Elisabethmarkt

This guide to the Elisabethmarkt in Munich follows Dr. Carl Brendel, who stood here at five each morning around 1900 pouring free milk for anyone who would take it, fighting infant mortality and the era's unsafe drinking water at once. It traces the market's founding on Elisabethplatz in 1903, named for Empress Elisabeth of Austria, and the small building locals nicknamed the Milchhäusl that still stands at its edge. Look for the pavilions renovated as recently as 2024, standing around that one small nineteenth-century building.