866th city birthday with Munich tour and Ferris wheel

Rediscover Munich on Sunday, June 9, 2024

 

Free city tours, selfies with the Münchner Kindl, white sausage breakfast or ride on the Ferris wheel

 

The city's 866th birthday on Sunday is the old town's celebration mile with the “Münchner Kindl” spectacular and children's fun on Odeonsplatz

Munich on Sunday, June 9th, 2024. During the 866th city founding festival, the Munich Guest Guide Association (MGV) offers various free tours of the old town. Every hour on the hour, those interested meet for the Old Town themed tours under the motto of the Munich city festival "It's going around again!" at the MGV stand - which is located in front of the tourist information office. And the popular Weißwurst breakfast pint takes place today between 11 a.m. and 12 p.m. in the “Marienplatz Beer Garden” - the city birthday Weißwurst costs 1.50 euros. Everyone would like to take a photo with the “Münchner Kindl”. For selfies, the “Münchner Kindl” Spectacular is available at the selfie spot on Munich’s Marienplatz in front of the New Town Hall. And while it's all Irish-Bavarian at Wittelsbacherplatz, you can also enjoy a beautiful view over the old town from the Ferris wheel in one of the 36 closed gondolas - wheelchairs also fit here - at a height of 50 meters.

München am Marienplatz - Hier Frauenkirche und Neues Rathaus, Foto: Helga Waess - Kunst - Kultur - Blog aus München

 

This year - on June 9, 2024 - Odeonsplatz offers the nostalgic chain plane and a beautiful children's carousel

The children feel like they are at a folk festival at Odeonsplatz, right next to the craftsmen's village. The beautiful square with a view of the research-intensive Ludwig Maximilians University (LMU) is surrounded by the Theatiner Church, the Feldherrnhalle and the residence of the Bavarian kings. Here children will find their fairground with a chain flyer, children's carousel, trampoline jumping and throwing stalls. There is also a Ferris wheel not far away - at Wittelsbacherplatz.

About the craftsman's village in Munich's old town - in this blog: June 9, 2024 in Munich: Crafts market in the old town. Stroll through Munich's old town like a small village, watch artisans and buy handmade goods made from a variety of materials

IN GERMAN: Zum Handwerkerdorf in der Münchner Altstadt - in diesem Blog:  9. Juni 2024 in München: Kunsthandwerkermarkt in der Altstadt. Durch die Münchner Altstadt wie durch ein kleines Dorf flanieren, Kunsthandwerkern zusehen und handgefertigte Waren aus vielerlei Materialien kaufen

 

So head to Munich’s old town and enjoy the following attractions

•         50-meter Ferris wheel (Wittelsbacherplatz)
•         Craftsman village
•         Vintage chain flyer, children's carousel, trampoline jumping, balloon sales, ball throwing stall (Odeonsplatz)
•         Beer garden at Marienplatz (white sausage breakfast today until 12 p.m.)
•         Bars serving beer, wine and soft drinks and various snack stands from bratwurst to fish (in the entire old town)
•         Stalls with delicacies and sweets
•         ...

 

Guided tours of the old town through Munich every hour

•         Sunday June 9th: 11:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m
•         One-hour tours every hour on the hour
•         The tours through Munich's old town, sorted by theme, last 1 to 1.5 hours each

 

Feldherrnhalle with stage at Odeonsplatz in Munich, photo: Helga Waess - press archive

Sports program at the city founding festival in Munich

 June 8th and 9th, 2024 - There's a lot going on in Munich this weekend!

Football on Odeonsplatz and Munich's largest dance party on Wittelsbacherplatz and in the evening Munich's largest open-air dance party takes place here

 

The sporting program for the Munich City Founding Festival 2024 in the "UEFA EURO 2024" host City Munich - on June 8th and 9th, 2024 in Munich's old town (GERMAN)

 

Munich. Sport is very important in our beautiful cosmopolitan city this summer and ranges from open-air dancing to traditional Bavarian dances to the attractive sports mile. A city birthday that creates movement and lives up to the motto “Things are going well again”. The specially developed sports program focuses on the UEFA EURO 2024, which begins on June 14, 2024 and starts in the host city of Munich. Before that, to the city founding festival weekend on June 8th and 9th, 2024 and to the sports mile that starts at Odeonsplatz and was planned by the Department for Education and Sport. In addition to the square at the Feldherrnhalle, Wittelsbacherplatz will attract with an open-air dance floor. There are guided dance courses and dance shows here. But our town hall on Marienplatz also leaves no stone unturned: If you like Bavarian dances, want to try them out or learn them, you can take part in the Old Town Hall.

Wittelsbacherplatz in Munich - here at the Irish Festival, photo: A. Waess (press archive)

In comfortable sports or casual clothing for sports at the city founding festival

The best place to start the sports mile is at the exercise course in front of the Theatinerkirche on Odeonsplatz

•     Here you can throw balls while playing basketball,
•     Try out your balance on seesaws
•     and get involved in sports with all sorts of leisure equipment.
•     Or you can take part in the inclusion football game on Odeonsplatz.

The Munich Recreational Sports Department of Education and Sport, FC Español and Mobilspiel invites you to all kinds of exercise games at Odeonsplatz


There are also 15 man-sized sound instruments that invite you to move with sound design. What is that? Come join in and invent rhythmic movements!


Munich's largest dance party at Wittelsbacherplatz on Briennerstrasse: show dancing and dancing for everyone


Munich's dance schools invite you to a dance party at Wittelsbacherplatz on both days.


Couple and solo dances, various flash mobs and line dancing, but also the classic Munich Francaise are offered in short, guided workshops. From 6 p.m., Munich's largest open-air dance party with a live DJ will take place.


Let's come to ball art on the adventure mile, which leads from Marienplatz to Sendlinger Tor via Sendlinger Straße


Ball and juggling artists will perform here on Saturday, June 8th and Sunday, June 9th, 2024.


The “Multiball” theme at Marienplatz is also fun


Here there are

    Shoot goal wall

    Throw darts

    and a large multiball video wall: 4 x 3 m for testing your own accuracy.

The Munich Francaise and Zwiefacher in the Old Town Hall at the Toy Museum


Bavarian tradition is firmly rooted in local dancing. In the large ballroom of the Old Town Hall, dance master Katharina Mayer and the Lower Bavarian Musicians' Regulars' Table come together on Sunday specifically to learn two Bavarian dances:


There are two dance courses - for individual dancers and couples


    the “Munich Française”

is always danced at Bavarian festivals and balls - this is a five-part ballroom dance from around 1860 in Munich.

Figures from two dance rows are alternately rotated based on the dance master's commands. The dancing will be to Johann Strauß Sohn's “Bat Quadrille,” which will be played live by the Karl Edelmann Salon Orchestra.


    the twofold

The typical Bavarian folk dance is based on alternating between different time signatures. Sounds funny? It is also the case when you spontaneously switch from 3/4 to 2/4 time. There will certainly be a lot of laughter, as this rhythmic change requires a good understanding of musical time and a reasonable level of rhythmic coordination.

On Sunday, June 9, 2024 in the ballroom of the Old Town Hall

•     Dance course 1 (Munich Francaise): 2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m
•     Dance course 2 (Zwiefacher): 4:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m

•     Dance courses are free
•     without registration
•     No prior knowledge required

Munich city founding festival June 8, 2024

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.

 

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

 

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.

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.

 

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

 

14. Mai 2024:  Stadtgründung München - Heinrich der Löwe. Vor 866 Jahren fing alles an!
14. Juni 1158: Heinrich der Löwe fordert die Münz-, Zoll- und Marktrechte für München ein
Der 14. Juni 1158 ging als jener Tag in die Geschichte ein, an dem die Münz-, Zoll- und Marktrechte für eine Siedlung „apud munichen“ durch Kaiser Friedrich I. Barbarossa bestätigt wurden. Das ist jetzt 866 Jahre her. Wie jedes Jahr, so wird auch heuer wieder das Stadtgründungsfest in der Münchner Altstadt gefeiert. Aber: Wie war das genau vor 866 Jahren?

 

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.

The courtyard garden at the Residenz in Munich (access from Odeonsplatz) - Photo: Helga Waess