Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #7 in Munich, Germany

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Number of sights 20 sights
Distance 9.6 km
Ascend 143 m
Descend 137 m

Explore Munich in Germany with this free self-guided walking tour. The map shows the route of the tour. Below is a list of attractions, including their details.

Activities in MunichIndividual Sights in Munich

Sight 1: St. Gabriel

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St. Gabriel is a Catholic parish and monastery church in Munich.

Wikipedia: St. Gabriel (München) (DE), Website

382 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 2: Prinzregententheater

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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.

Wikipedia: Prinzregententheater (EN), Website

893 meters / 11 minutes

Sight 3: Alte Haidhauser Kirche

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The Old Parish Church of St. Johann Baptist is located on Kirchenstraße in Munich's Haidhausen district. The church is a listed building and bears the number: D-1-62-000-3427

Wikipedia: Alte Pfarrkirche St. Johann Baptist (Haidhausen) (DE)

199 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 4: Haidhausen Museum

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The Haidhausen Museum is the district museum of Haidhausen in Munich, Germany.

Wikipedia: Haidhausen-Museum (DE), Website

1151 meters / 14 minutes

Sight 5: Maximiliansanlagen

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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 facilities is largely formed by Maria-Theresia-Straße.

Wikipedia: Maximiliansanlagen (DE)

1867 meters / 22 minutes

Sight 6: Heilig Geist

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Heilig-Geist-Kirche is a Gothic hall church in Munich, southern Germany, originally belonging to the Hospice of the Holy Ghost.

Wikipedia: Heilig-Geist-Kirche, Munich (EN)

124 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 7: Old Town Hall

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The Old Town Hall, until 1874 the domicile of the municipality, serves today as a building for representative purposes for the city council in Munich, Bavaria, Germany. The Old Town Hall bounds the central square Marienplatz on its east side.

Wikipedia: Old Town Hall, Munich (EN)

305 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 8: Löwenturm

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The Lion Tower at Rindermarkt in Munich's Old Town is a seven-storey brick tower from the 14th century, about 25 metres high. It is a listed building.

Wikipedia: Löwenturm (DE)

99 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 9: Ruffinihaus

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The Ruffinihaus is a group of three houses on the Rindermarkt in the Old Town of Munich, Bavaria. It was built by Gabriel von Seidl from 1903 to 1905 and is named after the Ruffiniturm, which in turn was named after Johann Baptista Ruffini. The Ruffiniturm formed the original Sendlinger Tor and thus was part of Munich's first city wall.

Wikipedia: Ruffinihaus (EN)

200 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 10: Orag-Haus

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The ORAG-Haus is an administrative building and commercial building in the Angerviertel district of Munich's Old Town.

Wikipedia: ORAG-Haus (DE)

141 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 11: Ohel Jakob synagogue

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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.

Wikipedia: Ohel Jakob synagogue (Munich) (EN), Website

19 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 12: Jewish Museum Munich

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The Jewish Museum Munich, provides an overview of Munich’s Jewish history and is part of the city's new Jewish Center located at Sankt-Jakobs-Platz in Munich, Germany. It is situated between the main synagogue Ohel Jakob and the Jewish Community Center which is home to the Jewish Community of Munich and Upper Bavaria and houses a public elementary school, a kindergarten, a youth center as well as a community auditorium and a kosher restaurant. The museum was built from 2004 until its inauguration on March 22, 2007 and is run by the city of Munich.

Wikipedia: Jewish Museum Munich (EN), Website

85 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 13: St. Jakob am Anger

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Saint James's Church, is a church in Munich. It serves the School Sisters of Our Blessed Lady as a monastery church.

Wikipedia: St. James's Church, Munich (EN)

121 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 14: Hochbunker Blumenstraße

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The Blumenstraße bunker, also known as the Blumenbunker, is an above-ground air raid shelter from the Second World War at Blumenstraße 22 in Munich, Germany. It was built in 1941 according to plans by Karl Meitinger by the municipal building department in the center of the city. The construction took place within the framework of the Führer's immediate program, in which Munich was classified as an "air raid shelter of the first order". By the end of the war, 48 bunkers of similar capacity had been built in Munich. Up to 1,200 people were to find shelter from air raids in the bunker. The inauguration was attended by the then Reich Minister for Armaments and Munitions, Fritz Todt.

Wikipedia: Hochbunker Blumenstraße (DE)

109 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 15: Angergymnasium

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Angergymnasium

The Theresia-Gerhardinger-Gymnasium am Anger is a girls' school located at Blumenstraße 26 in the Angerviertel district of Munich, Germany, under the sponsorship of the Order of the Poor School Sisters of Our Lady. It is a state-approved school with a linguistic, artistic and economic branch. The building also houses a primary school for girls, a kindergarten and a student dormitory for the Poor School Sisters.

Wikipedia: Theresia-Gerhardinger-Gymnasium am Anger (DE)

1378 meters / 17 minutes

Sight 16: Schmerzhafte Kapelle

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The Chapel of Sorrows is a Roman Catholic church building in Munich, Germany.

Wikipedia: Schmerzhafte Kapelle (DE)

811 meters / 10 minutes

Sight 17: Münchner Volkstheater

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Münchner Volkstheater, or Munich People’s Theater, is a company based in the Bavarian capital and operated by the cultural office of the city government. Its original performing home opened in 1903. This was rebuilt in 1955, in 1983 and finally in 2021. It now can hold over 800 spectators. Since 2002, Christian Stückl has served as the company’s Intendant.

Wikipedia: Münchner Volkstheater (EN), Website

1395 meters / 17 minutes

Sight 18: Sendlinger Bauernschlacht

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Sendlinger Bauernschlacht

Sendling's Christmas (night) of murder was a massacre in 1705 in Sendling, then 2 km south west of Munich. An army of peasants, protesting the Austrian regime during the Bavarian People's Uprising, had marched on Munich, but was betrayed from within and massacred. Some 1,100 peasants were killed.

Wikipedia: Sendling's night of murder (EN)

14 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 19: Alte Pfarrkirche St. Margaret

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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.

Wikipedia: Alte Pfarrkirche St. Margaret (DE)

326 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 20: St. Margaret

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The new parish church of St. Margaret is a Catholic parish church in the Sendling district of Munich.

Wikipedia: Neue Pfarrkirche St. Margaret (DE), Website

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