Sonnenbergstraße
Sonnenbergstraße 6, the Mittertennhaus “zum Oberen Laras”, dates back to 1658. It was one of the few houses to have survived both of the great fires in 1863 and 1865 and it is still in use to this day as a working farmhouse.
Passing by, you might even catch a cow’s head poking out from one of the windows — windows surrounded with lüftlmalerei by Sepp Guggemoos.
At the Bavarian State Archives online, you can see photos of this building as it and its Fensterumrahmungen looked before being redone by Guggemoos, in 1910-1920 and in 1968.
Sonnenbergstraße 7, the former Schweizerhaus — nicknamed the “Swiss House” because of its architectural style — was once a part of the Gasthof zu Post, and was often the overnight rest stop of King Maximilian II and Ludwig II on their sojourns to their mountain retreat, the Schachen Castle.
In 1906, this building became the “Dairy Werdenfels”. Its owner also had the kings’ bedroom restored in 1908 to keep it in its historical condition.
Today, a lüftlmalerei painted by Sepp Googemoos reminds us of this buildings’ history — above a Bavarian cowherd with two cows and the Alpspitze massif behind him, a banner reads: From 1881-85, Bavarian King Ludwig II spent the night here in the former “Swiss House” on his trips to Schachen.
The lüftlmalerei of the cowherd and cows is reminiscent of Heinrich Bickel’s mural on a completely different building.
Sonnenbergstraße 10/12, Gasthof Schatten.
Stephan Pfeffer, 2005.
At the Bavarian State Archives online, you can see a photograph of this hotel before its expansion and the present lüftlmalerei were painted.
Sonnenbergstraße 15.
Sundial.
Sonnenbergstraße 18.
Fensterumrahmungen by Otto Ertl, 2013.
Sonnenbergstraße 35.
Saint Anthony, K. Marchlowitz, 1983.
