Bayern

München

Maps on our site:

• 1493, Hartmann Schedel, Liber chronicarum, CCXXVI
  
  
• 1572, Braun and Hogenberg, Civitates Orbis..., I-40
  
  
• 1588, Braun and Hogenberg, Civitates Orbis..., IV-43
  
  
• 1800, J. Stockdale

Find more maps:

• Der Stadtplan Münchens um 1644 von Matthaeus Merian
  
  
• Munich 1858
  From A Handbook for Travellers in Southern Germany,
  Eighth Edition. London: John Murray. 1858.
  The University of Texas at Austin, Map Collection

Located on Isar river, near edge of Alps; established by Henry the Lion, duke of Bavaria, as mint & market for Benedictine monks from Tegernsee 13th cen.; declined under occupation & plague of Thirty Years' War; revived under Ludwig I; damaged in WW II.

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