page_title: Englischer Garten
section_title: Rumford-Saal
hierarchical_section_title: Englischer Garten / Sights and attractions / Rumford-Saal
caption_attribution_description: Englischer Garten - München Das Rumfordhaus, ein klassizistisches Gebäude im Englischen Garten. Es ist benannt nach dem Reichsgrafen von Rumford, Sir Benjamin Thompson.
context_page_description: The Englischer Garten is a large public park in the centre of Munich, Bavaria, stretching from the city centre to the northeastern city limits. It was created in 1789 by Sir Benjamin Thompson, later Count Rumford, for Prince Charles Theodore, Elector of Bavaria. Thompson's successors, Reinhard von Werneck and Friedrich Ludwig von Sckell, advisers on the project from its beginning, both extended and improved the park.
  With an area of 3.7 km², the Englischer Garten is one of the world's largest urban public parks. The name refers to its English garden form of informal landscape, a style popular in England from the mid-18th century to the early 19th century and particularly associated with Capability Brown.
context_section_description: A little to the north of the Chinesischer Turm, the Rumford-Saal (Rumford Hall) or Rumfordhaus (Rumford House) is a small building in Palladian style.  During its construction it was known as the "großer Saal" (great hall) or "Militairsaal" (military hall); but it was later renamed to honour the garden's founder, Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford.  It was built in 1791 by Lechner as an officers' mess (Offiziers-kasino) and was used first by the army, later by the court.  The building, 30 m long and 10 m wide, has one and a half storeys; front and back have a portico with six wooden Ionic pillars. Its dining hall, adorned with many mirrors which give it its name, the "Spiegelsaal" (mirror room), has room for 150 people. The building is currently used by the city of Munich as a children's centre ("Kinderfreizeitstätte").
caption: Rumford-Saal
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