Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #18 in Munich, Germany

The Paul-Gerhardt-Kirche is an Evangelical Lutheran church in Munich-Laim, Germany. The entire complex was planned by Johannes Ludwig (1904–1996) and built in several phases 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.

Wikipedia: Paul-Gerhardt-Kirche (München) (DE), Website

To the Holy Twelve Apostles is a Catholic parish church in Munich, Germany. It belongs to the parish association of Laim in the deanery of Laim in the Archdiocese of Munich.

Wikipedia: Zu den heiligen zwölf Aposteln (München) (DE)

Mariä Heimsuchung is a Catholic parish church in Munich, Germany. It was built from 1933 to 1934 in neo-Romanesque style by Oswald Bieber and government architect William Hollweck. The new building was necessary due to the strong growth of the mother parish of St. Rupert.

Wikipedia: Mariä Heimsuchung, Munich (EN), Website

The bronze female figures The Mourners are a monument created by the sculptor Karl Kroher for a memorial in the domed hall of the Royal Bavarian Ministry of Transport in Arnulfstraße in Munich, which was destroyed in the Second World War. The figures were cast by the Ferdinand von Miller ore foundry in Munich. They have a height of about 2.80 meters. From 1973 to 2020, three of the figures – one of which had been lost since its destruction in the war – stood in the green area of the Federal Railway Directorate on Richelstraße in Munich's Neuhausen district. The fourth figure, which was privately owned, was found by chance. Since 2020, all four figures have been set up in the nearby courtyard of DB Mobility Logistics.

Wikipedia: Die Trauernden (DE)

Arnulfstraße 62 is a building complex in Munich's Maxvorstadt, which was used by the Deutsche Bundespost and Deutsche Post until the mid-2000s.

Wikipedia: Arnulfstraße 62 (DE)

The Bavarian War College, also Bavarian Staff College was the highest military facility to educate, instruct, train, and develop general staff officers.

Wikipedia: War Academy (Kingdom of Bavaria) (EN)

Bennosäule is a stone pillar and bronze statue located in Maxvorstadt, Munich, Bavaria, Germany. It was created by German Bestelmeyer and George Albert Hofer, cast by Ferdinand von Miller, and erected in 1910.

Wikipedia: Bennosäule (EN)

St. Benno is located in Maxvorstadt, Munich, Bavaria, Germany. The large church with two spires was built from 1888 to 1895 under design by Leonhard Romeis in the Romanesque Revival style. The St. Benno Church is one of the most convincing neo-Romanesque sacred buildings of the 19th century, next to the parish church of St. Anna in Lehel.

Wikipedia: Saint Benno's Church, Munich (EN), Website

Nusser & Baumgart is a contemporary art gallery in Munich, founded in 2003 by Gregor Nusser and Susanne Baumgart.

Wikipedia: Nusser & Baumgart (DE), Website

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.

Wikipedia: Alte Pinakothek (EN), Website

Large Two V is a bronze sculpture by the sculptor Fritz Koenig from 1973. It measures 262 × 164.5 × 65 cm and is located in Munich's Maxvorstadt district in the immediate vicinity of the Neue Pinakothek in the Kunstareal Munich.

Wikipedia: Große Zwei V (DE)

Two-Piece Reclining Figure: Points is a sculpture by Henry Moore, catalogued as LH 606, and created in 1969–70.

Wikipedia: Two-Piece Reclining Figure: Points (EN)

The Great Biga is a monumental bronze sculpture by Fritz Koenig. The artwork dates back to the year 2000 and was installed in Munich in front of the Alte Pinakothek in the Maxvorstadt district, in the Kunstareal Munich. A biga is a two-wheeled cart pulled by a pair of horses and driven by a driver. Bigas were used in ancient Rome for exhibition fights and chariot races. The sculpture depicts a stylized Roman chariot, with horses and people. Wagons, horses and people merge into one.

Wikipedia: Große Biga (DE)

Double Column 23/70 is a stainless steel sculpture by Erich Hauser from 1970. The seven-metre-high sculpture was erected in Munich in 1984 in the Maxvorstadt district on the green strip between the Alte Pinakothek and the Neue Pinakothek. It is part of the Pinakothek sculpture park, which has been established in the Kunstareal Munich in recent decades. Until 2013, the column was part of the Theo Wormland Collection and on permanent loan to the Bavarian State Painting Collections, which received it as a gift from the Foundation in 2013.

Wikipedia: Doppelsäule 23/70 (DE)

The Alter Nordfriedhof is a former cemetery located in the Arcisstrasse in Maxvorstadt, Munich, Bavaria, Germany. It is not to be confused with the Nordfriedhof in Munich, which was set up only a short time later in Schwabing. Construction began in 1866 to designs by the city architect Arnold Zenetti.

Wikipedia: Alter Nordfriedhof (Munich) (EN), Website, Heritage Website

St. Joseph is a Roman Catholic church located in Maxvorstadt, Munich, Bavaria, Germany.

Wikipedia: St. Joseph (Munich) (EN)

Leopoldpark is a 3.2-hectare park in Munich's Schwabing district.

Wikipedia: Leopoldpark (München) (DE)

Walking Man is a 1995 sculpture by Jonathan Borofsky, standing 17 metres (56 ft) tall and weighing 16 tonnes (35,000 lb). It is located on the Leopoldstraße in Munich, next to the Munich Re business premises. It was presented to the public on 21 September 1995 by then-head of Re, Hans-Jürgen Schinzler, and then-mayor of Munich, Christian Ude.

Wikipedia: Walking Man (Borofsky) (EN)