The Bürgerbräukeller was a large beer hall

Beer hall

A beer hall is a large pub that specializes in beer. Bavaria's capital Munich is the city most associated with beer halls; almost every brewery in Munich operates a beer hall...

 located in Munich

Munich

Munich The city's motto is "" . Before 2006, it was "Weltstadt mit Herz" . Its native name, , is derived from the Old High German Munichen, meaning "by the monks' place". The city's name derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who founded the city; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat...

, Germany

Germany

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. It was one of the large beer halls of the Bürgerliches Brauhaus

Bürgerliches Brauhaus

Bürgerliches Brauhaus München Public Limited Company was a nineteenth-century large-scale brewery in Munich.It came into existence in 1880, when the Zenger Brewery of the Hierl family was transformed into a public limited company. Its first managing directors were the brothers Georg and Carl...

 company, and after Bürgerliches merged with Löwenbräu

Löwenbräu

Löwenbräu is a German brewery in Munich, Bavaria, Germany that produces a traditional Munich-style beer. It is currently owned by the American-Brazilian-Belgian company Anheuser-Busch InBev. Like other premium German beers, it is brewed according to the German "Reinheitsgebot" dating back to 1516...

, the hall was transferred to that company. It was located on Rosenheimer Street in the neighborhood of Haidhausen

Haidhausen (Munich)

Haidhausen is a suburb in Munich, Germany. It is now part of the borough —or stadtbezirk— number 5 Au-Haidhausen.-Location:Haidhausen is located above the suburb Au...

, behind today's Gasteig

Gasteig

Gasteig is a cultural center in Munich, opened in 1985, which hosts the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra. The Richard Strauss Conservatory, the Volkshochschule, and the municipal library are all located in the Gasteig...

 Culture Center. Today, the Hilton

Hilton Hotels

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 Munich City Hotel and the headquarter of GEMA

Gesellschaft für musikalische Aufführungs- und mechanische Vervielfältigungsrechte

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 are located on the property.

Nazi connection

From 1920 to 1923, the beer hall was one of the main gathering places of the Nazi Party. It was there, on 8 November 1923, that Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party , commonly referred to as the Nazi Party). He was Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945, and head of state from 1934 to 1945...

 launched the Beer Hall Putsch

Beer Hall Putsch

The Beer Hall Putsch was a failed attempt at revolution that occurred between the evening of 8 November and the early afternoon of 9 November 1923, when Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler, Generalquartiermeister Erich Ludendorff, and other heads of the Kampfbund unsuccessfully tried to seize power...

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After Hitler seized power in 1933, he commemorated each anniversary of the failed rebellion by giving a speech in the Bürgerbräukeller to the surviving veterans of the Putsch.

In 1939, an anti-Nazi workman, Georg Elser

Georg Elser

Johann Georg Elser was a German opponent of Nazism. He is most remembered for his unsuccessful attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler, but he also wanted to assassinate Hermann Göring and Joseph Goebbels in 1939....

, concealed a time bomb

Time bomb

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 in the Bürgerbräukeller, set to go off during Hitler's speech on 8 November. The bomb exploded, killing seven people and injuring sixty-three, but Hitler escaped unharmed; he had cut his speech short and left about half an hour early. Elser was arrested, imprisoned for 5 ½ years and executed shortly before the end of the war

World War II

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The building suffered severe structural damage from Elser's bomb and was never rebuilt. In subsequent years, Hitler held his annual Pustch commemoration gatherings at the Löwenbräu

Löwenbräu

Löwenbräu is a German brewery in Munich, Bavaria, Germany that produces a traditional Munich-style beer. It is currently owned by the American-Brazilian-Belgian company Anheuser-Busch InBev. Like other premium German beers, it is brewed according to the German "Reinheitsgebot" dating back to 1516...

keller at Stiglmaierplatz

Stiglmaierplatz

Stiglmaierplatz is a square in in Maxvorstadt close to Munich city centre and a U-Bahn station on the U1, opened on 28 May 1983-References:...

 instead.

Until the end of war in 1945, the Bürgerbräukeller was used for food storage. During the Allied occupation of Germany the building was converted into a USO. It was reopened as a beer hall and event

Party

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 location in 1958. The building was demolished in 1979 in favor of new construction, as were the nearby Münchner-Kindl-Keller and the Hofbräu

Hofbräuhaus

The Staatliches Hofbräuhaus in München is a brewery in Munich, Germany, owned by the Bavarian state government...

brewery. Today, a memorial plaque dedicated to Elser is located at the site.