The Olympiaberg has never been so full: during two Taylor Swift concerts in the Olympic Stadium in 2024, tens of thousands of fans made the pilgrimage to the nearby hills to listen to the music and celebrate.
In 1967, Olympic hill was still a 50-meter-high mountain of rubble. After the end of the Second World War, the rubble of the destroyed city was piled up here.
Olympic Lake and Hill
The 8.6 hectare Olympic Lake was created by damming the Nymphenburg-Biederstein Canal, which was built in the 18th century. The lake shore runs in a variety of curved shapes and forms peninsulas, bays and narrow passages. Bridges and footbridges provide crossings and access. There is a bird island in the western part of the water. The lake also serves to collect the masses of water from the sealed surfaces during heavy rain. The Olympic Hill, artificially created from the rubble of the Second World War, is based on the Alpine foothills in its design. Munich's highest elevation (565 meters above sea level) measures 60 meters to the summit and is a popular viewing point. The Olympic Hill ('Olympiaberg') completes the classic Olympic triad of sports facility, lake and hill. The landscape architect Günther Grzimek wanted visitors to appropriate the park and the hill, to take possession of it as a functional landscape and to design it themselves in the form of footpaths.
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Builder: Organising Committee for the Olympic Games in Munich, 1972