Old
Botanical
Garden
From baroque court garden to public city park. Laid out as a botanical garden in 1812 — since the move to Nymphenburg-Hofstatt in 1914 one of Munich's central inner-city parks between Hauptbahnhof and Stachus.
From botanical garden to city park
From 1809 to 1812 Friedrich Ludwig von Sckell — the creator of the English Garden — laid out the botanical garden as a scientific facility for the university. After the scientific garden moved to Nymphenburg-Hofstatt in 1914 (and following the fire of the Glaspalast in 1931), the site became a public green space in 1914. Carl Friedrich von Effner reshaped it; the trees remained, joined by meadows, paths and a café.
In the park: the classicist entrance portal by Joseph Emanuel d'Herigoyen with the inscription "Florae sacrum" (consecrated to Flora), the Neptune Fountain by Joseph Wackerle (1937) and the popular café in the park (in the former Glaspalast pavilion). Open-air concerts in summer; tranquil local recreation in winter.
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Museum Quarter.
The other buildings of the area — galleries, museums, classicism, industrial history.