München - Schwabing

The name "Swapinga" first appears in the records in 782, long before the foundation of Munich. At the beginning of the 19th C. Schwabing was still a mere village with little more than 500 inhabitants, but it began to develop after the construction of Ludwigstrasse, which linked it with Munich. In 1887 it acquired its municipal charter, but only four years later, in 1891, was incorporated into Munich.

Its fame as the artists' quarter of Munich began at the turn of the century, when painters, writers and poets, musicians and actors settled here, leading the vie de bohème in studios and the English Garden. The good citizens of Munich tended to regard them as layabouts, though many artists and writers who were by no means layabouts