Fun to Know
In
1810 Ludwig I married and threw a big party, and Octoberfest has been
held here in late September- early October ever since.
Each
year 110 million gallons of beer are brewed in Munich and 70-80% of
it is consumed in the city. The drinking age is 16 for beer and wine,
18 for anything harder. Interestingly beer is considered liquid bread
and is taxed as bread not as alcohol
The
Lowenbrau brewery cellars are under the street.
Benedictine
monks were here in 970.
Bavaria
is spelled Bayern in German
Bavaria
is the largest state in the Federated Republic of Germany, and is
about the size of Montana. Located in the southeast part of the
country it occupies about one-fifth of Germany’s acreage.
Munich became the
capitol of Bavaria in 13th
century. Prior to that Regensburg was the capitol.
Nymphenburg,
the summer palace was the King’s gift to his wife in 1664 for
delivering a son. The Wittelsbach dynasty ruled Bavaria for 738
years, until 1918. The Palace is a half-mile long and basically
circular. It is symmetrical with equal buildings mirrored on each
side and took 150 years to finish. There are 500 acres of park in
the back. When the family came here they hardly came alone
considering
they brought 500 horses and 1000 servants.
Ludwig
I sent his son, Otto, to Greece where he ruled for 30 years, thus the
Greek influence on the local architecture. Museums are housed in many
of the buildings
All the high rises are
in the suburbs because a city ordinance prohibits any building being
taller than Our Lady Church. There are 210 churches in the city.
Don’t miss the opera
house or the famous glockenspiel at city hall.
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