Film and TV locations in Bavaria
44 places to shoot in Bavaria, Germany: 7 transport and infrastructure locations, 6 hotels and hotel interiors, 6 theatres, arenas and venues and 25 more. 22 have a photo and 34 carry practical details the location publishes itself.
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- Transport and infrastructure 7
- Hotels and interiors 6
- Theatres, arenas and venues 6
- Bars, restaurants and shops 6
- Industrial and derelict locations 5
- Film studios and backlots 4
- Offices, schools and public buildings 4
- Hospitals, prisons and institutions 4
- Houses and apartments 1
- Castles and estates 1
Bahnpark Augsburg
Transport & infrastructure
Former Deutsche Bahn depot in Augsburg with track fan, roundhouse, steam locomotive shed, forge, old bunkers and historic rolling stock including a mail coach.
1,350 sq m of listed halls plus 10,000 sq m open ground, 9.4 m hall height, drive in access, 40 parking spaces, 16 A and 32 A outlets
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Bayerisches Eisenbahnmuseum
Transport & infrastructure
A former steam locomotive depot at Nordlingen with a working roundhouse, turntable and yard of preserved steam and diesel engines.
Donau-Einkaufszentrum
Bar, restaurant & shop
Large shopping centre in Regensburg with 140 shops, wide malls, planted light wells and fountains, an attached health centre and a spiral car park ramp.
82,000 sq m lettable area on a 102,000 sq m site, 3,600 free parking spaces, sections of car park can be closed off, outlets throughout
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Fuenf Hoefe
Bar, restaurant & shop
Shopping and office quarter in central Munich by Herzog and de Meuron, with five courtyards and glazed arcades, hanging planting in the Salvator passage and a suspended steel sphere in the Viscardihof.
48,000 sq m in total with 17,000 sq m retail, 25,000 sq m offices and a 3,200 sq m art hall, no parking inside the building
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Fuggerei
House & apartment
Walled social housing settlement in Augsburg founded in 1521 and still in use, with 67 houses, 142 flats, its own church and lanes that read as a town within the town.
Lorry access possible, six parking spaces on site, 16 A and 32 A power
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Hotel Bayerischer Hof
Hotel & interiors
Grand hotel on Promenadeplatz in the Munich old town with 337 rooms, 74 suites, 40 banqueting and conference rooms, five restaurants, six bars, a rooftop spa, a theatre stage, a cinema and a night club.
Capacity: 2500 · Underground car park at the hotel, unproblematic access, 16 A, 32 A and 64 A power
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Justizpalast Munich
Hospital, prison & institution
A neo-baroque courthouse from 1897 housing Munich's higher regional court, with a domed atrium, marble stairways and panelled courtrooms.
Kempinski Hotel Berchtesgaden
Hotel & interiors
Modern hotel at 1,000 metres in the Berchtesgaden Alps, with 138 rooms and suites, two restaurants, a fireplace bar and a spa of 1,400 sq m.
Capacity: 138
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Kongresshalle Reichsparteitagsgelaende
Office, school & public building
Unfinished Nazi congress hall of 1935 to 1940 modelled on the Colosseum, 39 metres high and 240 by 200 metres outside, in bare brick with granite facing, with long corridors and colonnades around an open inner circle.
Very large spaces, storage areas, lift and sanitary facilities, extensive parking, normal and three phase power
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Ludwig Maximilian University Main Building
Office, school & public building
Main building of Munich's LMU built from 1835 to 1840 by Friedrich von Gaertner, with lecture halls, the Grosse Aula and interiors mixing historicism, art nouveau and neoclassicism, facing Geschwister-Scholl-Platz.
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Max-Morlock-Stadion
Theatre, arena & venue
Nuremberg stadium completed in 1928 in Bauhaus style, home of 1. FC Nuernberg, with a red 400 metre running track around the pitch and a three storey VIP and media building.
Capacity: 50000
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Memorium Nuremberg Trials
Hospital, prison & institution
The Nuremberg Palace of Justice, still a working courthouse, whose historic Courtroom 600 hosted the postwar Nuremberg trials and is now also a memorial museum.
Seen in: Nuremberg trials (historical)
Mueller'sches Volksbad
Theatre, arena & venue
Art nouveau public baths opened in Munich in 1901 and kept in original condition, with two pools, a Roman Irish steam bath, tub and shower baths and a Finnish sauna.
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Munich Airport
Transport & infrastructure
Airport opened in 1992 with two terminals and a satellite pier, 120 aircraft stands, five multi storey car parks and the covered MAC forum of 10,000 sq m used for shoots and events.
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MVG Museum
Transport & infrastructure
Listed former tram workshop hall of over 5,000 sq m in Munich Ramersdorf, holding 25 historic trams, buses and works vehicles from several periods plus a small cinema room.
40 parking spaces beside the hall, further spaces can be hired, power up to 130 kW
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Neuschwanstein Castle
Castle & estate
Nineteenth-century Romanesque revival castle rising from a wooded Alpine crag above the village of Hohenschwangau.
Seen in: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, The Great Escape, Ludwig (1973)
Schlenkerla Brauereigaststaette
Bar, restaurant & shop
Brewery tavern in a timber framed house in the Bamberg old town with five rooms and a beer garden, including a bar room of 1405 and a vaulted Dominican hall painted in 1310.
Capacity: 300
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Turm Triva
Hospital, prison & institution
Fortress tower in the Klenzepark at Ingolstadt built between 1828 and 1841 to designs by Leo von Klenze, restored in 1992 and now holding the Bavarian Police Museum.
About 1,000 sq m, parking in the Tilly underground car park, low entrance limits lorry access, weight limits apply
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U-Bahnhof Westfriedhof
Transport & infrastructure
Munich underground station opened in 1998 under Orpheusstrasse in Moosach, lit by eleven dome lamps of 3.8 metres by Ingo Maurer that wash the platform in blue, red and yellow.
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Viktualienmarkt
Bar, restaurant & shop
Munich's permanent daily food market next to the old town, with stalls, a beer garden and a maypole, run by the city as a public market square.
Z-Bau Haus fuer Gegenwartskultur
Theatre, arena & venue
Former Nazi era barracks block in Nuremberg with a large car park, now a culture house with three concert stages, one a high ceilinged industrial style hall, plus bars, workshops and studios with graffiti inside and out.
5,500 sq m indoors and outdoors, access for lorries and articulated vehicles, large parking area, 16 A to 64 A outlets
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Zenith Halle
Theatre, arena & venue
Listed iron framed works hall built between 1916 and 1918 in Munich Freimann, used in turn as a Krupp press shop, a railway boiler smithy and an S-Bahn repair works, now a concert hall.
4,130 sq m, 11 m ceiling height, drive in access for cars and lorries, 16 A and 32 A power
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Albrecht Duerer Airport Nuremberg
Transport & infrastructure
Bavaria's second airport, running around the clock with two departure halls, one arrivals hall, three multi storey car parks and open views onto the apron from the parking decks.
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Andaz Munich Schwabinger Tor
Hotel & interiors
Design hotel on Leopoldstrasse in Schwabing with the highest rooftop bar in Munich, looking over the city towards the Alps.
Parking for vehicles up to 7.5 t, level delivery access
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Backstage Munich
Theatre, arena & venue
Event and culture centre of about 5,500 sq m on the former AGA Gas works site in Munich, split into Werk, Halle, Club and arena areas plus an open air stage, with the industrial fabric largely kept.
Indoor areas of about 800, 350, 150 and 1,200 sq m, no access restrictions, ample on site parking, standard supply to 63 A
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Bavaria Studios Munich
Studio & backlot
Twelve sound stages from 150 to 3,150 square metres at the Bavaria Filmplatz in Grunwald near Munich, including the large Wolfgang Petersen hall, for film, TV and commercial shoots.
Capacity: 1500 · Studio 1: 550 m2; Studio 2: 875 m2; Studio 3: 875 m2; Studio 4/5: 2,100 m2; Studio 6: 750 m2; Studio 7: 750 m2; Studio 8: 300 m2; Studio 9 (Wolfgang...
bayernhafen Nuremberg
Transport & infrastructure
Inland freight port and logistics centre on the Main Danube Canal covering 337 hectares, with harbour basins, gantry cranes, a container terminal and about 260 companies on site.
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Bergson Kunstkraftwerk
Industrial & derelict
Former 1940 heating plant in Munich Aubing turned into a culture venue, with a 25 metre boiler hall in brick, glass and steel next to a concert hall, gallery, club and beer garden.
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Deutsches Museum
Office, school & public building
Large science and technology museum on an island in the Isar in Munich, with historic machine halls, a planetarium and collections spanning mining to aerospace.
Gaswerk Augsburg
Industrial & derelict
Coal gasworks of 1915 in Augsburg Oberhausen, kept almost complete across about 18 hectares, with gasholders, brick workshops and open yards.
Site of about 18 hectares, power supply on request
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Hotel Maximilian's Augsburg
Hotel & interiors
Long established 132 room hotel on Maximilianstrasse in central Augsburg, formerly the Drei Mohren, listed in the Bavarian film commission catalogue.
Multi storey car park directly behind the building, 64 A power
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Hotel Vier Jahreszeiten Kempinski Munich
Hotel & interiors
Grand hotel on Maximilianstrasse open since 1858, with a listed facade, 300 rooms and suites, lobby, two restaurants, a new spa, a smokers' lounge and the Hemingway Bar.
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Kraftzentrale Straubing
Industrial & derelict
Listed 1952 power house of a former roof tile works in Straubing, with boiler and machine halls used for concerts and events since the plant closed in 1992.
275 sq m usable floor, about 50 car spaces in front, unrestricted lorry access, 64 A three phase supply
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Kunstlabor 2
Hospital, prison & institution
Former municipal health building of 1963 on Dachauer Strasse in Munich, taken over as a temporary art centre over six floors with bare rooms, street art, floor to ceiling windows and 6.5 metre ceilings.
About 10,000 sq m over six floors plus 6,800 sq m outside, 180 sq m event room, 400 sq m showroom, two courtyards of about 270 sq m
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Merkurdome
Office, school & public building
Former publishing house and office site with halls at Wolfratshausen south of Munich, kept as a standing set for police stations, newsrooms, cells, hospital rooms and operating theatres.
200 sq m of set or production rooms plus halls of 1,000 and 540 sq m up to 12 m high, power and water outside for catering, 16 A and 64 A
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Muellverwertungsanlage Ingolstadt
Industrial & derelict
Working waste to energy plant of 1977 with furnaces, tipping ramps, pipework, ventilation plant, cranes and chimneys, described by the film commission as a repeat filming location.
About 16,000 sq m, lorry access, 16 A, 32 A and 64 A power
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Olympiapark München
Theatre, arena & venue
1972 Olympic park in Munich with a tent-roofed stadium, hall and swimming venue around an artificial hill and lake, still used for concerts and sporting events.
The venue offers halls and spaces for 100 to 10,000 or more people, including the Olympiastadion (Olympic Stadium), Olympiahalle, Kleine Olympiahalle...
Penzing Studios
Studio & backlot
Six sound stages from about 290 to 5,540 square metres, including a 478 square metre LED volume, on a former airbase near Landsberg am Lech, with backlot space across the 270 hectare site.
Stage 1: 1,580 m2, 7.9-8.9 m; Stage 2: 291 m2 (20.32 x 14.32 m), 5.43 m, with a 478 m2 LED wall at 2.6 mm pixel pitch (Hyperbowl virtual production...
Platzl Hotel Munich
Hotel & interiors
Family run four star hotel next to the Hofbraeuhaus in the Munich old town, with 167 rooms, seven conference rooms, corridors, lobby, bars and restaurant refurbished since 2015.
Underground car park with 55 spaces at 1.85 m clearance, inner courtyard of about 150 sq m with vehicle access up to 3.4 m, 32 A power
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Schumann's Bar am Hofgarten
Bar, restaurant & shop
Munich bar by the Hofgarten finished in shell limestone, serpentine, American walnut and grained leather, with a ground floor bar room, the Camparino side room and a first floor bar.
Main room about 150 sq m, Camparino about 25 sq m, upstairs bar about 20 sq m, large lorry access, 16 A power
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Studio Balan
Studio & backlot
Munich rental stage of 320 sq m with a cyclorama 7 metres high, wide and deep, a full height window wall for daylight work, full blackout and level drive in access for vehicles.
320 sq m stage, 7 m cyclorama, open kitchen and catering area, public car park opposite, 16 A, 32 A and 64 A power
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Westerham Factory
Studio & backlot
Loft studio in a former paper mill south east of Munich, with a column free hall, exposed concrete floor and a glazed gallery at 4 metres.
250 sq m ground floor plus 50 sq m gallery, parking in front of the hall, lorry access to the hall, 16 A and 32 A power
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Wiede-Fabrik
Industrial & derelict
Former gasworks in Munich Johanneskirchen used since 1992 as an artists' factory, with about 2,000 sq m of built space, some 25 studios from 35 to 250 sq m and open green yards.
Access for all common vehicle types, limited parking, extra car park for about 50 vehicles can be hired, house supply or generator
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Wirtshaus im Schlachthof
Bar, restaurant & shop
Listed 1879 brick building in the Munich slaughterhouse quarter, with dark board floors, original panelling, cast iron columns and four rooms plus a small tavern garden.
Four rooms of about 200, 100, 50 and 50 sq m, lorry access, delivery ramp, limited free parking around the house, 16 A power
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