Germany Archives - The3DTravel Self-guided audio walking tours Mon, 12 Oct 2026 11:34:44 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 https://the3dtravel.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/the3dtravel-icon-512-100x100.png Germany Archives - The3DTravel 32 32 The House That Ran Bavaria: Munich’s Old Town from Dukes to Kings https://the3dtravel.com/tours/munich-the-house-that-ran-bavaria/ Mon, 12 Oct 2026 10:28:23 +0000 https://the3dtravel.com/tours/munich-the-house-that-ran-bavaria/ One family ruled Bavaria from these streets for more than seven centuries: who really ran the city, and from where?

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From 1180 to 1918 one family, the Wittelsbachs, ruled Bavaria, and almost every landmark of Munich’s old town is something they built, vowed or were buried in. This loop asks who really ran the city, and from where. It starts at the column an elector raised after the town had bought off the Swedes with ransom and hostages, goes to the castle that ended up in the middle of the town it was meant to guard, the palace where an elector made himself king, a church vowed for a baby, an emperor’s empty tomb, a duke who built bigger when his tower fell, the town’s own old parish and a market a king moved by decree. It ends where it began, under the town hall’s Glockenspiel, which still plays that duke’s wedding of 1568. Every claim is sourced and every dispute labeled. No tickets needed.

The stops

  1. Marienplatz: Who Ran This City?
  2. The Alter Hof: The Castle the Town Swallowed
  3. Max-Joseph-Platz: The King Who Would Not Sit
  4. Odeonsplatz: A Gate and a Vow
  5. The Frauenkirche: An Emperor’s Empty Tomb
  6. Saint Michael: The Duke Who Built Bigger
  7. Saint Peter: The Town’s Old Parish
  8. The Viktualienmarkt: A King’s Decree
  9. Marienplatz: The Town Plays the Wedding

Finding the start

Start on Marienplatz, a few steps west-south-west of the Mariensäule, the column with the gilded Virgin in the middle of the square, with the town hall front and its tower behind it. Marienplatz station (U3, U6 and all S-Bahn lines) is directly below the square.

Terrain and access

About 3.1 kilometers on squares, pedestrian streets and sidewalks, step-free and nearly flat, as a loop that ends on Marienplatz, about 40 meters from the start. Setts (cobbles) in the Alter Hof, on Odeonsplatz, Petersplatz and in the market; fine gravel paths on Max-Joseph-Platz with paved edges. About eleven street crossings without lights, two over tram tracks. No admissions needed; churches and the palace are told from outside. Marienplatz station (U3, U6 and all S-Bahn lines) is below the start and the end; Odeonsplatz station is at stop 4.

Tickets

No admissions needed; churches and the palace are told from outside.

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What you get

  • An email from tours@the3dtravel.com with a link and an access code.
  • Use it on your phone or tablet in an up-to-date web browser, no app store needed. There is no account to set up before you start.
  • Download it on Wi-Fi before you go. After that it works offline: audio, text, map and pictures.
  • Your booking includes 2 phones, so two of you can follow along, each on your own. Extra phones are $2.95 each, or a group can share one phone on its speaker.
  • Play, pause and replay every part, skip back and ahead, or change the playback speed. Keep the screen on or tap play at each stop.

How it was made

Every fact in the narration is checked against a cited source, and legends are told as legends. The narration is written from that research. How our tours are made.

Image credits

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]]> How It Happened: Munich from 1913 to Today https://the3dtravel.com/tours/munich-how-it-happened/ Mon, 12 Oct 2026 10:28:08 +0000 https://the3dtravel.com/tours/munich-how-it-happened/ The complete walk, in three parts: from a rented room of 1913 to the return of Jewish life to the heart of the city

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In May 1913 a young Austrian, dodging his own country’s army, rented a room on a quiet Munich street. Twenty years later his party held Bavaria, its police and a camp at Dachau. This long walk follows the whole road and what came after it, on fifteen public sidewalks and squares: the beer hall where Ernst Röhm’s men gathered on the night of the putsch, the war school where a friendly judge gave Hitler a stage in 1924 (and why the trial was never on the radio), the square where the regime laid its dead in temples, the palace of the political police and the Sinti and Roma families the Munich police deported in 1943, the disputed photograph of the Odeonsplatz in 1914, the site of the main synagogue torn down five months before the pogrom, the police headquarters, the bombed cathedral and the soldiers who rose against the regime in April 1945, the city hall where denazification was signed, and the new synagogue on St.-Jakobs-Platz. Told in three parts with a natural break halfway. Sober and sourced: the dead and the persecuted are named as people, disputed counts are labeled, nothing is shown that the law forbids. No tickets needed.

The stops

  1. Part 1. Schleißheimer Straße: The Lodger
  2. Stiglmaierplatz: The Beer-Hall City
  3. Pappenheimstraße: The Courtroom
  4. The Propyläen: The Long Road Back
  5. Brienner Straße: The Takeover, March 1933
  6. Part 2. The Königsplatz: The Square of the Dead
  7. Arcisstraße: Munich, 29 September 1938
  8. Brienner Straße: The Square of the Victims
  9. The Odeonsplatz: The Photograph and the Shots
  10. The Viscardigasse: The Way Around
  11. Herzog-Max-Straße: June and November 1938
  12. Ettstraße: The Police Headquarters
  13. Frauenplatz: Bombs, a Rising and Liberation
  14. Part 3. Marienplatz: Judgment and Rebuilding
  15. St.-Jakobs-Platz: Return and Remembrance

Finding the start

Start on the west sidewalk of Schleißheimer Straße in the Maxvorstadt, across the street from No. 34, a few minutes north of Stiglmaierplatz (U1 Stiglmaierplatz about 400 m; U2 Theresienstraße about 500 m). No. 34 is a private apartment house: stay on the far sidewalk.

Terrain and access

About 6.3 kilometers on flat city sidewalks and pedestrian streets, with no steps on the route; about three hours with listening. A natural break point after stop 8 near the Odeonsplatz (cafés; Odeonsplatz station, U3, U4, U5, U6). Cobbles in the Viscardigasse and in parts of the old town. No admissions needed: everything is seen from outside, including the NS-Dokumentationszentrum, the police headquarters and the synagogue. Busy crossings with lights at Stiglmaierplatz, the Königsplatz and the ring road. The Feldherrnhalle is under scaffolding until about 2028. The tour ends on St.-Jakobs-Platz, about 450 meters from Marienplatz station (U3, U6, all S-Bahn lines).

Tickets

No admissions needed: everything is seen from outside, including the NS-Dokumentationszentrum, the police headquarters and the synagogue.

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What you get

  • An email from tours@the3dtravel.com with a link and an access code.
  • Use it on your phone or tablet in an up-to-date web browser, no app store needed. There is no account to set up before you start.
  • Download it on Wi-Fi before you go. After that it works offline: audio, text, map and pictures.
  • Your booking includes 2 phones, so two of you can follow along, each on your own. Extra phones are $2.95 each, or a group can share one phone on its speaker.
  • Play, pause and replay every part, skip back and ahead, or change the playback speed. Keep the screen on or tap play at each stop.

How it was made

Every fact in the narration is checked against a cited source, and legends are told as legends. The narration is written from that research. How our tours are made.

Image credits

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]]> The Capital of the Movement: Munich 1918 to 1945 https://the3dtravel.com/tours/munich-capital-of-the-movement/ Mon, 12 Oct 2026 10:27:54 +0000 https://the3dtravel.com/tours/munich-capital-of-the-movement/ From the sidewalk where Bavaria's first republican premier was shot to the square the Nazis paved for their dead

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In November 1918 Munich had a revolution and a Jewish socialist premier. In 1935 its city hall, run by the Nazis since 1933, asked for, and got, the title ‘capital of the movement’. This walk follows the road between the two, on the places where it happened and through what stands there now: the steel outline in the sidewalk where Kurt Eisner was shot on his way to resign, the beer hall where the far left proclaimed a republic and the far right announced a program less than a year apart, the Feldherrnhalle where four police officers died stopping the putsch of 1923, the lane people used to dodge a compulsory salute, the square across from the Gestapo palace where Hans and Sophie Scholl were questioned, the party quarter where the Munich Agreement was signed after midnight, and the overgrown plinths of what the Nazis called temples of honor for their dead. Sober and sourced: the dead and the persecuted are named as people, disputed counts are labeled, local stories are told as local stories, and nothing is shown that the law forbids. No tickets needed.

The stops

  1. The Plate in the Sidewalk: Kurt Eisner
  2. The Platzl: One Hall, Two Proclamations
  3. The Feldherrnhalle: Twenty Dead and Sixteen Names
  4. The Viscardigasse: The Way Around
  5. Brienner Straße: The Palace of the Political Police
  6. The White Cube: Where the Brown House Stood
  7. Arcisstraße 12: The Agreement Signed After Midnight
  8. The Königsplatz: Stone, Grass and Two Plinths

Finding the start

Start on Kardinal-Faulhaber-Straße where it opens onto Promenadeplatz, in front of the Palais Montgelas (part of the Hotel Bayerischer Hof), by the steel floor plate in the sidewalk. Marienplatz station (U3, U6 and all S-Bahn lines) is a few minutes’ walk away.

Terrain and access

About 3 kilometers on flat city sidewalks and pedestrian streets, with no steps on the route. Cobbles on the Platzl and in the Viscardigasse. No admissions needed: everything is seen from outside, including the NS-Dokumentationszentrum, which you can visit afterwards. Busy crossings with lights on Brienner Straße. The Feldherrnhalle is under scaffolding until about 2028. The tour ends at the Königsplatz, a few minutes from Königsplatz station (U2; the step-free entrance is about 450 meters away).

Tickets

No admissions needed: everything is seen from outside, including the NS-Dokumentationszentrum, which you can visit afterwards.

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What you get

  • An email from tours@the3dtravel.com with a link and an access code.
  • Use it on your phone or tablet in an up-to-date web browser, no app store needed. There is no account to set up before you start.
  • Download it on Wi-Fi before you go. After that it works offline: audio, text, map and pictures.
  • Your booking includes 2 phones, so two of you can follow along, each on your own. Extra phones are $2.95 each, or a group can share one phone on its speaker.
  • Play, pause and replay every part, skip back and ahead, or change the playback speed. Keep the screen on or tap play at each stop.

How it was made

Every fact in the narration is checked against a cited source, and legends are told as legends. The narration is written from that research. How our tours are made.

Image credits

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]]> Beer and the City: Five Hundred Years of Munich in a Glass https://the3dtravel.com/tours/munich-beer-and-the-city/ Mon, 12 Oct 2026 10:27:42 +0000 https://the3dtravel.com/tours/munich-beer-and-the-city/ Dukes, monopolies, a riot over a Maß and a royal wedding, from the Platzl to the Stachus, with no tastings and nothing to drink

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A walk about beer that you can take sober, at ten in the morning, with children. It starts at the Hofbräuhaus, a beer hall that belongs to the state, and asks three questions on the way across the old town: who was allowed to brew, who set the price, and who got to pour. You will see where a duke’s court brewery began in a henhouse in 1589, hear what the famous purity rule of 1516 says first (a price, not barley), stand where a soldier’s refusal to pay for his beer set off the riots of 1844, learn why Munich beer gardens let you bring your own food, meet the farm boy who married a brewery and the widow who built one, and end at the city gate where a medieval horse race and a royal wedding began the Oktoberfest. Every claim is sourced and every legend labeled. No tastings are included and no stop is a bar.

The stops

  1. The Platzl: A Beer Hall the State Owns
  2. The Alter Hof: A Duke’s Beer Bill
  3. Marienplatz: Price Before Purity
  4. The Tal: A Riot Over a Maß
  5. The Viktualienmarkt: Beer and Bread, Nothing Else
  6. Sendlinger Straße: The Brewer Who Married the Brewery
  7. Neuhauser Straße: The Friars Left, the Beer Stayed
  8. Neuhauser Straße 27: The Widow’s Brewery
  9. The Karlstor: A Race, a Wedding and a Tavern Keeper

Finding the start

Start on the Platzl in front of the Hofbräuhaus (Platzl 9), about 400 meters north-east of Marienplatz (U3, U6 and all S-Bahn lines), a walk of five to ten minutes. Stand on the square facing the front with its arches and corner bay window.

Terrain and access

About 2.2 kilometers, flat and step-free, almost entirely in the pedestrian zone and the Viktualienmarkt. Cobbles in the Alter Hof courtyard and uneven paving between the market stalls; only quiet side streets to cross. Crowded at midday on Marienplatz and Neuhauser Straße. No admissions; every building is seen from outside. The tour ends at Karlsplatz (Stachus), with U-Bahn, S-Bahn and trams. The optional walk on to the Theresienwiese adds about 1.5 kilometers with busy road crossings at traffic lights, or one subway stop.

Tickets

No admissions; every building is seen from outside.

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What you get

  • An email from tours@the3dtravel.com with a link and an access code.
  • Use it on your phone or tablet in an up-to-date web browser, no app store needed. There is no account to set up before you start.
  • Download it on Wi-Fi before you go. After that it works offline: audio, text, map and pictures.
  • Your booking includes 2 phones, so two of you can follow along, each on your own. Extra phones are $2.95 each, or a group can share one phone on its speaker.
  • Play, pause and replay every part, skip back and ahead, or change the playback speed. Keep the screen on or tap play at each stop.

How it was made

Every fact in the narration is checked against a cited source, and legends are told as legends. The narration is written from that research. How our tours are made.

Image credits

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Munich’s dark side, told straight and labeled where it is legend. A Glockenspiel that puts the city’s child to bed every night, and coopers said to have danced away a plague that the records cannot find. A monkey on a castle roof with a duke’s baby. The duke’s prison tower, where a family of poor travelers was tortured into confessing to witchcraft, and a boy of about ten who said he had seen nothing. The devil’s footprint in the cathedral floor, and the trick of the pillars behind it. A bath for the poor hidden in a street name, an artist’s window onto his altar, a fire that began before dawn, the one gate open at night. And Christmas 1705, when peasants who marched on Munich surrendered at Sendling and were killed. History, not horror: real people, named from the records, told with care. Made for the evening on lit streets, and just as good by day. No tickets needed.

The stops

  1. The Marienplatz: A Lullaby for the City
  2. The Alter Hof: The Monkey on the Roof
  3. The Falkenturm: A Family Made to Confess
  4. The Frauenkirche: The Devil’s Footprint
  5. The Hundskugel: Dogs, a Ball and a Bath for the Poor
  6. The Asamkirche: A Window onto the Altar
  7. The Anger: Fire Before Dawn and a Gate for Latecomers
  8. The Sendlinger Tor: Christmas 1705

Finding the start

Start on the Marienplatz in front of the Neues Rathaus, a little west of the golden column in the middle of the square, where you can see the Glockenspiel partway up the town hall tower. The Marienplatz station (U3, U6 and all S-Bahn lines) opens onto the square.

Terrain and access

About 2.9 kilometers on lit streets, level and step-free. Paving in the pedestrian zones, setts in the Alter Hof and on the Unterer Anger, slippery when wet. Busy roads are crossed at lights (Maximilianstraße, Herzog-Wilhelm-Straße, Sendlinger Tor). Made for the evening and usable by day. No admissions needed; everything is seen from outside.

Tickets

No admissions needed; everything is seen from outside.

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What you get

  • An email from tours@the3dtravel.com with a link and an access code.
  • Use it on your phone or tablet in an up-to-date web browser, no app store needed. There is no account to set up before you start.
  • Download it on Wi-Fi before you go. After that it works offline: audio, text, map and pictures.
  • Your booking includes 2 phones, so two of you can follow along, each on your own. Extra phones are $2.95 each, or a group can share one phone on its speaker.
  • Play, pause and replay every part, skip back and ahead, or change the playback speed. Keep the screen on or tap play at each stop.

How it was made

Every fact in the narration is checked against a cited source, and legends are told as legends. The narration is written from that research. How our tours are made.

Image credits

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]]> Dachau: The Camp, the Town and the View https://the3dtravel.com/tours/dachau-remembrance-and-the-town/ Mon, 12 Oct 2026 10:26:10 +0000 https://the3dtravel.com/tours/dachau-remembrance-and-the-town/ Along the Path of Remembrance to the memorial's entrance, then by bus to the old town and the palace hill

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This walk tells the history of the Dachau concentration camp along the public Path of Remembrance, the road the prisoners were driven along, from Dachau station to the entrance of the Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site. It does not narrate anything inside the memorial grounds: there, use the memorial’s own audio guide and guided tours (entry to the memorial is free). Part of the route is by local bus, from the memorial to the old town, where the walk continues to Resistance Square, the town hall and its terraces, and ends on the palace hill with the view across the plain to Munich. That is about 4 kilometers on foot plus a short bus ride, about 100 minutes, not counting your visit to the memorial, for which most visitors need half a day. On the way you meet the people behind the names: the four prisoners shot in April 1933, a boy on the death march freed by Japanese American soldiers, the townspeople and escaped prisoners who rose against the SS on 28 April 1945, a blind musician and his family driven out before sunrise in 1938, and the painters who made Dachau famous long before the camp. It also tells how the town has dealt with its past, honestly and with sources. Content advisory: this tour tells of imprisonment, forced labor, murder and death marches, plainly and without graphic detail; the memorial recommends a visit for ages 13 and over.

The stops

  1. Dachau Station: Where the Road Began
  2. The Death March: 26 April 1945
  3. The Siding: A Train from Buchenwald
  4. The Villas: Neighbors of the Camp
  5. Spring 1933: The First Names
  6. The Threshold: Here the Memorial Speaks
  7. Resistance Square: The Morning of 28 April 1945
  8. The Town Hall: Before Sunrise
  9. The Terraces: A Painters’ Town
  10. The Palace Hill: The View Toward Munich

Finding the start

Start on the forecourt of Dachau station (S2 from Munich, or the regional train from Munich main station), at panel 1 of the Path of Remembrance. The walk follows the public path to the entrance of the Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site and does not narrate inside the memorial grounds; there, use the memorial’s own audio guide and guided tours (entry is free). Part of the route is by local bus, from the memorial to the old town, and the walk ends on the palace hill. About 4 kilometers on foot plus a short bus ride, about 100 minutes, not counting your visit to the memorial (most visitors need half a day). Content advisory: imprisonment, forced labor, murder and death marches, told without graphic detail; ages 13 and over.

Terrain and access

About 3.6 kilometers on flat sidewalks and footpaths along the signed Path of Remembrance, from the station to the memorial’s entrance, step-free. Then a local bus ride of about a quarter of an hour plus waiting (bus 726, change to bus 722) up to the old town, and about 400 meters on foot on cobbles, gently uphill to the palace, step-free. No admissions on the route. The tour does not narrate inside the memorial grounds; entry to the memorial is free, and its own audio guide and tours are available at the visitor center. Headphones only: the memorial grounds ban loudspeakers.

Tickets

No admissions on the route.

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What you get

  • An email from tours@the3dtravel.com with a link and an access code.
  • Use it on your phone or tablet in an up-to-date web browser, no app store needed. There is no account to set up before you start.
  • Download it on Wi-Fi before you go. After that it works offline: audio, text, map and pictures.
  • Your booking includes 2 phones, so two of you can follow along, each on your own. Extra phones are $2.95 each, or a group can share one phone on its speaker.
  • Play, pause and replay every part, skip back and ahead, or change the playback speed. Keep the screen on or tap play at each stop.

How it was made

Every fact in the narration is checked against a cited source, and legends are told as legends. The narration is written from that research. How our tours are made.

Image credits

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