Biergarten am Chinesischen Turm

This guide to the Biergarten am Chinesischen Turm in Munich starts before dawn on Sundays decades ago, when thousands of servants and cooks slipped out to dance and drink beneath the pagoda before racing home to serve breakfast, a ritual they called the Kocherlball. It follows why police shut the gathering down in 1904 citing a lack of morality, and how the tower itself was rebuilt after burning in a 1944 attack. Listen from a bench facing the tower, where a brass band still plays from the first floor on weekends.