The Starnberg Tourism Association is now starting again with city tours.
Instead of sunshine and mountain views, there was a lot of rain and wet gray in gray at the start of the season on Sunday.
Starnberg
- Sunday morning, 11 a.m. On the lakeshore, seven intrepid people are waiting under colorful umbrellas at the meeting point at Dampfersteg: Melanie and Philipp, two students from Munich, the family of Sascha Meyer-Dautrich from Pöcking with their six-year-old son David, Julian and Antonia Bader-Lang from Munich, who are at Radio TOP FM Have won tickets and as the only non-resident and therefore “real” tourist Beate Truck from the Palatinate town of 5000 people in Freinsheim. She is spending her vacation here right now. Buchheim Museum, Andechs, Roseninsel, east bank exploration, good food are on the program, maybe a day in Munich and a visit to the Starnberger See museum. Despite the bad weather, Beate Truck is in a great mood and clearly enjoyed the first few days.
The eight participants have dressed in weatherproof clothing and look relaxed at the water. “You can actually see the rose island and the mountain range with the Zugspitze from here,” begins city guide Martin Blütgen and tells of the nobility and the many artists who have settled here around the lake and built wonderful villas, and of those who still live here.
The group has already reached the historic station building, which, as is explained, was built “in the Maximilian style”. “The beautiful old train station! You have to look after it! ”Exclaims the woman from the Palatinate, while everyone is gazing at the royal waiting room through the windows, or what they can catch of it. The fact that there was a cabinet for the king, one for the queen and one for servants and also a turret at the station building is noted without comment, one is more surprised at the mountains of bones inside the rooms before one learns that this is what it is is an art installation because the city uses the space as an art exhibition space.
Then it goes through Maximilianstrasse. The blooming chestnuts are admired unanimously, as are the many pretty details on the old villas. Balconies with artistically forged bars or Lüftlmalerei, pretty roof ridges and then you also meet the shoemaker and poet Hans Sachs, who is said to have come through Starnberg during his wandering years, the frog prince in an Art Nouveau window of the Schindlerhaus and a little later on the tour the weather frog Jägerhuber in the former printing house. At the Bayerischer Hof, the oldest hotel in Starnberg, you learn that Sisi has been waiting for the connection to Possenhofen and in the Achheimviertel, Martin Blütgen directs your gaze to box windows that served as refrigerators, St. Catherine and St. John on the corners of houses, to built-up historical ones Stove tiles on a facade.
In the St-Josefs-Kirche, too, it is not the nobility that is told about here, but rather unspectacular things.
City guide Blütgen inspires the guests with a finger pointing to a boarded hole in the church ceiling, through which the Holy Spirit is to come to the parish.
The cemetery is also visited, from which, as well as from the castle garden, you can wonderfully look down on the lake.
“Mei, ist des schee”, calls out a participant spontaneously while looking over the roofs of Starnberg to the lake.
At the end it goes through the moat through Starnberg to the church square with St. Maria, which Martin Blütgen has little enthusiasm for as a "purely functional building".
Then the group is back at the starting point.
Everyone is satisfied and enjoyed it.
The rain wasn't an issue at all.
The city tours take place on the 1st and 3rd Sunday from May to October. Meeting point always at 11 a.m. at the information desk on the steam bridge. Duration 1.5 to 2 hours, costs 4 euros for adults, 2 euros for children from 10 years, children under 10 years are free. No pre-registration required.
