Flaucher
Gravel-banked river park along the Isar, with a historic beer garden and a legal riverside naturist stretch.
Location
About this audio guide
This guide to the Flaucher in Munich starts in 1847, when the city opened its first public bathhouse but barred women from it on grounds of propriety, a rule that held for three decades. It follows the riverside women's bath that finally opened here in 1875 through wars and bombing, and traces how this gravel stretch of the Isar earned its name from Johann Flaucher, the innkeeper who turned an old hunting lodge into a beer garden. You'll walk the same banks that later became the setting for a very different argument about bodies and the open air.
This audio guide was created using AI.
Similar places
Müller’sches Volksbad (Hallenbad)
Neo-Baroque Art Nouveau bathhouse of two barrel-vaulted pools, murals and bronze statues, built for the city's poor in nineteen oh one.
Monopteros im Englischen Garten
Ten-columned Greek-style round temple atop a man-made hill, prized as a scenic overlook and 1960s counterculture gathering spot.
English Garden
Sprawling city park with a river standing wave famous for urban surfing, plus temples and beer gardens.
Waldwirtschaft
Self-service beer garden shaded by chestnut trees on a bluff above the Isar, known for live jazz.
SEEHAUS im Englischen Garten
Lakeside beer garden and restaurant beneath old chestnut trees, with terrace seating right on the water.
Biergarten am Chinesischen Turm
Pagoda-topped beer garden under chestnut trees, site of a dawn dance once banned for indecency.