Search Hotels in Munich

Check-in date  Check-out date

Auer Dult: The traditional annual market in Munich

Posted by admin in General, Government, Guide, Munich Landmarks, Munich Tours, Tips, Travel | Leave a comment
7March2012

‘Auer Dult’ is one of the oldest of Munich’s markets, held three times every year in the square around Mariahilf church. Its name Auer is derived from its location in the Munich district of Au and Dult simply means fair. The fair comprises of three parts – Maidult or May fair, Jakobidult or July fair and last but not least Kirchweihdult.

Over the years this annual market has evolved into a fair, a festive occasion for people to enjoy and vendors, performers, junk-dealers and quacks to work. Today it serves as one of the largest jumble sale, a place where you are bound to come across several interesting rarities of the olden days. The ‘Auer Dult’ is also known for its excellent crockery stalls. Household accessories, natural healing remedies and clothes are a few other things which attract women to do their annual shopping here.

The children like always love the fair’s bright colours, its cotton candy, the puppet shows, the jugglers and not to forget its awesome rides! A small Ferris wheel, a chairoplane, a child’s roundabout, a swing boat, a horse riding track, dodgems and shooting galleries re only few of the joys the children derive from here.

The unique BMW Museum in Munich

Posted by admin in Fun, General, Government, Guide, Hotels, Munich Landmarks, Munich Tours, News, Shopping, Tips, Travel | Leave a comment
21February2012

Located near the Olympiapark in Munich and established in 1972 shortly before the Summer Olympics opened, the BMW museum is one of its kind focusing on the history of the automobile manufacturer BMW. When the construction of BMW Welt began directly opposite the museum, it was renovated from 2004 to 2008 and later reopened on June 21, 2008. The museum is a very popular one with about 250,000 people visiting it each year.

The tourists get a detailed overview of BMW’s technical development throughout the company’s history with a varied display of engines and turbines, aircraft, motorcycles, and vehicles in a plethora of possible variations. In addition to actual models there are futuristic-looking, even conceptual studies from the past 20 years.

The use of headphones and clever, often indirect lighting, lend the exhibition a largely peaceful atmosphere. The emphasis is on technical development and benefits of modernity. The building blends in with the exhibition concept.

The building was designed by the architect of the BMW Headquarters, the Viennese professor Karl Schwanzer. The unique structure and design of this silver building makes it known as the salad bowl or white cauldron. The roughly circular base is only 20 meters in diameter, the flat roof about 40 metres. The entrance is on the ground floor and consists of a cloakroom (in basement) and reception.

In order to visit the exhibits, the visitors have to ascend on a spiral upward in the building. Slideshows and smaller, in-depth exhibits are located on four “islands” inside the building. On the upper floor are individual exhibits, a small cinema hall and several interactive exhibits that explain the technology further. An escalator leads visitors finally back into the ground floor.

The design reverses the spiral from top to bottom and the order of the “operation principle” Frank Lloyd Wright built in Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

The unique BMW Museum in Munich

The City Museum of Munich

Posted by admin in Fun, General, Guide, Hotels, Munich Landmarks, Munich Tours, Shopping, Tips | Leave a comment
2February2012

The city museum of Munich or The Munich Stadtmuseum was founded in 1888 by Ernst von Destouches. Located in the former municipal arsenal and stables, both the buildings of the museum are of late Gothic period.

The museum hosts a number of fascinating exhibitions all year round. Most of these are in German however, English translations are available in the form of audio guides and language booklets. All these exhibitions display the entire history of Munich. It relates the story of Munich’s transformation and the various stages of its development.

The exhibition encompasses around 850 precious years of Munich’s history, which includes the early 1900s Jungenstil artistic movement, the Great Depression, the Third Reich and post-war rebirth.

The displays include a model showing how the city looked in 1570, ancient monks’ relics, old clothes including a traditional Dirndl dress, a house-coat worn by King Ludwig I, Regalia from the 1972 Munich Olympics, a model of the Allianz Arena pay tribute to the city’s sporting heritage and many more such items.

A life-size clown figure called Grimbaldi is present in the third floor which features all sorts of puppets and marionettes. While the third floor is for the theatre and art lovers, the fourth is for the music lovers. Around 2000 musical instruments from around the globe and of all the ages are present here.

The museum’s located in St. Jakobs Platz 1. Directions are easily available, you just need to turn around and ask.

The cost isn’t very high. Its €6 for families, €4 for individuals and concessionary rates are €2. The permanent exhibitions on Sundays are free.

The general timings are from Tuesday to Sunday, 10am to 6pm.

The Frauenkirche at Munich

Posted by admin in Fun, General, Guide, Hotels, Munich Landmarks, Munich Tours, Shopping, Tips, Travel | Leave a comment
12January2012

The Frauenkirche or the “Cathedral of Our Dear Lady” is a church in the Bavarian city of Munich. It is the seat of its Archbishop and serves as the cathedral of the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising. This plainly designed church is made from red bricks in the late Gothic style. The church towers are widely visible because of local height limits. The two towers of the church are almost of same hieght- the north tower is 98.57 metres (323.4 ft) while the south tower is only 98.45 metres (323.0 ft), 12 centimetres (4.7 in) less. The south tower is open to those wishing to climb the stairs and offers a unique view of Munich and the nearby Alps.

The spatial effect of the church is connected with a legend about a footprint in a square tile at the entrance to the nave, the so-called “devil’s footstep”. This legendary Teufelstritt, or devil’s footstep, actually emerges from the fact that the large amount of light inside the Frauenkirche seems to come from nowhere because of the large columns that block the view of the windows. Right to the entrance is a monumental tomb of Emperor Ludwig IV of Bavaria, the work of Hans Krumpper.

The cathedral can hold approximately 20,000 people, and Catholic Mass is held regularly. The interior of the cathedral, which is among the largest hall churches in southern Germany, consists of the nave and two side aisles of equal height (31 metres (102 ft)). The arches were designed by Heinrich von Straubing.

A rich collection of 14th to 18th century artwork of notable artists like Erasmus Grasser, Jan Polack, Hans Krumpper and Ignaz Günther decorates the interior of the cathedral again since the last restoration. The Gothic nave, several of the Gothic stained-glass windows, some of them made for the previous church, and the tomb monument of Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor are major attractions.

 

 

A guide to Munich’s Nymphemburg Palace

Posted by admin in Fun, General, Government, Guide, Hotels, Munich Landmarks, Munich Tours, News, Shopping, Tips, Travel | Leave a comment
6January2012

The visitors to the beautiful city of Munich find no dearth of places to visit here as the city is dotted with exotic tourist spots. Among them is the Munich’s Nymphemburg Palace, which is surely a delight for the tourists.

The central pavilion is the oldest part of the palace, built (1664) as a gift from Elector Ferdinand Maria to his wife Adelaide of Savoy. The ground floor here has a gift shop. The palace was mainly used as a summer residence. The main structure is over 650m long.

The palace has the Stone Hall, a massive Rococo ballroom with splendid chandeliers. The ceiling in this hall is decorated with  frescos by Johann Zimmermann and his son Franz. In July the hall comes alive for the Nymphenburger Sommerspiele concerts.

Max Emanuel’s bedroom in the palace has nine paintings of women, depicted as Goddesses, whom Max had relations with during a spell in exile in Paris. The Chinese Lacquer Room is covered with depictions of country life in the Far East.

From 1726 the Southern Pavilion was reserved for Bavaria’s royal women: The Queens and electresses. As such, the Schönheitengalarie (Gallery of Beauties) has walls filled with portraits of 36 girls picked out by King Ludwig I and painted by Joeseph Stieler from 1826 to 1850.

In the southern pavilion of Nymphenburg Palace, lies the Maserzimmer, which is filled with portraits of King Ludwig I and his wife. The Blauer Salon features 200-year-old Parisian furniture and the bedroom next door was where Bavaria’s fairytale king, Ludwig II, was born.

Schloss Nymphenburg stands at 5km northwest of the city centre. Nymphenburg “combination tickets” cost 10€ (8€ concession) from April 1 to October 15. They cost 8€ (6€ concession) from October 16 to March 31. This ticket gives you access to the palaces, the Marstallmuseum, the Nymphenburg Porcelain Museum and the Nymphenburg park palaces (the Amalienburg, Badenburg, Pagodenburg and Magdalenenklause). Nymphenburg Palace is open daily. It is open from April to October 15, 9am to 6pm and from October 16 to March 10am to 4pm.

Parks And Gardens In Munich

Posted by admin in Fun, General, Government, Guide, Hotels, Munich Landmarks, Munich Tours, News, Shopping, Tips, Travel | Leave a comment
22December2011

The city of Munich abounds in marvellous display of beautiful buildings. Yet greenery finds its place amidst the concrete jungle in the form of green parks, parklands and landscaped gardens. Also worth noticing in Munich are the beautiful Renaissance gardens and formal Baroque-style planting which border a number of grand palaces. Some of the must see parks and gardens in Munich are:

Munich’s city park
This happens to be one of the largest and most beautiful parks of Germany extending almost to the Isar River. Founded by Sir Benjamin Thompson, an English scientist, this park is loved by the visitors who enjoy long walks, picnics and sunbathing. The park is especially popular because it permits nude sunbathing in certain areas. You can have tea on the plaza near the Chinese pagoda, or have a beer at the nearby beer garden.

Botanischer Garten
Stretching along a wide span of 22 hectares, the garden is subdivided into areas where each one is devoted to a particular plant variety. The attractions of the garden include the Alpine garden, which reaches its peak during the summer months, the heather garden which displays a vibrant collection of violets and purples in summer, the rose garden, the fern gorge, and the series of hothouses that are home to numerous exotic tropical plants. Admission is 4€ for adults and 2€ for children.

Hirschgarten
The garden stands in west Munich and was designated by Elector Karl Theodor as a deer park in 179.1Eventually a beer garden was established, now the largest in the world, with a capacity for 8,000 thirsty patrons. The place is popular among the visitors for picnics, barbecues, or afternoon chess games.

The guide to the German Museum in Munich

Posted by admin in Fun, General, Guide, Hotels, Munich Landmarks, Munich Tours, News, Shopping, Tips, Travel | Leave a comment
19November2011

The German Museum for Master-Works of Science and Technology in Munich is the world’s largest museum of technology. The museum was founded in 1903 and is housed in a large complex built by Gabriel von Seidl on an island in the Isar.

There are various sections in the museum and each section has clear explanations for the displays. The museum library has some 750,000 volumes, 4,500 periodicals and collections of technical journals, plans, patents, catalogues and manuscripts and other documents. The museum has its own research institute for technology and the history of science. The various sections of the museum are:

  • Studiensammlung which includes historical scientific instruments, machines and models
  • Agricultural Exhibits which lies in the third floor
  • Altamira Exhibit on the second floor has Neolithic tools and a copy of the prehistoric painting found in the Altamira cave near Santander in northern Spain.
  • Aviation Collection in the museum includes a huge collection of German aircraft dating from the 1890s to the present
  • Car Exhibits include Coaches, bicycles, Motor vehicles, etc. One of the primary displays is a Porsche 959 chassis.
  • The communications exhibits in the German Museum include Micro-electronics, Mathematical instruments, calculators, cryptographic devices, punched card machines, cable transmission; radio engineering; telephone exchanges; radio and television broadcasting; terminals; remote control technology and many others
  • Film and Photographic Library with a collection of some 40,000 negatives
  • Glass and Ceramics
  • A Dutch windmill from Wiesedermeer (East Friesland), built in 1866
  • The mining exhibits in the German Museum include Minerals, crystals and rocks, seams and mineral deposits, Prospecting and extraction, drilling at depth, oil refining, pipelines and other transport systems, storage, energy use, petrochemicals, environmental problems
  • German Museum courtyard which takes pride in a Dornier Do 31 transport aircraft, the prototype of a vertical take-off design developed for military purposes.
  • Musical Instruments
  • Photography Exhibits
  • Planetarium
  • Scientific Collections
  • New energy technology
  • Textiles Exhibits

The charges for entry into the museum are:

Adult 7.50 Euros
Group of 20 or more 5.00 Euros
Concession or reduced rate 5.00 Euros
Child 15 & under 3.00 Euros
Child 6 & under FREE
Family 15.00 Euros

The hotels near the German museum in Munich are:

HOTEL ADMIRAL
Kohlstraße 9
Munich
089 216350

Hotel Pension an der Isar
Steinsdorfstraße 15
Munich
089 292990

Deutsche Eiche
Reichenbachstr. 13
München
089 231166-0

HOTEL ADVOKAT
Baaderstraße 1
München
089 21631-0

Glyptothek, the museum constructed by Bavarian King Ludwig

Posted by admin in Fun, General, Guide, Munich Tours, Tips | Leave a comment
9March2011

The Glyptothek is a very revered museum in Munich, Germany, that was constructed by the Bavarian King Ludwig I to keep his collection of Greek and Roman sculptures.  The museum was there designed by Leo von Klenze in the Neoclassical style, and was constructed in time period as lying between from 1816 to 1830. At present museum is a part of the Kunstareal. Along the Glyptothek other buildings there was constructed as the State Collection of Greek and Roman Antiquities, as a monument to ancient Greece. The king Ludwig conceptualized the “German Athens”, under which the ancient Greek culture is well remembered he got it constructed as before in front of the gates of Munich.

The layout of the Königsplatz complex was designed by the architects Karl von Fischer and Leo von Klenze in 1815 that later on modified in the style of a forum as the Glyptothek there on the north side. Colorful frescoes and stuccos made by varying style artists as Peter von Cornelius, Clemens von Zimmermann, and Wilhelm von Kaulbach beautify the walls of the walls of the museum. In the years as between the construction of museum in 1806 and its opening of the museum in 1830 Ludwig finished one of the most noted collections of Greek and Roman sculpture. By his agents, he managed to get such pieces as the Medusa Rondanini, the Barberini Faun, and, in 1813, the figures from the Aphaea temple on Aegina. The museum somehow survived the firing of the Second World War and somehow the art work in the museum, survived. But with the span of time the museum and frescoes there failed to survive and there only the museum was reopened in 1972 with lightly plastered bricks.

The museum was there designed in the Classical Greek – Italian style. Its portico is Ionic, and the outer walls contain niches, in which 18 original Roman and Greek sculptures stand, six on each wall. Its interior has domed vaulting. The museum initially was entirely made out of marble. Yet during World War II the museum was bombed, and later on reconstructed. The walls from the interior there are made of red brick and even are painted in a light plaster. The collection in the museum contains the works as from the archaic age that is about 650 BC to the Roman era 550 AD. Other noticeable sculptures, mosaic as well relief too is found here. This collection is supported by the terracotta and bronze collections in the Staatliche Antikensammlung that is located as opposite the  Glyptothek.

Mandarin Oriental, 5 star hotel in Munich

Posted by admin in Fun, General, Guide, Hotels, Munich Tours, Tips | Leave a comment
28February2011
Mandarin Oriental 5 Star Hotel in Munich

Mandarin Oriental 5 Star Hotel in Munich

•  Overview of the Hotel: This particular hotel is located close to the Marienplatz square at the center of Munich. The hotel provides the luxurious rooms, a Michelin-starred restaurant and a heated rooftop pool. In summer guests at the hotel can enjoy the Mandarin Oriental’s heated rooftop pool. The Mandarin also has a small exercise room with modern equipment. The Marienplatz underground station is about 440 yards away from there. The hotel has about 73 rooms and it is the chain of Mandarin Oriental.

• Amenities at the Hotel: With respect to general facilities in the hotel it includes as restaurant, bar, 24-hour front desk, newspapers, terrace, non-smoking rooms, elevator, express check-in/check-out, safe, heating, stores in hotel, gay friendly, ski storage, allergy-free room available, all public and private spaces non-smoking, air conditioning. In services the hotel includes as the room service, meeting/banquet facilities, airport shuttle, business center, babysitting/child services, laundry, dry cleaning, hair/beauty salon, vip room facilities, breakfast in the room, ironing service, honeymoon suite, currency exchange, bicycle rental, shoe shine, packed lunches, car rental, tour desk, fax/photocopying and ticket service.

• Hotel Rules: With respect to general hotel rules they remain same at the common areas of the hotel whereas at the different hotel rooms the hotel rule differs as accordingly. The check in time into the hotel is 15:00 hours and the checkout time is until 12:00 hours. The cancellation and prepayment policy there vary according to the room type. Pets are allowed on request. Hotel accepts cards as American Express, Visa, Euro, Diners Club, JCB and Maestro.

• Hotel Room Types and Rates:

Mandarin Double or Twin Room: € 2930 (Per Night)
Superior Junior Suite: € 4030 (Per Night)
Deluxe Junior Suite: € 5090 (Per Night)
Tower suite: € 16200 (Per Night)

book-now

The Center for Integrated Protein Science Munich (CIPSM)

Posted by admin in Fun, General, Guide, Hotels, Munich Tours, Tips | Leave a comment
21February2011

The Center for Integrated Protein Science Munich (CIPSM) is a group of organizations as involved into the sciences as situated in Munich. The entire conglomeration of groups is consisted of the esteemed organizations as the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, the Technical University of Munich, the Helmholtz Center Munich, and the Max Planck Institutes of biochemistry and neurobiology in Martinsried. The nature of the Research at the center ranges from the isolated proteins up to the proteins as living organisms that apply methods of biophysics, biochemistry, medicine, and biology.

The primary objective of the institute is to establish the fact that biological macromolecules are cornerstone and center of the human living. It tries to understand the functional importance and structural effects that are yet not have been catered to the level of understanding, elaborately. Investigation of isolated proteins up to living organisms is done especially with respect to the interactions, structural complexities, folding, and structures of protein complexes, interactions between proteins and nucleic acids and neuro-degenerative diseases that provide to give basic knowledge of these macromolecules. This very knowledge there further relate to stages in the biomedicine and biotechnologies.

Each research area as divided into the (A-F) is headed by two coordinators who remain in touch with the executive board and takes decision about the appointment of new professorships and also chose the executive board of four researchers and one member responsible for family and gender support. The main duties of the board members are to do research, teaching and support of junior academic staff. The board members represent the interests of the cluster towards the directorate of the respective university. The speaker of the board and his deputy there shares the responsibility of the supervision and recruitment of junior professorships. There regular meetings are held and coordinated between group leaders and coordinators to carry out the successful working of the cluster.

There is also run a program for the Female scientists at the institute that is known as to be the Gender Support Program. The program is also known AFF (Ausschuss für Familien- und Frauenförderung; committee for family and gender support). The program was made with the objective to get associated with as much as number of researchers with children and habilitated females into professorships or leading positions. The committee is headed by a member of the board who is primary responsible for the issues related to family and gender support. Financial help to the CIPSM is provided by the Federal Republic of Germany, the states of Germany and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft in the course of the German Universities Excellence Initiative and distributed orientated on demand.