Bürgerbräukeller

The Bürgerbräukeller was located in Munich, Germany, and by 1923 was one of the preferred gathering places of the NSDAP, or Nazi Party.

It was one of the large beer halls of the Bürgerliches Brauhaus public limited company, and after its merger with Löwenbräu, the hall was transferred to that company. It was from there that Adolf Hitler launched his Beer Hall Putsch and marched to the Feldherrnhalle in 1923. After 1933, Hitler delivered a speech to the participants of his earlier failed coup, every November 8. It was there on November 8, 1939, that he barely escaped an assassination attempt. Seven people were killed and sixty-three injured by a bomb blast, but Hitler escaped unharmed, because he had left the gathering a few minutes earlier than planned. The would-be assassin Georg Elser was executed in the Dachau concentration camp on April 9, 1945.

The structure was severely damaged at the time of the assassination attempt and never reconstructed, [However, Hitler did return to deliver a speech on November 8, 1942 in relation to Stalingrad] . It was located on Rosenheimer Street in the neighborhood of Haidhausen, roughly between today's Gasteig Culture Center and the Hotel City Hilton. Today a memorial plaque dedicated to Georg Elser can be found there. Look for the water sculpture of a tuba and then proceed about 5 meters towards the Hotel City. The plaque is on the ground adjacent to the archway.