The Dianatempel stands at the precise center of the Hofgarten, marking the intersection where the garden’s main paths meet. Built around sixteen fifteen under the direction of Duke Maximilian the First, this twelve-sided Renaissance…
Englischer Garten Park Walk
Stroll from the royal Hofgarten through the lush meadows of the Englischer Garten, taking in historic monuments, river surfers, and a classic Munich beer garden.
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1. Dianatempel
2. Harmlos
The Harmlos is a marble statue of a graceful youth, standing in a small green space near the Prinz-Carl-Palais. The figure is carved in a classical Greek style, with one hand resting on a stone tablet that gives the sculpture its common…
3. House of Art
The Haus der Kunst is a sprawling, grey stone building that stands at the southern edge of the Englischer Garten. You can distinguish it by its long, symmetrical row of limestone columns and its severe, monumental architecture. It was…
4. Eisbachwelle
The Eisbachwelle is a standing wave that forms on a man-made river at the edge of the Englischer Garten. You can identify the spot by the crowd of onlookers gathered at the water's edge, watching surfers take turns riding a continuous,…
5. Fräulein Grüneis
Fräulein Grüneis is a small, green and white painted structure located in the southern part of the Englischer Garten. Built in nineteen oh four, the building originally functioned as a public restroom. For years it remained a disused,…
6. Monopteros im Englischen Garten
The Monopteros is a sixteen-meter-tall, circular temple in the Greek style, easily identified by its ten columns of Kelheim limestone and its painted dome of red, green, and gold. It sits atop an artificial hill in the southern part of the…
7. Steinerne Bank
The Steinerne Bank is a semicircular stone bench, seven point seven meters in diameter, carved from Kelheim limestone. It sits quietly within the Englischer Garten, its curved shape designed by the architect Leo von Klenze in eighteen…
8. Chinesischer Turm
The Chinesischer Turm is a twenty-five-meter-tall wooden tower built in the shape of a pagoda, rising five levels high with tiered, shingled roofs. Constructed between seventeen eighty-nine and seventeen ninety under the direction of…