Sebastiansplatz (Munich)

Sebastiansplatz, in the background the city museum

Pedestrian zone, view from Sankt-Jakobs-Platz

Historic soap boiler houses, view from the west

The Sebastiansplatz is a square in Munich's Old Town .

location

It borders on Sankt-Jakobs-Platz to the west , with which it shared the name Anger-Platz in the Bavarian premiere from 1808 . To the east it led to Flaschenthurm-Gässchen, today's Prälat-Zistl-Straße.

history

The area was already developed in the 12th century. Since the second Munich city expansion, it has been within the second city wall built there between 1478 and 1499 . The late medieval and early modern parts of the settlement that are underground today are protected as a ground monument with monument number D-1-7835-0414 . On the map of Munich drawn up by Tobias Volckmer in 1613 , the square already has its current shape and size of approx. 1600 m². The name-giving small late medieval chapel St. Sebastian (Sebastiani-Kapelle auf dem Anger) was converted into a residential building shortly after 1806. It went back to the Ebersberg monastery , which owned a house there and to which it was added.

description

The north side of the square is characterized by a three-story and five four-story town houses, which are under monument protection . These are essentially in the 15th / 16th Century as so-called soap boiler houses , because at that time the Isar still flowed immediately east of the city wall. Most of the neo-renaissance building structure still preserved today dates from the years 1761 to 1890. They are the oldest closed row of houses in Munich.

To the south-east there is a striking five-story apartment building that was built at the end of the 19th century. The sloping corner building with a mansard hipped roof and ornamental stucco facade is also a listed building.

The rest of the development around the square was built in modern times. The square is paved with granite stones ( Bischofsmützensteinen ). It is one of the most popular café and restaurant miles in the old town. The Munich City Museum is located to the northwest and the Schrannenhalle to the southeast .

Web links

Commons : Sebastiansplatz (Munich)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Anger-Platz on Bayernatlas Klassik
2. ↑ https://www.muenchen.de/rathaus/Stadtverwaltung/baureferat/oeffentlicher-raum/platzgestaltung/sebastiansplatz.html
3. ↑ Munich's ugliest places. In: sueddeutsche.de . August 14, 2012, accessed October 13, 2018 . 

Coordinates: 48 ° 8 ′ 4.4 "  N , 11 ° 34 ′ 25.5"  E