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Bavaria's unfinished fairy-tale castle, built for King Ludwig II and left incomplete at his sudden death, opened to paying visitors for the first time.

The International Military Tribunal read its judgment in Courtroom 600 of the Nuremberg Palace of Justice: nineteen of the twenty-two defendants were convicted, twelve were sentenced to death and three were acquitted. It was the first time the leaders of a state were tried by an international court for waging aggressive war and for crimes against humanity.

IAA Mobility 2025 ran 9-14 September in Munich with a record Chinese presence, 116 Chinese exhibitors by organisers' count, as BYD, Leapmotor, XPeng, Hongqi and CATL pitched European localisation.

The Munich Security Conference opened with Chancellor Friedrich Merz saying the rules-based international order 'no longer exists', while Marco Rubio defended US policy and the Ukrainian people received the Ewald von Kleist Award.

Comcast closed the sale of Sky's German-speaking business to RTL Group on 31 May 2026; RTL paid EUR 68 million upfront against the EUR 150 million originally stated, with a variable share-price-linked payment on top.

The first Eurofighter Typhoon built for Germany's 20-jet Quadriga order, serial 34+02, flew for about an hour before returning safely to Airbus's Manching site.

XPeng held the global launch of the Mona L03 compact coupe SUV in Munich on 16 July 2026, with nine China variants from RMB 123,800 in BEV and EREV form; it is to be sold in 64 overseas markets.

The 2,274 beers from 48 countries entered in this year's European Beer Star receive gold, silver and bronze at a ceremony during BrauBeviale in Nuremberg on 11 November 2026.

Salesforce's German World Tour stop fills Hall C6 of Messe München for a day of AIforce, Slackforce and Claudeforce demos and 50+ breakout sessions.

Guildrun is the debut game of Munich studio Leyline, a PvE autobattler roguelike from lead designers of Hearthstone and The Bazaar. A demo went live on Steam on 16 July 2026; the full game is due in late 2026, and Steam still lists no exact date, so the date shown is an estimate.

The Munich Security Conference, the annual gathering of heads of government, defence and foreign ministers at Munich's Hotel Bayerischer Hof, returns for its 2027 edition from 12 to 14 February.