The “Monuments in Bavaria” appear as a sub-series of the monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany . The principles of this nationwide inventory of monuments go back to a joint agreement between the state monuments offices in 1980.
The “Monuments in Bavaria” complement and deepen the series “ The Art Monuments of Bavaria ”, which began in 1892 and which for the first time attempted to record the monuments of an entire region. The third row in particular is to be regarded as the direct successor to the older inventory, which is still being continued.
In line with the changed concept of monument, the archaeological site monuments and numerous objects from the 19th and 20th centuries have been recorded and presented in detail. The volumes also contain extensive photo documentation, which are of equal importance to the descriptions.
As an open list of monuments, the series only documents the existing monuments at the time of publication of the respective volume. The Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation, the municipalities or the Lower Monument Protection Authorities can provide binding information on the current list status.
history
The Free State was the first German federal state that was able to submit such a comprehensive list of its monuments. The publication of the list of monuments was prepared by a working group headed by Senior Conservator Dennis A. Chevalley.
Between 1985 and 1991 a total of seven volumes (I – VII) were published on the Bavarian administrative districts . Because of the particularly extensive inventory of monuments in Munich , Volume I was divided into two volumes on the Upper Bavarian administrative district, State Capital Munich (I.1) and Upper Bavaria without Munich (I.2).
The first publication of the list of monuments in book form (volumes I – VII) is currently being supplemented by two further series. The second row (Volumes IA – VII.A) deals with the listed ensembles broken down by administrative district.
The third row, for which 96 volumes (volumes I, 1 – VII, 96) are planned, which are divided into districts or urban districts, contains a description and an illustration for each architectural monument and archaeological monument. Six of the district volumes are divided into two sub-volumes, each dealing with the district town and the rest of the district. Volume I.2 on the state capital of Munich is even divided into four volumes due to the large inventory of monuments, each of which consists of several individual books (called half or third volumes). Thus, the complete series has 105 (partial) volumes with (according to the current status) 108 individual books.
By the end of 2015, only the first volume (IA) of the second series had been published. From the third row, 32 volumes or partial volumes have been published.
