Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #9 in Munich, Germany

The Westpark is a large urban public park in Munich, Germany. It was designed by landscape architect Peter Kluska and completed in 1983. It hosted the International Garden Expo 83 that same year. The park covers an area of 720,000 m2 (7,750,016 sq ft) extending 2.6 km from east to west. The Garmischer Straße divides the park into an eastern and western section.

Wikipedia: Westpark (Munich) (EN)

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

The Ascension Church is an Evangelical Lutheran church building in Munich-Sendling, Germany, at Kidlerstraße 15. Due to its quiet location and good acoustics, it is occasionally used for sound recordings of small and medium-sized ensembles.

Wikipedia: Himmelfahrtskirche (München-Sendling) (DE), Website

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)

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)

The blacksmith of Kochel is a legendary figure from Bavarian history, who is regarded as a folk hero, especially in Upper Bavaria. Legend has it that he was a soldier in the Great Turkish War. Armed only with a pole, he is said to have rammed into the city gate of Belgrade. A reward offered by the Elector for his heroic deeds was rejected by the blacksmith.

Wikipedia: Schmied von Kochel (DE)

In Germany, Burgfriedensäulen are former boundary signs that were erected as boundary stones at certain points in the terrain around a city or castle. The spatial scope of a castle trench was determined by the stones.

Wikipedia: Burgfriedensäule (EN)

The Ruhmeshalle is a Doric colonnade with a main range and two wings, designed by Leo von Klenze for Ludwig I of Bavaria. Built in 1853, it is situated on an ancient ledge above the Theresienwiese in Munich and was built as part of a complex which also includes the Bavariapark and the Bavaria statue. It is built of Kelheim limestone and is 68 metres long and 32 metres deep.

Wikipedia: Ruhmeshalle (Munich) (EN), Website

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 Bavariaecode: lat promoted to code: la .

Wikipedia: Bavaria (symbol) (EN)

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.

Wikipedia: Oktoberfest (EN), Website, Opening Hours

August Hauner was a German pediatrician and founder of the Dr. von Haunerschen Kinderspitals in Munich, which today is part of the University of Munich hospital complex. He was born in Neumarkt-Sankt Veit.

Wikipedia: August Hauner (EN)

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

St. Willibrord in Munich is a church building of the Old Catholic Church. The building is registered as an architectural monument in the Bavarian list of monuments.

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

Münchner Marionettentheater is a theatre in Munich, Bavaria, Germany. It is known as the oldest, not-mobil puppetry in the German-speaking countries. It is chaired by puppeteer Siegfried Böhmke since 2000.

Wikipedia: Münchner Marionettentheater (EN), Website

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.

Wikipedia: Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz (EN)

The Herz-Jesu monastery (Klösterl) of the Niederbronner sisters is located at Buttermelcherstraße 10 in the Isarvorstadt in Munich.

Wikipedia: Herz-Jesu-Kloster (München) (DE)