Category: Germany

  • Cochem Mosel

    We got a new bencher on board. Welcome Mike. Mike has sent this nice roundabout bench. The tree in the middle is giving the back rest for all sitting on the bench. The bench is located in a wild garden above the beautiful city Cochem at the river Mosel. Cochem is known for its Castle and…

  • Benches behind bushes and in the woods

    Finally we got the story around the beautiful benches, which I posted some time ago. An american lady, Wilhelmina Busch born in 1887, widowed three men in her live. Two Germans and one American ( Mr. Woods).  This lady, living her adult live in Germany was crazy about the idea of owning a castle. She…

  • Helmut 2008

    A walk in the park on a sunny Sunday afternoon. We were taking the tour from St. Emmerams Mill to Schwabing crossing the northern part of the English Garden in Munich. Beautiful weather, sunshine, 28 C. When we wanted to enjoy a bit the park life and rest on a bench we picked one accidently. Well, as…

  • BBB – Bavarian Busstop Bench

    On a Sunday afternoon walk south of Munich, close to Holzkirchen we found this very basic bench. A tree trunk with a plank on it in front of an obviously newly build wooden fence. In fact it turned out that it is a bus-stop-bench for school kids. Could well be that the owner of the…

  • Isar Benches

    Isar Benches

    Isar Views The biggest river flowing through Munich is the Isar. The Isar might have been the reason Munich is existing at all. The Isar is doing to Munich what the Seine does to Paris. Near the German Museum the river is flowing strong and deep and not so accessible than in other areas. It…

  • Jas Hill in Otterfing

    When visiting our good friend Jutta in Holzkirchen (south of Munich) we went for a short walk around the Jags Hill (she insisted on only 30 min 😉 ) we passed by this bench. A very nice scenery with the little church in the back, the meadow with yellow flowers and the blooming cherry trees.…

  • Dukes fish farm benches

    There is another great place in the Bavarian Alps which is called Wildbad Kreuth. As the name indicates it was originally a Spa. Pretty famous in its best times. Build by Maximilian I. King of Bavaria, visited by Emperors and Russian Tsars, today owned by the Dukes of Bavaria. Close to this place there is the Dukes…

  • A view on Lake Spitzing 

    How can you deeply enjoy a view at nature, if there is no bench around, to rest and look and watch without being disturbed by the discomfort of standing along the shore. As you may have assumed, this is a very traditional bench, which  allows us to sit and rest and look over the shores…

  • A Museum’s bench

    By now you may know. You must have guessed even, that I must have been quite impressed by Munich’s benches. Yes I was. There is hardly any bench in Munich, which could not seat a German ass and weight like mine. It’s a pitty, that I could not hang around more on some of the…

  • Just Beauty

    Just Beauty

    Sorry this time I have nothing to say about the benches featured in this post. Those benches are just beautiful. A friend has sent the pictures to me. I do not even know, where those benches are living their life.

  • Bench Monaco

    I am not sure why I called this bench “Bench Monaco”. It has nothing to do with Monaco itself, as the bench is located in Munich. To be precise, in Munich Schwabing, where most of Munich’s students live. May be it was just a spur of a moment which reminded me on “Monaco Franze”, a…

  • Huts’n benches

    Huts’n benches

    “Seven Huts” hut – “Siebenhütten” Hütte Google Map: Siebenhütten Tavern, Near Kreuth Did you ever had this feeling, when you needed a place to let your soul slowing down and get pampered by simply sitting at a place, which seem to be made by someone who knows what humans need to feel great with themselves?…

  • “Schwabinger Bänke” – Benches in Schwabing

    Get on a bike and explore Schwabing. You will be surprised. You will not find the Schwabing of the 70s anymore. In case you do not know Schwabing. Schwabing is a famous if not the most famous suburb of Munich. Some Schwabinger might be angry now, as I call Schwabing a suburb and not the…

  • “Women Island” in Chiemsee

    This picture was taken in December 2016 on the Fraueninsel, a very small island in the Chiemsee (also known as the  Bavarian Sea), a lake in the very south of Germany – almost kissing Austria. We were visiting a Christmas market set on this tiny island of 300 inhabitants, spread over a width of 300 meter…

  • Kochelsee Picnic bench

    This bench is just waiting for visitors who like to rest for a picnic with a beautiful view on the lake of Kochel. It was too cold that day in March 2016, but the view was very nice on the Bavarian pre-alp landscape.  

  • Designer Bench

    After not having contributed for a while and seeing the bench community growing by the month, I felt obliged to add a bench from a different genre. A bench, which might never provide a view towards mountains or anything nature. I didn’t find it while hiking or jogging. I found it while surfing. Do not…

  • Badbank

    Another great contribution from Kille. I guess we need to sort this bench under the exception benches since the definition does not work for the first criteria, “comfortable seating”. Nevertheless, the bench has more than deserved to show up here. For sure the first criteria has applied in the past and the view has some mystery.…

  • Laubbank at 51.999522 / 9.252539

    Another extraordinary contribution from a new bencher. When telling my good old friend Kille (Friedrich-Wilhelm Reineke in real life) from the bench blog, the enthusiasm was nordic-exited. This was back when the Alp de Siusi bench-series was born. Not much reaction since then. However, the topic came up again when he visited Munich in March…

  • Chaiselongue am Alatsee

    It seems that it became too dangerous for our bench-war-correspondent to continue the investigation on the unknown bench builder(s) along the S6 in Munich. So Karoline took a break to relax from the dangerous and exhaustive detective work and she found a bench which truly invites for a relaxing break – the one and only…

  • Alongside S6 – The Saga continues I

    Bench No. 4 from the “Alongside S6 Munich” is history, long live No. 5. Got these days an update from Karoline. Bench No. 4 seemed to be destroyed or dismantled. Very, very unclear situation. Could well be that the original builder of the bench No. 4 just dismantled it – might be he was not…