DE-4349798 Hofgarten in Munich (München) Germany

The Hofgarten (Court Garden) is a garden in the centre of Munich, Germany. The garden was built in 1613–1617 by Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria as an Italian style Renaissance garden. In the centreof the garden is a pavilion for the goddess Diana built in 1615.

The garden was destroyed during World War II and was rebuilt with a partial redesign which compromised between the landscape garden character it had acquired in the nineteenth century and the original formal design of the seventeenth century.

Nowadays the garden is open to the public and is very popular with both residents and tourists alike.

This postcard came from Dietmar (15 July 2015) Postcrossing and it shows the Hofgarten in winter.  Dietmar wrote that in summer it becomes a beer garden.