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Roots Earth in Ismaning: audio stories about 24 places

Roots Earth has audio stories about 24 places in Ismaning, Germany, in Europe. The Ismaning stories are in all seven Roots Earth languages: English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch and Albanian. The app needs no account: open Ismaning, pick a place on the city's map of places and play. Download a city's audio, then it plays without a connection. The stories are written by local people.

The 24 places are listed below in the order the app shows them, and again further down with their coordinates and their local names. The lists were taken from the Roots Earth catalogue on 15 September 2026.

Published 16 September 2026. Markdown: ismaning.md

The 24 places in Ismaning with audio stories

In the order the app shows them, with the local name after the English one where the catalogue carries one.

  1. Ismaning Palace (Schloss Ismaning)
  2. Ismaning Palace Park (Schlosspark Ismaning)
  3. Ismaning Palace Museum (Schlossmuseum Ismaning)
  4. Kallmann Museum (Kallmann-Museum)
  5. Palace Pavilion (Municipal Gallery); locally Schlosspavillon (Gemeindegalerie)
  6. Parish Church of St. John the Baptist (Pfarrkirche St. Johann Baptist)
  7. Seidl Mill Cultural Center (Kulturzentrum Seidl-Mühle)
  8. Ismaning Water Tower (Wasserturm Ismaning)
  9. Ismaning Transmitter (Blosenberg); locally Sender Ismaning (Blosenberg)
  10. Ismaning Reservoir (Ismaninger Speichersee)
  11. Goldachhof Estate (Gut Goldachhof)
  12. Gasthof zur Muehle (Historic Inn); locally Gasthof zur Mühle (historischer Gasthof)
  13. World War I Memorial (Kriegerdenkmal Erster Weltkrieg)
  14. War Memorial 1866/1870-71 (Kriegerdenkmal 1866/1870-71)
  15. Daschanwesen (Former Palace Stables); locally Daschanwesen (ehemalige Schlossstallungen)
  16. Old Cemetery (Alter Friedhof)
  17. Buergersaal Civic Hall (Bürgersaal Ismaning)
  18. Ismaning Media Park (Medienpark Ismaning)
  19. Museum of Mishaps (Museum der Missgeschicke)
  20. Aviators' Wayside Shrine (1918); locally Bildstock der Flieger (1918)
  21. Raft Disaster Memorial Stone (1907); locally Gedenkstein zum Floßunglück (1907)
  22. Plague Column (Distance Column); locally Pestsäule (Distanzsäule)
  23. Beim Torfbahnhof (Peat Railway House); locally Beim Torfbahnhof (Haus der Torfbahn)
  24. Isar Floodplains (Isarauen)

Is there an audio guide for Ismaning Palace?

Yes. Ismaning Palace has its audio stories in the Roots Earth app: a short introduction and a deeper story, in English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch and Albanian.

It is place 1 of the 24 Ismaning places in the app, at 48.2281, 11.6741. Every one of the other 23 places in the list above has the same two stories.

Roots Earth is not a guided tour: you choose the place on the city's map of places and play its story yourself.

How to use Roots Earth in Ismaning

Open Roots Earth and choose Ismaning. The city has its own map of places with all 24 of them on it. Tap the place you are standing in front of, or any other, and play its short introduction or its deeper story. You decide what to listen to and in which order.

You can listen in English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch and Albanian, and there is no account. Download a city's audio, then it plays without a connection.

In full

All 24 places in Ismaning, in the app's order, with their coordinates.

All 24 places in Ismaning, with coordinates

Every place below has a short introduction and a deeper story in the Roots Earth app, in English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch and Albanian. The names, the coordinates (latitude, longitude) and the one line descriptions are the app's own catalogue values of 15 September 2026; a place without a line here has none that this page can print.

1. Ismaning Palace

Local name
Schloss Ismaning
Coordinates
48.2281, 11.6741
In one line
Schloss Ismaning is a Baroque palace at the heart of the village, once the summer residence of the Freising prince-bishops. Rebuilt in the early 1700s and later given a classicist makeover, it has served as the town hall since 1934.

2. Ismaning Palace Park

Local name
Schlosspark Ismaning
Coordinates
48.2293, 11.6735
In one line
The Schlosspark is the green setting around Ismaning Palace, first laid out in the 16th century and reshaped as an English landscape garden in 1807. Today it is a public park for walking and cycling, with former palace outbuildings now housing museums.

3. Ismaning Palace Museum

Local name
Schlossmuseum Ismaning
Coordinates
48.228, 11.6748
In one line
The Schlossmuseum is Ismaning's local-history museum, set in a former outbuilding of the palace. It tells the story of the town and its palace, and also runs the sawmill exhibition at the historic Seidl-Mühle nearby.

4. Kallmann Museum

Local name
Kallmann-Museum
Coordinates
48.2286, 11.6722
In one line
The Kallmann-Museum is a museum of modern and contemporary art set in Ismaning's palace park. Opened in 1992 inside a rebuilt classical Orangerie, it honours the painter and draughtsman Hans Jürgen Kallmann and stages changing exhibitions each year.

5. Palace Pavilion (Municipal Gallery)

Local name
Schlosspavillon (Gemeindegalerie)
Coordinates
48.2295, 11.673
In one line
The Schlosspavillon is a Baroque garden pavilion in the palace park, built around 1727 as a tea-and-billiard house with flanking side rooms. A listed monument, it has served since 1982 as the municipal gallery, showing rotating exhibitions of modern art.

6. Parish Church of St. John the Baptist

Local name
Pfarrkirche St. Johann Baptist
Coordinates
48.2267, 11.6757
In one line
The Catholic parish church of Ismaning, the fourth church of Saint John the Baptist to stand on this slightly raised ground east of the Seebach. Its modern central-plan hall of 1974 and 1975 keeps a tower core from the 13th century.

7. Seidl Mill Cultural Center

Local name
Kulturzentrum Seidl-Mühle
Coordinates
48.2224, 11.6765
In one line
A listed former mill estate on the Seebach where grain has been ground since 1663, now a municipal cultural and education centre. Its preserved mill building and water turbine sit beside a library, music school and brass-band rooms.

8. Ismaning Water Tower

Local name
Wasserturm Ismaning
Coordinates
48.2206, 11.6662
In one line
A 36-metre industrial monument at the southern edge of Ismaning, built in 1913 in the shape of a medieval castle tower. It supplied the village's water for half a century and now houses an artist's studio and an amateur-radio station.

9. Ismaning Transmitter (Blosenberg)

Local name
Sender Ismaning (Blosenberg)
Coordinates
48.25, 11.752
In one line
A broadcasting station of Bayerischer Rundfunk, Bavaria's public radio service, standing about two kilometres northeast of Ismaning. In operation since 1932, it ranks among Germany's oldest transmitter sites and still carries analogue FM and digital DAB radio across the region.

10. Ismaning Reservoir

Local name
Ismaninger Speichersee
Coordinates
48.2175, 11.7511
In one line
A large, shallow reservoir northeast of Munich, created in 1929 beside the Mittlere-Isar-Kanal. It regulates water for the canal's power plants and protects against floods, and ranks as an internationally important bird sanctuary where bathing is forbidden but wildlife watching and fishing thrive.

11. Goldachhof Estate

Local name
Gut Goldachhof
Coordinates
48.2365, 11.677
In one line
A listed farm estate of around 1900 north of Ismaning, built by moor farmers on drained marshland. The protected ensemble gathers a manor house, stables, a chapel with an onion-domed turret, a mill works and a tree-lined estate avenue.

12. Gasthof zur Muehle (Historic Inn)

Local name
Gasthof zur Mühle (historischer Gasthof)
Coordinates
48.2265, 11.6752
In one line
A listed village inn on the Kirchplatz beside the church and the Seebach, its two-storey rendered body and half-hipped roof reaching back in their core to about the 17th century. A beer garden under old trees recalls Ismaning's milling past.

13. World War I Memorial

Local name
Kriegerdenkmal Erster Weltkrieg
Coordinates
48.2276, 11.6748
In one line
A First World War memorial on Schloßstraße, listed as a monument. Lion figures rest on a pedestal at the centre of a circular, stepped setting. The renowned Munich architect and designer Richard Riemerschmid created it in 1923 to honour Ismaning's war dead.

14. War Memorial 1866/1870-71

Local name
Kriegerdenkmal 1866/1870-71
Coordinates
48.2266, 11.6756
In one line
A granite obelisk on a high pedestal, standing on the Kirchplatz, the church square, in Ismaning. Erected in 1899, it commemorates the local men who fell in the wars of 1866 and 1870 to 1871. It is protected as a listed monument.

15. Daschanwesen (Former Palace Stables)

Local name
Daschanwesen (ehemalige Schlossstallungen)
Coordinates
48.227, 11.675
In one line
A listed former farm building of Ismaning Palace, the Daschanwesen dates from around 1730. Its long stable wing, articulated with flat pilasters and capped by hip-roofed end pavilions, once served the prince-bishops' Baroque summer residence.

16. Old Cemetery

Local name
Alter Friedhof
Coordinates
48.2212, 11.67
In one line
Ismaning's old cemetery, newly laid out in 1873 at An der Torfbahn, holding grave monuments of the early 20th century. A late-classicist mortuary hall with a porch and ridge turret, and a cemetery cross marked 1873, are listed monuments.

17. Buergersaal Civic Hall

Local name
Bürgersaal Ismaning
Coordinates
48.225, 11.6735
In one line
The Buergersaal, a civic hall built in the 1980s near the centre of Ismaning, serves the town as a venue for larger cultural events. It reflects a prosperous municipality's long-standing habit of investing generously in shared public and cultural life.

18. Ismaning Media Park

Local name
Medienpark Ismaning
Coordinates
48.2165, 11.68
In one line
A media district in the south of Ismaning, the Medienpark rose on the former Agrob ceramics site after production ended in 1990. Home to broadcasters and publishers such as Sport1, Antenne Bayern and the Gong-Verlag, it made a farming village a noted Bavarian media hub.

19. Museum of Mishaps

Local name
Museum der Missgeschicke
Coordinates
48.221, 11.685
In one line
The Museum der Missgeschicke, or Museum of Mishaps, is an unusual museum at the Allianz Zentrum für Technik in Ismaning. Run by the insurer's own technology centre, it explores technical accidents, things that go wrong and the science of preventing loss.

20. Aviators' Wayside Shrine (1918)

Local name
Bildstock der Flieger (1918)
Coordinates
48.2365, 11.679
In one line
A small wayside shrine, a Bildstock, stands on Mayerbacherstraße east of the Goldachhof estate. It remembers the victims of an aeroplane crash on 25 August 1918, a rare early-aviation memorial from the final months of the First World War.

21. Raft Disaster Memorial Stone (1907)

Local name
Gedenkstein zum Floßunglück (1907)
Coordinates
48.2255, 11.661
In one line
A memorial stone in the lower Isar meadows remembers four men who drowned on 21 May 1907 while inspecting the river: two royal building officials and two boatmen. It was raised in their honour by the Royal Bavarian State Building Administration.

22. Plague Column (Distance Column)

Local name
Pestsäule (Distanzsäule)
Coordinates
48.231, 11.665
In one line
A weathered stone column torso stands at Kollmannsau, raised around 1818 and later crowned with an added iron cross. The monument list records it as a distance and plague column, a type that across Bavaria served as memorial, devotional marker, and roadside waypost.

23. Beim Torfbahnhof (Peat Railway House)

Local name
Beim Torfbahnhof (Haus der Torfbahn)
Coordinates
48.2208, 11.6692
In one line
A listed former palace building from around 1815 on An der Torfbahn, a plain two-storey hip-roofed house. Its name recalls the Ismaning Torfbahn, the little peat railway that once carried fuel cut from the surrounding moor.

24. Isar Floodplains

Local name
Isarauen
Coordinates
48.2255, 11.657
In one line
The protected floodplain woodland along the Isar at Ismaning's western edge, on the river's high right bank. A landscape-protection area within a wider European habitat zone, it draws walkers, cyclists and bathers to its gravel banks and remains the town's old natural boundary.

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