Choosing which district of Munich to live in

I'm considering a move to Munich in the next few months. Although I have visited several times and know the city fairly well, I am unfamiliar with the residential areas.

Does anyone have any suggestions as to nice residential areas for living? I'm looking for something not too trendy or upscale, but fairly nice.

In general, I'm looking for a 3 room apartment (2 bedrooms) around 80 - 110 m2 with a price of between EUR800,00 and EUR1500,00 per month.

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Good luck

I can recommend the south of Munich - it is beautiful! Starnberg and all around the lake - it is great for outdoor activities and close to skiing. Good Luck on your search!

schwabing

or maxvorstadt

then of course there's schwabing

unless you want to live near the siegestor

then you could choose to live arond the pinakotheken area

accept no substitutes

I live in Obersendling on the edge of Solln in the south of munich and LOVE IT! It's right in Siemens "country". The people are down to earth not like the silly snobs around Schwabing where I lived my first year in Munich and hated it.

Plus it's only a 12 minute Ubahn ride to downtown Munich and a 5 minute car (or 10 minute bike) ride to forest and fields where I walk my dog everyday. It's also only 20 minutes by car to Starnberg lake.

I highly recommend this area. We have a terrific 3 bedroom 95 sq m apartment with elevator and balcony and garage for 1200/mo.

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i live just east of the river, about a 5-10 minute walk to the english gardens. The area is quieter and more residential than places like Schwabing but i love it here. Very handy for the motorway, the ring roads and U-bahn to town-centre (15 mins to Hauptbahnhof) and S-Bahn to airport.

Munich has all sorts of areas from lively "in" places to quiet residential and there are also some lovely places within a reasonable commutable distance, like Starnberg with its lake and mountain scenery.

Post a description of what you are looking for and we can help better, otherwise people are just going suggest places that fit their personal needs and not yours.

Anyway, hope you find what you are looking for!

I live in the Westend. It's dead here, but with prices just like the rest of the city centre.

Okay, so its obvious from other posts that Schwabing and Neuhausen seem to be popular places for TT'ers to live. But what are other areas like Maxvorstadt and Lehel like? Good places to live?

Related pages: Munich city districts and Child-friendly residential districts

Maxvorstadt is just south of Schwabing, so for the most part, you can consider it to be the same.

Haidhausen and Au are quite good areas. If you go to the Mr Lodge web site there is a good overview of each of the areas

Lehel, Lehel, Lehel.

Au, Au, Au

Haidhausen.

seriously, Lehel is a fantastic area but Au and Haidhausan are also very good. May be I am biased cuz I live around there when I Munich.

Glockenbach

More licensed premises than anywhere else in Munich!

I love Au!

I'll second the Glockenbach endorsement. Convenient access to pretty much anything.

The most desirable residential districts are actually outside Munich city limits.
Check out the rental prices for Starnberg, Tutzing etc. Outlying communities reached by the railways tend to cost more per month.

Hi there,

If you are talking about strictly (or almost) residential areas, I'd take a look at Nympheburg and Obermenzing. They are actually the areas in front and behind the Nymphenburg Schloss, respectively. The former has easy access to U-Bahn, and the latter to DB Pasing station. If I had to live in the city, that's where I'd start looking.
But live in Starnberg and love it. It's less than 30 km far from Munich's city center, but has all advantages of a small town. You can run all possible errands within 2 or 3 blocks. Also, probably because of the International School, Starnberg is the home to a proportionally large number of foreigners, specially Americans. So here it's ok *not* to speak German. At the bakery, post office, gas station, etc, clerks do speak English.

Cheers,
Maria

Glockenbachviertel (aka. "Innenstadt/Altstadt")

Been here over 6 months and love it. It is the gay heart of Munich which means loads of bars, restaurants etc. Quite beautiful, and a minute from the Victualienmarkt and Marienplatz. Best of all, you can be at the river in 5 mins. too.

ps. you don't need to be gay to live here.

where would the Schlachthofviertel be classified as? that's a neat area.

Schlachthof is the "new Glokenbach" and part of the same city admin district.
A bit cheaper than Glockenbach still. The one downside is that public transport isn't quite as good.

One of the nicest places to live in Munich is Bogenhausen. Very elegant district, quiet and lots of green. Maybe not popular but if you like quiet and green but yet want to remain in the city it is recommended. Not much going on there but some very nice restaurants and good transportation.

Can anyone offer up any comments on what it is like to live in Nymphenberg/Neuhausen or Pasing. I'm considering apartments in each, but am unfamiliar with what it is like to live in either place. I was originally looking closer to city center (e.g., Schwabing, Haidhausen, Bogenhausen) but these apartments are pretty appealing

The kind of input I'm looking for is: shopping, restaurant, bar, etc. availability, parks and ease of getting to the city center.

Any help is much appreciated.

Thanks!

Depends what kind of neighbours you want. If you want to make a noise late at night it might be best to stick to the city. Advantages of Haidhausen, Neuhausen, Schwabing are that you can walk a few mins to a bar and aren't faced with a taxi home in the early hours and the population is very mixed. I personally haven't got much against some of the cheaper areas like Giesing with high foreign population. Transport is ok and flats are cheaper. Worst of all is suburbia like Haar or Ottobrunn in my opinion - but even there times are changing.

I live out at Nymphenberg and I think it's fantastic. Good tram line coverage, night trams run thru there too. Nice to be able to wander around the back of the schloss on a sunny day, or cycle along the canalways. It's a very picturesque area.
It takes me 10 minutes on the tram to get to Hauptbahnhoff. There isn't heaps in terms of shopping that I've seen, but definitely enough for most of your needs. There are a few restaurants & bars, I haven't checked them out yet tho.

Anyone in the Erding area that can give thoughts on living there? I have a job in Feldkirchen that involves travel and it seems like a nice balance between the office and the airport. Or any other suggestions on that side of town, out skirts?

I have been told Markt Schwaben is nice as well.

Thalkirchen rocks! Zoo, Flaucher; nature and city in one!

I dont know much about the surroundings of Munich. In which district can I find the "young and lively? What area of town would you suggest and why?

I would honestly recommend anywhere. THere don't seem to be, in my humble opinion, any 'bad' spots. If you're planning to work here, I'd recommend obviously trying to find a place to stay near work, as Munich, perhaps compared to other international cities, isn't really huge. You can be almost anywhere within half an hour (ish) on public transport.

As for surrounding towns, most peoples opinion(i imagine), and mine is that between munich and the alps would be lovely.

n.b: Lovely is a pretty gay word for a bloke, correct?

if you can pull a place in Lehel, you've kicked a goal in my book.

If you dont live in Schwabing, you may as well not be living in Munich.

You can find the young and lively pretty much anywhere, but perhaps Schwabing / Maxvorstadt? That's where you have the uni, and so you'll find a lot young and lively students. Then again, a lot of them actually live out in Olympiapark in the student housing out there if I'm not mistaken...

Well 'young and lively' is probably Schwabing then

Where you (intend to) work really does make quite a difference. The public transport is very good but if you live on the 'wrong' side of town then you can end up with a long commute (especially if you intend to work at the airport).

I would recommend Neuhausen. Reasonably good access to the centre but close enough to the edge of the city that you can head south quite easily. Graefelfing/Grosshadern is also good but it depends how dependent you are on 'young and lively'. SW of the city probably doesn't quite fit that description although I like it (I'm not young or lively though)

What if I work at Munich Airport?...

Ismaning, Freising, Garching

or, outside Munich, Landshut

Will trade: Place in Westend for your place in Cape Town.

Ok, personal experiences are: Schwabing - very nice, lively, studenty and great for walks in English Gardens.

Bogenhausen - Nice, quiet on the river.

Lehel - Also nice and quiet on the river, bit more lively than Bogenhausen.

Westend - Not bad, getting better, a bit noisy, but good for walks.

Solln area - very very good place to bring up a family, but pricy and away from the city

Neuhausen - Nice too, bit noisy (main thoroufares through there), but lively and close to the city.

Thats a start. Grünwald would be a great place to bring up the billy lids, but unless you're a celebrity or own a company, just pass through.

Edit: didn't see the airport part. Freising is pretty ok, has its own brewery!

Wherever you decide to live here, most if not all parts of Munich are nice. I'm between Westend and Laim, and most people said it's a bit dull there before I moved in, but there's nothing wrong with it, in fact, it's peaceful, good neighbours and only 5 mins away from the city.

by the way, if you are coming from SA and decide to live in one of the smaller towns outside Munich, it could sadly make a difference if you are black or white

anywhere along the S8 or S1 lines really. Somewhere like Johanneskirchen has the advantage of a 20min train ride to the airport and a good connections to the city (25 mins to Marienplatz and 25 mins to Münchner Freiheit via Studentenstadt) but is rather more residential.

The closer you get to town, the longer ride to work but the easier it is for your social life. A good compromise might be somewhere in Haidhausen within walking distance of Ostbahnhof. The S8 to the airport goes through Ostbahnhof, you have good U-Bahn connections to the rest of the city as well, and Haidhausen is also a fairly lively place to live.

(With the A9 in the state it is at the moment, it is wise to consider the S-Bahn to the airport for communing).

If you work at the airport and don't have a car, then *don't* move to Schwabing. It will be one hell of a commute. I live in Ismaning and am relatively happy here, but I'm an old married lady (ok, oldish/youngish - 30s). I wouldn't exactly call it young and lively. I'd say, live anywhere along the S8, and if you want lively, then somewhere along the big S-bahn blob between Ostbahnhof and Pasing. The closer to Ostbahnhof from the middle of town, the shorter your work commute will be. Hauptbahnhof to the airport is about a 40ish minute ride.

Edit: On the other hand, if you live west of hauptbahnhof, then you can just take the S1, so west along the S1 is good, too. I don't know that side of town.

Anyway, if you're on the S8 or S1 anywhere, it'll be less than 45 minutes to work.

i live in Neuhausen (which is not noisy at all, thankyou mr mightypies) and work just 4 stops shy of the airport on the s1 - it's just a 10 minute walk to donnersbergerbrücke, no problem at all. i can heartily recommend it.
if you work at the airport you could easily live in Schwabing, if that's your desire - just stick to somewhere along the u2 (eg josephsplatz, hohenzollernplatz, or even scheidplatz) then you can just take the u2 up to feldmoching and change onto the s1 there - loads of people i work with do that.

GBV is not Innenstadt/Altstadt, it's Isarvorstadt... The Aldtstadt is surrounded by the Aldstadtring - the main road that goes by Isartor, Sendlingertor, Stachus, etc and GBV is to the south of that.

A great area that is filled with cool, relaxed people who won't correct you if you say they live in the Altstadt.

Having lived in Haidhausen/Au (on the border), and in the Altsdadt, let me cast my vote here for GBV - centraler, cooler and allround better than the others.

A little piece of Berlin in the heart of Munich.

Hello everyone.

I'm gonna be spending a couple of semesters in Munich and apparently the university isn't gonna help me to find a place to live , so I have to look on my own. It'd be amazing if you could tell me what areas are good and bad to live in, I don't wanna end up in a dodgy place. Areas close to the university are best too.

Sorry if this isn't the right forum to post this question

Topics merged by admin

here you go chucky... districts search

sorry Keydeck

munich veeeery dangerous. no come here. veeery bad place. too many police and old ladies.

and no search function in Toytown.

get yourself sorted with a flat share (WG) in Maxvorstadt or Schwabing
that's your best bet, I'd have thought

Easy Roommate might be a good place to start...don't be fooled by the name...

Hey Chris, you seem upset - did you advertise and not get what you wanted or something?

I wasn't implying it's a dangerous place, but every town has areas where it's not exactly nice to walk on your own at night.

and I'm still getting used to the forum.

Thanks to the admin who moved this and to the people who replied