EditorialThe famous Munich "Octoberfest",celebrated since 1810, the wedding-day of Bavaria's beloved King Ludwig I. "Lederhosentraeger" at the Feldherrnhalle in Munich.
EditorialFeldherrnhalle, an imitation of the Loggia dei Lanzi in Florence, was built in 1840-1844 as a monumental end to Munich's Ludwigstrasse, the neo-classicist boulevard of King Ludwig I of Bavaria. Hitler's putsch of 1923 ended here in defeat.