Rathaus-Glockenspiel
Mechanical carillon of forty-three bells and life-sized figures reenacting a royal wedding joust and a coopers' dance.
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This guide to the Rathaus-Glockenspiel in Munich follows the two scenes its forty-three bells and life-sized figures have performed above Marienplatz since 1908: knights jousting to reenact a 1568 ducal wedding, and barrel-makers dancing what's known as the Schafflertanz. You'll hear the legend behind that coopers' dance, involving a supposed plague in 1517, and what the actual documentary record from Munich's magistrate shows instead. Stay through to the end for the small golden rooster that closes the show.
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