Munich

Munich is the capital and with 1.35 million inhabitants the largest city of B avaria. Munich is the headquarters of the District Office in Munich and the District Government of Upper Bavaria. Munich is also the center of the planning region of Munich and the Munich metropolitan region. Munich is one of the most beautiful cities and also ,along with Berlin, one of the most popular.

Basic Informations

Munich is in the south of Germany. It is the capital of Bavaria and has 1.326.807 inhabitants. Its area is 310, 43 km2. The population density of Munich is 4274 inhabitants per km2. The language of Munich is basically German, but it is very hard for people from the north to understand them, because they have a Bavarian accent. Munich was once divided in 45 different parts, but since 1992 it is separated in to 25 parts called Allach-Untermenzing, Altstadt-Lehe,l Aubing-Lochhausen-Langwied, Au Haidhausen Berg am Laim, Bogenhausen, Feldmoching-Hasenbergl ,Wrangle, Laim Ludwig-Isarvorstadt, Maxvorstadt, Milbertshofen-Am Hart, Moosach, Neuhausen-Nymphenburg, Obergiesing, Pasing-Obermenzing, Ramersdorf-Perlach, Schwabing-Freimann, Schwabing-West, Schwanthalerhöhe, Sendling, Sendling-Westpark, Obersendling ,Thalkirchen-Forestry-Fürstenried-Westpark, Trudering-Riem Untergiesing-Harlaching

The climate:

Munich is located in the transitional zone between the wet Atlantic and the dry continental climate. Other key factors are weather on the Alps as a Central European and Danube as regional weather influence. Because of this constellation, the weather is quite changeable. The Foehn brings year-round from the south irregularly warm, dry air to Munich.The highest temperature ever measured, at the official weather station in Munich-Nymphenburg, was 35.8 degrees Celsius. Munich has also been affected by its location in the state of Bavaria by heavy storms. Most notable here is the hail storm of 12 July 1984, caused damage amounting to the equivalent of 1.5 billion euros. Munich, is because of its proxmity to the Alps, the city with most snowfalls in Germany.An analysis of weather statistics showed that the southern part of the city is the sunniest. The north has more fog. The west is drier than the eastern. This is fundamentally a consequence of differences in height within the city.

Culture

Munich is a beautiful city with many cultural opportunities . Because of the many theaters, museums, parks and buildings, Munich is a city full of life and joy. Even through annual events like the octoberfest or the Christopher Street Day make munich to an important, interessting city.

Museums

Munich is known internationally for its collections of ancient and classical art. Thus, for example, include the Old and the New Pinakothek and the Pinakothek of modern and the Lenbachhaus galleries who are the worlds most prestigious. The Glyptotek, the State collections of antiquities, and the Museum Brandhorst are together the Munich Art Center. Also, the National Museum of Egyptian Art gets a new building in the art area. Another 'museum world' is the House of Art, the National Museum, the State Archaeological Collections, the Schack Gallery a nd the Museum of Ethnology. East of the River Isar at the Prince Regent Street is the unique Art Nouveau building with a collection of paintings Villa Stuck from Franz Stuck . The Munich City Museum is located in the former Armory on St. James Place - across from the Jewish Museum. In the Nymphenburg Palace is the Royal Stables Museum, the Nymphenburg porcelain collection and also the natural history museum 'man and nature'. Moreover, there are other museums in the city for the science , the Paleontological Museum, the kingdom of the crystal, as well as the anthropological, the Geological, Botanical and the Zoological State Collection. A popular museum is also, through the prominent downtown location, the German Hunting and Fishing Museum. The German Museum, with some unique technical exhibits, is one of the most visited museums in Europe and is the largest technical and scientific museum in the world.

Literature

In the 19th Century Heinrich Heine, Friedrich Hebbel and Hans Christian Andersen lived for a long time in Munich. The literary life of the city with its center in Schwabing increased in the last decades of the kingdom of Bavaria and was influenced by writers such as Paul Heyse, Lena Christ, Ludwig Thoma, Thomas Mann, Rainer Maria Rilke and Frank Wedekind.
In the Weimar Republic were the most famous representatives Lion Feuchtwanger, Annette Kolb, Bertolt Brecht and Oskar Maria Graf.The Munich-born writer Eugen Roth came to literary fame, and many writers such as Erich Kastner, Wolfgang Koeppen, and Michael Ende lived and worked in the city.