Olympiapark
On Gingerguide's self-guided Munich audio tour, Olympiapark is a stop worth about ~90 min. Stand in front of it, press play for a short narrated story, and put any follow-up question to the built-in AI guide.
- Type landmark
- Suggested visit ~90 min
- Munich Munich guide
About Olympiapark
The green Olympic park of the 'cheerful' 1972 Games, under a famous floating tent roof and a 291-metre tower, a place of soaring optimism, and of remembrance for the massacre that broke it.
The Olympiapark München was built north of the city centre for the 1972 Summer Olympics, on a former airfield whose hills were shaped from the rubble of the bombed city. Conceived as the "cheerful Games," a democratic contrast to the 1936 Berlin Olympics, it is dominated by a sweeping translucent tent roof of cable-net and acrylic glass covering some 74,000 square metres, a landmark of modern architecture by the team of Günter Behnisch, Frei Otto and their engineers, and by the 291-metre Olympic Tower, opened in 1968. The park remains in lively use, drawing about four million visitors a year for concerts, sport and events. It was also the scene of the Munich massacre of 5-6 September 1972, when the Palestinian group Black September killed eleven members of the Israeli team and a West German police officer; a place of remembrance opened in the park in 2017.
Did you know? The park's rolling green hills are not natural: they were piled up from the rubble of Munich's war-bombed buildings and grassed over, so the whole landscape is, quite literally, built on the ruins of the old city.
How much time do you need at Olympiapark?
Around ~90 min works well for Olympiapark — time to look properly and listen to its story on the spot. Linger if you like; nothing on a self-guided walk is on a clock.
Should you stop at Olympiapark?
Yes — Olympiapark made the cut as one of 26 places the Gingerguide team researched and narrated across Munich. The story tells you why it is worth the stop, and the AI guide fills in anything you still wonder.
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