page_title: Altstadt (München)
section_title: Location
hierarchical_section_title: Altstadt (München) / Location
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: München - Blick vom Neuen Rathausturm zu St. Peter - September 2017This is a photograph of an architectural monument.It is on the list of cultural monuments of Bayern, no. D-1-62-000-5245
context_page_description: The Munich Old Town is part of the Bavarian capital Munich and has belonged to the city the longest, even if some places which are meanwhile districts of Munich, were mentioned long before Munich's documents spoke of the Old Town. The Old Town forms together with the district Lehel, the municipality No. 1 Altstadt-Lehel. The entire area of the Old Town is listed as both a historical ensemble as well as a historical monument listed in the Bavarian historical monument list.
context_section_description: Munich's old town district essentially corresponds to the area of Munich's historic city center, the area that was surrounded by Munich's city fortifications since the Middle Ages to the end of the 18th century. It is located on two plateau levels of the Munich gravel plain, the Hirschauterrasse, which formed the original floodbed of the Isar, and Old Town plateau located only a few meters higher on which the original city was founded. The sloping edge runs along the west side of Oberanger, Rosental, Viktualienmarkt, Sparkassenstraße and Marstallplatz and separates the upper from the lower Hofgarten (courtyard garden).
  The border of the Old Town is essentially formed by the Altstadtring. Exceptions are in the north course Galeriestraße - Odeonsplatz – Brienner Straße within the Altstadtring and in the southeast of the route Müllerstraße - Rumfordstraße outside the Altstadtring. The Old Town borders on four districts, which originally represented the continuation of the historic quarters outside the city wall: northeast is Lehel, formerly called St. Anna suburb or outer Graggenauer district, in the southeast is Isarvorstadt, formerly called outer Angerviertel (Anger quarter), in the Southwest is Ludwigsvorstadt, formerly called outer Hackenviertel, and in the northwest the Maxvorstadt, formerly called outer Kreuzviertel.
caption: View from the New Town Hall to St. Peter's Church
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