Lentner

Lentner traces its trading history to 1698, when Johann Hibler opened a bookshop in Munich. Joseph Lentner took over the firm in 1784 and gave it the name it still carries. The business later passed to Ernst Siegfried Stahl, under whose ownership the shop received an appointment in 1897 as königlich-bayerischer Hoflieferant — royal Bavarian court supplier — periodically furnishing the Wittelsbach royal house with new reading material. That court connection makes Lentner one of the oldest continuously trading bookshops in what was the Kingdom of Bavaria, and it is documented as the oldest surviving bookstore in Old Bavaria. The shop today occupies historic rooms on the ground floor of Munich's Neues Rathaus (New Town Hall) at Marienplatz 8, on Weinstraße. Its current stock is built around Bavarica — books on Munich and Bavarian history, culture and politics — alongside philosophy, art, theology, and facsimile reproductions of medieval illuminated manuscripts and rare book art, a specialty that connects it to the antiquarian side of its centuries-long trade.