Bavarian nationalism is a nationalist political ideology that asserts that Bavarians are a nation and promotes the cultural unity of Bavarians. It has been a strong phenomenon since the incorporation of the Kingdom of Bavaria into the German Empire in 1871. Bavarian nationalists find the terms that Bavaria entered into Germany in 1871 to be controversial and claimed that the German government has long intruded on the desired autonomy of Bavaria, and calls have been made for Bavarian independence.
Nymphenburg Palace in Munich, one of the major palaces of the historic rulers of Bavaria
Heinrich Held (right), Minister-President of Bavaria (1924–1933) and leader of the Bavarian People's Party which had Bavarian monarchist and nationalist tendencies
Bavarians are an ethnographic group of Germans of the Bavaria region, a state within Germany. The group's dialect or speech is known as the Bavarian language, native to Altbayern, roughly the territory of the Electorate of Bavaria in the 17th century.
The Oktoberfest in Munich, the most widely known festival of Bavarian culture, held since 1810 (2006 photograph)
Caricature of four "Munich types" (Münchner Charakterköpfe): Highlander (Der Wastl aus dem Oberland "Wastl from the Oberland"), clerk (Gerichtsschreiber "court secretary"), shirker (Invalid in Friedenszeiten "peacetime-invalid"), petty bourgeois (Münchner Hausvater "Munich pater familias"), Julius Adam, Die Gartenlaube (1875).
Joseph von Fraunhofer
Franz Josef Strauß