Hofbräukeller

The Hofbräukeller on Innere Wiener Strasse and on Wiener Markt

The Hofbräukeller in Munich is a large listed building owned by the Staatliches Hofbräuhaus brewery .

location

The building is located in the Haidhausen district of Munich on Wiener Platz . It is located on Innere Wiener Straße .

building

The building, currently painted light green in the neo-Renaissance architectural style, was built at the end of the 19th century. The building is now part of the Bavarian List of Monuments . At the back of the building there is a beer garden with wooden arcades that were used as stables for horses when it was used as a brewery .

history

Memorial plaque at the entrance to the beer garden

The area around the Gasteig in Haidhausen, where the Hofbräukeller was built on the site of older cellars, was the center of breweries and beer cellars at that time . When the brewery of the Hofbräuhaus am Platzl was no longer sufficient, the brewery was relocated to Haidhausen; From 1896 to 1988, the Hofbräu brewery's production facility was located here on Innere Wiener Straße.

After the defeat of the Munich Soviet Republic , on May 5, 1919, previously denounced, innocent Perlach citizens were shot by members of the voluntary corps. A memorial plaque at the northeast entrance to the beer garden today commemorates the victims. The future German dictator Adolf Hitler gave his first party political speech on October 16, 1919 in the Hofbräukeller, the course of which he described in his infamous book Mein Kampf ; even after that, the Hofbräukeller was often the scene of right-wing political events.

On April 6, 1987 the building that still exists burned down and was restored in the following years; the remaining brewing facilities along the Innere Wiener Straße remained undamaged, but were torn down after the brewing operations were relocated to Munich-Riem , making way for residential buildings that were built by Bayerische Hausbau . Today the Hofbräukeller building is the last witness of the brewing industry that once flourished in numerous companies in Haidhausen, along with the Union brewery.

use

The restaurant of the same name is located in the north-eastern half of the building and has been leased to the current Steinberg family since 1995 . It is Bavarian cuisine offered for mostly local guests. The guest room for regular guests is on the ground floor, on the first floor there are two ballrooms for up to 450 and 120 guests respectively. There are 450 seats in the restaurant on the ground floor and 1,750 seats in the beer garden to the west; it borders directly on the Maximiliansanlagen . The "Sandbar", a cocktail bar with a sandy beach in the beer garden of the Hofbräukeller, is also unique .

The "Maratonga" dance hall is located in the first basement . On the second basement floor, the rooms are used as a cooking school by the Munich star chef Andreas Schweiger . Up until 2008 there were theater performances by the ValentinKarlstadt-Theater.

The south-western half of the building, the former malt house , houses offices for various companies.