Brudermühlstrasse

Brudermühlstrasse
Street in Munich
Brudermühlstrasse with the west portal of the tunnel
Basic data
State capital	Munich
Borough	Sendling
Created	around 1890
Newly designed	Early 1950s, 1988
Name received	1890
Connecting roads	Candidstrasse , Heckenstallerstrasse
Cross streets	Hans-Preißinger-Strasse, Schäftlarnstrasse, Lengrieser Strasse, Bruderhofstrasse, Thalkirchner Strasse, Implerstrasse, Esswurmstrasse, Plinganserstrasse
Places	Resi-Huber-Platz
Numbering system	Orientation numbering
Subway station	Brudermühlstrasse
use
User groups	Pedestrian traffic , bicycle traffic , car traffic , public transport
Road design	Brudermühlsteg , gate construction (Johannes Leismüller, 1989), city reference sign ( Stefan Wewerka , 1989), writing stele ( Leo Kornbrust )
Technical specifications
Street length	1.6 km

The Brudermühlstraße is a main thoroughfare in Munich district Sendling and section of the Middle Ring . Since 1988 it has carried the main flow of traffic through a tunnel over a length of 780 m.

location

Brudermühlstrasse connects Candidstrasse with Heckenstallerstrasse . It divides the Flaucher park and crosses the Isar over the Brudermühlbrücke and the Große Stadtbach over the Brudermühlsteg .

history

The Brudermühlstraße was originally a street of only local importance in Sendling, as it did not yet cross the Isar. The street name given in 1890 comes from a mill that was located at this point and, together with a neighboring farm, belonged to two warring brothers, whose feud is reported by local legends. In 1904 the Wittelsbach Bridge was rebuilt and the steel truss bridge, which had previously served as the Wittelsbach Bridge, was moved to an extension of the Brudermühlstraße. The connection on the west bank via the large Stadtbach and through the Flaucher park was only designed for low loads, so that this crossing of the Isar was not of any major traffic importance.

That only changed in the early 1950s when the Middle Ring was expanded. The Brudermühlstraße became the southern crossing of the Isar and the renewed and significantly reinforced bridges now bundled all heavy and through traffic in this part of the city. At the intersection with Thalkirchner Strasse, which will later become Resi-Huber-Platz, a temporary steel overpass was built in order to guide the through traffic of the Middle Ring without crossing; likewise the Schäftlarnstrasse was led over a similar bridge over the Brüdermühlstrasse. These temporary arrangements were preserved until 1988, when the road tunnel was opened under Brudermühlstraße, which made this section of the ring from Heckenstallerstraße to Giesing free of intersections. Then in 1988 the Brudermühlbrücke was widened by adding a southern part, and in 1989 the Brudermühlsteg was replaced by a new building.

course

The Brudermühlstrasse joins Candidstrasse in seven lanes (three lanes to the west, four lanes to the east). From there it first crosses the Isar over the Brudermühlbrücke, runs through the Flaucher and crosses the Große Stadtbach over the Brudermühlsteg. Behind it, the road has been entering the Brudermühl tunnel in six lanes since 1988 (three lanes each in both directions).

To the west, before the tunnel entrance, two lanes branch off to Schäftlarnstrasse and the above-ground Brudermühlstrasse; to the east, two lanes come from Schäftlarnstrasse, which merge into one, to the carriageways from the tunnel. This track is then retained as the fourth track to the east. The exit to Schäftlarnstrasse leads past the southern heating power station.

To the west of Schäftlarnstrasse, Brudermühlstrasse has six lanes in the tunnel and two lanes above ground with parking lanes. The above-ground part crosses Thalkirchner Straße immediately south of the junction with Implerstraße (at Resi-Huber-Platz) and joins the part coming out of the tunnel to the west of this intersection. Further to the west, the Brudermühlstraße then crosses the Plinganserstraße at no elevation and turns into the Heckenstallerstraße.

Traffic significance

Tunnel access

Because the A99 motorway ring is not closed, long-distance traffic is particularly heavy in this section of the Middle Ring, but mostly runs through the tunnel. The above-ground part of Brudermühlstrasse is of particular importance as the main feeder for the Munich wholesale market hall , the main entrance of which is on Schäftlarnstrasse. For this reason, a two-lane left turn to Brudermühlstraße in an eastward direction is planned for truck traffic, and the traffic light phase for those turning left from Schäftlarnstraße to Brudermühlstraße is significantly longer than for oncoming traffic coming from the south.

In public transport, there is the Brudermühlstraße underground station at Brudermühlplatz . The Metrobus line 54 runs through Brudermühlstraße with two stops.

architectural art

City reference mark by Stefan Wewerka

During the tunneling under the Brudermühlstrasse, a project group consisting of several artists and architects worked out an art concept that "was intended to define the Middle Ring as a whole on the one hand and emphasize it as a sequence of sections on the other". Two projects were realized that were financed from Kunst am Bau - funds from tunnel construction:

• A gate construction by Johannes Leismüller (1989) at the eastern end of the Brudermühltunnel above the tunnel portal ( location ): The gate consists of a frame made of thick red tubes to which irregularly shaped perforated metal grids are attached, which gives the construction an airy appearance. The strong red color of the frame contrasts with the dark tunnel entrance. Like a slide frame, the gate construction frames the view to the east of the open street over Flaucher and to the west of the above-ground part of Brudermühlstraße lined with houses.
  
• the city reference sign of Stefan Wewerka (1989) of the Brudermühltunnels at the west end north and south of the road ( Lage1 , Lage2 ): These are two inclined angle that frame the various roads and junctions and summarize them. Depending on the direction of travel, the reference signs point to the southern heating power station with its chimneys and to the round pavilion on the Neuhofener Berg with the memorial for the aerial warfare victims and the baroque church of St. Achaz .
  

On the place named Resi-Huber-Platz in 2012 at the intersection of Brudermühlstrasse and Thalkirchner Strasse there is also Leo Kornbrust's writing stele . However, it is not an art in construction in connection with the Brudermühl tunnel, but was created together with the ventilation shafts designed by the architect Paolo Nestler for the Brudermühlstraße underground station below the intersection as art in construction for the station.

literature

• Christine Rädlinger : History of the Munich bridges . Ed .: City of Munich, Construction Department. Verlag Franz Schiermeier, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-9811425-2-5 , p. 189 ff .

Web links

Commons : Brudermühlstraße  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Capital Munich Department for Urban Planning and Building Regulations (Ed.): Mittlerer Ring action program 2001 - 2005, Mittlerer Ring public space, urban space and location, recommendations for future development . Munich December 2004, Art in Public Space, p. 4–5 ( PDF, 78 kB [accessed April 20, 2017]).
2. ^ State capital Munich, editor: Resi-Huber-Platz. Retrieved April 20, 2017 . 

Coordinates: 48 ° 6 ′ 43.9 ″  N , 11 ° 32 ′ 58.5 ″  E