Griesstraße
Griesstraße 1 was famous for decades for the Cafe Bauer and its “Bavarian evenings” — the Garmisch counterpart to the the Gasthof Frauendorfer on Ludwigstraße in Partenkirchen.
The multi-figured facade fresco was created in 1951 by Heinrich Bickel with his of daughter Moidele, and shows socializing Garmisch locals. A standard-bearer waves a banner with the inscription “Bayerischer Abend” (“Bavarian Evening”). Ringing the entire building, numerous farmers carousing and dancing cheerfully, while the landlord is tapping the beer keg.1
The Cafe Bauer closed, however, in the 1970s.
Griesstraße 3a.
Griesstraße 4, now home to the restaurant and Gästhaus zur Schranne, was originally a grain warehouse built in 1610.
Around 1840, the community acquired the house. Because of its crane and scale, it began to handle the community grain trade. It also housed a fire brigade, and an infirmary.
Ironically, a fire during renovation destroyed everything in 1854, and the entire building had to be rebuilt.
In 1984, the inn was expanded and the the community scales and the fire house were lost to make more room for the restaurant.
Today, on the wall outside, a large lüftlmalerei by artist Franz Winterhöller depicting the traditional community grain scales that used to be here, painted in 1985.
Around the corner, the coat of arms for Bavaria.
Griesstraße 5, Fensterumrahmungen and a tondo of Madonna with child by K. Erhardt.
Griesstraße 8 has three sets of lüftlmalerei on three sides of the building, incorporating three separate styles of lüftlmalerei.
Facing Griesstraße, two medallions: one of Saint Mary holding an infant Jesus, and another, her husband, Saint Joseph.
Around the corner, a realistic looking college, an anvil, a weather vein on top of a dome, a dragon shaped water spout, and the Bavarian flag by Gerhard Esther painted in 1993.
Griesstraße 10.
Griesstraße 10/10a.
Griesstraße 12.
What is now the home of the Bollywood Indian restaurant, a plaque on the wall outside notes the history of the building since it was first built more than 400 hundred years ago, some time around 1600.
Griesstraße 16.
Griesstraße 18.
On the wall facing Griesstraße, a medallion painted by Heinrich Bickel in 1935 depicting Mary with a young Jesus and John the Baptist.
Griesstraße 20, Gästehaus Angela.
Lüftlmalerei by Karin Rudolf, 2011.
- Härtl, Rudolf. Heinrich Bickel - Der Freskenmaler von Werdenfels. Adam Verlag, 1990, p. 70: "Von ähnlicher Freude am geselligen Beisammensein Garmischer Einheimischer erzählt das vielfigurige, im Jahre 1951 (unter Mitarbeit der Tochter Moidele) entstandene Fassadenfresko am ehem. Cafe Bauer in der Garmischer Griesstraße. Ein Fahnenträger schwingt ein Banner mit der Aufschrift “Bayerischer Abend”. Daneben zechen und tanzen zahlreiche Bäuerinnen und Bauern in unbeschwerter Fröhlichkeit, während der Wirt gerade das Bierfaß anzapft."