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The Hofgarten (Court Garden) in Munich
Munich

Munich is the capital city of Bavaria, Germany. Munich is located on the River Isar north of the Northern Limestone Alps. Munich is the third largest city in Germany, after Berlin and Hamburg....
 is a garden in the center of the city between the Residenz
Residenz, Munich

The Residence is the former royal palace of the Bavarian List of rulers of Bavaria in the city center of Munich. The Residence is the largest downtown palace in Germany and serves today as one of the finest room decoration museums in Europe....
 and the Englischer Garten
Englischer Garten (Munich)

The Englischer Garten or "English Garden" is a large public park in the centre of Munich, Germany, stretching from the city centre to the northeastern city limits....
.

The garden was built in 1613-1617 by Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria
Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria

Maximilian I, Duke/Elector of Bavaria , called "the Great", was a Wittelsbach ruler of Bavaria and a prince-elector of the Holy Roman Empire. His reign was marked by the Thirty Years' War ....
 as an Italian style Renaissance
Renaissance

The Renaissance was a cultural movement that spanned roughly the 14th to the 17th century, beginning in Italy in the late Middle Ages and later spreading to the rest of Europe....
 garden. In the center of the garden is a pavilion
Pavilion (structure)

File:Ahmad Shahs Pavilion.jpgIn architecture a pavilion has two main significations....
 for the goddess Diana
Diana

Diana may refer to:*Diana, Princess of Wales, the first wife of Charles, Prince of WalesIn mythology:*Diana , ancient Roman goddess of the moon, the hunt, and chastity...
, built in 1615 by Heinrich Schön the elder. A path leads from each of the eight arches. On the roof of the Diana pavilion is the replica of a sculpture of Bavaria
Bavaria statue

The Bavaria statue is a bronze sculpture statue of a female figure representing Bavaria's "secular patron saint", the Terra Bavarica , located at the border of the Theresienwiese in Munich, Bavaria, Germany, where the Oktoberfest takes place each October....
 by Hubert Gerhard, created in 1623.






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The Hofgarten (Court Garden) in Munich
Munich

Munich is the capital city of Bavaria, Germany. Munich is located on the River Isar north of the Northern Limestone Alps. Munich is the third largest city in Germany, after Berlin and Hamburg....
 is a garden in the center of the city between the Residenz
Residenz, Munich

The Residence is the former royal palace of the Bavarian List of rulers of Bavaria in the city center of Munich. The Residence is the largest downtown palace in Germany and serves today as one of the finest room decoration museums in Europe....
 and the Englischer Garten
Englischer Garten (Munich)

The Englischer Garten or "English Garden" is a large public park in the centre of Munich, Germany, stretching from the city centre to the northeastern city limits....
.

The garden was built in 1613-1617 by Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria
Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria

Maximilian I, Duke/Elector of Bavaria , called "the Great", was a Wittelsbach ruler of Bavaria and a prince-elector of the Holy Roman Empire. His reign was marked by the Thirty Years' War ....
 as an Italian style Renaissance
Renaissance

The Renaissance was a cultural movement that spanned roughly the 14th to the 17th century, beginning in Italy in the late Middle Ages and later spreading to the rest of Europe....
 garden. In the center of the garden is a pavilion
Pavilion (structure)

File:Ahmad Shahs Pavilion.jpgIn architecture a pavilion has two main significations....
 for the goddess Diana
Diana

Diana may refer to:*Diana, Princess of Wales, the first wife of Charles, Prince of WalesIn mythology:*Diana , ancient Roman goddess of the moon, the hunt, and chastity...
, built in 1615 by Heinrich Schön the elder. A path leads from each of the eight arches. On the roof of the Diana pavilion is the replica of a sculpture of Bavaria
Bavaria statue

The Bavaria statue is a bronze sculpture statue of a female figure representing Bavaria's "secular patron saint", the Terra Bavarica , located at the border of the Theresienwiese in Munich, Bavaria, Germany, where the Oktoberfest takes place each October....
 by Hubert Gerhard, created in 1623. The original is in the Kaisersaal of the Residenz.

Facing the Hofgarten on the east side is the Bavarian Staatskanzlei ("State Chancellery"), housed in the former Army Museum, with the addition of glass wings left and right of the original building. The repurposed building was completed in 1993. A few steps more eastwards the Hofgartenkaserne
Hofgartenkaserne

File:Hofgartenkaserne.jpgThe Hofgartenkaserne, also known as Infanterie-Leibregiment-Kaserne or Max-Joseph-Kaserne, was a military facility of the Bavarian army, located at Hofgarten Strasse 2 in Munich, Germany....
 was located from 1801 to 1899.

In the north east corner, a square black granite memorial stands to the White Rose
White Rose

The White Rose was a Nonviolence Widerstand group in Nazi Germany, consisting of a number of students from the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and their philosophy professor....
 group, whose members were executed for a non violent campaign against Hitler's regime.

The side towards the Residenz includes flowers in a design by Carl Effner from 1853, and there are arcades
Arcade (architecture)

An arcade is a passage or walkway covered over by a succession of arches or Vault supported by columns. In a Gothic architecture cathedral the arcade is the lowest part of the wall of the nave, supporting the triforium and the clerestory....
 to the west and the north, including many wall paintings related to the history of Bavaria
History of Bavaria

The history of Bavaria stretches from its earliest settlement and its formation as a stem duchy in the 6th century through its inclusion in the Holy Roman Empires to its status as an independent kingdom and, finally, as a large and significant States of Germany of the modern Federal Republic of Germany....
. The Hofgartentor (1816), the first building in Munich by Leo von Klenze
Leo von Klenze

Leo von Klenze was a German Neoclassicism architect, Painting and writer. Court architect of Bavarian King Ludwig I of Bavaria, Leo von Klenze was one of the most prominent representatives of Greek revival style....
, leads towards the Theatinerkirche.

The garden was destroyed during World War II
World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a Participants in World War II, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II and the Axis powers....
, and was rebuilt with a partial redesign as an English landscape garden
Landscape garden

The term landscape garden is often used to describe the English garden design style characteristic of the eighteenth century, particularly with the work of Capability Brown....
. Nowadays the garden is open to the public, and is a very popular spot to hang out and listen to street musicians
Busking

Busking is the practice of performance in public places for tips and gratuities. People engaging in this practice are called buskers. Busking performances are widely varied, and can include acrobatics, animal tricks, balloon modeling, card tricks, clowning, comedy, contortionist & escapologist, dance, Fire eater, fortune-telling, juggl...
. The nearest Munich U-Bahn
Munich U-Bahn

The Munich U-Bahn system is an electricity railway public transport network in Munich. It is operated by the M?nchner Verkehrsgesellschaft . The network is integrated in the Munich Transport and Tariff Association and interconnected with the Munich S-Bahn system....
 station is Odeonsplatz
Odeonsplatz (Munich U-Bahn)

Odeonsplatz is an important Munich U-Bahn interchange station on the northern edge of Munich Old Town. It is serviced by the U4, U5 and U3, U6 lines of the Munich U-Bahn system, with U 4 and U 5 running in an east-west direction and U3, U6 running perpendicular in a north-south direction....
, located directly west of the garden.

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  • Information in English by the Bayerische Schlösserverwaltung