200 years Oktoberfest Munich

In the background: the Bavaria statue

O'zapft is, the Octoberfest in Munich has started today at twelve o'clock in the daytime

Freising impressions

The city of Freising, located near to Munich airport, is about 1300 years old. Weihenstephan brewery you will find in this city. Before the actuell pope Benedikt XVI went to Rome he was archbishop, Joseph Alois Ratzinger, in this city.

The river Moosach

Church St. Georg

Cathedral Maria Geburt

First winter impressions

The first snow in Germany this year. The picture below I took from a webcam this morning.

Many years ago I visited this place

The second one in the early afternoon afternoon

 

And this in the late afternoon

If you want to visit the webcam, here the link:

Live-Webcam-Ramsau, Bavaria, Germany

Weihenstephan, the oldest brewery in the world

In the year 725 Saint Corbinian founded a Benedictine monastery in Freising in the north of Munich. In 1040 beer brewing officially began at Weihenstephan. Since 1921 the name is Bavarian State Brewery Weihenstephan. So this is the oldest brewery of the world. Today the brewery is connected to the University for Agriculture and Brewing which belongs to the Technical University of Munich. The brewery is very old but today it is also one of the most modern. By the way on of the products is named Korbinian, double bock beer with an alcohol content of 7,4 % vol.

Weihenstephan brewery and Braeustueberl Weihenstephan

 

 Part of Weihenstephan brewery

 

Detail

Stephanskeller in the Braeustueberl

Oktoberfest

The Oktoberfest in Munich the largest festival in the world started yesterday again. It is an festival with an old tradition and now of course a very big business. About 6 million visitors from all around the world come to see this festival every year. There are about 100,000 seats in the big festival halls (tents). The economic influence is very big too, during the 16 days are spent 450 Mio EURO on the festival grounds for food, drinks and entertainment. The photos are from webcams from today.
Here are some links for this festival:
http://www.oktoberfest.de/en/
http://www.loewenbraeu.de/
http://www.muenchen.de/Tourismus/Oktoberfest/7548/index.html

A fairy tale castle

Neuschwanstein Castle in the southwest of Bavaria looks like a fairy tale castle. This castle was ordered by King Ludwig II of Bavaria and it was opened in 1886. Many fairy tale castle in movies and even in some of the Disneyland Parks are modeled on  Neuschwanstein Castle.

This photo was taken from the Marienbrücke (Mary's Bridge). I am sorry that the sun did not shine when I took this pic.

View from the Zugspitze, German Alps

The Zugspitze is the highest mountain in Germany, in the south near the border of Austria an 2962 m high. Here you can see the view to the south to Austria and Italy. In the foreground you see the Zugspitz glacier.