Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
(
www.sammlung-schack.de
;
Prinzregentenstrasse 9; adult/concession €4/3;
10am-6pm Wed-Mon; Reitmorstrasse/Sammlung Schack)
Count Adolf Friedrich von
Schack (1815-94) was a great fan of 19th-century Romantic painters such as Böcklin,
Feuerbach and Moritz von Schwind. His collection is housed in the former Prussian em-
bassy, now the Schack-Galerie. A tour of the intimate space is like an escape into the
idealised fantasy worlds created by these artists.
St-Anna-Platz
( Lehel, Lehel)
The Asamkirche may be more sumptuous, but the
Klosterkirche St
tion of the rococo era's top dogs; Johann Michael Fischer designed the building, Cosmas
Damian Asam painted the stunning ceiling fresco and altar.
The rather pompous neo-Romanesque
Pfarrkirche St Anna im Lehel
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(St-Anna-Platz 5; 8am-5pm Mon-Sat, to 8pm Sun)
arrived on the scene in
1892 when the Klosterkirche St Anna im Lehel became too small. Conceived by locally-
born architect Gabriel von Seidl, it's worth a spin for the huge Byzantine-style painting
behind the altar and little art nouveau touches throughout.
SQUARE
HAIDHAUSEN
Haidhausen is hip, eclectic and leagues away from its 19th-century working-class roots.
Major gentrification since the late 1970s has made the district desirable for artsy profes-
sionals, professional artists and all urban types, although there are still plenty of upwardly
hopeful immigrants, artists and students and ageing lefties left. For visitors, the main draw
is a congenial mix of sceney bars and boundary-pushing restaurants, the Gasteig Culture
Centre, fun streets like Metzstrasse and gorgeously restored late-19th-century buildings in
the French quarter around Pariser Platz. Munich's biggest party zone can be found near
the Ostbahnhof.
Kulturzentrum Gasteig
(Gasteig Culture Centre; 480 980;
www.gasteig.de
;
Rosenheimer Strasse 5; Am
Gasteig)
Haidhausen is home to one of Munich's finest cultural venues, the Kulturzen-
trum Gasteig, whose postmodern, boxy, glass-and-brick design caused quite a controversy
a generation ago. The name is derived from the Bavarian term
gaacher Steig
, meaning
CULTURAL CENTRE
