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Feldherrnhalle

Address: South end of Odeonspl., City Center, Munich | Map It

Generals' Hall

Category: Memorials/Monuments
Location: Royal Munich

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Fodor's Review:

This open-sided pavilion was modeled after the 14th-century Loggia dei Lanzi in Florence, and honors three centuries of Bavarian generals. Two huge Bavarian lions are flanked by the larger-than-life statues of Count Johann Tserclaes Tilly, who led Catholic forces in the Thirty Years' War, and Prince Karl Philipp Wrede, hero of the 19th-century Napoleonic Wars. The imposing structure was turned into a militaristic shrine in the 1930s and '40s by the Nazis, who found it significant because it marked the site of Hitler's abortive coup, or putsch, in 1923. All who passed it had to give the Nazi salute. Viscardigasse, a tiny alley behind the Feldherrnhalle linking Residenzstrasse and Theatinerstrasse and now lined with exclusive boutiques, was used by those who wanted to dodge the tedious routine.