title: Munich: City of the Arts
author: Hans F. Nohbauer
description: <div> <B>Hans F. N&#246;hbauer</B> is the author of various books on the history and culture of Bavaria, including the <I>The Chronicle of Bavaria</I>.<br> <BR> <B>Dr. N&#246;hbauer</B> is the arts editor of Abendzeitung, the prominent Munich daily. Achim Bunz was educated at the Academy for Photodesign in Munich. His photographs have been frequently published in leading European newspaper and magazines.<BR> </div>
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  # **Chapter 39**
  
  ### **_Peregrinatores Suspiciosi_**  
   ** _Munich, Bavaria_**
  
  Munchen. Unlike many German cities, it was not named for a castle, nor a
  mountain. _Monacum_ , the town of the monk. Leopold Cavriani paused long
  enough for Marc to take a good look.
  
  Munich was impressive, even compared to Nurnberg. Over the past couple of
  years, Marc had become accustomed to measuring every other town and city by
  the standard of Nurnberg--its population of forty thousand people, its
  churches, its civic buildings, its guild halls, its music. Jacob Durre was,
  passionately, a Nurnberg local patriot. He had managed to share part of his
  love of his adopted city with Marc. From his perspective, one of the greatest
  blessings that the coming of Grantville had brought to the Germanies was that
  in this world, the battle of the Alte Veste had not resulted in the deaths of
  about two-thirds of the population of 