Flaucher

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.