Neues Rathaus (New Town Hall), Munich

The new townhall seems to be a gothic building, but in fact it was built between 1867 and 1908.
Make sure, you will not only see it from outside, but also walk into the innercourt with the great neo-gothic staircase and a nice garden-restaurant.
In the cellar of the townhall you will find one of the best restaurants of Munich - the "Rathauskeller"

The best place to take a pic of the new townhall is St.Peter church again !

The Rathaus is one of those other stops along the way in Munich. The Rathaus is German for city hall, and like its name suggests, it's filled with hundreds of rats.

Just kidding! There's not much to do at the Rathaus, really, but stick around and wait until the clock tower strikes the hour for an hourly show!

If you are at the Marienplatz (Centre of Munich)
you have a great view to the New Town Hall
with its nice facade. There you find also the Tourist Information. Go there and take a map of munich (costs about 0,30 €). It gives you a good overview about munich.

Unbelievable that this is the new Town Hall, isn't it? Looks older then the old one but it was only built between 1867 and 1909 in Neo-Gothic style. It is over 90 m (300 ft) in length and its the tower is around 79 m (260 ft) in height.
You can take an elevator to an observation point in the tower. Unfortunately the tower is closed in winter.

The neo-gothic new City Hall was built in late 19th century... at first it looks like real old gothic building though.
The famous Glockenspiel, where the natural size figures play 3 times a day, is right in the middle on its facade.

The Neues Rathaus (New City Hall) dominates the northern side of the Marienplatz. It was built in stages in the late 19th Century, starting with the neo-gothic brick and sandstone section along Dienerstrasse, then the limestone façade which moves toward Weinstrasse and is in the style of Flemish city halls. You could spend hours studying all of the figures of the Guelf and Wittelsbach rulers which ornament the building. Take time to see the beautiful inner main courtyard.

The "New" Town Hall is a incredible building at the most important square of Munich ... Marienplatz of about one century ... The facade its ... wonderful ... full of ....sculturs and gargoyles.
At the center of the it you can see a green part ... where you can see figures ... a carillon ... that works 3 times a day ... at 11, 12 and 17h ... a big clock with figures of natural sizes that represent a part of Munich history ... tens of tourists are concentrated there to see the carillon at the hours in which it works ... what I used to do was to look at the tourist faces .. its funny see how their faces smiles at any movements or clocks of the carillon.

A MUST DO ... is to get up the tower of the Town Hall for the magnificant view you have from there .... in clear days you can see the mountains (this tower have lift ... not as Peterkirche)

A main tourist spot. Everyone from the area gathers to watch as the characters revolve and the clock sounds. I believe this only happens twice a day now. I was here back in 1970 and it seemed more often.