MUNICH'S ENGLISCHER GARTEN PARK
Gesundheit
and Culture in the Nude Day Sun
Since
1789 the Englischer Garten (English Garden) has been a central landmark
of Munich cultural life,
but actually owes its verdant existence
to an American, Benjamin Thompson who established himself as a Bavarian
Count von Rumsford and became Bavaria War Minister under the Wittelsbach
Prince Karl Thoedore. Originally
this marshland runoff area from the Isar River was intended to be a
military
grounds, but von Rumsford decided it should be a park for the people
instead. American radical!
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Covering
a long strip from the inner ring near Munich’s Art Museum
and forming the eastern border of the city’s very popular
Schwabing district near the University, the park is criss-crossed
by many paths
that lead to the Kleinhesselhoer Lake on its northern end. Strolling,
running, biking and nude sun-bathing! are popular activities in
the warm summer days. The middle of the 5 km long park is dominated
by
circular
Greek style Monopteros Temple standing on a hill over looking the
green grasses. Those interested in culture can visit the Japanese
Tea House
built in 1972 as a gift from Japan when the Olympics came to Munich,
or the historic Chinese Tower built in 1790 as part of the original
park which at Christmas hosts a very popular arts and crafts festival,
the
Weinachtsmarkt.
The lake is the beating heart of the park with boating rentals from
the sea house and ever popular feeding of the ducks and swans which
eagerly
swim alongside the lake view beer garden restaurant with nearby amphitheater
offering open air plays in summer. © Bargain
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