Feldherrnhalle
Built 1841–1844 by Gärtner as a loggia for Munich's generals, modelled on Florence. Here the failed Hitler Putsch ended on 9 November 1923. The statues depict Tilly and Prince Wrede.
Florence on the Isar
From 1841 to 1844 Friedrich von Gärtner built an open hall of red sandstone at the southern end of Ludwigstraße, drawing almost literally on the Loggia dei Lanzi on the Piazza della Signoria in Florence. With the Feldherrnhalle King Ludwig I wanted to create a counterpart to the Munich Residence — an open monument to Munich's generals. Two statues: Tilly (Thirty Years' War) and Prince Karl Philipp von Wrede (Wars of Liberation). Construction: Franz Höllriegel.
Hitler Putsch, 9 November 1923
On 9 November 1923, after the failed coup of the previous evening, Hitler and his supporters marched from the Bürgerbräukeller towards the city centre. In front of the Feldherrnhalle the Bavarian state police blocked the way. Shots were fired — four policemen and sixteen putschists died. Hitler fled and was arrested shortly afterwards. After 1933 the NSDAP elevated the 16 dead to "blood witnesses of the movement" and laid them to rest in the Ehrentempel on Königsplatz. After 1945 the Residenzstraße turn used by the NSDAP from 1933 to 1945 for its "March of the Old Fighters" was deconsecrated — to this day a bronze marker in the pavement traces the path of the "shirkers" who avoided the NSDAP staging.
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