Talbrucktor - tower
above gate into Marienplatz in Munich, May 2007
The photos on this page were taken on
a bus tour of Munich in May 2007. Tours leave from the Hertie
Department Store across the street from the Hauptbahnhof (main
train station) beginning at 9 a.m. every day. The Tour bus which
circles the city of Munich, and allows passengers to Hop-on and
Hop-off, stops at the Talbrucktor, shown in the photo above,
where tourists, who want to visit the Marienplatz, can get off.
Tour bus which circles
the city of Munich
The tour buses are double-decker buses
like the one in the photo above. On rainy days, the upper deck
is covered. The Express Circle bus makes four stops, including
the Marienplatz. The Grand Circle bus follows the Express route,
but makes additional stops at the Schloss Nymphenburg, Olympia
Park and the Siegestor in Schwabing.
Altes Rathaus to the
left of the tower on Marienplatz - the central square in Munich
Altes Rathaus (old
city hall) at east end of Marienplatz
The Gothic revival Neues Rathaus in the
center of the Marienplatz was undergoing some repair work when
I visited, so I didn't take a picture of it. After the American
Army captured Munich near the end of World War II, the Neues
Rathaus was used as the headquarters of the U.S. 7th Army. An
inscription on the building reads: "To the soldiers who
liberated Munich from the national socialist tyranny on April
30, 1945." This was the same day that Adolf Hitler committed
suicide in Berlin and the day after the Dachau concentration
camp was liberated by two divisions of the 7th Army. The Neues
Rathaus was one of the few buildings left standing in Munich
after heavy Allied bombing.
Munich is the birthplace of the Nazi
party. There are walking tours of Munich which take tourists
to the places associated with Hitler and the Nazis, including
the house on Schleissheimerstrasse where Hitler stayed when he
arrived in Munich in 1913, the Hotel Torbau which is the site
of the beer hall where the SS was founded, and the room upstairs
in the Hofbräuhaus where the Nazi party proclaimed its 25-point
program. It was at the Hofbräuhaus that Hitler gave
a two and a half hour speech on February 24, 1920 to 2,000 supporters.
At the end of the Marienplatz is the
Roman Catholic Church of St. Michael, where the Rev. Rupert Mayer
preached against the Nazis. A few blocks from the Marienplatz
is the Feldherrenhalle
where a plaque in the pavement honors the four policemen who
were killed during the climax of Hitler's Beer Hall Putsch, which
also claimed the lives of 16 Nazis.
The photo below was taken directly across
from the Neues Rathaus.
Umbrellas over outdoor
tables on Marienplatz
Apfelstrudel mit Eis
und Schlag
St. Mary's column on
Marienplatz
Meat Store on Rinder
Markt near Marienplatz
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The photos on this page were taken on a bus tour of Munich in May 2007. Tours leave from the Hertie Department Store across the street from the Hauptbahnhof (main train station) beginning at 9 a.m. every day. The Tour bus which circles the city of Munich, and allows passengers to Hop-on and Hop-off, stops at the Talbrucktor, shown in the photo above, where tourists, who want to visit the Marienplatz, can get off. The tour buses are double-decker buses like the one in the photo above. On rainy days, the upper deck is covered. The Express Circle bus makes four stops, including the Marienplatz. The Grand Circle bus follows the Express route, but makes additional stops at the Schloss Nymphenburg, Olympia Park and the Siegestor in Schwabing. The Gothic revival Neues Rathaus in the center of the Marienplatz was undergoing some repair work when I visited, so I didn't take a picture of it. After the American Army captured Munich near the end of World War II, the Neues Rathaus was used as the headquarters of the U.S. 7th Army. An inscription on the building reads: "To the soldiers who liberated Munich from the national socialist tyranny on April 30, 1945." This was the same day that Adolf Hitler committed suicide in Berlin and the day after the Dachau concentration camp was liberated by two divisions of the 7th Army. The Neues Rathaus was one of the few buildings left standing in Munich after heavy Allied bombing. Munich is the birthplace of the Nazi party. There are walking tours of Munich which take tourists to the places associated with Hitler and the Nazis, including the house on Schleissheimerstrasse where Hitler stayed when he arrived in Munich in 1913, the Hotel Torbau which is the site of the beer hall where the SS was founded, and the room upstairs in the Hofbräuhaus where the Nazi party proclaimed its 25-point program. It was at the Hofbräuhaus that Hitler gave a two and a half hour speech on February 24, 1920 to 2,000 supporters. At the end of the Marienplatz is the Roman Catholic Church of St. Michael, where the Rev. Rupert Mayer preached against the Nazis. A few blocks from the Marienplatz is the Feldherrenhalle where a plaque in the pavement honors the four policemen who were killed during the climax of Hitler's Beer Hall Putsch, which also claimed the lives of 16 Nazis. The photo below was taken directly across from the Neues Rathaus.
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