. Anna
The Roman Catholic pilgrimage church of St. Anna in Munich's Harlaching district is located on a Nagelfluh plateau close to the almost 30-metre steep slope of the eastern Isar high bank above Hellabrunn Zoo. Today's church arose from a church building in the centre of the former village, which is probably the origin of today's Harlaching district, which was probably first built in the middle of the 12th century. The first documented mention of the patronage of St. Anne, whose feast day is celebrated annually on 26 July, dates back to 1524. Remnants of the original structure of the church are preserved in the choir tower.
44. Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz
The Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz, commonly called the Gärtnerplatztheater, is an opera house and opera company in Munich. Designed by Franz Michael Reiffenstuel, it opened on 4 November 1865 as the city's second major theatre after the National Theatre.
45. Staatliches Museum Ägyptischer Kunst
The Staatliches Museum Ägyptischer Kunst is an archaeological museum in Munich. It contains the Bavarian state collection of ancient Egyptian art and displays exhibits from both the predynastic and dynastic periods. The associated small Middle East section displays objects from the areas of Assyrian and Babylonian culture. For decades, the Egyptian museum was located in the Munich Residenz, but it was moved to the Kunstareal in June 2013.
Wikipedia: Staatliche Sammlung für Ägyptische Kunst (EN), Website
46. BMW Museum
The BMW Museum is the corporate museum of BMW history and was established in 1973, shortly after the 1972 Summer Olympics opened. From 2004 to 2008, it was renovated in connection with the construction of the BMW Welt, directly opposite. The museum reopened on 21 June 2008. At the moment the exhibition space is 5,000 square meters for the presentation of about 120 exhibits.
47. St. Lukas
St. Luke's Church is the largest Protestant church in Munich, southern Germany. It was built in 1893–96, and designed by Albert Schmidt. It is the only pre-World War II Lutheran parish church building remaining in the historic section of central Munich.
48. Ohel Jakob synagogue
Ohel Jakob is a synagogue in Munich, Germany. It was built between 2004 and 2006 as the new main synagogue for the Jewish community in Munich and is located at the Sankt-Jakobs-Platz. The synagogue was inaugurated on 9 November 2006 on the 68th anniversary of the Kristallnacht. The building is part of the new Jewish Center consisting of the synagogue, the Jewish Museum Munich and a community center.
49. Museum Fünf Kontinente
The Museum Five Continents or Five Continents Museum, located in Munich, Germany, is a museum for non-European artworks and objects of cultural value. Its name until 9 September 2014 was Bavarian State Museum of Ethnology.
50. Sankt Theresia
St. Theresia is a Roman Catholic parish and monastery church of the Discalced Carmelites in the Munich district of Neuhausen-Nymphenburg. It was built between 1922 and 1924 according to designs by the architect Franz Xaver Boemmel in the Neo-Baroque style.
51. St. Klara
The parish church of St. Klara is a Roman Catholic church built between 1955 and 1956 in the Munich district of Zamdorf. In 1962, St. Klara was elevated to a parish church. Since 2008, St. Klara has formed the parish association Bogenhausen-Süd with St. Rita and St. Johann von Capistran with a joint administration. St. Clare was modeled in a simple style on the Basilica of Santa Chiara in Assisi and is under the patronage of St. Clare. The Franciscan Chapel was consecrated in the church in 1984. In addition, St. Klara has a parish hall, a rectory and its own kindergarten.
52. Hl. Kreuz
Heilig Kreuz is a church building of the Roman Catholic Church in Forstenried, a district of Munich in Bavaria. The church is dedicated to the Holy Cross and serves as a parish church for the parish of Heilig Kreuz in the parish association of Forstenried. It houses the Forstenrieder Kreuz, a Romanesque crucifix that was said to have miraculous effects and thus made Forstenried a place of pilgrimage. The building, together with the surrounding church cemetery, is registered as an architectural monument in the Bavarian List of Monuments.
53. Museum Brandhorst
The Brandhorst Museum was opened in Munich on 21 May 2009. It displays about 200 exhibits from the modern art collection of the heirs of the Henkel trust Udo and Anette Brandhorst. In 2009 the Brandhorst Collection comprises more than 700 works.
54. Sankt Laurentius
The Roman Catholic parish church of St. Laurentius in the Munich district of Gern, also known as St. Laurentius Church, was built in the mid-1950s and dedicated to Saint Deacon Laurentius of Rome. The associated parish of St. Laurentius is pastorally cared for by the priestly community of the Oratorians.
55. Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften
The Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities is an independent public institution, located in Munich. It appoints scholars whose research has contributed considerably to the increase of knowledge within their subject. The general goal of the academy is the promotion of interdisciplinary encounters and contacts and the cooperation of representatives of different subjects.
56. St. Johannes
The Evangelical Lutheran Parish Church of St. John was consecrated in 1916 as the fourth Evangelical Lutheran church in the inner part of Munich and as the sixth in the city, which had been enlarged up to that time. After the first three Protestant churches in the city centre were named after the evangelists Matthew, Mark and Luke, it was given the name of the evangelist John in continuation of this tradition. It is located in Haidhausen at Preysingplatz near the Gasteig.
57. St. Wolfgang
The Catholic branch church of St. Wolfgang in Pipping is the last completely preserved Gothic village church in Munich. The church, which is a listed building, is considered an exquisite example of medieval village sacred architecture in Upper Bavaria.
58. Magdalenenklause
The Magdalenenklause is a habitable artificial ruin in a secluded part of the forest north of the Boskette near the castle in the Nymphenburg Palace Park in Munich. It was built from 1725 by Joseph Effner on behalf of Max Emanuel. The building, which stands in the tradition of the Memento mori, is considered one of the first ruined architectures of European garden art. The interiors are designed as grottoes.
59. Regierung von Oberbayern
The building of the Government of Upper Bavaria in Maximilianstraße in Munich houses the Government of Upper Bavaria and the Southern Bavaria Aviation Authority, the aviation authority for the administrative districts of Upper Bavaria, Lower Bavaria and Swabia.
60. St. Pius
St. Pius is a Roman Catholic parish church in the Munich district of Berg am Laim, which belongs to the deanery of Munich-Perlach. The church, which was completed in 1932, stands out for its unusual, massive tower that extends over the entire width of the nave.
61. Hotel Vier Jahreszeiten
Hotel Vier Jahreszeiten Kempinski Munich is a five-star luxury hotel in Munich, Germany. It is part of the Kempinski chain of hotels. It was opened in 1858 and is located at Maximilianstraße 17 in the centre of Munich.
62. St. Lorenz
The Catholic parish church of St. Lorenz in Oberföhring in Munich's Bogenhausen district is a Baroque church building from the late 17th century. The church, dedicated to St. Lawrence, is one of the protected architectural monuments in Bavaria.
63. Heunensäule
The Heunen columns, also known as the Heune columns, are round columns made of sandstone, which were originally intended for the reconstruction of the Willigis Cathedral in Mainz, which burned down in 1009. They were probably completed in the 11th century out of anticipatory business acumen in a quarry in the Bullau Mountains near Miltenberg even before the order was placed. However, the client probably opted for other supports, so that the round columns were never needed. There are said to have been 42 of the columns at one time, in the 18th century there were still 14, around 1960 only eight are known.
64. Sankt Martin
The Roman Catholic parish church of St. Martin in Untermenzing, in Munich's district 23 Allach-Untermenzing, stands on the east bank of the Würm on a small elevation. Until 1945 it was a branch church of the Aubing St. Quirin Church, since then it has been a parish church. Administratively, it belongs to the current Allach-Untermenzing parish association of the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising. The church building is one of the best late Gothic churches in the area and was therefore listed under the file number D-1-62-000-1581 by the Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments in the list of architectural monuments in Untermenzing.
65. St. Thomas Apostel
The Catholic Church of St. Thomas the Apostle in the Munich district of Johanneskirchen was consecrated on December 2, 1973 by Cardinal Julius Döpfner. It is part of a parish centre that was planned by the architect C. F. Raue as a multi-purpose building and, in addition to the church, also includes the Thomas Chapel, the parish office, the parish hall, various meeting rooms and the apartments of the pastor and the sacristan family. The church interior is characterised by its simple, clear architecture: it is consistently oriented towards the centre, towards the altar. The artistic design of the church was in the hands of the sculptor Max Faller, Munich. The organ was built by Rudolf von Beckerath Orgelbau, Hamburg. It has 18 stops on two manuals and pedal. In 1987–1989, four monumental paintings by the painter Karl Köhler were added. In 2010, Köhler's paintings were replaced in favor of a simple corpus of Christ on the wall behind the altar.
66. Sankt Nikolai
St. Nikolai am Gasteig is a Roman Catholic church building in Munich, Germany. It is dedicated to the holy bishop Nicholas of Myra. Together with the churches of St. Johann Baptist on Johannisplatz and the Old Haidhausen Church in Kirchenstraße, St. Nikolai belongs to the parish of St. Johann Baptist in Haidhausen.
67. St. Johann von Capistran
St. Johann von Capistran is a Catholic church in the Gotthelfstraße in the Munich district of Bogenhausen. The round church building was consecrated to St. John Capistranus in 1960 and is one of the most important sacred buildings of the post-war period.
68. Alter Südlicher Friedhof
The Alter Südfriedhof also known as "Alter Südlicher Friedhof" is a cemetery in Munich, Germany. It was founded by Duke Albrecht V as a plague cemetery in 1563 about half a kilometer south of the Sendlinger Gate between Thalkirchner and Pestalozzistraße.
Wikipedia: Alter Südfriedhof (EN), Website, Heritage Website
69. Truppendienstgericht und Bundeswehr Dienstleistungszentrum
The Military Service Court South, based in Munich, is a federal court (Germany) within the portfolio of the Federal Ministry of Defence (BMVg). As a military service court, the Military Service Court is responsible for disciplinary proceedings against soldiers under the Military Disciplinary Code (WDO) and for decisions on military complaints under the Military Complaints Code (WBO).
70. Synagoge Reichenbachstraße
The synagogue on Reichenbachstraße Munich is a former synagogue in Munich, Germany. The building is located in the Isarvorstadt near Gärtnerplatz. From 1947 until the opening of the new Ohel Jakob Synagogue in 2007, it was Munich's main synagogue.
Wikipedia: Synagoge an der Reichenbachstraße München (DE), Website
71. St. Maria Thalkirchen
The Catholic parish and pilgrimage church of St. Maria in Munich-Thalkirchen is one of the pilgrimage churches in the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising. St. Maria Thalkirchen is located in the old village center of Thalkirchen on a small increase over the former flood bed of the Isar. It was the mother church and one of the temporarily three churches of the old parish of Sendling and has been her own community again since 1903.
72. Auferstehungskirche
The Church of the Resurrection in Munich is one of the largest Protestant churches in Munich. It is located in the Schwanthalerhöhe district, which experienced numerous suits from Protestant citizens after the First World War. This required a new building with 800 seats, which was executed by German Bestelmeyer and inaugurated in 1931.
73. Nazarethkirche
The Nazarethkirche is an Evangelical Lutheran church building in the east of Munich, on the edge of the Parkstadt Bogenhausen. It was built in 1961 by the architects Helmut von Werz and Johann-Christoph Ottow. The church belongs to the Evangelical Lutheran parish of Immanuel-Nazareth, which was created in 2012 by fusion of the parishes of Nazarethkirche and Immanuelkirche. The municipality currently has almost 6000 members.
74. Umadum
The Umadum, Hi-Sky before July 2020, is a Ferris wheel opened in April 2019 in Munich's Werksviertel in the Berg am Laim district. Its operation is an interim use of the site on which the construction of the Munich Concert Hall is planned.
75. Schuttblume
The rubble is a memorial dedicated to the civilian air war victims of the Second World War on the Olympicberg, which was donated to the 1972 Olympic Games by the German Union Confederation (DGB) and the state capital of Munich.
76. Palais Leuchtenberg
The Palais Leuchtenberg, built in the early 19th century for Eugène de Beauharnais, first Duke of Leuchtenberg, is the largest palace in Munich. Located on the west side of the Odeonsplatz, where it forms an ensemble with the Odeon, it currently houses the Bavarian State Ministry of Finance. It was once home to the Leuchtenberg Gallery on the first floor.
77. Augustinerkirche
The Augustinian Church, also called the Augustinian Abbey (Augustinerkloster) or Abbey Church of St John the Baptist and John the Evangelist is a former church in Munich, Germany. Constructed during the 13th century and expanded during the next two centuries, it was the Abbey Church of the Augustinian hermits in the city.
78. St. Rita
St. Rita is a Catholic parish in Munich-Bogenhausen, Germany. It was founded in 1968. It belongs to the parish association Bogenhausen-Süd in the deanery of Munich-Northeast of the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising.
79. Immanuelkirche
The Evangelical Lutheran Immanuel Church is a modern church building in Munich's Denning district. It stands on the northeastern outskirts of the city between the Wilhelminian villa suburb of Bogenhausen and the Messestadt Riem and has belonged to the Evangelical Lutheran parish of Immanuel Nazareth since 2012.
80. Alte Pfarrkirche Sankt Martin
Until 1924, the Old Parish Church of St. Martin was the Catholic parish church of the municipality of Moosach, which was independent until 1913, and then of the Munich district of the same name. Today it is located on Moosach's St.-Martins-Platz.
Wikipedia: Alte Pfarrkirche St. Martin (Moosach) (DE), Website
81. St. Quirin
The Church of St. Quirin is the original parish church of Aubing, today a district of Munich. In addition to Aubing itself, the Aubing parish also included neighbouring villages, including Pasing, Laim, Untermenzing, Obermenzing and Allach.
82. Männerkloster des Heiligen Hiob von Pocaev
The Monastery of St. Job of Pochayev or Obermenzing Monastery is a monastery belonging to the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad (ROKA) in the Munich district of Obermenzing. It is also the residence of Metropolitan Mark, who heads the Russian Orthodox Diocese of the Orthodox Bishop of Berlin and Germany.
Wikipedia: Kloster des Heiligen Hiob von Potschajew (DE), Website
83. Present Continuous
Present Continuous is a monumental sculpture by the Dutch sculptor Henk Visch, which was erected in May 2011 between the entrance of the new building of the University of Television and Film and the entrance of the State Museum of Egyptian Art in Munich on a green strip along Gabelsbergerstraße.
84. Heilige Familie
The Catholic parish church of the Holy Family in Munich-Harlaching is the first modern church building in Munich. Richard Steidle was its architect. Consecrated in 1931 by Michael Cardinal von Faulhaber, the church was hit by an incendiary bomb on November 22, 1944. After reconstruction, the church was reopened in 1949 by Auxiliary Bishop Johannes Neuhäusler.
85. Bergson Kunstkraftwerk
The former Aubing combined heat and power plant is an industrial building in the Munich district of Aubing, which has been a listed building since 2007. Since 2024, it has been home to the Bergson Kunstkraftwerk.
86. Christuskirche
The Christuskirche at Dom-Pedro-Platz 4 in Munich is the church building of a congregation of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria. With almost 9,000 members, the congregation is the largest Protestant parish in Munich and, together with St. Stephen's Church and numerous diaconal institutions, shapes Protestant life in the Neuhausen-Nymphenburg district.
Wikipedia: Christuskirche (München-Neuhausen-Nymphenburg) (DE), Website
87. Basilika St. Bonifaz
St. Boniface's Abbey is a Benedictine monastery in Maxvorstadt, Munich, Bavaria, Germany. It was founded in 1835 by King Ludwig I of Bavaria, as a part of his efforts to reanimate the country's spiritual life by the restoration of the monasteries destroyed during the secularisation of the early 19th century.
88. Palais Gise
The Palais Gise is a city palace in the late Rococo style at Prannerstraße 9 in Munich. It was probably built around 1760/65 according to the designs of the Munich chief court architect Karl Albert von Lespilliez and is an architectural monument.
89. Sankt Nikolaus
St. Nicholas is a Roman Catholic parish church in the Hasenbergl district of Munich, Stanigplatz 13. It was built during the Second Vatican Council in the spirit of ecumenism at the same time as the neighboring Protestant Gospel Church.
90. Evangeliumskirche
The Evangelical Church is an Evangelical Lutheran religious building in the Munich district of Hasenbergl. It was inaugurated on December 2, 1962. Since 1969, the administration of the Vice Deanery of Munich North has also been located here. The overall complex also includes the parish office, the parish apartments and the Grüß-Gott-Haus with the youth rooms. In addition, the Evangelical Church looks after the Simeonskapelle in the nearby Augustinum residential foundation.
91. Maximiliansplatz
Maximiliansplatz is a park-like square in Munich, Germany, located on the border of the districts of Altstadt-Lehel and Maxvorstadt. It used to be known as Dultplatz. Maximiliansplatz is the northwestern part of Munich's Altstadtring.
92. St. Sylvester
St. Sylvester is a Catholic church and parish in Schwabing, now part of Munich, in the German state (Bundesland) of Bavaria. It began with a village church in the 14th century, first documented in 1315, and dedicated to John the Baptist. A Gothic church was remodelled in Baroque style in the 17th century, and received furnishings such as sculpture attributed to Ignaz Günther or his school.
93. Bavariapark
The Bavariapark in Munich has an area of 6.8 hectares and is an architectural monument according to the Bavarian Monument Protection Act. It is located behind the Bavaria statue and the Hall of Fame on the Theresienwiese in the Schwanthalerhöhe district. After the relocation of the trade fair to Messestadt Riem, the entire area around the park was replanned and the Bavariapark has also been open to the public again without restrictions since 1999.
94. Prinzregententheater
The Prinzregententheater, or, as it was called in its first decades, the Prinz-Regenten-Theater, in English the Prince Regent Theatre, is a concert hall and opera house on Prinzregentenplatz in the Bavarian capital of Munich, Germany.
95. Schloss Suresnes
Suresnes Castle, also known as Werneckschlößl, is a small castle in the Schwabing district of Munich, Germany. The complex is listed under the file number D-1-62-000-7428 as a listed building monument of Schwabing.
96. Große Zwei V
Große Zwei V is a bronze sculpture by the sculptor Fritz Koenig from 1973. It measures 262 × 164.5 × 65 cm and is located in Munich in the Maxvorstadt district in the immediate vicinity of the Neue Pinakothek in the Kunstareal München.
97. Gustav-Adolf-Kirche
The Protestant Gustav Adolf Church is one of the oldest churches in the vice deanery district of Munich-Southeast. Its creation is closely interwoven with the Ramersdorf model estate, a building exhibition from 1934. This was initiated by the city councillor and architect Guido Harbers (1897–1977), who designed several houses in the estate and also those for the church and rectory.
Wikipedia: Gustav-Adolf-Kirche München-Ramersdorf (DE), Website
98. Alte St. Johann Baptist
The old Sollner Church of St. Johann Baptist is the former Catholic church of Solln, which is now a district of Munich. It is one of the oldest church buildings in Munich and the surrounding area. From 1905, the newly built church of the same name St. Johann Baptist on Fellererplatz took over its function.
Wikipedia: Alte Sollner Kirche St. Johann Baptist (DE), Website
99. Hubertusbrunnen
The Hubertus Fountain in Munich was built in 1903–1907 by Adolf von Hildebrand and Carl Sattler in honour of Prince Regent Luitpold. It stood at the Bavarian National Museum in Prinzregentenstraße until 1937 and has stood on the Nymphenburg Palace Canal in Waisenhausstraße since 1954.
100. Maximiliansanlagen
The Maximiliansanlagen are parks and gardens in the Munich districts of Bogenhausen and Haidhausen between the Ludwigsbrücke and the Max-Joseph-Brücke. The central point is the 38-metre-high Angel of Peace. The eastern boundary of the complexes is largely formed by Maria-Theresia-Straße.
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