Summer in the City: Shady paths under old trees and the sound of the Isar ... Idyllic, green and relaxed people - that's Munich too!
ENGLISH GARDEN - Impressions of a bike tour: From Haidhausen to Oberföhring and back through the English Garden (DEUTSCH)
Munich. It's
the hot August days in Munich that inspire us to take a bike tour along
the Isar. Our bike tour with reliable "PAKKA" bikes begins above the
Isar and will lead through the English Garden. We start on the eastern
high bank of the Isar: in Haidhausen. Winding paths lead down to the
banks of the Isar. We enthusiastically stop at almost every corner and
enjoy the greenery, the shade and the romantic places where we are
almost alone today. Relaxed Munich residents and tourists lie, play and sleep on the meadows. This is Munich too!
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| Path on the high bank of the Isar near Haidhausen, photo: Helga Waess |
From here we drive down to the Isar and continue towards Bogenhausen.
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| Isar Canal, photo: Helga Waess |
We drive through lush green parks with old trees, which provide wonderful cooling at almost 35 degrees.
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| Angel of Peace, Munich Maximiliansanlagen, photo: Helga Waess |
Here we allow ourselves a look at the Angel of Peace, which towers over Munich's Maximilian complex at a height of 38 meters.
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| Isar in Munich, photo: Helga Waess |
We drive an idyllic route to the right of the Isar under tall trees. Here on the edge of Bogenhausen the Isar flows slowly towards the Oberföhring dam. There the Isar is dammed by 6 meters by the building, which appears almost monumental like a castle.
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| Oberföhring weir, photo: Helga Waess
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However, a smaller power plant located slightly below feeds the Middle Isar Canal, which only flows back into the Isar near Landshut. On the route to Landshut there are several run-of-river power plants that generate electricity over a total gradient of 109 m.
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| Isar Canal at the Oberföhring dam, photo: Helga Waess |
Cycling along the Eisbach from the north takes you directly past the Tivoli power plant. The secluded red brick building complex, surrounded by trees, was built in 1896 as a hydroelectric power station. The bare brick building in our photo can now be used as an event location. The rest of the former facility with the turbine hall over the Eisbach, boiler hall and machine facilities are only partially there.
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| Pakka bicycles in front of the entrance to the Tivoli power station, Photo: Helga Waess |
Wide paths lead from the north of the English Garden towards the city.
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| Northern English Garden, Munich, photo: Helga Waess |
Artists can exhibit their works in the Orangery at the English Garden - but the lists are long and you have to wait a while.
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| Orangery at the English Garden, photo: Helga Waess |
Now we have earned a break in the beer garden at the Chinese Tower
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| Beer garden at the Chinese Tower in the English Garden, Munich, Photo: Helga Waess |
From afar we can hear the brass band playing beer garden music on a plateau of the 25 meter high wooden tower.
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| Chinese Tower - Pagoda with Bavarian live music, beer garden atmosphere in the English Garden, photo: Helga Waess |
Here you can quickly start a conversation and find out who came here or was even born in Munich.
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| Monopteros in the English Garden, Munich, photo: Helga Waess |
After a refreshing stay in the beer garden, we drive towards the city center, past the Monopteros Hill and experience the city panorama above the trees of the English Garden.
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| Meadow in the English Garden in Munich, in the background the dome of the Bavarian State Chancellery, the top of the town hall tower and the characteristic towers of the Frauenkirche Munich, photo: Helga Waess |
Behind the trees rises the dome of the Bavarian State Chancellery, the top of the town hall tower and the characteristic towers of the Frauenkirche with their “Welsh hoods”.
