The Beatles have an apartment in Munich. It is at Frauenstraße 16, opposite the Viktualienmarkt and right next door to the Victorian Tea House. Here are some photos of the name plate:
Clearly this can't be the original Beatles though. John Lennon and George Harrison are both dead.
Pity the address isn't Pfennig Gasse - the approximate German translation of "Penny Lane".
The following names have registered telephones at Frauenstrasse 16, i.e. in they are in the phone book:
- Regina Eggersdorfer
- Robert Obermaier
- Cocoon am Viktualienmarkt
- Robert Obermaier
- Julius Kerscher
- Finotto Corrado
- Café-Bistro du Marchaé
- Marianne Wundsam
- Benjamin Bauer
- Roland Wolf
- Felix Bredschneider
From the photo one can read the following names in addition to the Fab Four: Braun, Wundsam, Mangels, Sartorei, Jensen, Nunez. With the exception of Frau Wundsam there's practically no correlation between those "registered" at this address, and those shown on the doorbell. I do see that the plate shows "Vordergabäude", so there may be a ""Rückgebäude" at the same place with some of these folks, but even then the hit-rate is remarkably low (approx 10% of the German public are NOT in the phone book). And of course, would so many poeple with very English names be even likely to live in the same block?
The pictures above are from the nameplate of the "Vordergebäude". For the sake of completeness, here is the nameplate for the "Rückgebäude"
The names more or less match up with those listed above.
We assume that the flats are all rented out/owned by the same person and they put up the nameplates as a joke. Or that there were more buttons than flats and they decided on those as filler names.
Somehow I don't think that "We all live in Frauenstrasse 16, Frauenstrasse 16..." would have been a hit.
Or "In Frauenstrasse there is a barber showing photographs..."
See also:
- The Beatles are currently living in Munich - TT chat forum topic