The River of Munich in autumn
Oct. 9th, 2015 06:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
selenak...can be exceendingly beautiful, especially if you walk along the river Isar, which I did, so you're getting a mini pic spam. I mean:
The Isar isn't a river comparable to the Rhine or the Danube, but it's the artery on which Munich runs, so to speak, and you can stroll on both sides for quite a long time.
Unlike my hometown Bamberg, the city doesn't offer medieval buildings, but both baroque and 19th century are nicely represented. Or a combination of both. Unfortunately, some of the nicer buildings are housing various branches of the current Bavarian government whom I'm really angry with right now, but fall is beautiful enough to distract me from shaking my fists at them when I pass.
The statue here, btw, is supposed to be a Renaissance masterbuilder. It was made a lot later, of course, but he did a lot in Munich in his time, and the statue recalls this.
This spot is very popular with fly fishermen:
Some of this is part of the big city park, the Englischer Garten, hence the occasional pavillon - it was originally modelled on the English landscaping, hence the name:
Naturally, a Catholic city with a river has to have a representation of St. Christopher somewhere:
This is the Friedensengel, the "Angel of Peace", originally created, of all the things, to conmemorate the 25th anniversary of the end of the German-French war of 1870/71. Meaning and then came WWI.
Let's stroll further down the Isar, away from the monuments.
Like I said, part of the Isar shore belongs to the Englischer Garten, which also incorporates a lake. Strolling around said lake ended my walk today.
There's a very popular restaurant, the "Seehaus", and beer garden (in the summer) here:
Goodbye, glorious October day!
The Isar isn't a river comparable to the Rhine or the Danube, but it's the artery on which Munich runs, so to speak, and you can stroll on both sides for quite a long time.
Unlike my hometown Bamberg, the city doesn't offer medieval buildings, but both baroque and 19th century are nicely represented. Or a combination of both. Unfortunately, some of the nicer buildings are housing various branches of the current Bavarian government whom I'm really angry with right now, but fall is beautiful enough to distract me from shaking my fists at them when I pass.
The statue here, btw, is supposed to be a Renaissance masterbuilder. It was made a lot later, of course, but he did a lot in Munich in his time, and the statue recalls this.
This spot is very popular with fly fishermen:
Some of this is part of the big city park, the Englischer Garten, hence the occasional pavillon - it was originally modelled on the English landscaping, hence the name:
Naturally, a Catholic city with a river has to have a representation of St. Christopher somewhere:
This is the Friedensengel, the "Angel of Peace", originally created, of all the things, to conmemorate the 25th anniversary of the end of the German-French war of 1870/71. Meaning and then came WWI.
Let's stroll further down the Isar, away from the monuments.
Like I said, part of the Isar shore belongs to the Englischer Garten, which also incorporates a lake. Strolling around said lake ended my walk today.
There's a very popular restaurant, the "Seehaus", and beer garden (in the summer) here:
Goodbye, glorious October day!
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Date: 2015-10-09 04:47 pm (UTC)"The Isar isn't a river comparable to the Rhine or the Danube, "
Well, I grew up 500 meters from the Rhine and the Isar at least *clearly* registers as an actual river. Not like the sorry excuse for a River people in Braunschweig call a river ;-) I'd love to live in a city with a decent river again... They are just so pretty.
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Date: 2015-10-10 04:34 am (UTC)(I was there, twice, I swear! But I had to google it just now nonetheless.)
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Date: 2015-10-10 07:33 am (UTC)Meanwhile, we're living on Ferenginar, as usual. Oldenburg: rain, rain, more rain, and of course: rain!
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