Marienplatz & New Town Hall Glockenspiel

Marienplatz / Neues Rathaus

Watch the tower's clockwork show, then ride up the town hall tower

Hours

Square always open. Glockenspiel daily 11am and noon, plus 5pm Mar–Oct. Tower daily 10am–8pm (last ascent 7:40pm)

Tickets

Square and show free. Tower from €7 (muenchen.de, 2026), sold on site

Address

Dead centre of the Old Town; the New Town Hall fills the whole north side of the square

The soot-dark neo-Gothic town hall walls off one whole side of the square, and it is the 'new' one, finished in 1905. Two or three times a day the Glockenspiel starts up on the tower's balconies: a 1568 ducal wedding joust on the upper level, the coopers' dance turning below, all to bells. It runs about ten minutes and it's honestly modest, but a square full of tilted heads is part of the show. Afterwards take the lift up the town hall tower for a straight-on view of the Frauenkirche's twin domes.