VirtualGlobetrotting: Germany: Munich

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Martin Winterkorn's House
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Martin Winterkorn is the former CEO of German auto manufacturer Volkswagen. He purchased this house in 2009 from Wolfgang Porsche, Chairman of Porsche and grandson of automotive pioneer Ferdinand Porsche.
Winterkorn is the infamous former chairman of the board of management (CEO, Vorstandsvorsitzender in German) of Volkswagen AG, the parent company of the Volkswagen Group, and former chairman of the supervisory board of Audi and the board of management of Porsche Automobil Holding SE. He succeeded Bernd Pischetsrieder as CEO of Volkswagen AG in 2007. Prior to that, he had been the chairman of the board of management of the Volkswagen Group subsidiary Audi AG. As a businessman, his success was apparent, but was forced to tend his resignation from Volkswagen on 23 September 2015, several days after an emissions cheating scandal was revealed about the company's diesel cars. He resigned as chairman of Audi on 11 November 2015, after further information associated with the scandal was revealed in regard to his association with VW's gasoline-powered engines.
After the case, Winterkorn was criminally indicted over the emissions cheating scandal in the USA on May 3, 2018 on charges of fraud and conspiracy. In April 2019 he was criminally indicted on charges of fraud in German
As chair of the Volkswagen Group, Martin Winterkorn urged European regulators not to overburden the automotive industry with excessive emission targets, citing a lack of time to develop fuel-efficient technology and the economic downturn as major concerns. Sales were imperative, and emphasized before all else. The scorn is especially strong against Winterkorn, who vowed to make the company the biggest electric carmaker in the world and put 1 million electric vehicles on the road by 2020. The German automaker-- whose brands include Volkswagen, Audi, Bentley and Lamborghini -- reported selling over 7.5 million vehicles this year and is close to achieving its goal of 10 million automobile sales in 2014.
In 2012, he was listed as the best paid CEO in Germany making $23 million. Now he is fighting criminal charges. His net worth is still unlisted, likely to keep creditors away from it.

Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory (what's left of it)
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Filming commenced on August 31, 1970 and ended on November 19, 1970. The primary shooting location was Munich, because it was significantly cheaper than filming in the U.S., and the setting was conducive to Wonka's factory. Stuart also liked the ambiguity and unfamiliarity of the location. External shots of the factory were filmed at the Munich Gaswerks; the flats and clock tower still exist.
The clock tower is on the other side of the newer buildings to the east.

Front Gate to Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory
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Location used in the original version of the film.

Saif al-Arab Gaddafis Villa in Munich and his Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren
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Rudolph Moshammer
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This is the house were Rudolph Moshammer lived till he had been strangled with a black telephone cable.
Moshammer was one of Germany's most successful fashion designers after Karl Lagerfeld, Jil Sander and Wolfgang Joop.

Felix Magath's house
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The former German soccer player and current football manager owns this house

Thomas Mann's house (former)
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The German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and 1929 Nobel Prize laureate lived here.
Mann was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1929, principally in recognition of his popular achievement with the epic Buddenbrooks (1901), The Magic Mountain (Der Zauberberg 1924), and his numerous short stories.
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Currently Alexander Dibelius Managing Director and CEO of Goldman, Sachs Europe lives here.

Uli Hoeneß' house (former)
Uli Hoeneß is a former German soccer player and is now general manager of the football club Bayern Munich.

Stadelheim Prison
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Stadelheim Prison, in Munich's Giesing district, is one of the largest prisons in Germany.
Stadelheim PrisonFounded in 1894 it was the place of many gory executions, especially during the Nazi period. Adolf Hitler himself was arrested in Stadelheim from June 24th to July 27th 1922.
Statistics about the prison
Size: 14 hectares
Capacity of prison: ca. 1500 prisoners (possible maximum 2100)
Highest number of prisoners: November 9th, 1993 with 1969 prisoners
Executions: 1895 to 1927 14 (including Gustav Landauer and Eugen Levine); 1933 to 1945 at least 1035 (including Ernst Röhm and the members of the White Rose)

Willy Bogner's House
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Bogner is a German fashion designer and inheritor of the Bogner clothing brand, as well as a filmmaker and former alpine ski racer.

Eva Braun's House
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Eva Braun's House in Bogenhausen bought for her by Adolf Hitler.

Albert Einstein's Boyhood Home
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The physicist genius (1879-1955) lived here with his family from 1885 to 1894.

BMW Headquarters
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Leo Kirch's House (former)
Leo Kirch (1926-2011) was a German media mogul and head of the Kirch Media Group.
During the 1990s he set up the subscription television service Premiere and became a key player in sports broadcasting rights, paying massive amounts for the rights to the German Bundesliga. In addition, in 1996 he purchased the rights to the 2002 and 2006 FIFA World Cups for some €1.9 billion and purchased the rights to Formula One for €1.5 billion.
However, the Kirch Group declared itself insolvent in 2002.
German sources estimated Kirch's net worth at €300 million in 2010.

Another Street View in Munich
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Otro Street View en Munich

'Allianz Arena' by Herzog and De Meuron
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2005

Europe map
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Friedrich Karl Flick's House (former)
Update 2017: house has been torn down, so this is only the site of Flick's home. Bing thumbnail still shows it.
Flick († 2006) was a German-Austrian industrialist and billionaire. His father built an industrial empire that included stakes in Daimler-Benz and W.R. Grace. Flick sold it off in 1986 for $3 billion. At the time of his death Forbes ranked him as the 94th richest person in the world, worth an estimated $6.1 billion.

Olympiastadion München
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Main stadium of the 1972 Summer Olympics.

Theresienwiese (Oktoberfest Location)
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Fc Bayern München
Bayern Munich is one of the most successful clubs in football history

Boris Becker's House (former)
The former tennis player and current coach lived here with his young family until he and his first wife separated. He sold the home in 2002.

Amalienburg (Nymphenburg Palace Park, Munich)
An exquisite example of rococo at its finest. The circular hall of mirrors creates an ethereal atmosphere in the Bavarian national colors, silver and blue.

Hauptbahnhof (Munich)
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Helmut Markwort
Helmut Markwort is a well kown german journalist. He is co-founder and chief editor of the german news magazin "Focus".

Film set at Bavaria Film Studios
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Schloss Fürstenried
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Fürstenried Palace (Schloss Fürstenried) is a baroque palace in the southwest of Munich, Germany. It was built by Joseph Effner for Elector Max Emanuel in 1715–17 as a hunting lodge. Two pavilions are added each in the south and north of the main building.
Fürstenried Palace was the residence of the former Electress Maria Anna from 1778 to 1796. The palace served as domicile for King Otto of Bavaria from 1883 onwards until his death. Since 1925 the Catholic Retreat Hostel for spiritual exercises has been housed in Fürstenried Palace.

Bavaria Film Studios
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German film and TV studio with Theme Park attractions for tourists, south of Munich. "The Neverending Story", "Das Boot" and "Enemy Mine" were filmed here.

Circus Krone
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Hofbräuhaus München
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Audi Dome (Rudi-Sedlmayer-Halle)
The Audi Dome formerly know as Rudi-Sedlmayer-Halle is an arena in Sendling-Westpark, Munich, Germany. First it was named after Rudi Sedlmayer who was president of the Bavarian State Sport Association from 1955 to 1973, the 6,800-seat hall opened in 1972 to host basketball events for the 1972 Summer Olympics. The arena has been the regular home venue of Bayern Munich basketball club since 2011.

Saif al-Arab's House (former)
Saif al-Arab al-Gaddafi was the sixth son of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. He was killed by a NATO airstrike during the Libyan civil war in 2011. The house is still owned by the Libyan state, Gaddafi's other Munich home is also featured on this site.

Adolf Hitler's Apartment
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After returning to Munich following World War I, and subsequently leaving the military, Hitler lived in a two room apartment at Thierschstraße 41, on the first floor above the ground floor, from 1 May 1920 until 5 October 1929.

1958 Manchester United's Munich air disaster memorial
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The Munich air disaster took place on 6 February 1958, when British European Airways Flight 609 crashed on its third attempt to take off from a slush-covered runway at Munich-Riem Airport in Munich, West Germany. On board the plane was the Manchester United football team, nicknamed the "Busby Babes", along with a number of supporters and journalists. 20 of the 44 people on board the aircraft died in the crash. The injured, some of whom had been knocked unconscious, were taken to the Rechts der Isar Hospital in Munich where 3 more died, resulting in a total of 23 fatalities with 21 survivors.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munich_air_disaster

FC Bayern Munich Headquarters
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'Walking Man' by Jonathan Borofsky
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The Walking Man, completed in 1995, stands in front of the new Munich Re insurance company headquarters on the Leopoldstrasse in Munich. The sculpture has been situated so that people end up walking through the legs of the figure to enter and leave the building.

Michael Bollner's Office
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Michael Bollner is a German former child actor who played Augustus Gloop in the 1971 film Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, when he was 13 years old. He is now a tax accountant in Munich.

Man trucks Munich
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Man factory in Munich Germany. M:A:N produce mainly heavy trucks but also trucks on the lower range.
The main factory are to the west across the road.

Franz Josef Strauss International Airport (MUC)
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Location of failed Munich Olympic hostage rescue

General Hospital Munich Schwabing
An established Academic Center and Teaching Hospital of the University of Munich. The Link between Tradition and Advances in Medicine

Public Viewing Munich FIFA World Cup 2006

Therme Erding Nudist Retreat

Cranes

Olympic Village
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Olympic Village 1972

Sky Deutschland Headquarters
This is the headquarter of the German pay-tv Sky (formerly Premiere)This is the headquarters of the German pay-tv Sky (formerly Premiere)

Grünwalder Stadion
Originally TSV 1860 Munich played in the Stadion an der Grünwalder Straße (commonly known as "Sechzger Stadion"), built in 1911, and which they also shared with Bayern Munich between 1925 and 1972. Both clubs then moved to the new Olympiastadion built for the 1972 Olympic Games. TSV moved back to the old ground several times from 1972 on, with the years between 1982 and 1995 being the longest period.
AKA Sechzger Stadion, Grünwalder

'Barcode House' by MVRDV
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Munich Massacre
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The Munich massacre is an informal name for an attack that occurred during the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Bavaria, in southern West Germany, when members of the Israeli Olympic team were taken hostage and eventually killed by the Palestinian group Black September

BMW World
The project that is underway at present will have become a special highlight of automotive culture on 20 October 2007.
A masterpiece of architecture which will allow you to experience the entire world of BMW. With every sense. A site of communication and encounter, a place where you can collect your new BMW yourself in an unmistakeable way - and the embodiment of the promise made by an entire brand, which will find a new home here:
the Ultimate Driving Experience.

BMW Open at MTTC Iphitos e.V
The BMW Open is ATP tournament held in Munich, Germany.

TSV 1860 München

'An Island In Time'
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An earth sign by Wilhelm Holderied & Karl Schlamminger

'Walking Man'

Klinikum (Hospital) Bogenhausen
The Municipal Hospital Munich-Bogenhausen is an academic teaching hospital of the Technical University of Munich and delivers the highest quality of medical care.

Olympic Park
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Olympic Park 1972

Siemens Headquarter
Siemens, headquartered in Berlin and Munich, is one of the world's largest electrical engineering and electronics companies. Siemens provides innovative technologies and comprehensive know-how to benefit customers in 190 countries. Founded more than 150 years ago, the company is active in the areas of Information and Communications, Automation and Control, Power, Transportation, Medical, and Lighting.

Lockheed Super Constellation, DC-3 & Ju 52
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Lockheed Super Constellation, Douglas DC-3 & Junkers Ju 52 at static display at Franz Joseph Strauss International Airport, Munich.

Rainer Werner Fassbinder's final Apartment
The German filmmaker lived here during the last four years of his life. He died here of a drug cocktail overdose in 1982, aged just 37.

Bavaria Statue
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The Bavaria statue (German just 'Bavaria') is a bronze-cast statue of a female figure representing Bavaria's "secular patron saint", the Tellus (Mater) Bavarica ("goddess of the land of Bavaria"), located at the border of the Theresienwiese in Munich, Bavaria, Germany, where the Oktoberfest takes place each September.

Mercedes-Benz Munich Headquarters

Schloss Blutenburg
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Ghost station Munich Olympiastadion
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München Olympiastadion is a former stop on the Munich S-Bahn. The station was built in the early 1970s and opened on May 26, 1972 to provide additional means of transportation for the 1972 Summer Olympics. Today, it has fallen into disuse and the tracks leading to the station have been removed.
The station saw use during the 1972 Olympics, but was disconnected from the regular service network after the Olympic games ended. The station saw sporadic use at first during football matches in the nearby Olympic Stadium, and from August 8, 1984 S8 and S11 services called at the station when football matches were happening in the stadium.

BMW Motorsport Headquarters
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BMW M GmbH (previously: BMW Motorsport GmbH) is a subsidiary of German car manufacturer BMW AG.
BMW M, also known as M-Technik or just "M" (for Motorsport) was initially created to facilitate BMW’s racing program, which was very successful in the 1960s and 1970s. As time progressed, BMW M began to supplement BMW's vehicles portfolio with specially modified higher trim models, for which they are now most known for to the general public. These M-badged cars traditionally include modified engines, transmissions, suspensions, interior trims, aerodynamics, and exterior modifications to set them apart from their counterparts. All M models are tested and tuned at BMW's private facility at the Nürburgring racing circuit in Germany.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMW_M

Former Control Tower of the old Munich-Riem airport
Munich-Riem Airport (German: Flughafen München Riem) was the main, international airport of Munich until it was closed down on 16 May 1992, the day before the new airport near Freising commenced operation. It was located near the old village of Riem in the Munich borough of Trudering-Riem...
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'Goetz Collection' by Herzog & de Meuron
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Jacques Herzog
Pierre de Meuron

Adolf Hitler's "Führerbau"
The Führerbau housed Hitler's office and offices for his closest staff while in Munich. It is where the Munich Accords was signed.

Wonder Who Lives Here
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Intentionally blurred out. Possible the office of some patent attorneys?

Nymphenburg Castle
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Picture is blurry - still a nice partial view

'Unterfohring Park Village' by MVRDV
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2004

'Jauch House' by Gruber + Popp Architekten
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Englischer Garten

Badenburg (Nymphenburg Palace Park, Munich)
First heated indoor pool of modern times.
Public bathing scene for the court's enjoyment: the Badenburg was built with this idea in mind. The heated, tiled pool - quite rare for the period - opens onto a hall decorated in stucco marble. Josef Effner built the pavilion in 1719-21. It was later remodeled by Klenze.

Hitler's Apartment
In 1929 Hitler rented, and later purchased a luxury apartment in this building. It was in this apartment that Hitler's niece Geli Raubal, whom some say was the only woman he ever loved, reportedly committed suicide in 1931. Hitler's apartment was on the second floor above the ground level (third floor, in American usage). This floor now houses the regional Police headquarters.

Allianz Arena
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allianz_Arena

Sendlinger Tor
The Sendlinger Tor (Sendlinger Str 49) is in the so-called Hackenviertel at the southern end of the Sendlinger road, part of the north-south highway through Munich's old town

Land windsurfing
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Hofgarten München (Court Garden Munich)
Creation of the Court Garden began in 1613, at the same time as the new buildings and extensions erected by Duke Maximilian I. The garden lay outside the moat that then surrounded much of the Residenz...

Wiesmann MF 3
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Olympiahalle
Olympiahalle is a multi-purpose arena in Munich, Germany, part of the Olympic Park and close to the Olympic Stadium.
The arena is used for concerts, sporting events, exhibitions or trade fairs. In the past, it served as a part-time home for the defunct ice hockey team EC Hedos München. Olympiahalle opened in 1972 and was the venue for gymnastics and handball events at the 1972 Summer Olympics. The seating capacity for the arena varies from 12,150 up to 14,000.

Chinesischer Turm's beer garden
This 25-meter-high wooden structure, designed by the military architect Joseph Frey von Johann Baptist Lechner, was built from 1789 to 1790. It was modelled on the "Great Pagoda" in the Royal Botanic Gardens in London. The Pagoda, twice as high as the Turm, was supposed to resemble a porcelain pagoda in the gardens of a Chinese emperor.
In July 1944, the so-called "China Tower" burned down due to heavy bombing, and in 1952 was rebuilt true to the original.
With 7,000 seats, the Chinesischer Turm's beer garden is the second largest beer garden in Munich.

Botanical Garden Munich

Olympiaturm (Olympia Tower)
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Hochhaus Uptown München (146 meters)
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Monopteros (Nymphenburg Palace Park, Munich)

Frauenkirk and Marienplatz
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This is Marienplatz - the location of the Ratskeller and the clock with manequins + The Fraunenkirk with the basement full of kings

Olympia Halle
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Viktualienmarkt
The Viktualienmarkt is a daily food market in the center of Munich, Germany.
The Viktualienmarkt developed from an original farmers’ market to a popular market for gourmets. The selection, variety and exclusiveness of the products offered contribute to the market’s special flair. On an area covering 22.000m², 140 stalls and shops offer flowers, exotic fruit, game, poultry, spices, cheese, fish, juices etc. Nowhere else in Munich can you find a greater variety of fresh food and delicacies. All stalls and shops are open during the official opening hours (Monday to Saturday until 8 p.m.). There are special opening hours for flower shops, bakeries and restaurants.

German Würzburg-Riese WWII parabolic antenna
The "Würzburg-Riese" was a radar device used in the Second World War. It reflected radar signals and could be used to determine the direction and position of aircrafts up to 70 km away. Initially developed by AEG and Telefunken, about 1500 of these devices were built by the Zeppelin-Werke. For some decades after the war, some of these devices were used at various places in Europe as antennae in the new and pioneering field of radio astronomy. The antenna on display was used by radio astronomers of the Dutch observatory in Dwingeloo, who mainly studied the radio signals of the sun. To observe weaker objects in radio astronomy larger antennae were required. In 1991 the “Würzburg-Riese” was donated to the Deutsches Museum as part of the new Astronomy Exhibition. Following its restoration in the aircraft workshops of the Flugwerft Schleißheim, the antenna was re-erected in 1993 outside the main building.

Dallmayr
Dallmayr is a luxury delicatessen food store in Munich, Germany, dating back to the 17th century. Its reputation is comparable to Fauchon in Paris, Fortnum & Mason in London, or Meiji-ya in Tokyo. About 2.5 million people visit the main store every year. Besides luxury food, Dallmayr also sells a luxury brand of coffee, includes a restaurant, a party service, and other food related services. The revenue of 2004 was 455 million euro with about 2,500 employees. The main competitor in Munich is Feinkost Käfer.

'Umschreibung (Rewriting)' by Olafur Eliasson
It's in the courtyard of the global accounting firm KPMG in Munich.

German Dassault/Dornier Alpha Jet A and F-104 Starfighter
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Adolf Hitler's Apartment
Adolph Hitler lived here on the first floor above the ground floor, from 1 May 1920 until 5 October 1929.

Alte Pinakothek
The Alte Pinakothek "Old Pinakothek" is an art museum situated in the Kunstareal in Munich, Germany. The museum is under supervision of the Bavarian State Painting Collections which own also an expanded collection of several thousand European paintings from the 13th to 18th century. Especially its collection of Early Italian, Old German, Old Dutch and Flemish paintings belongs to the most important in the world. More than 800 of these paintings are exhibited in the Old Pinakothek. Due to limited space in the building some associated galleries throughout Bavaria such as the baroque galleries in Schleissheim Palace and Neuburg Palace display also the Old Masters.

Prinz-Carl-Palais
The Prinz-Carl-Palais was planned in 1803 by the young architect Karl von Fischer for Abbé Pierre de Salabert, a former teacher of King Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria. Since 1825 it belonged to Maximilian's son Prince Carl. He ordered Jean-Baptiste Métevier and Anton Schwanthaler to decorate the rooms. After Carl's death the Palais served as Diplomatic mission for Austria-Hungary from 1876 onwards before it has become a residence for the Bavarian Prime Ministers in 1924.

Pagodenburg at Nymphenburg Palace Park
Chinese-style rococo: The most personal and intimate creation of Elector Maximilian Emanuel.
French on the outside, Oriental on the inside: the first of the garden pavilions to be built...

1972 Olympic Cauldron in Munich
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At the Olympic Stadium

Suresnes Palace
Artists such as Paul Klee, Elisabet Ney and Leo Samberger lived and worked here.

Deutsches Museum
Deutsches Museum in Munich, Germany is one of the world's largest museums of science and technology. It has more than 1.3 million visitors per year, an exhibition area of about 55.000 square metres and more than 18.000 items from 45 disciplines on display.