München/Munich III (6/29/2019)

Saturday, June 29, 2019 (continued)

Ohel-Jakob-Synagoge/Jacob's Tent Synagogue (2004-2006,
by Rena Wandel-Hoefer and Wolfgang Lorch) to replace a synagogue
ordered torn down by Hitler in 1938; the travertine wall evokes the
Wailing Wall and the glass cube represents a tent from the
40-year journey of Moses through the desert 

The bronze doors of the synagogue have the first
ten letters of Hebrew alphabet for 10 Commandments

Complex of 15C buildings of the Münchner Stadtmuseum/
Munich City Museum, formerly granaries, armory, and stable

Model of München/Munich today with the
Frauenkirche just about in the center

Model of München/Munich in 1570 with
the Frauenkirche in the top middle

A Moriskentänzer/Moorish Dancer (KSS)

Eight Moriskentänzer/Moorish Dancers aka Morris Dancers (1480, by Erasmus Grasser)

Statue of Henry the Lion, the reputed founder of the
city of München/Munich in 1158

Coffee service (1815, by the Nymphenburger Porzellanmanufaktur/
Nymphenburg Porcelain Manufacturer, painting likely by Johann Reis)

Unique framing technique (KSS)

Marionettes

Shadow puppets

Hand puppets

Puppet theater

Next, the Nationalsozialismus/Nazi Flügel/National Socialism Wing.

"May a Catholic vote for Hitler?" Why yes, because the Pope signed
a concordat in 1933 rescinding the Catholic Church ban on joining the
Nazi party; if the Pope says it's OK, it's your duty to vote for Hitler... (KSS)

"Ms Hamster, shame on you [for hoarding goods]"

Back to the New Town Hall, the closest beer hall!

Ratskeller München/Munich Town Hall Cellar with 1905 vault paintings
by Heinrich Schlitt, better known as a principal artist for
Villeroy & Boch and his work on ceramic beer steins

Heinrich Schlitt was famous for his humor, but...

Kent in the Ratskeller München

Knackwurst mit Kartoffelsalat/Sausages and potato salad

Obatzda/a cheese spread made with Camembert and double
cream cheese, served with gherkins, pretzels, and onion,
and two slices of Graubrot/whole wheat bread

Carrying their own beer steins

Wasserpilz Brunnen/Water Mushroom Fountain (1972, by
Bernhard Winkler) in Frauenplatz/Square of Our Lady (KSS)

Frauenkirche/Cathedral of Our Lady with onion domes
on its twin steeples; the domes may have inspired
the other onion domes throughout Bayern/Bavaria

Frauenkirche (7/8/1980)
(the tree was shorter then!)

Fountain in Frauenplatz of a haloed lady with a fish...

Inside Frauenkirche is the black marble monument/tomb of
Ludwig IV who was a Holy Roman Emperor (KSS)

Relief honoring Joseph Ratzinger who was born in
Bavaria in 1927, was Archbishop here from 1977-1982,
and was elected as Pope in 2005 taking the name
Benedict XVI, eventually resigned as Pope in 2013

Side altar in the Frauenkirche

I went round and round in the Frauenkirche, looking for the spot where you could not see any windows. A legend is that the builder made a wager with the devil that no window would be seen from within. At this spot, the devil stamped his foot in anger that he lost the wager, leaving a footprint. It apparently is in the vestibule, which I did not consider as being in the church. Oh well!

Promenadeplatz: Maximilian von Montgelas statue
(2005, by Karin Sander), a Bavarian statesman
and a sort of benevolent dictator who taxed the
nobility and began the modernization of Bavaria

Also in Promenadeplatz, the statue of Renaissance
composer Orlando di Lasso has become a memorial to
Michael Jackson who stayed at the Hotel
Bayrischer Hof across street and would come
to the window to greet fans

Michael Jackson Memorial (KSS)

Hanging garden of Fünf Höfer Passage/
five Courts Passage mall

The arcaded loggia of the Feldherrnhalle/Hall of Heroes (1841-1844,
by Friedrich von Gärtner, based on the Loggia dei Lanzi in Florence),
commemorating heroes of the Thirty Years' War and Napoleonic Wars,
then later the Franco-Prussian War (KSS)

The Hall of Heroes was the site of the ending of the Beer Hall Putsch, Hitler's failed coup over the state of Bavaria in 1923. Hitler was arrested and sentenced to five years in prison. He was released after only eight-nine months, having had time to begin writing his manifesto, Mein Kampf/My Struggle. When the Nazis took power in 1933, the Hall of Heroes became a memorial to those Nazis killed during the Putsch.

A small beer wagon, still part of "A Day of Beer"?

Next: München/Munich IV.