Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
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Otto I
Centre
Ludwig the Bavarian
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Hitler signing the Munich Agreement
Historic Events
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1158: Foundation of the City
the order to expel all Jews from
Upper Bavaria in 1442. Jewish
culture did not return to Munich
until the 18th century.
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1806: Capital of the
Welf Henry the Lion, Duke
of Bavaria, tore down the old salt
bridge in 1157-8 and erected a
new crossing over the Isar River, a
short distance to the south. There,
the small town of Munichen devel-
oped into the royal residence city
of Munich. The day on which the
Hohenstaufen Emperor Friedrich
Barbarossa awarded the town
the right to hold a market and
mint coins,14 June 1158, is still
celebrated as Munich's birthday.
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1240-1918: The
Kingdom of Bavaria
In the wake of the Napoleonic
redrafting of Europe, the Elec-
torate of Bavaria was elevated to
a kingdom, with Munich as the
capital and royal residence of the
much-enlarged new state. The
boundaries of Bavaria at that
time were already roughly the
same as they are today.
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1848: March Revolution -
Wittelsbach Dynasty
From 1240 onward, the Wittels-
bach dynasty was instrumental in
defining the evolution of the city.
They graduated from simple
dukes to electors and finally to
kings. Ludwig I commissioned
the erection of Classical public
buildings in Munich; Ludwig II
built larger-than-life fairy-tale cas-
tles; the last member of the Wit-
telsbach dynasty, Ludwig III, had
to flee Bavaria after World War I.
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1328: Ludwig the Bavarian
Abdication of Ludwig I
In March of 1848, revolutionary
uprisings reached Munich, culmi-
nating in the storming of the
Zeughaus (the arsenal, currently
the Stadtmuseum). Having lost
the confidence of the court and
the bourgeoisie, (in part because
- German Emperor
In 1314, Duke Ludwig IV (the
Bavarian) was elected king of
Germany; in 1328, he was
crowned emperor of the Holy
Roman Empire.
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1442: Expulsion of the
Jews from Munich
Following pogroms against the
Jews in the 13th and 14th
centuries, Duke Albrecht III gave
The Wittelsbach dynasty's family tree
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The crown jewels of the Holy Roman Empire were kept in Munich
between 1328 and 1350.
