Marienplatz in Munich, Germany
Posted in Travel Adventures on 02/01/2010 09:52 pm by DonnaI’m Back! Well, I have been back for a week and two days. I’ve been busy catching up on everyday life. Our travel to Germany was an amazing, beautiful experience! I loved every minute of it. I took 1,749 images! It’s difficult to capture the beauty of the places we visited. There is so much feeling behind them. I have been busy editing them for our vacation album. In the next week I will be posting more on the travel experience. Beers, Food, Culture, Hotel and Transportation. Noticed how beer was listed first? I am not much of a beer drinker but German Beers are so tasty! SO TASTY!
We arrived in Munich at 8:30 am Friday, January 15th. We took a train to our hotel and left our luggage since check in was at 3:00pm. We headed out for a walk towards Marienplatz.
We saw many bikes along the way. A popular form of transportation.
The temperatures in Munich were 30-32 degrees during the day. Snow covered the ground and the skies were white. We saw the blue sky only a few times. But we really did not miss it. The change of scenery for us was beautiful!
The New Town Hall (German: Neues Rathaus) is a town hall at the northern part of Marienplatz in Munich, Bavaria, Germany. The city government including the city council, offices of the mayors and part of the administration are located here. It was built between 1867 and 1908 by Georg von Hauberrisser in a Gothic Revival architecture style. It has 400 rooms.
This spiral staircase leads to the different office floors.
The details in the building of the Neues Rathaus are magnificent! This photo was taken inside the inner courtyard.
The Glockenspiel is located in the middle of the clock tower of Neues Rathaus. At 12pm it sprang to life and more than 40 bells started ringing. The top level shows a French jouster fighting a Bavarian one. This is a reenactment of the tournament held in 1568 for the wedding of Duke Wilhelm V and Renata von Lorraine. Below that is “Schäfflertanz”, a jig traditionally performed by Munich’s red-coated coopers which commemorates the end of the plague in 1517.
You will see many people starting to gather and stand around looking up at the clock and waiting. It was awesome to see the movements and hear the bells ring!
Below is a short video clip I took using my point and shoot. I am no Videographer as you will see in the camera shake!
Inside Neues Rathaus is an elevator to a viewing platform. There is a small charge to ride the elevator. (1-2 Euros) The views of the city are beautiful!
Marienplatz was lovely and a great start to our journey. More to come soon!
It’s all good. ~Donna
02/09/2010 at 8:42 pm
Glad both of you are back safely,the pictures are just beautiful of germany and the collage that you have worked on looks very interesting,anxious to see it all in may.
love to both,
mom
02/02/2010 at 9:56 am
Wow- such beautiful pictures! It looks so cold there.
I’m glad you made it back safely – I’m looking forward to hearing/reading more
about your trip!
02/01/2010 at 11:39 pm
Welcome home! Since you’ve been gone, I’ve bought my own plane fare to Germany. The hubs and I are going in July and I can’t wait! We’ll be doing the starving artist tour (he’s a painter spending four weeks in an artist in residency program; I’m meeting him for the last two weeks). I’m not exactly sure what that means other than our home base is in a small town (population 80) that is halfway between Hamburg and Berlin. Should be fun, though!