Munich celebrates: 866th city founding festival
IT WILL BE CELEBRATED!!! Munich's old town becomes a party zone and the "Münchner Kindl" can be found as a selfie spot on Marienplatz
The 866th city founding festival of the Bavarian capital Munich will take place this year on Saturday, June 8, 2024, 10:30 a.m. - 11 p.m. and Sunday, June 9, 2024, from 11 a.m. - 9:30 p.m. (GERMAN, French)
Munich. IT WILL BE CELEBRATED!!! Everywhere in the old town at Odeonsplatz, Wittelsbacherplatz, Marienplatz, Residenzstraße and Alten Hof up to Max-Joseph-Platz, Rindermarkt and Sendlinger Straße, city visitors can expect live music, a craft market, delicacies stalls and beer gardens in June. How could the topic be other than “Things are going well again” this time! We have barely completed Munich's 866th city birthday on Saturday, June 8th and Sunday, June 9th, 2024 and experienced the adventure mile in Munich's old town when the celebrations for the European Football Championship (June 14th to 14th) begin. July in Munich), which actually opened just a week later. Event time of the 866th city founding festival: Saturday, June 8th, 2024, 10 a.m. - 11 p.m. and Sunday, June 9th, 2024, 11 a.m. - 9:30 p.m.
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| Kardinal-Faulhaber-Strasse in the heart of Munich's old town with a view of the Frauenkirche towers, photo: Helga Waess |
“Things are going well again” in Munich
It's not for nothing that the 866th city founding festival or the city's birthday has the motto “It's going well again”, because the UEFA EURO 2024 in the host city of Munich will also offer sporting activities for the founding festival with many football-related activities. The big FAN FEST for EURO 2024 starts on June 12th under Bavaria on the Theresienwiese in Munich. Here is more information about the mega-concert in this blog: June 12th: FAN FEST for EURO 2024 - Munich - under the BAVARIA: FAN FEST for EURO 2024 - Munich - on Munich's Theresienwiese. The EURO 2024 mega concert at the Theresienwiese is a first in Munich's history. A FAN FEST for EURO 2024 with an opening concert by Ed Sheeran, Dylan, Nelly Furtado and Mark Forster on Munich's Theresienwiese
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| Street Festival - Odeonsplatz München, Foto: Helga Waess |
Music stage at Marienplatz - Weißwurst is a cultural asset in Bavaria!!!
The visitor and resident of Munich will find a large stage at Marienplatz including a typical beer garden directly in front of the town hall. Here visitors enjoy Bavarian beer, Munich delicacies and celebrate with Bavarian music, rock and pop! A super nice gesture for the city's birthday: on Sunday from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. the white sausage is available for 1.50 euros (we have described in this blog how best to eat the Munich white sausage: A must: traditional white sausage breakfast in Munich. Cutural Asset: White sausage breakfast in Munich. Traditional white sausage breakfast as a cultural asset - "Weisswurst" - white sausage with sweet mustard, a pretzel and a wheat beer are a breakfast classic in Munich - Bavarians love savory foods
Anyone who has always wanted to meet the “Münchner Kindl” in person can find a selfie spot at Marienplatz
- AND: there is a multi-ball video wall on which you can play football.
- In the pop-up garden, sports celebrities occasionally come to the special stage for an autograph session.
- And then there is the green oasis where you can chill out for a moment and enjoy being in Munich.
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| Knights at the city founding festival in Munich, photo: Helga Waess |
At Wittelsbacherplatz not far from Odeonsplatz
A 50 meter high Ferris wheel with 36 closed gondolas will be available here. And with the Munich dance schools there will be a spectacular dance party with shows on the huge open-air dance floor. Visitors can learn the most important dance steps in a workshop.
Brienner Straße becomes a sports mile
The sports offerings range from balance games to wheelchair netball. There are small-field football and soccer options.
Craftsmen's village at Odeonsplatz
There are the popular show workshops here, in which craft businesses from the Munich guilds show what roofers, metal workers, carpenters and other trades can do. Anyone who will soon be finishing school can find out about training here, etc. The crafts village is open on Saturday, June 8th, from 10:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. and on Sunday, June 9th, from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.
“Volksfest fun at Odeonsplatz”
Sweets stalls, delicacies stands, cool and warm drinks and even more carousels, because things are happening in Munich.
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| City founding festival Marienplatz in Munich, photo: Helga Waess |
Here are our blog articles on the founding of the city of Munich by Henry the Lion and past founding festivals: in GERMAN
Stadtgründungsfest in München 2023.
Altstadtfest München 2023: MÜNCHEN feiert! Das 865. Stadtgründungsfest
Münchens findet im Juni 2023 wieder statt! Termin: Samstag , 17. Juni
2023, 10.30-21.00 Uhr und Sonntag, 18. Juni 2023 von 11 bis 21 Uhr
Sonntag, 14. Juni 2015: Stadtgruendungsfest Landeshauptstadt Muenchen 857 Jahre
Stadtgründungsfest der Landeshauptstadt München
857.
GEBURTSTAG! 1158-2015 - Die bayerische Landeshauptstadt feiert ihr
Stadtgründungsfest: immerhin 857 Jahre. Zwei Tage Brauchtum, Musik und
Tanz in der ganzen Altstadt. Dazu das Handwerkerdorf am Odeonsplatz, das
irisch-bayerische Fest am Rindermarkt oder Kunsthandwerk und
Ritterspiele am Marienhof.
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| The courtyard garden at the Residenz in Munich (access from Odeonsplatz) - Photo: Helga Waess |
