Traveling to Munich

Even though we'd visited Munich before, our 4.5 days were barely long enough.  Here are the highlights -

 The Assam Brothers' church is now used for worship, but they built it beside their house as a showroom for all the ways they could decorate your church baroque-style.  Over the top!

 I have not shown enough bakeries considering how many we've frequented :) !!

At the Hofbräuhaus a sign:  Thirst is worse than homesickness

The Wittelsbach dynasty left behind this residence in the center of Munich, today museums and treasury:

The careful restoration seems to be never ending and sometimes reveals surprising finds under many layers of centuries of grime.

 This theater is a part of the palace residence!  We attended a lovely concert in a smaller Hofkapelle.

How should a city commemorate the beginning of the Nazi movement?  In the street where the Beer Hall Putsch of  Nov. 1923 left 16 Nazis and 4 police dead you have to look carefully to see "it".  The shiny cobblestones actually also mark this alley as the road used later by Germans, who wanted to avoid crossing the Odeonplatz.  There the monument to the "martyrs of the Beer Putsch" required everyone to salute with "Heil Hitler".

The Deutsches Museum is the German equivalent to our Smithsonian.  In the basement one walks through the history of salt mining.  Above Jack showing a quick way to descend into the mine.

We spent a long time going through tunnels and seeing scenes like this.

Lots of original boats and planes...

Old computers, which Jack still remembers well!

The next day we toured the BMW museum.

  Jack loved it!  And it ended in an area with electric and hydrogen powered vehicles of now and of the future.  We actually saw quite a few of these car-sharing "Drive Now" electric BMS throughout Munich. This is a car-sharing program run by BMW itself.

The Neue Pinakothek was a fun art museum:

Another day found us at the Nazi Documentation Center.  I hope it doesn't seem like I'm focusing on this sad part of Germany's history too much.  In the 1960's and 70's nothing was taught about this time, nor did museums or literature really grapple with it.  Now there is concerted effort in many forms.

This history is presented in chronological order from the trenches of WWI to the destruction of Germany and freeing of millions in concentration camps. And then a sobering look at neo-nazism of today.  And everything is from Munich!

The audio-guide includes many first-hand stories by survivors.  Above the daughter remembers her father, a Bavarian Jewish lawyer in 1933.  He had attempted to get the release of a client from the police and the SS beat him and forced him to walk barefoot with this sign - I will no longer bother the police.

Many pictures like this showed how Nazis gained easy access to all of Munich.

 On the last day in a city we often stored our bag and backpack in lockers so that we can still walk and see the sights before our train.  The Munich city museum also made this available for no cost.

 Among lots and lots of interesting historical artifacts we happened across the actual sign that had hung at the Odeonplatz, telling people to give the Hitler salut.

One of the cheerier items were the famous and very old marionettes.

Practially every street in the historic downtown is a picturesque sight.

The stores sell the traditional Lederhosen and Dirndl (dresses).

Our last glance was at the Marienplatz to the Glockenspiel in the town hall.

Then we headed down to the subway to get to the train station to go on to Salzburg, Austria.