Berlin Bear (Munich)
The Berlin Bear is a bronze monument in the median of the Federal Highway 9 . It was built in 1962 in the Munich urban area north of the Munich- Freimann motorway entrance at the current Munich- Fröttmaning- Süd junction and shows the depiction of the Berlin heraldic animal by the sculptor Renée Sintenis on a stone plinth . Underneath the inscription MÜNCHEN BERLIN .
The monument was unveiled on June 6, 1962 by several representatives of public life in Berlin and Munich: Willy Brandt ( Governing Mayor of Berlin ), Hans-Jochen Vogel (Lord Mayor of Munich), Alfons Goppel (Bavarian Interior Minister), Otto Friedrich Bach ( President of the Berlin House of Representatives ) and Ernst Lemmer (Federal Minister for All-German Issues).
The unveiling of the monument was the official prelude to a Berlin Friendship Week in Munich .
In Düsseldorf there is a similar memorial on Berliner Allee .
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Coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 13.7 ″ N , 11 ° 37 ′ 14.4 ″ E