Historical Walking Tour....Garmisch

August 24, 2009 The community offers a historical walking tour of Garmisch in the spring and fall....here are some normal sites I "see" everyday...I definitely learned some things about the murals and buildings I pass by everyday...whether I remember all the stories is another thing!

So there's a cluster of three buildings that I've heard were important but never quite knew why....well, here they are...except I somehow did not take a picture of the "Blue House" so I'll have to add that later! but the Blue House is famous because the French stayed there for a few nights before invading Austria (they were planning on staying a few months until the homeowner gave the French soldiers an insider tip on how to easily get around the mountain so the soldiers wouldn't stay there for months as planned). The "Blue House" is now an upscale restaurant! Matt and I wanted to go there to say we had dined there so I took him there for his birthday...next time it's his turn! He ordered a really nice King Prawn dish and I had a Thai Chicken Curry dish - both were delicious! and of course, no meal is complete without a bottle of wine! Next to the "Blue House" there's a yellow building (pictured below)....basically the white building (pictured below) is the brewery and the yellow building is the "braustuberl" or the place you drank the beer...makes sense to put them right next to each other!

Brewery

Restaurant to drink the beer from the brewery (white house)

Barns everywhere in Garmisch....they were here first so the "newcomers" just have to deal with the smells!

Frühlingsstraße....the most photographed street in Garmisch...and just minutes from where I live/work

The murals on this building show the means of mail delivery/transportation through the years. Here they are on the river in 1730

Horse and carriage in 1830

and along came the railway in 1930

cute pun on words...Adam bookstore with a mural of Adam and Eve....you can't see it in this picture but there's also a unicorn in the mural! Adam and Eve meets fairytale!

At the Richard Strauss Festival in 2001 this statute was presented as a tribune to "The Women in the Operas of Richard Strauss" ....Daphne, Elektra, and Salome

The evening of the walking tour coincided with King Ludwig's Birthday, August 24th. Every year there are fires on the mountain to celebrate his birthday....there are fires on the mountains for other occasions throughout the year as well! This fire shaped like a crown was on the mountain seen in Oberammergau, a town 20 minutes away.