February 2006
MUNICH FOUND Treasure Hunt Answers
For those of you who are still scratching your heads over the MUNICH FOUND treasure hunt in the Christmas issue, we’ll
keep you waiting no longer.
Here are the answers:
1) Start at Isartor and head up Tal. Which sweet company is swinging through the hills at number 27?
Lollipop and Alpenrock
2) Take a right to a street where Munich’s favorite legwear might be worn. Which popular bar here was formerly Konditorei Schmid?
Bar Centrale in Ledererstrasse
3) Pass the Hofbräuhaus and head towards the city’s smartest street to tell us: according to Pusser, what hangover soother is Munich’s number one cocktail?
Painkiller
4) Which Munich building took seven years to build, two to refurbish after it was destroyed by fire and another five to rebuild after it was bombed in World War II?
The Nationaltheater
5) And which tram line (number) links it to Pasing?
No. 19
6) You all know our thoughts on the garish lions littering Munich. Nonetheless, we ask you this: when standing on the bottom step of the Feldherrnhalle, how many other lions can you spot?
Seven
7) Which of these is the odd one out—Viscardi, Perusa, Maffei, Theatiner, Amira, Portia?
Theatinerhof—it’s the only one that is not officially one of the “fünf” Höfe.
8) Which retail institution, founded in 1842, began selling coats by mail order in 1880?
Loden-Frey
9) Stand on the footprint imprinted in the entrance of the Frauenkirche. What enlightening features do you see fewer of from inside, than from outside?
Windows. The devil ordered the church to be built without windows, and legend has it he stood on the footprint to test whether he had been obeyed.
10) To another Munich institution now: which city fountain are you warned not to throw coins into, because of live animals in the water?
The fountain in Dallmayr
11) Where in Munich can you
see warriors fighting a hen, a lion, a dragon and a snake all on one monument in picture A (see below)?
On the statue in the center of Marienplatz
12) More lions—what is guarded by the beast shown in picture B (see below)?
The Auktionshaus Viktualienmarkt
13) What products are sold by
the following traders at the Viktualienmarkt: Mr. Rainer?
Flowers
14) Mr. Schwarz?
Potatoes
15) Mr. Forstner?
Bread
16) Mr. Eisenreich?
Meat
17) Why is there always a rush of people at Blumenstrasse 1?
They’re all after the cheap bread offers at the Hofpfisterei Rest Brot Laden
18) What’s the occupation of the fellow shown in picture C (see below)?
Journalist
19) The world’s largest beer stein is on sale, somewhere in Munich. How much will it cost you per liter of volume?
€ 51.56
20) What liquid treasure first reared its frothy head in 1328?
Augustiner beer
21) What now stands on the site of Wilhelm Schmid’s old toyshop in the pedestrian zone?
Bonita
22) Which retailer supported the renovation of Karlstor in 1994?
Karstadt
23) And what was the gate originally known as?
Neuhausertor
24) 07000 522 55 22—This number can be seen everywhere around Munich, though not always in the same places. What is it?
Call-a-Bike
25) Time to go home. While en route, tell us: where will you find the color combination—red, blue, orange, green, yellow?
On the S-Bahn—they’re the colors of the stations: Hauptbahnhof, Stachus, Marienplatz, Isartor and Rosenheimerplatz.
