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Altstadt, Munich
A sixth-generation leather specialist selling gloves, bags, hats, and silk scarves, with glove prototypes still made in Munich. Roeckl supplied leather gloves to Empress Elisabeth of Austria and King Ludwig II.
Best for Sixth-generation leather specialist selling gloves, bags, hats, and silk scarves
Altstadt, Munich
Elly Seidl is a Munich chocolate business whose history began with Barbara Grathwohl in 1918. Pralines and chocolate are central to its range, alongside cakes and other sweet gifts. The Rambold family took over the business after leasing it in the 1970s, with the next generation continuing its production and retail work.
Best for Filled chocolates and praline gift assortments
Elly Seidl's Munich confectionery history began with Barbara Grathwohl in 1918. The business name combined her daughter Elly's name with Seidl, Grathwohl's maiden name. Her daughter took over in 1928, giving the familiar shop name a family story that is more precise than assuming it was the founder's own name.
Helmut and Beatrice Rambold leased the business in the early 1970s and acquired it in 2000. Their sons Maximilian and Oliver later took responsibility for its commercial and production work. Pralines and chocolate are central to the range. Cakes and other baked gifts also appear in the company's account.
In a 2018 Süddeutsche Zeitung interview, Maximilian described the months of testing that could go into developing a new praline. The report also visited the Maffeistraße shop and discussed filled chocolates, including champagne truffles and nougat. For a gift, choose the fillings with the recipient in mind and ask which contain alcohol. An assortment of pralines is a different purchase from a single chocolate bar or a cake for a particular occasion.
Altstadt
This Marienplatz café sits inside a branch of Hugendubel, the German bookstore chain that has traded since 1893 and remains family-run five generations later. Alongside books, it offers coffee, reading areas, and tolino e-readers.
Best for Coffee, books and reading nooks at Marienplatz
This Marienplatz café operates inside a branch of Hugendubel, the German bookstore chain founded in 1893 and still, more than 130 years later, run by the same family — currently siblings Nina and Maximilian Hugendubel in its fifth generation. The company operates more than 100 branches across Germany with roughly 1,600 employees, selling books, eBooks, audiobooks, toys, calendars, stationery, and film alongside its tolino e-readers. That last detail is a real distinguishing fact rather than a footnote: Hugendubel co-founded the tolino alliance, a shared German digital-reading platform the company describes as internationally unique, giving customers access to more than three million eBook titles through a device sold at its own counters. The Marienplatz café slots into that broader identity as the pause button on a bookstore visit — a coffee and a reading area inside a business built, at its core, on getting people to sit down with a book rather than browse and leave. It's not a standalone specialty roaster chasing single-origin lots; it's a café attached to one of Germany's oldest and largest family booksellers, where the draw is the shelves as much as the cup, and where the till behind the counter is backed by a company old enough to have outlasted most of its original competitors twice over.
Munich
A family-run household-goods, cookware and hardware emporium beside Viktualienmarkt. Established in 1798 and operated by the seventh generation.
Best for Household goods, cookware, and hardware beside Viktualienmarkt since 1798, seventh generation
Sonnenstraße, Munich / Online
Munich's full-service music house — pianos to synthesizers, sheet music to saxophones — serving the city's players for generations from Sonnenstraße.
Best for Munich’s great music house
Altstadt (Obenmarspforten)
Johann Maria Farina distilled the first Eau de Cologne here in 1709, and eight generations of the Farina family have kept making it to the same guarded recipe of bergamot, lemon and neroli. Guided tours of the fragrance museum trace the perfume's court history, and an atelier workshop lets visitors blend and bottle their own 50 ml flacon.
Best for Original Eau de Cologne and fragrance history
Munich / Germany
Hemmerle is a fourth-generation Munich jewellery house on Maximilianstrasse, where it has traded since 1904, creating one-of-a-kind jewels that pair rare stones with unorthodox metals like iron and copper. The boutique welcomes visitors by appointment for its sculptural, made-to-order pieces.
Best for Jewelry, fine jewellery, goldsmithing
Munich / Germany
Metzgerei Gassner has been a Munich butcher shop since 1937, when Engelbert Gassner, a journeyman butcher from Kallmunz in the Upper Palatinate, opened it with his wife Katharina in the Schwabing district.
Best for South German sausages and bratwurst from a three-generation butcher
Metzgerei Gassner has been a Munich butcher shop since 1937, when Engelbert Gassner, a journeyman butcher from Kallmunz in the Upper Palatinate, opened it with his wife Katharina in the Schwabing district. The business survived the difficult wartime years on Haimhauserstrasse before the postwar currency reform allowed real growth; a second-generation Engelbert Gassner Jr. then expanded the operation, and it relocated in 1992-93 to a 3,000-square-metre site on Zenettistrasse in Munich's former cattle-market (Viehhof) district, where it still operates.
A third generation, Andreas Gassner, now runs the company with roughly 40 employees, serving wholesale customers, restaurants, and direct retail customers across Bavaria. The house specializes in typically South German sausage products (typisch suddeutsche Wurstwaren) and traditional Bavarian bratwurst made to old family recipes, alongside ham and roasted meats.
The company's own account of its history includes the hard years, not just the growth: it describes the wartime period as difficult, with the shop kept running under constrained conditions, and only picking back up with West Germany's postwar currency reform. Staffing grew from the founding couple to 25 employees by 1991, before the 1992-93 move to the larger Zenettistrasse site enabled the operation's current scale.
A near-90-year, three-generation run at the same trade in the same city gives Metzgerei Gassner a genuine claim to Bavarian Metzgerei tradition, distinct from Munich's larger sausage-making industrial names — the business remains family-owned and still describes itself as a Traditionsmetzgerei (traditional butcher shop) rather than a manufacturer.
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