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Summer 2009 Published by Publicom International on behalf of Bayern Tourismus Marketing GmbH, Leopoldstrasse 146, D-80804 Munich. Tel: +49 89 2123970 Fax: +49 89 21239799 E-mail: tourismus@bayern.info www.publicom.co.uk Editor Michael Watts Art director Nick Brown Sub editor Nicky Gyopari Picture editor Graham Harper Sales manager John Jackson
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Contents 05 Travelling to Bavaria
12 Lake Tegernsee
06 The Allgäu region
14 Museum of Imagination
08 Holidays in Oberstaufen
16 The BMW Museum
09 Golf in Bavaria
17 Oh! Oberammergau
11 Mountainous Oberstdorf
18 Nuremberg’s heritage
Your route to the golf courses
Great outdoor life in the Alps Golf and other major activities A booming sport awaits you Wonderful walking country
Watersports and restaurants A triumph for Das Boot author Munich’s shrine to the car The Passion Play is returning A treasury of German history
20 Right royal Regensburg
A city beloved of geniuses
21 Landshut celebrates
A famous mediaeval wedding
22 Chic Outlet Shopping
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23 Competition
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Editor’s letter Art smart a visitor admires the work of Arnulf Rainer at Munich’s renowned Pinakothek der Moderne
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he notion of the English country house (not to be confused with a stately home, which can be in a town) is embedded in the fabric of Englishness, as a weekend retreat for aristocrats and as the permanent home of the rural squirearchy. Death duties, the relaxation of class distinctions and many other factors have hastened its decline. Thousands were demolished in the 1950s and ’60s. Most are now hospitals, schools, even prisons. Others, like Cliveden, have become luxury hotels. The survivors are invariably listed as buildings of historic interest, maintained under official supervision.
Place ‘for aesthetes’ The Bavarians, who are blessed with even more castles and palaces than us, have gone down the Cliveden route, but with typically German seriousness. They list a select number of their grand buildings as ‘Sightsleeping Hotel’, an unwieldy title for what turns out to be an entirely pleasurable way of enjoying Bavaria’s life and culture, and in some hotels for less than €100 a night. All must live up to the imposing title of
‘Accommodation for Aesthetes’, which might strain the credentials of the average hotel guest but is a nice compliment, at least. Included among this elite are contemporary, metropolitan hotels with particular visual appeal – interior design features, for example, or paintings, sculptures or furniture deemed acceptable by a panel of experts. A Sightsleeping hotel should also offer a programme of activities, such as authors’ readings, concerts or theatre. We focus on two very different hotels in Bavaria Summer 2009. The ultra-modern InterContinental in Berchtesgaden (page 12) is as spacious and beautiful as the mountains that surround it. Much older is the elegant Hotel Victoria in central Nuremberg (page 19), which looks out onto the city’s New Museum for Art and Design. Each demonstrates an aspect of this issue, which is devoted both to Bavaria’s museums and to its sumptuous landscapes and outdoor activities. Prominent among the latter is golf, which is enjoying a boom there. That passion is yet another that unites England with Bavaria. bayern.by/ en/sightsleeping-hotels™=
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Best of Bavaria Golf 170 courses, set in spectacular landscapes The Arts 1,250 major museums and art galleries
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easyJet and Aer Lingus (from Gatwick) • Nuremberg Bavaria’s secondbiggest city. Fly direct with Air Berlin from London Stansted: approx. 1hr 35. airberlin.com. Many indirect flights • Friedrichshafen Ryanair twice daily from London Stansted, 1hr 20. ryanair.com. This is the nearest airport to Allgäu resorts such as Oberstdorf (88km). From the airport take the Allgäu-Walser shuttle, Thur to Sun, 90 minutes. allgaeu-walser-express.com • Memmingen Ryanair flies to this
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Official Name Free State of Bavaria Nickname The Beer State Abbreviation BY Capital City Munich. 50km to the Alps Location Bavaria is Germany’s largest state, sharing international borders with Austria, the Czech Republic and Switzerland. Its five regions are Franconia, Allgäu, Bavarian Swabia, Eastern Bavaria and Upper Bavaria Major airports • Munich Flight-time from London approx. 1hr 40 on Lufthansa, BA,
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new airport from its Stansted hub Trains 14 hours by boat and train to Munich (from London’s Victoria or Liverpool Street). Anyone over 60 using a Rail Europe Senior Card will get 30% off the £200+ fare. raileurope.co.uk. Deutsche Bahn operates the highspeed InterCity Express (ICE), as well as the slower, less-expensive InterCity (IC) and EuroCity (EC) trains. deutsche-bahn.co.uk. Within Bavaria, train travel is a boon. Up to five people can enjoy unlimited travel, by train or bus, with a BayernTicket for just E28 on any weekday, 9am to 3am. bayern-takt.de. For more remote trips, a car is advisable.=
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Life Outdoors The Allgäu This beautiful region, in southwest Bavaria, is set mainly in the foothills of the Alps. It’s perfect for hiking, cycling and all outdoor activities, with negotiable mountains and many lakes for sailing and swimming. Travel from Munich takes 1.5 hours by car, but there are inexpensive train and buses services, too.
Farm holidays Farms often have spas attached. Dairy farming is a vital industry, and local Limburger and Emmentaler are distinguished cheeses
Heaven’s gate It’s said that the Devil tempted Christ in the Allgäu, so alluring is the rich landscape of mountains and lush meadows. The soaring views from its Alpine peaks help support the myth. By Anthony Lambert
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he mountain landscapes of the Allgäu have always attracted romantics, including one of the greatest: Ludwig II, King of Bavaria, the builder of fantastic castles, of whom the composer Wagner once wrote that ‘he understands me like my own soul’. Ludwig’s greatest fantasy, the Castle Neuschwanstein, is among Germany’s top tourist attractions. But there is also something about the Allgäu’s air and landscape that enchants people, whether they come for activity holidays, in one of Germany’s sunniest climes, or the healthcare treatments and spa therapies that Germans are so fond of. Though mountains tower over the region, lush pastures stretch below them. Away from the shores of Lake Constance, at Lindau, vines grow plentifully, while above the spa town of Bad Wurzach is the largest area of intact high moorland in central Europe. Then there are the spectacular caves near Obermaiselstein, stunningly beautiful valleys such as the Tannheimertal and the Kleinwalsertal, and extraordinary gorges such as the Breitachklamm, which links Germany with Austria.
Oberstdorf Music Festival If you are a hiker, there are many hundreds of well-marked paths for all levels of fitness, as well as quiet bike routes for families and mountain-bikers. The less energetic can sightsee at Ottobeuren, Europe’s largest baroque monastery complex, or watch world-famous soloists at the classical Oberstdorf Summer Music Festival. The Hindelanger Altar, a 16th-century masterpiece, is worth searching out at Bad Hindelang, the celebrated health resort. And when you are hungry, there are many award-winning gourmet restaurants, offering national and international dishes. Traditional Allgäu cuisine reflects historic poverty and the need to keep up energy levels for hard manual work, hence plenty of beef, venison and hearty soups. Dairy is the principal form of farming, and highly individual cheeses can be sampled at many farmshops. But it is the vitality of the traditions behind this pastoral way of life that makes the Allgäu a pleasure to visit, as well as the care taken to preserve its beauty. Life here is unaffected and unhurried. It appeals to the discerning. allgaeu.de=
Blue sky thinking a hiker consults his map in the Allgäu Alps near Oberstdorf (main picture); ballooning over Castle Neuschwanstein (above, top); riding the cable car on Nebelhorn mountain (above)
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Life Outdoors Golf Holidays There are about 170 golf courses in Bavaria (source: 1golf.eu). In the Allgäu, the town of Oberstaufen and its environs are a highly popular destination for golf holidays, with five excellent courses to choose from, especially the private 18-hole Oberstaufen-Steibis club, with its natural setting, and the public GC Oberstaufen
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Oberstaufen PLUS GOLF Holidaymakers at some 300 Allgäu hotels belonging to the Oberstaufen PLUS scheme can park and use cable cars for nothing. The PLUS GOLF ticket also allows free golf at three courses. Just show your electronic card (left)
The Kaiser rules, OK? The Hartl, at Bad Griesbach, 150km from Munich, is Bavaria’s most elite golf-and-spa resort, with six 18-hole courses and three nine-holes. Bernhard Langer (left), Germany’s foremost golfer, designed three of the courses. Every July, the resort hosts the Beckenbauer Cup, in aid of footballer Franz Beckenbauer’s charity foundation. hartl.de
Paper Tigers German golfers need a licence to play. It’s to keep out hopeless hackers. Tourists should just bring proof of their handicap.
Hitting the sweet spot Oberstaufen was voted Germany’s best hiking resort a year ago, but it also has five excellent golf courses, both public and private, says Bettina Hennies
FREE GOLFING Highlights • Your Oberstaufen-Plus Golf ticket gives free playing time at Oberstaufen Golf Club, which can be directly accessed from the hotel • Free golfing on the 27-hole course at WaldeggWiggensbach, and the 9 holes at Lenzried • 30% green-fee discounts on two private 18-hole courses at Steibis and Bregenzerwald Your three-day stay is half-board, with light cuisine or a specially prepared health diet. It will be in a brand-new, south-facing room with spectacular mountain views. The price includes: • One 45-minute therapeutic massage • One alpine hay wrap – a treatment for purifying and cleansing the body.
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he Haubers Gutshof is a luxurious family hotel in the little hamlet of Kalzhofen, just outside Oberstaufen, and is open all year. It’s in the lush heart of the Allgäu, set amidst panoramic Alpine pastures and forests, close to hiking, skiing and golf, and with an outdoor pool that’s heated all-year round. There is a strong, holistic emphasis on local organic food and healthy relaxation and recreation. Facilities include a private hiking area, large swimming pool, heated outdoor pool, three saunas, beauty treatments, medical spa, water aerobics, fitness studio, gymnastics, and nutrition lectures. hauber-hotels.de
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ituated close to the Austrian border, in the shade of the Alps, Oberstaufen was just another tiny, pretty Allgäu village until the late 1940s. Then a clinic was set up to practise the Schroth System of dietetics, a spartan health regime of special diets and drinks to purge the body. Rising at 4am, to be swaddled in damp cloths and hot water bottles to sweat out toxins, became a rewarding ritual. Oberstaufen now has over 60 Schroth spas and health hotels, though softies can take comfort: most places now pamper you with classic beauty treatments.
The cost of golf green fees vary widely throughout Bavaria, but are not expensive when compared to many courses in the US, Japan and the UK. Check out the German Golf Association at golf.de
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Oberstaufen PLUS GOLF For the energetic, the allure is the abundance of hiking trails. There are 300km of them, at three altitudes – from 800m to 1,800m. In 2007/8, Oberstaufen was voted Germany’s hiking resort of the year. The area boasts a superb infrastructure of nature-related activities, all free of charge. These include free rides on cable cars and the Oberstaufen guest bus, sauna and swimming in the town’s leisure pool, and free golf with the Oberstaufen PLUS ticket and PLUS GOLF packages that come with many hotel bookings. There are five notable golf courses, making Oberstaufen the best focus for a golfing holiday in the Allgäu. The most prominent
Small-town Germany the wonderful surroundings and crystalclear air of GolfPark Bregenzerwald (above, top); the peaceful spa town of Oberstaufen, deep in the Allgäu (above)
are the private 18-hole Oberstaufen-Steibis, at the foot of the Hochgrat mountain, which is extraordinarily picturesque, and the Oberstaufen GC, a kilometre from town, which is open to the general public.=
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Top courses in Bavaria GC Beuerberg 48km S. of Munich Popular with smart Bavarians
Golf is booming in Bavaria, especially around Munich, with more courses planned. Bettina Hennies surveys developments and picks her favourites
St Eurach Land & Golfclub 56km S. of Munich Occasional venue of the BMW International Open
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Golfclub am Hasberg 160km N. of Munich Member of Leading Golf Courses of Germany
ernhard Langer has won more than 50 major golf tournaments around the world, but he’s still waiting to win on home soil. Bavarian Langer is Germany’s best-ever golfer, yet he’s always failed at Munich’s BMW International Open. It’s as a course designer that he’s succeeded. In Bad Griesbach, a sprawling golf resort in southeast Bavaria, he’s designed three demanding courses: the Brunnwies, Jaguar and Franz Beckenbauer (Germany’s football hero is a keen golfer). Langer is now trying to bring the Ryder Cup to Bavaria
in 2018, at a new course close to Ingolstadt (see page 22). Courses in Bavaria are uniformly good. There are more than 170, with more planned, and they vary from alpine landscapes to grand parklands. In the Allgäu alone, 21 are within an hour’s drive from Friedrichshafen airport. Oberstaufen has many courses where you can play for nothing, using an Oberstaufen-Plus Golf ticket. At GC Oberstaufen (18 holes/par 68), inexperienced golfers can play at an adjoining six-hole course. The WaldeggWiggensbach (18 + 9 holes/par 70) has Germany’s highest tee-off
(1,011m). It’s only 35 minutes from town, as is Schlossgut Lenzried (9 holes/par 68).
Distractingly pretty At sumptuous GolfPark Bregenzerwald (18 holes/par 71), over the border in Austria, you need to pay, as you do at Oberstaufen-Steibis (18 holes/par 70; green fee €62). The latter, designed by leading architect Kurt Rossknecht, occupies a high valley and is almost distractingly pretty. You must prove a handicap of 45 to play. Guests staying at the golf course hotels get 30% off.=
Golfpark Gut Häusern 40km N. of Munich Hosted the Ladies German Open, 2008 and 2009 Golfclub Schwanhof 177km N. of Munich Gets five stars from the German Golf Association Margarethenhof Golfclub am Tegernsee 48km S. of Munich Between the Alps and Lake Tegernsee. Beautiful views
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Life Outdoors Oberstdorf Bavaria’s southernmost village, in the Allgäu High Alps, is a noted winter sports resort, but no less popular with climbers and trekkers in summer
Top events Oberstdorf hosts world ski-jumping in winter, and major programmes of classical music in July and August
Nordic walking Imported from Finland and developed in Bavaria as a summer training method for top crosscountry athletes
Something in the air If you are fit and healthy and up for exercise, Oberstdorf is a great place for re-charging the batteries, says Anthony Lambert
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he Allgäu mountain resort of Oberstdorf is Germany’s southernmost village, yet within easy reach of Munich by train or car. It has become a great winter sports centre, particularly for ski-jumping, but is equally blessed with summer activities – golf not least – because of its magnificent location, at the meeting-point of seven valleys, surrounded by peaks. Summer visitors come for the mountaineering, biking, river-rafting and hang-gliding, but hill-walking is the best way to explore this area, especially as hiking at altitude is made more enjoyable by three cable cars taking you up to panoramic views and mountain air that is famously clear and dry. You can get a cable-car ticket at your hotel.
Magic of the mountains From the summit of the Nebelhorn, you can see more than 400 peaks, including the Zugspitze, Germany’s highest mountain at almost 3,000m, towards the east, and the Säntis, in the Swiss Alps, to the west. A ‘must-do’ walk is through the Breitachklamm, the deepest rocky gorge in central Europe. And in spring you can
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Man on wire braver souls can try mountaineering, but hill-walking is the best way to explore Oberstdorf
head up the Fellhorn and enjoy the profusion of flowers, or venture to nearby Kleinwalsertal, whose spectacular limestone landscape is a national park. There are plentiful places for relaxing afterwards: Oberstdorf
the pride of the allgäu alps alpine activities in oberstdorf Highlights • Over 200km of summer walking trails, at three altitudes. Cable cars are available • Huge range of activities for young and old, including Nordic walking • Excellent golf in mountain surroundings, April to November. Courses are 9 holes/par 68 • Enjoy the famous Kneipp Spa
boasts more than 30 spa and wellness operations. And lovers of classical music should go between July 31 and August 20, when concerts are held in many locations around Oberstdorf – even 2,000m up on the Nebelhorn. oberstdorf.de/en=
From €215pp. 3* hotel 3 nights
•O berstdorf is also renowned for its Centre for Holistic Medicine Offer includes • 3 nights accommodation in a 4* hotel, from €257 per person • 3 nights in a holiday apartment, from €184 for two people
• Free rides on the cable-cars Fellhorn-Kanzelwand, Nebelhorn, Söllereck and Walmendingerhorn. oberstdorf.de/en All offers are valid May 9 to November 1, 2009
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Life Outdoors Land of Lakes The beauty of living in Munich is that within an hour you can be out of the city and sunbathing or enjoying all the watersports at lakes Ammersee, Starnberg, Schliersee or Tegernsee, the focus of our story below
Hang-gliding The 1,722m-high Mount Wallberg, which towers above Tegernsee, is one of the best places in Germany for hang-gliding. Take the cable car to the summit from the glamorous lakeside town of Rottach-Egern
Delicious Bavaria The area around Lake Tegernsee has an impressive range of food and drink, from gourmet restaurants to traditional inns serving regional specialities. As well as established brands like Erdinger and Paulaner, from Munich, the local beer from the Herzoglich Brauhaus Tegernsee brewery is much-admired
By train Tegernsee is only 48km (30 miles) from Munich’s Hauptbahnhof train station, a very pleasant journey of 1hr 20mins. The train makes several stops en route to the town of Tegernsee
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Highlights • Accommodation in one of the elegant Alpine Suites, with breakfast in the room for late risers • Gourmet dinner for two, with wine, in Michelin-starred restaurant Dichterstub’n (The Poet’s Room) • Romantic carriage ride around the lovely Weissach meadows • Massage for each individual with aromatic oils • Candlelit dinner à deux • Regional snacks in the Bavarian restaurant • Use of the Wellness lounge
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he InterContinental, which has a World Travel Award as Germany’s leading resort, is close to the Bavarian/ Austrian border, some 150km from Munich and 33km from Salzburg. Non-stop flights from London to Salzburg take just 90 minutes. Lake Königsee Berchtesgadener Land is among the most beautiful regions of the Bavarian Alps, and the hotel offers breathtaking views of the dramatic Mount Watzmann. At the foot of the
mountain is Lake Königsee, a great tourist attraction, as is the pretty hillside town of Berchtesgaden itself. This is recognised as one of western Europe’s premier resorts. Golf on the doorstep A highlight among the hotel’s many amenities is the Mountain Spa, with saunas, a fitness centre, an indoor and outdoor swimming pool, and holistic treatments. You can choose from activities that include paragliding, canyoning, rafting, mountain-biking, hiking, climbing, power-walking, Nordic walking, horse-riding and falconry. There is also a nine-hole golf course next to the hotel – Germany’s highest. Lessons with pros are available. intercontinental.com/ berchtesgaden
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Classy Tegernsee has its wealthy devotees and expensive restaurants, but all incomes will enjoy it
The weekend starts here City folk love to escape to Tegernsee for its watersports and food. By Anthony Lambert
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nce you have seen Lake Tegernsee, it is easy to understand why the Wittelsbach royal family chose to convert the local monastery into their summer residence. It’s ringed by mountains, with slopes easing into meadows and woods along the sandy shore. The drive, cycle or walk around its 22km circumference is among the most beautiful in Bavaria. You can also take a one-hour ferryboat cruise, costing about £14. Tegernsee is great for windsurfing and sailing, with astonishingly clear waters – full of pike-perch and trout – which supply Munich with its tap water. This proximity to Bavaria’s capital has fostered the growth of upmarket resorts, especially Bad Wiessee and Rottach-Egern, much favoured by Münchners and Brits, including at one time Tom Jones and Engelbert Humperdinck.
Bad Wiessee is renowned for its iodine-sulphur springs, while Europe’s first beauty farm was in Rottach-Egern. Wealth has also made the Tegernseer Valley famous for its cuisine and awardwinning restaurants.
Foodie destination Michelin stars have been awarded to Christian Jürgens at Seehotel Überfahrt and Achim Hack at the Dichterstub’n restaurant in ParkHotel Egerner Höfe (right), both in Rottach-Egern. But you can dine much less expensively at small mountain inns, which offer local produce,
cooked simply, often using a cheese produced within walking distance of the establishment. Typical dishes include Schweinebraten (roast pork), Weisswürste (gently-spiced pork and veal sausages) eaten with Süsser Senf (sweet mustard), Fleischpflanzerl (large meat balls) and Obazda (a cheese delicacy made from Camembert). Look out for the distinctively mild, malty Tegernseer Beer at the Weinhaus Moschner tavern, where tradition extends to customers turning up in lederhosen and enjoying a good old Bavarian knees-up. tegernsee.com=
ake Tegernsee is a few minutes’ walk from this comfortable and modern five-star hotel in RottachEgern, a favourite with weekenders from Munich, only 50km away. It is particularly lauded for its restaurants and head chefs, Achim Hack and Matthias Beck. There is gourmet food with a Bavarian twist in the wood-panelled Dichterstub’n, which has one Michelin star (dinner only). The Hubertusstüberl (lunch and dinner) is more traditional and explores the best of southern Bavarian cooking, while fusion
cuisine flourishes in the St Florian and Salett’l dining room, where typical dishes are monkfish with pasta and German lamb with aubergine caponata. A fourth restaurant, the Egerner Alm, serves rustic dishes. Golf in idyllic surroundings The Egerner Höfe has 117 rooms and suites, and has recently added two farmhouse-style wings, called ‘Catherina’ and ‘Valentina’. Spa facilities include a sauna, steam room, tepidarium, solarium and heated indoor pool. There is good golf, in idyllic surroundings, at the Golf Club Bad Wiessee and the 18-hole Margaretenhof GolfClub. But the proximity of Lake Tegernsee makes it imperative that you hop on a cruise boat at least once and view this majestic landscape from the water. egerner-hoefe.de
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Museums by lakes Bavaria has more galleries and museums (1,250) than any other German state. One of the best is the Museum of Imagination, where you can see both Expressionist and primitive art, (see images right). Murnau, on Lake Staffelsee, was home to the painter Wassily Kandinsky (far right)
Artistic spectrum So-called ‘primitive’ art from the Museum of Imagination, and the town of Murnau, a mecca for avant-garde painters
Painters’ retreat The Blue Rider artistic collective was based in Murnau (left), a little town 70km south of Munich. The Art Nouveau Münterhaus, where its most famous member, Wassily Kandinsky (right), lived with painter Gabriel Münter, is now a museum dedicated to ‘Der Blaue Reiter’ group
alpenhof murnau hotel (A member of the small luxury hotels of the world) murnau
see the great landscapes that inspired the painter kandinsky
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Package includes • Free welcoming cocktail • Full breakfast buffet • Candlelit dinner with top wines in the acclaimed Hofmann’s Restaurant • Access to hotel spa and special Moroccan mud-pack treatment, Yavanna Rasul
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he small, delightful town of Murnau, 45 minutes’ drive from Munich, is forever associated with the early 20th-century group of artists known as ‘The Blue Rider’, most notably the abstract painter Wassily Kandinsky, who drew inspiration from its picturesque landscapes of lakes From and moors at the foothills of the Alps. €340pp. The Alpenhof is ideally placed for sport and sightseeing 3 nights at King Ludwig’s palaces, and offers guests many Standard different excursion packages. Other strong features Double* include the Yavanna Wellness & Spa, a health-and-fitness area with a Finnish Kelo sauna and indoor swimming pool, and a gourmet restaurant, the Reiterzimmer, which offers breathtaking mountain views from the sun terrace. alpenhof-murnau.com *Single supplement €80
The Pirate’s treasures
Lothar-Günther Buchheim, author of the novel and film Das Boot, has created an idiosyncratic monument to Expressionism on the banks of Lake Starnberg (above). By Yardley Hastings
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ake Starnberg is one of Bavaria’s prettiest lakes, so popular that stretches of it are lined with the waterfront homes of weekenders from Munich. And right on the lake, near the resort of Bernried, is one of Europe’s most interesting museums. The Buchheim Museum of Imagination was founded in 2001 by the extraordinary Lothar-Günther Buchheim – painter, photographer, publisher, art collector and author of art books and novels.
World-famous collection Buchheim wore a patch after an eye operation, and was known as ‘The Pirate’. In fact, he’d been a war correspondent and published a novel in 1973 about life on a war-time sub that rejected Nazi stereotypes and portrayed the universal suffering of war. In 1981, Das Boot was made into a six-hour film and became an improbable success all over the
world. But in Germany, Buchheim was most lauded for helping rehabilitate ‘degenerate’ modern art among his countrymen. Before the war, he had begun collecting mainly German Expressionist painters such as Otto Dix, Oskar Kokoschka and Max Beckmann. He built a museum to show them. But its centrepiece is really a world-famous collection of works by
the proto-Expressionist group, Die Brücke (The Bridge), founded in 1905 by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner as a way of bridging past and present forms of art. As well as Kirchner, there are important paintings here by Erich Heckel, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Max Pechstein, Emil Nolde and Otto Mueller. Their work, influenced by ‘primitive’ art,
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Buchheim’s diverse collection includes Expressionist masterpieces such as Otto Dix’s Modernes Tanzpaar (top left) and Norwegian Landscape (Skrygedal) by Karl Schmidt-Rottluff (top right), as well as collections of folk art like carousel horses (above)
is characterised by vivid colour and simplified, daring, sometimes violent imagery. In a similar spirit of bridging cultures, the Buchheim Museum makes a connection between Expressionism and its influences in Africa, Asia and the Pacific with a huge exhibition of folk art, including furniture, ceramics, textiles, masks and sculptures. There’s also another group of works on paper by Europeans including Picasso, Matisse, Miró and Léger, as well as a bewildering number of random objects, from glass paperweights to a football team made of concrete.
His multi-segmental building is itself something to behold. Externally, it’s designed by renowned architect Günter Behnisch in terraced layers, with a deck suspended 12m high over the lake for a great view of the Alps. Inside, its structure has been likened to the nave of a church, with chapels containing exhibits opening off the aisles. Buchheim died in 2007, aged 89. My advice is to read the book, watch the film (if you haven’t already) but, above all, visit this spectacular monument to one man’s eclectic, nay chaotic, tastes. buchheimmuseum.de=
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The Arts Munich’s Museums District The pick of the galleries around the Briennerstrasse and Königplatz are the Alte and Neue Pinakotheks. A new museum, the Brandhorst, opens on May 21 on the Theresienstrasse, with an exciting collection of modern works, including 60 by Cy Twombly. museum-brandhorst.de/en
Grand opening (from left) the Brandhorst launches with works by the likes of Damien Hirst (Waste (Twice), above); Munich’s great art
collections also include Van Gogh’s Sunflowers at the Neue Pinakothek and The Falling Man at the Pinakothek der Moderne; there’s also opera at the National Theatre and the Passion Play at Oberammergau
Munich’s cathedral to cars
Play it again The world’s longest-running play is returning to the little town of Oberammergau. Susan Keyes-Statham reports on the preparations
Stuttgart has Porsche and Mercedes, Munich has BMW, a car brand so powerful that it’s built the magnificent, all-purpose BMW World (Welt) next to its existing BMW Museum. By Clifton Reynes
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rchitecturally ambitious car museums are a significant part of German car-manufacturing. Volkswagen has its famous all-glass factory in Dresden, Audi a museum in Ingolstadt, and both Mercedes and Porsche have gleaming shrines to their brands in Stuttgart. And their one-upmanship does sell cars. BMW has its own cathedral in Munich. The Bayerische Motoren Werke began in 1916 and now sells not only BMWs but also Britain’s Rolls-Royce and Mini. Though the latter is now being manufactured in a green electric version, the ebullient company slogan, ‘Joy in Driving’ (Freude am Fahren) reflects BMW’s commitment to motoring as pleasure and not just utility.
It was to acknowledge the company’s fascinating history that the BMW Museum opened in 1973, next to BMW’s HQ and its 3-Series factory. Only the local Deutsches Museum and Neue Pinakothek have since proven more popular. BMW’s exhibits reflect social as well as auto mobility. For example, the Isetta, an odd, two-seater ‘bubble car’ with a single door in
the front, represented for many post-war Germans the step-up to owning a motor car from the BMW motorbike they had bought in more austere times.
Priest’s blessing This museum was renovated and reopened in 2008. Since October 2007, however, there has been a new place of pilgrimage, BMW
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nd the world’s longestrunning repertory show is…? Well, not The Mousetrap, or Les Miserables, but something altogether more extraordinary. It’s the Passion Play that has been performed in Oberammergau since 1634, when the populace vowed to act out biblical tableaux in gratitude for being spared the plague. Every 10 years that vow continues to be honoured in this pleasant Alpine town, 95km from Munich and famed for its religious woodcarvings.
Noble history BMW started out building aircraft engines in 1916, then motorcycles and, in 1928, cars. Its technical achievements range from the little ‘bubble car’ (bottom) and the 2002 Tii (above) to the new electric mini (right). The Welt (main picture) is part of a huge site in Munich (below)
you can also buy tickets separately. There were other passion plays in Bavaria throughout the 18th and 19th centuries, but the Catholic church opposed them. Only Oberammergau remains. passionplay-oberammergau.com; oberammergau.de=
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Welt (or World), built close by. This extravagantly designed temple, with its two twisting steel cones, was even blessed by a Roman Catholic priest at its opening. It provides what Germans call Erlebnis, ‘an experience’. Beneath its vast undulating steel roof is a vast forum, with restaurants, bars, shops, a theatre for concerts, a business centre and a
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‘junior campus’ for children, which has interactive learning games about cars. But its fundamental purpose is as a place for new owners to take delivery of their ‘Beamers’. They can drive them straight off 20 smoothly operating turntables. A car pickup place, then, but still the best you are ever likely to see. bmw-welt.com=
Next year will be the 41st time that its townsfolk have performed this unparalleled feat, involving over 2,000 actors, musicians and stage technicians, all of them locals, who grow their hair and beards. Rehearsals take seven months. The play itself is in the Passionspielhaus and runs for five hours, with a meal during intermission. It features spoken dramatic text, with musical and choral accompaniment, and climaxes in Christ’s Crucifixion and Resurrection. Performances will start on May 15, 2010, and end on October 3. Tickets have been selling since last January, with audiences drawn from all over the world. Package tours came here as long ago as 1870. DERTOUR* offers packaged tours and tailor-made holidays, but
The original Godspell Now in its 375th year, the Passion Play focuses on Christ (top) and the Jews, all played by local people
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The Arts Nuremberg’s legacy Once home to Albrecht Dürer, Germany’s most famous painter, Nuremberg dazzled like ‘a sun among the moon and stars’ in the Middle Ages. It has become a treasure-trove of Germany’s artistic heritage. Fly here on Air Berlin from Stansted
Ingenious (from left) Albrecht Dürer, Nuremberg’s greatest son; dolls at the Spielzeugmuseum; painting by Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven
at the Kunsthalle Nürnberg; the Germanisches Nationalmuseum; crown of the Holy Roman Empire
How to get there An airport in walking distance of the city = Nuremberg airport, Bavaria’s
second-largest, is only seven kilometres (five miles) north of the city centre, to which it’s connected every ten to 15 minutes by the U-Bahn rail line. = It’s possible to be in Nuremberg’s historic Old Town, the Altstadt, within 12 minutes of leaving the airport. = It is said that you can walk or bicycle right up to its terminal. = The airport is also a hub for Air Berlin, Germany’s second-
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Bavaria’s second-largest city Nuremberg’s recent political history is highly chequered, but the old town, or Altstadt, has been miraculously restored to much of its former lustre after Allied bombing
Toy town’s Renaissance glories In its heyday, Nuremberg was the mother of all inventions, from the first globe of the world to intricate toys. Now it’s a ‘modern metropolis with mediaeval flair’, enthuses Ed Franklin
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once rode the tram around Nuremberg’s city walls and immediately saw the appeal of this legendary city on the Pegnitz for the rich, powerful and artistic. It was a cold winter’s morning, and through the mist I caught glimpses of the Imperial Castle, the Kaiserburg, rising majestically. In the Middle Ages, this was a seat of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation, controlling what is now Germany, Austria, Italy and great swathes of Europe. The sense of history that the castle represented was palpable.
The ‘Earth Apple’ The great and the good (and the not so good) have always been drawn to this city, which in the Renaissance was a world-centre of science, art, trade and craft. Toy-making was perfected here, objects from the lead pencil to the pocket watch invented, and Wagner wrote an opera about its celebrated ‘mastersingers’. The seamless restoration of its
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Old Town area following the War confirms its considerable powers of artistic precision. The guardian of this past is the Germanisches Nationalmuseum. Here you can see the most important assembly of German cultural artifacts in the world – from the Bronze Age to modern times, via the Renaissance and Baroque heyday of painters Albrecht Dürer, Lucas Cranach and Hans Holbein the Elder. Among the panoply of paintings, armour and musical instruments
are wonderful oddities, like the first-ever world globe, called an Earth Apple. But my favourite among museums is the one devoted to toys, full of century-old teddy bears, ancient armies of tin soldiers and exquisite miniatures of steam engines. Forget the kids; no (male) adult should miss this. But don’t think of Nuremberg as just a museum piece. It describes itself as a ‘modern metropolis with mediaeval flair’. Should that be ‘mediaeval metropolis with modern flair’? nuernberg.de=
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The Arts World Heritage Site Regensburg’s Old Town, with its grand spires and towers, built with mercantile money, is now listed by UNESCO. Highlights include its 12th-century stone bridge, the Gothic St Peter’s Cathedral and the old Reichstag (or Imperial Diet) of the Holy Roman Empire
Ancient city of the Dukes of Bavaria Landshut, 72km (45 miles) northeast of Munich, has important Gothic architecture and a history entangled with the politics of Central Europe. The 15th-century marriage of its Duke Georg of Bavaria to the Polish Princess Royal, Jadwiga Jagiellon, is still celebrated today (in June and July this year). The city is an easy drive from Munich’s Franz Josef Strauss International Airport Romantic Regensburg (from left) Johannes Kepler, a founder of modern astronomy; St Peter’s Cathedral, and its famous boys’ choir
The wedding march
Did Mozart eat here? All the geniuses came to pretty Regensburg, notes Ed Franklin
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egensburg considers itself, rightly, the best-preserved mediaeval city in Germany. Even its sausages have a history. Small, spicy and served in quantities of six, eight or 10, with sweet mustard, bread rolls and sauerkraut, they can famously be sampled at a restaurant – the Historic Sausage Kitchen – where Mozart probably ate. Haydn and Goethe also stayed nearby. Sitting at this waterfront restaurant, built in the 12th century, you can feel yourself drifting
back to a time when this fabled town on the Danube was a vital trading post between northern Europe and Venice. Now a UNESCO World Heritage site, Regensburg has resisted the worst of architectural modernisation while embracing change, so that shopping, eating and drinking in its quaint little streets is a delight. At the Café Prinzess, for example, you can buy chocolates branded 'Saucy Gloria' after a former royal wild child. Stuffy, Regensburg ain't. regensburg.de=
Landshut’s Golden Age (above, from left) The Wedding re-enactment involves wearing detailed period dress; Gothic Trausnitz Castle; the poster for this year’s exhibition of 15th and 16th century art
Jewel-like Landshut is staging two major exhibitions on the anniversary of Bavaria’s most famous marriage. By Ed Franklin
Historische Wurstküche sausages have been eaten here at long trestle tables by the Danube for at least 500 years
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tudents of architecture visiting Landshut may well pause on reaching its magnificent ducal palace, the Stadtresidenz. Much of this mediaeval gem of a town, the capital of Lower Bavaria, is predominantly Gothic, and is notable for Trausnitz Castle and the Church of Saint Martin.
Lost world of chivalry But the Stadtresidenz reflects a 16th-century Golden Age when the Italian Renaissance began influencing Germanic culture. It was the first Renaissance-style palazzo to be built north of the Alps, by an innovative patron, the then Duke of Bavaria. Ludwig X (1495-1545) was a member of the Wittelsbach dynasty, a fractious bloodline of Holy Roman Emperors, Margraves and Count Palatine. Now the palace is mounting a unique art exhibition depicting the colourful life of his court, assembled for the first time in its original
location (May 28-September 27). Its title, ‘May Bavaria Prosper Forever’, was Ludwig’s motto. This coincides with a spectacular celebration of one of the most extravagant weddings of the Middle Ages. In November 1475, Georg, son of Duke Ludwig the Rich of Bavaria, married the Polish Princess Jadwiga. Had it existed then, Hello! would doubtless have devoted an issue to it. As it is, the Landshuter Hochzeit (Wedding) is re-enacted every four years (June 27-July 19). The celebrations include a second exhibition, on the knights of Duke Georg’s court. Major social events of the time such as weddings required jousts and tests of skill. This exhibition examines a world of chivalry facing annihilation by more modern warfare (June 25-September 27, the Church of the Holy Spirit). The place to stay and see everything is the Romantik-Hotel Fürstenhof (romantikhotels. com/landshut). It offers a weekend’s stay, including dinner and tours, for E210 pp.=
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othenburg is a fantastically picturesque town, 87km from Nuremberg in the Tauber Valley. Gables, spires and turrets surmount its mediaeval cobbled streets. Right in its centre, on the venerable Herrngasse, is the Hotel Eisenhut, with 78 rooms and suites. It consists of four grand, interlocking houses, dating from the 16th century, which are furnished with antiques and original artworks but are in every other respect mod con. A major draw is a flower-filled garden terrace. Many varied and prominent guests have enjoyed the Eisenhut, including Burt Lancaster, Art Garfunkel, Sir Alf Ramsey, Winston Churchill, and William Randolph Hearst. So if it’s good enough for them… eisenhut.com
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Sightseeing (left to right) Historic Ingolstadt, the town hall at Wertheim, and Würzburg’s ornate Residenz, close to Wertheim Village
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bigger, with 110 boutiques and 20 more brands, and 2.2m visitors a year. Architecturally, it’s influenced by the half-timbered buildings found in the Franconian north of Bavaria. Nestled in the scenic Tauber Valley, the Village is near Würzburg and the start of the well-named Romantic Road, a 220-mile tourist route through the more picturesque parts of Bavaria that ends at Neuschwanstein’s fabled castle. Wertheim Village follows formula with a strong brand-mix of fashion for adults and children, plus travel goods, homeware and excellent restaurants and a café. It’s especially noted for international brands like Bally and La Perla and sportswear, including Nike Factory Store, Puma, Reebok and Bench. As with Ingolstadt Village, there are up to 70% reductions and, you can shop tax-free if you spend more than E25. Wertheim Village is close to the airports at Nuremberg, Frankfurt and Stuttgart. British shoppers who think only of going to Paris or Brussels for the day will be surprised at how easy it is to get there. Even better – buy a pair of Timberlands at the Village and hit the Romantic Road. WertheimVillage.com=
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