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This inn and restaurant, named “Donisl” after its former tenant Dionysius Haertl, was built in 1795 as a beer tavern at the local market and is thus the oldest still existing tavern in Munich. In the Second World War, the building was completely destroyed and then rebuilt in 1954. In 1999, it became the property of “Bayerischer Hausbau”, who, in 2012, decided to renovate the building. It would have been unreasonable to simply renovate the poorly conserved existing structures of the traditional restaurant, so the building was torn down leaving only the façade. It was then completely redesigned and rebuilt by Hild und K Architekten. Now, just behind the wooden clad entrance area, the guestroom opens over two storeys. The inside courtyard is lined with columns and has cosy sitting niches. It is reminiscent of the pagoda-covered inner courtyards of Munich of old. The cityscape penetrates into the building and creates an urban courtyard in the middle of the house. Nowadays, this traditional form of architecture has largely disappeared. There is one other example, close to Marienplatz: the magnificent courtyard of the old mint (“Alte Münze”), now the headquarters of the Bavarian State Monument Office.
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