Old Retired Guy Blog
July 4 - 8, 2010
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Munich (Page 4 of 6)We couldn't spend all of our time in churches and museums so we decided to head out to the Englischer Garten. According to Wikipedia (and they don't lie), this is one of the largest urban parks in the world, even larger than New York's Central Park.
While trying to get back on track we came upon the Promenadeplatz where we saw the statue of a person we did not recognize surrounded by pictures of a person that we did recognize. The statue was of the composer Orlande de Lassus. The pictures were of Michael Jackson! This make-shift memorial was placed here by fans of Michael Jackson's after his death because it is across the street from the luxury hotel Bayerischer Hof where he once stayed. Fans want the city to erect a statue of Michael Jackson here. The city does not like that idea. To be fair, I should point out that a lot of people in Munich don't like the new aluminum statue of Maximilian Joseph Graf von Montgelas, founder of the modern Bavarian state, that already graces the Promenadeplatz. I know that I said we were going to the Englischer Garten but since we were right next to the Frauenkirche, the church that practically screams "This is Munich!", we decided to go in. This church has two beautiful onion dome towers but, guess what, one of them was completely enshrouded with scaffolding due to ongoing restoration!
Although I had a hard time believing it, the church supposedly holds 20,000 people. In addition to the amazingly tall vaulted ceilings, which always impress me, I thought that the carvings in the doors and the stained-glass windows were very impressive. We left the Frauenkirche and finally started to make our way over to the Englischer Garten.
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