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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.
Tallest structure in Munich. 1 Hochhaus Uptown München: 146 m (479 ft) 38 2004 Tallest skyscraper in Munich and tallest in the state of Bavaria. 2 Highlight I: 126 m (413 ft) 33 2004 Tallest twin towers in Munich. Best known tenants of the buildings are the IT and consulting firms Unify and Fujitsu Technology Solutions, as well as IBM. 3 HVB-Tower
Munich Central Train Station serves about 450,000 passengers a day, which puts it on par with other large stations in Germany. Munich Central Train Station alongside München Ost railway station are two of the 21 stations in Germany classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 1 station. The central mainline station is a terminal station with 32 ...
In the house Bergmannstraße 35 is the Ledigenheim Munich, next to the Ledigenheim Hamburg Europe's last home of its kind. [7] The Bergmannschule (Bergmannstraße 36): At the time, Georg Kerschensteiner opened the first of his Munich auxiliary school classes in a barrack in the courtyard of the Bergmannschule. From autumn 1902, Rupert ...
The Munich tower has five storeys: the ground storey roof has a diameter of 19 m, the topmost storey of 6 m. [ 31 ] On July 13, 1944, the original tower burned down after heavy bombing; but a society aiming to rebuild it was formed in 1951 and the new tower, copied accurately from the original by consulting photographs and old drawings, was ...
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.
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).
The semi-circular Orleansplatz is located in the Munich district of Haidhausen opposite the Ostbahnhof, where the S-Bahn, U-Bahn line 5 and various bus lines stop. There is also a stop for tram line 19 on Orleansplatz. [1] The front of Orleansplatz is marked by an elongated fountain which runs parallel to Orleansstraße.