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Center of Munich's Old Town with the Marienplatz, Old and New Town Hall, St. Peter and the Frauenkirche. The Munich Old Town is part of the Bavarian capital Munich and has belonged to the city the longest, even if some places which are meanwhile districts of Munich, were mentioned long before Munich's documents spoke of the Old Town.
Munich is the largest publishing city in Europe [211] and home to the Süddeutsche Zeitung, one of Germany's biggest daily newspapers. The city is also the location of the programming headquarters of Germany's largest public broadcasting network, ARD , while the largest commercial network, Pro7-Sat1 Media AG , is headquartered in the suburb of ...
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New Town Hall. Marienplatz was named after the Mariensäule, a Marian column erected in its centre in 1638 to celebrate the end of Swedish occupation. Today the Marienplatz is dominated by the New Town Hall (Neues Rathaus) on the north side, and the Old Town Hall (Altes Rathaus, a reconstructed Gothic council hall with a ballroom and tower) on the east side.
Map of the Viktualienmarkt The market as viewed from nearby Peterskirche Maypole on Viktualienmarkt Viktualienmarkt in 1900 Traditional barrelmakers dance Viktualienmarkt in 1930 A stall at Viktualienmarkt. The Viktualienmarkt is a food market and a square in the center of Munich, Germany. With the exception of Sundays and holidays, it has been ...
Munich – capital and the most populated city in the German state of Bavaria. With over 1,450,000 residents in 310.43 km2 (119.86 sq mi) it is also Germany's third most populated Großstadt . Munich is considered a global city as of 2015 [update] , [ 1 ] one of the most prosperous and fastest growing cities in Germany.
Satellite view of the Munich Larger Urban Zone. The Munich Larger Urban Zone (LUZ) as defined by Eurostat's Urban Audit covers an area of 5,500 km 2 and in 2004 contained 2,531,706 inhabitants [4] (pop. density 460,31/km 2). The Larger Urban Zone covers the following cities and districts: [5] Stadt München; Landkreis Dachau; Landkreis Ebersberg
Königsplatz (German: [ˈkøːnɪçsˌplats], King's Square) is a square in Munich, Germany. Built in the style of European Neoclassicism in the 19th century, it displays the Propyläen Gate and, facing each other, the Glyptothek (archeological museum) and the Staatliche Antikensammlungen (art museum).