Tag: Bavaria
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Eis am Stil or frozen bench
As it is already warm we forgot how cold the start into spring was. The SĂźddeutsche Zeitung kept the memory with the below article with the picture of a frozen bench.
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Esting Sculptures
In Esting you can buy sculptures for your garden. But not the usual stuff … these sculptures are mega-sized, and you can find almost every animal in bronze: lions, dinosaurs, ostriches, turtles, hippopotamus, etc, Plus this bench, carved in a large tree.
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English Garden behind Monopteros
This bench has been for quite a while on my radar. It is the so called “Steinerne Bank”, designed by the famous Munich architect Leo von Klenze. It is basically half a circle of a stone bench on a kind of an island behind the well known Monopteros. …and that is basically also the view:…
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Bench and Roses
These two benches are located in the front yard of the world famous monastery “Benedikt Beuren” south of Munich in the “blue county” (worth to check that out) đ The benches are covered by roses. Unfortunately, at this point of the year they were not blossoming (I will add that once I am there at the…
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Maibaum-Bankerl in Gauting 1st of May 2017
In Bavaria there is a tradition to setup a tree trunk on 1st of May in each community. The trunk is nicely decorated and colored in blue-white stripes (the colors of Bavaria, representing the blue sky and white clouds, but the true story is that the colors origin from Greece. But that is a different story…) According to German…
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Hartmut’s Bench
On 30th December 2016 I went for a hike to Tegernsee. The weather was beautiful, I planed to go for one of the favorite short tracks, have a walk of about 1 hour and enjoy a WeiĂbeer on the Neureuth Terrace. When I arrived there, it was crowded like hell, so I decided to walk…
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Bridge bench at Stanberg
I go this bench from Gloria who was walking around Stanberger Lake and saw this kind of bridge-bench close to the lake, with of course… …a fantastic view on the lake with the Alps in the back ground.
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Kaltenberg Knights Festival
Every year in July there is a medieval festival in Kaltenberg, hosted by the local brewery. Thousands of visitors – mainly parents with kids – come and enjoy a day in a Middle Age, eating and drinking and watching the epic fight of “good and bad”. http://www.ritterturnier.de/ New since this year: Right at the entrance…
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Art for the National Park Berchtesgaden
It is the “Day of Pokemon Go” and being (still) very fond of Poke hunting we go for a stroll after dinner to increase our levels. All of sudden I found it – still in front of the craft shop: The ultimate bench: * Hand crafted by one of the local artists (in Berchtesgaden there…
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City Center Berchtesgarden
This bench can be found in front of the city hall in Berchtesgarden. Quite comfortable with the “build-in” table.
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Kramerplateau Addition
I went again to the Kramerplateau trail and realized that we missed the one or the other bench in the last post. First of all, there was a new bench build. A dedication to Erika with some wisdom of Winnie the Pooh.  Then I also realized that there were a couple of bird houses which were…
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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…
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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…
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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 đ ) 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.…
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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…
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“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 â almost kissing Austria. We were visiting a Christmas market set on this tiny island of 300 inhabitants, spread over a width of 300 meter…
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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.
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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…
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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…
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Alongside S6 Munich
The following series is a “donation” from my dear colleague Karoline. The story is a weird and strange one but I believe it is true as Karoline is not a person who makes things up. So, here is the story: she told me that she is doing here jogging exercise regularly alongside the S6. That…