Buergerbraukeller in 1929

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Buergerbraukeller in 1929

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Post by Ezboard » 29 Sep 2002, 15:58

sea12354
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(11/6/00 6:08:44 pm)
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Questions for historical accuracy: 1) served food as well as brews? 2) men only or mixed? 3) street address? 4) walking distance or time from Altstadt?

Goggi
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(11/7/00 2:03:07 am)
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Hitler's march was 1923, not 1929, but for your questions it does not matter.
1) Served mainly beer, but also lemonade, apple cider and simple Bavarian food like Pretzels, reddishes, all kind of sausages, "Leberkaes" etc.
2) Patrons depended on the time of the day: Noon and afternoon families, women and men. In the evening mostly men, because children had to go to bed and baby sitters were almost unknown. Men were playing cards and talked politics drinking beer and smoking. If the evening was progressing, little fights were quite common. --This beer hall was built above cellars where the beer was stored. And to save transport and bottling it was drunk on the spot in the hall and in the adjacent beergarden, sitting on benches under chestnut trees, listening to a band.( There are still some "Kellers" in Munich and you can savor the beergarden atmosphere: Its a little Octoberfest!)
3) The location was Haidhausen, once, hundreds of years ago, a little village outside of the Munich City gates, but now completely incorporated. The street was Rosenheimerstrasse close to "Deutsches Museum"; the beerhall was removed in the early 1980ties.
4) Walking distance to the "Feldherrnhalle", where the shooting happenend, is approx. 40 Minutes.
Surely you can cut this time, if you are well on foot.
Goggi

sea12354
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Thank you

Goggi
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(11/7/00 6:19:20 pm)
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Some additional information:
If you walk from the site of the late "Buergerbraeukeller" to "Feldherrnhalle", you walk along a street (after you have passed the old City Gate) called "Tal". There is on the left (Southern) site of the street the location where the old "Sterneckerbraeu" was. It was destroyed by bombs, rebuilt, but I am not sure whether it still carries the old name. It was not really what you call a "Brauhaus (=Brewery) in Munich anymore, but just a restaurant. Inside, in the back room, the Party was founded which Hitler joined as the member # 7. Surely, he reorganized and renamed it as the "Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei" after he took hold of it and pushed the original members aside to become Number #1.-- Some funny episode: One of my uncles, as a young man, living and working in Munich in 1919, was also patron in the "Sterneckerbraeu" on a regular basis, to meet his friends and play cards. He saw the activity in the backroom, listened to the talks, and was almost joining the party! All his life the family was teasing him about the fact that he was almost becoming a founding member of the Party together with Hitler!
Goggi

sea12354
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Thanks, goggi!

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