GIESING (München)??

Question

what do you know about the Munich neighborhood of Giesing??

Answer 1

It's mildly famous for being the place where the first Mc Donald's in Germany opened, but that's trivia rather than actual knowledge.

According to info on the official Munich site

http://www.muenchen.de/verticals/Stadtte...

Giesing was first mentioned in 790 AD, which makes it older than Munich itself. It used to be a farming village, which became part of the city of Munich around 1850. On one of the Giesing cemeteries, the members of teh White Rose are buried - that was a well-known group of students who were executed for fighting against the n**i regime.

The site also says that after WW 2, an area mainly populated by US citizens grew around McGraw barracks. Ever since 1956 they hold a "Little Oktoberfest" around the 4th of July - a tradition that is still alive, even now that US troops are no longer stationed there.