On our first day in Munich we took a walking tour. It was great and our tour guide
Virginia was awesome!!! She showed
us the sites of Munich, told us some funny stories, jokes, and a bit of history!
The first reason was that the cross on top is facing the
wrong way. On top of all churches
there is a cross that faces from side to side, this one faces from back to
front. The story she told us was
that long ago there was a terrible storm and the cross blew down. They needed to find someone
brave/stupid enough to climb up the side of the tower to put it back. No one volunteered for the job so the
priest decided he should offer an incentive. He offered whoever was willing, a liter of royal beer, then
men from all over flocked to the challenge. Once the priest picked someone he climbed up and put the
cross on the wrong way, but no one complained about it.
When the man reached the tower balcony the priest gave him
the liter mug of beer and the man proceeded to chug the entire thing. Then not wanting to carry the mug down
with him he threw it off of the tower balcony. The mug landed on the roof then rolled off and landed in the
gutter and rolled down the street but DID NOT BREAK!!! The priest deemed this a miracle and
the mug is still and the church and brought out once or twice a year for people
to view.
The second reason that Virginia said this was her favorite
church was because of the rules.
She said when she first became a tour guide she noticed them and 4 out
of the 5 made sense no pets, no eating, no cell phones, and no hats. The fourth one on this list she was
unsure of and people on her tours would ask. One day she got up the courage to go and ask someone in the
church. When she finally found an
official inside she was feeling pretty nervous, all she could think of would be
that the rule meant no pants but that didn’t seem right. So she asked a large Bavarian Official
and he replied very seriously, “You cannot put your hands in you pockets
because the devil lives in your pants.”
The third and reason this is her favorite church is that
after WWII the church was nearly destroyed and they didn’t have enough money to
restore it completely so they built one tower instead of two. They however took the clocks from both
towers not wanting to waist them and stuck all 8 on the one tower. She said it was good though because now
8 people can tell the time at once …hahahaha
The fourth and final reason why this is Varginia’s favorite
church is because you can climb up the tower for a 360 degree view of
Munich! We did this on our last
day and it was so clear out we could see all the way to the Alps!!! After 305ish steps up I was nervous but
it was very cool!
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