English Version Holiday and Leisure Magazine 2009 Service Section: Accommodation, City Tours, Maps, Information plus many Leisure Opportunities Weihenstephan The Cultural Benedikt XVI. – Today's art, Heart of Bavaria His Freising tomorrow's “If you haven't The Pope and science and the seen Freising, his close links oldest brewery you don't know to Freising in the world Old Bavaria!" Contents Semper lustig – numquam traurig Wherever prayers are heartfelt, festivities are joyous Page 4 Freising – Spiritual and Cultural Centre of Old Bavaria "If you haven't seen Freising, you don't know Old Bavaria!“ 1000 Jahre Tradition. Page 6 Life Sciences – The Future Is Now Aber täglich frisch. Freising's cultural and intellectual tradition paves the way for modern science Page 12 The Heart of Old Bavaria At the hub of tradition and the future Page 15 Benedikt XVI. – His Freising Dear visitors to Freising, The Pope and his guests from far and near, close links to Freising and Freising residents, Page 16 "History – hospitality – vitality" is the motto of our city. Let me invite you to explore this seemingly contradictory blend – and I assure you that History of Freising – An Overview you'll never regret it. Vibrant life has pulsed in the shade of the cathedral The history of a city towers for over 1200 years. This is the seat of learning. And the path based on relaxed joviality from the ancient world of the scholars on Cathedral Hill to today's Page 17 campus not only leads from the Early Middle Ages directly into the future, but also links Germany's largest collection of religious art to modern sculptures by contemporary artists. Between and around these Freising Information two poles of past and present await a host of sights from every epoch of City Tours...............................p. 18 art history, numbering many famous names among their creators. All in a Special Offers.......................p. 20 tradition-conscious city with a relaxed joviality and warm hospitality City Museum ........................p. 22 that captivates every visitor. Events 2009..........................p. 23 Accommodation ..................p. 24 I am delighted to welcome you to our city – so ancient, yet so vibrantly Package Offers.....................p. 29 youthful! And I hope that our Freising residents will discover a few new Venues....................................p. 30 aspects of our wonderful home in these pages.. schafhof.................................p. 33 Airport Visitors Park ...........p. 33 Freising Garden Festival....p. 34 Freising Rose Gardens .......p. 34 Credits....................................p. 34 Freising A-Z ..........................p. 36 Dieter Thalhammer Old Quarter Map .................p. 38 Mayor of Freising www.molkerei-weiheh nstephhan.de 3 For this reason, the culture of hos- porary music of all kinds. Entertaining, pitality flourishes in Freising. In cosy inspiring reflection and discussion, Semper inns, elegant restaurants or bistros pointing the way into the future. lustig - and pubs teeming with young people. Freising's Cultural Festival, its festival And naturally in the beer gardens of traditional music in the autumn and street cafés. As soon as the and its guitar festival have attracted numquam first rays of spring sun warm the great acclaim and underpin the streets, the city is transformed in- city's image as a cultural centre. to a Mediterranean-style open-air theatre in an urban setting. Strolling through the ancient lanes, traurig one suddenly emerges in romantic Culture – ahead of its time nooks or hidden squares, on the The prince-bishops always had time banks of a river, under a statue of a for art and culture. This tradition venerable saint, and soaks up the "Then there are the two monasteries of Weihenstephan and has retained its vitality in Freising, tranquillity exuded by the ancient and even today is fearless in creating stones. Or the beauty of the sur- Neustift, which are assiduous at holding processions and even scope for artistic freedom, forming rounding countryside, within which more assiduous at brewing beer." a fascinating arc from past to present. Freising flourishes like the roses in These mocking lines, penned 200 years ago by Enlightenment And not only on the university cam- the city. For hiking, cycling, swimming pus; Freising is a young city, in or the many modern types of sport, author Pezzl, have a grain of truth at their centre. Wherever which classical culture is joined by striking new notes in placid Old prayers are heartfelt, festivities are joyous – particularly in leben a host of cabarets, small clubs, Bavaria with their call to activity. freising Catholic Old Bavaria, with Freising at its centre. er avant-garde theatres and contem- 4 5 Freising – Spiritual and Cultural Centre of Old Bavaria Here, in the spiritual The true story goes that in the 12th come the first bishop of Freising, century the Bear of Freising lost crossed the Alps to Rome. One dark heart of Old Bavaria, the trial of strength with the mighty night deep in the mountains, a hun- Bavarian Lion, thus paving the way gry bear scented Corbinian's pack- worlds collide. for nearby Munich to become the horse, killed it with one blow of its capital of the State of Bavaria. But paw and ate its fill of the flesh. The cathedral towers a far more important aspect than Corbinian sat nearby at the fire, watch over an old any power struggles and the many perhaps accompanied by a terrified battles and disputes fought between servant, and calmly watched the city pulsing with Freising's prince-bishops and the feast. When the bear was sated, mighty rulers of the Wittelsbach the saint told him that although he today's young life. dynasty was the spiritual and reli- fully understood that a bear must gious leadership of the state. A allay his hunger in this way, the All clothed in an air of leadership which also stood the test bear must also understand him. The of an era when Freising was a rural pack-horse had carried his baggage, tranquil equanimity. city of civil servants slumbering at and since it was now in the bear's the foot of Cathedral Hill, garnering belly, the bear would have to take "If you haven't seen strength for its role in modern over its task. The bear understood – Freising, you don't Bavaria as a driver of the future. perhaps because the explanation came from a saint – and, without know Old Bavaria!" How the Bear Came to Freising growl or murmur, carried Corbinian's leben It was around the year 720 that baggage to Rome, where the saint freising (W. H. Riehl). er Corbinian, a missionary later to be- released him with thanks. This legend 6 7 explains why the arms of the City towers over the spot where Freising's of Freising show a saddled bear. The first Church of St. Mary stood. Cathe- ancient arms of the prince-bishops dral Hill, at the end of the Munich additionally show a Moorish figure, gravel plain, is visible from afar. Yet the origins of which are shrouded once it afforded an even more im- in history; not even a legend remains. posing vision; in old engravings a Yet it too is so much a part of Frei - host of church spires can be seen sing and its Cathedral Hill that Pope jutting into the air all around, warn- Benedict included the bear and the ing travellers down the River Isar Moor in his own coat of arms as a of the presence of this towering Freising's arms reminder of his life in Freising. In spiritual city - as Freising was until still show the earlier times the Moor was also de- the 19th century. This religious and bear below the picted on a fountain standing in cultural significance was by far the Bavarian lozenges the centre of the vast cathedral most dominant factor in the bour- square; the story goes that at the geois city huddled at the foot of 1000-year celebrations of the dio- Cathedral Hill, yet the religious lea - An aerial view clearly shows the cese in 1724, red wine gushed out ders were somewhat afraid of this Cathedral Hill of this fountain to refresh the guests. secular influence: why else would complex, crammed The fountain was forced to make they have separated their "Scholars' with buildings from way for great Bishop Otto, but Hill" from the rest of the city – also a range of epochs found a new home at the foot of owned by the prince-bishops, of Cathedral Hill in Bahnhofstrasse. course - by a turreted wall? And yet the bishops of Freising were Mons doctus not only the religious leaders of their diocese, but also its secular Cathedral Hill. Imagine it as the lords. nucleus of Freising. Where Kardi- The monastery and of Bavarian bishoprics in 739: to part of its toll revenues to Freising, nal-Döpfner-Haus stands today was They ruled with stately assurance baptismal church of drive ahead the mission in the south right up to 1803. Only then, when probably once the ducal palatinate over their many territories, the wide- St. Johannes (1321) and south-east. This is evidenced the prince-bishopric was dissolved with Gothic vaulted of the Agilolfing dynasty. Count Gri- spread locations of which bore wit- The remains of St. Corbinian lie by the monasteries of Innichen and and became part of Bavaria, was ceilings, one of the moald had appointed Corbinian the ness to Bonifatius' command to the oldest churches in the Crypt and Scharnitz and by extensive estates the capital able to free itself from first bishop of Freising. The Cathedral diocese of Freising at the conference on Cathedral Hill are exhibited in the Wachau, Lower Austria and this tiresome obligation with a final in ceremonial processions what is today Slovenia.