Day 3
Munich and Dachau
We took a bus drive of about an hour to Munich for a walking tour of the city. On the way, our guide made a presentation on architectural styles that can be seen in Munich. I absorbed very little of it. She also discussed the role of Munich as the home of the counter-reformation.
We had a different guide for the walking tour. We saw Frauenkirche, a church that is the highest in the city, and will remain so because there is a law against building anything higher. Much of this church was destroyed during WW II, but it has been restored. We also saw the opera house, but did not go in. In front of the opera, there is a statue of Max Joseph. He was appointed king of Bavaria by Napoleon, and was responsible for Bavaria's 1st constitution. We also saw St. Peter's cathedral, the oldest church in Munich, and the glockenspiel "joust" on Marienplatz and had lunch near the the marketplace. Our guide pointed out the place where Hitler was arrested in 1923, during the Beer Hall Putsch, a failed coup. During that imprisonment he wrote Mein Kampf.
Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial is about an hour's bus drive from Munich. As we rode, David talked about the treatment of Jews by Christians throughout history, and how Martin Luther in some ways contributed to that. We spent almost 2 1/2 hours at there, but it deserved more time than that.
For dinner we went back to a restaurant in Oberammergau.