"Greatness requires thought and time, effort and sacrifice. Especially sacrifice."
Munich
April 2006
As part of our trip with Richard Murphy Architects to see and experience the work of Karljosef Schattner in Eichstatt we spent several days in the Bavarian Capital of Munich.
Whilst architecture was not, in this case, top of the social agenda, we did manage to see some of the sights usually on route to the Hofbrauhaus.
Munich sits to the north of the Bavarian Alps on the River Isar. It is the third largest city in Germany and has a long and chequered history dating back to the Twelth Century.
In the 1920's it was the center of Hitlers Nazi ambitions and before that it was briefly the home of the Bavarian Soviet Republic. It was the scene of Neville Chamberlains attempted appeasement of the Nazis which led to his infamous "peace in our time" proclamation. As well as being the site of the failed assasination attempt on Adolf Hitler in 1939 where Hitler finished his speech and left the hall 12 minutes before a bomb expolded killing 8 people and injuring more than 60 others.
Occupied by the US after 1945 the city was rebuilt following its devastation during no less than 71 air raids during the war years.
These days Munich thrives and its population enjoy living in a city whose quality of life is rated amongst the 10 best in the world.
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