Hotel Bayerischer Hof, Munich

The Bayerischer Hof on Promenadeplatz in the northwestern part of Munich is a five-star Grand Hotel.

Some of its renowned guests included Empress Elisabeth of Austria[2] and Sigmund Freud.

[4] The Bayerischer Hof was almost completely destroyed in an Allied air raid on April 25, 1944, with only the Spiegelsaal (Hall of Mirrors) surviving.

[1] On October 22, 1945, Hermann Volkhardt and his son Falk established Munich's first post-war restaurant in the Spiegelsaal.

Hermann Volkhart died in 1955, and Falk purchased the remaining 2/3 of the property from his two uncles by 1959.

From 1817 to 1933, the palace was the service building of the Bavarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (until 1918: State Ministry of the Royal Household and of Foreign Affairs) and from 1933 to 1945, the first official residence of the Bavarian State Chancellery.