Pasing: Cultural Venues, the Würm and City Park

When looking for a hotel in Pasing, you can first sort the interests you want to shape your stay: green spaces along the Würm, cultural offerings or historic sites. Pasing offers a range of options. A look at parks, performance venues and architectural history can help you decide what to focus on during your trip.

Green spaces along the Würm

Pasing City Park is a protected recreational area along the Würm. It covers around 20 hectares and stretches for 1.5 kilometres. Meadows, groups of trees and a small lake shape the landscape, alongside playgrounds and a summer curling lane. At the same time, the park is a habitat for a diverse range of plant and animal life. Its size, varied landscape features and recreational amenities give the city park its distinctive character.

Magdalenenpark lies right beside the Würm and close to Pasing’s Marienplatz. It is a former monastery garden. Small wooden plaques inserted into the ground identify the plants. On a small hill stands the wooden chapel “House of Prayer,” with a figure of Jesus. Compared with Pasing City Park, the garden’s former use, plant labels and chapel stand out here as distinctive features.

Culture and architectural history

Pasinger Fabrik GmbH was founded by the city council in 1991 and is a cultural and community centre run by the City of Munich. Its programme includes exhibitions, opera, touring theatre productions, concerts, film and festivals. The rooms of the former Ritterwerke at Pasinger Fabrik offer almost 600 square metres of exhibition space for contemporary art exhibitions. The diverse programme and the dedicated exhibition space are two distinct aspects of the cultural offering.

Chapels and churches also tell the story of different periods in Pasing’s history. The Johann Nepomuk Chapel on the Pasing Würm Bridge was built by Count von Berchem in 1700, destroyed during the Second World War, and restored to its former state and consecrated in 1963. Until the new parish church of Maria Schutz in Bäckerstraße was blessed, Mariä Geburt served as Pasing’s parish church. This history therefore spans both an earlier parish function and the construction and blessing of a new parish church.

The Maria am Wege Chapel, also known as the Förg Chapel, was built in 1902. Its apse features gold star decoration on a lapis lazuli-blue background; it invites visitors to pray in silence. Maria Schutz in Pasing is best known for its impressive Madonna of the Protective Mantle. The original statue on Pasing’s Marian Column has been regilded, and the figure of Mary now faces east towards Munich’s Marienplatz. Each of these places has its own distinctive feature: from a special apse decoration to the Madonna of the Protective Mantle and the orientation of the figure of Mary.

Squares, market and getting around

Pasing’s Marienplatz has largely been converted into a pedestrian zone and connected to the adjacent traffic-calmed areas. Pasing Viktualienmarkt is in a courtyard beside Pasing Town Hall that survived the last war. On 400 square metres, the market offers bread, cheese, fish, meat, flowers and herbs, among other fresh foods. Its range brings together food, flowers and herbs; the courtyard setting and location beside the town hall also define the site.

Pasing Station Square is a public transport hub. It is home to the terminus of tram line 19, a central bus stop area and access tunnels to the railway. The square therefore offers a different point of reference from the pedestrian zone at Pasing’s Marienplatz: here, the focus is on its transport function.

The Pasing-Obermenzing Cultural and Historical Trail offers an urban route and a green route for exploring the district along the Würm. The two routes focus on different aspects of the district. Individual addresses also add to this picture of local history: Alois Ebenböck lived at Ebenböckstraße 11. A waxworks and a wax-bleaching works once stood there; today, it houses the office of Pasinger Archiv e.V.

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