Wittelsbacher Palace
The Wittelsbacher Palais was located in Munich on the northeast corner of the intersection of Brienner Strasse and Türkenstrasse . Today there is a BayernLB building at this point . It became notorious as the Gestapo headquarters in 1933.
history
The red brick building, which incorporated elements of the English Gothic on the outside , was built from 1843 to 1848 by Friedrich von Gärtner and Johann Moninger (site management) as the Crown Prince's Palace for the later King Maximilian II ; after Gärtner's death, it was completed by his colleague Carl Klumpp.
From 1848 to 1868, however, after its completion, the palace was instead the retirement home of King Ludwig I , who abdicated in 1848 and did not appreciate the building with its neo-Gothic architecture. From 1887 to 1918 the Wittelsbacher Palais served as the residence of his grandson Prince Ludwig, from 1913 as Ludwig III. King of Bavaria . At the beginning of August 1914, when the First World War broke out , the monarch spoke to the population from the balcony of the palace.
In 1919 it was the meeting place for the Action Committee of the Munich Soviet Republic . On April 5, 1919, in the Wittelsbacher Palais, representatives of the SPD , USPD , the Bavarian Farmers 'Union and the workers' councils decided to proclaim the Soviet republic .
From October 1933 it was the headquarters of the Gestapo and from 1934/35 Gestapo prison , in which Sophie and Hans Scholl were also imprisoned from their arrest on February 18, 1943 until the trial on February 22, 1943. During the air raids on Munich the Wittelsbacher Palais burned down in 1944 and the central projection of the south wing largely collapsed. However, the building was not completely demolished until 1964.
A plaque commemorates the building since 1984. This is located on the corner of Brienner Strasse and Türkenstrasse.
The two seated lions on the right and left at the portal of the Wittelbacher Palais were made of sandstone, as were the plinths. They were made by the sculptor Johann von Halbig on behalf of King Ludwig I and renewed in 1909 by the sculptor Fidelis Enderle from Vilsingen , who was commissioned by the staff of the chief magistrates . The eight cubic meters large and 350 quintals heavy processed blocks were made of Kirchheim shell limestone . One of the two lions has stood in front of the Catholic Academy on Mandlstrasse since 1970 as a memorial to the journalist Fritz Gerlich who was murdered in the Dachau concentration camp , and another (this is a replica) in front of the north entrance of the Bayerische Landesbank on Gabelsbergerstrasse .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Frauke Kretschmer (Hrsg.): War fates of German architecture: losses - damage - reconstruction, a documentation for the territory of the Federal Republic of Germany, Volume II: Süd, Neumünster u. Wiesbaden 2000, p. 1407.
- ↑ Honorable commission for a Vilsinger . In: Schwäbische Zeitung from May 25, 2009
literature
- Konstantin Köppelmann (author), Dietlind Pedarnig (author): Münchner Palais , 2016, p. 730, ISBN 978-3-86906-820-6 .
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Coordinates: 48 ° 8 ′ 39 ″ N , 11 ° 34 ′ 20 ″ E