Georgenstrasse (Munich)

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Georgenstrasse
coat of arms
Street in Munich
Georgenstrasse
View into Georgenstrasse at the intersection with Kurfürstenstrasse. Around 1900
Basic data
State capital Munich
Townships Maxvorstadt , Schwabing-Freimann
Name received 1856
Cross streets Leopoldstrasse , Friedrichstrasse, Türkenstrasse , Kürfürstenstrasse, Nordendstrasse, Schraudolphstrasse, Arcisstrasse, Isabellastrasse, Daimlerstrasse, Tengstrasse, Adelheidstrasse, Hiltenspergerstrasse, Schwarzmannstrasse, Zentnerstrasse, Schleißheimer Strasse , Winzererstrasse , Lothstrasse
Numbering system Orientation numbering
Buildings Piper Verlag , Pacelli-Palais , Palais Bissing , Archbishop's Seminary of St. John the Baptist , obelisk of the Oberwiesenfeld barracks
Subway station Giselastraße , underground station Josephsplatz
use
User groups Pedestrian traffic , bicycle traffic , car traffic , public transport
Technical specifications
Street length 1.75 km

The George Street is a street in Munich . It runs in an east-west direction north of the city center and separates Maxvorstadt in the south from Schwabing in the north. It leads from Leopoldstrasse in the east to Lothstrasse in the west. In the street, especially at the beginning, there are several magnificent buildings, to the west there are more simple apartment buildings. In terms of traffic, Georgenstrasse is of less importance and therefore relatively quiet despite its relative proximity to the center. Mainly apartments, small shops, cafés and other small businesses can be found in the street.

history

In the middle of the 19th century, the closed development of Maxvorstadt only reached from the city center to Adalbertstrasse, a southern parallel street to Georgenstrasse. The Georgenstraße was built between agricultural areas and was initially called "Tambosi-Anger". When the land along this field path was parceled out in 1851, the path served as a shortcut or secret path between Leopoldstraße, which was known as Schwabinger Landstraße until 1877, and Nordendstraße, previously known as Türkengraben .

On November 13, 1856, the then mayor, Kaspar von Steinsdorf, officially announced in the police gazette that a rescript from the State Ministry of the Interior was to be given the name Georgenstrasse from November 21, 1856. The question of naming and derivation remains unclear. Karl von Rambaldi explains that the street in the direction of the former swimming school, later the summer pool on the Würm Canal , would have led in the Georgenschwaige in Riesenfeld 2 and derives the name from this Schwaige. Franz Zauner also speaks in favor of this naming. Dollinger has left this derivation unchanged to this day.

For a long time, Georgenstrasse formed the northernmost east-west road in the Munich city area, before the castle truce border to the then still independent village of Schwabing. From the address book for Munich from 1859, the house number sequence 1 to 17 emerges a little later with status information, whether already built on, released as a building site or used economically. The following address book from 1861 also lists the residents of the time and the buildings and assigns them to the Maxvorstadt district. Furthermore 9 numbers are shown as construction sites.

In the years from 1866 to 1891, Georgenstrasse was extended to just before Winzererstrasse in order to provide a connection to the newly created building plots from the Türkengraben in a westerly direction. From now on it also crosses the Schwabing district.

From 1873, the area between Adalbertstrasse, Georgenstrasse, the former Schwabinger Landstrasse (today Leopoldstrasse) and the Türkengraben (today Nordendstrasse) was developed by a construction company.

With the incorporation of Schwabing in 1890, Georgenstrasse formed the northern border between Maxvorstadt and the new Schwabing district; previously the border line to Schwabing was further north along today's Hohenzollern , Ainmiller and Elisabethstrasse. Due to the border function of the street between Maxvorstadt and Schwabing, the odd house numbers are currently in Maxvorstadt, the houses with even house numbers in Schwabing.

In 1905 Georgenstrasse also formed the northern boundary of the Maxvorstadt settlement, because there were only a few buildings between Georgenstrasse and Hohenzollernstrasse.

cartography

In the plan of the royal residence and capital city of Munich in his whole truce represented by 1858/59 Georgenstraße is fully drawn. In the fourth edition of Meyer's Konversationslexikon from 1888, Georgenstrasse can be seen in sections on the city map of Munich from Leopoldstrasse. In the fourteenth edition of the Brockhaus Konversations-Lexikons from 1891, the street is already shown with considerable development.

Traffic history

By 1906, the tram line crossed Georgenstrasse with the color yellow and red light from the Schleißheimer / Georgenstrasse stop to the Ostfriedhof . After the change from line colors to "Arabic" line numbers on October 12, 1906, this was line 7. From this point on, line 17 also took a route to the east cemetery that was different from line 7. Line 8 has been running to Riesenfeld in Milbertshofen since 1904 . A separate track structure along Georgenstrasse never existed. In 1917, however, a loop was created at the group of houses at Schleißheimer Strasse, coming from Görresstrasse via Georgenstrasse and Zentnerstrasse, but it was not rebuilt after the war.

Current traffic connections

Architectural monuments

There are 37 architectural monuments directly on Georgenstrasse.

Other notable houses

  • The Piper Verlag has been located in the house at Georgenstrasse 4 since 1935 . The building was damaged in World War II .
  • Hans Frank , a member of the Reichstag for the NSDAP, who had been Bavarian State Minister of Justice since 1933 and later Governor General in occupied Poland, had lived in the house at Georgenstrasse 12 since 1930, who was executed as a major war criminal in 1946 .
  • The house at Georgenstrasse 13 belonged to the widow of the German-Baltic Russian officer Colonel Robert von Ritter , who saved Tsar Alexander II's life in the first assassination attempt on April 4, 1866 in St. Petersburg, after which he was raised to the nobility. After his death on March 11, 1881 (two days before the sixth attack on the tsar, in which he was killed) Ritter's widow moved with her two children to Munich, where she bought this house in 1898. After her death on January 11, 1906, her son, the art historian and art patron Robert von Ritter, lived there until the house was destroyed in World War II .
House Thiersch (1890–1945)
  • In 1889 Friedrich von Thiersch , probably the most prominent Munich architect of his time, moved into his home at Georgenstrasse 15a (later number 18), which was destroyed in the Second World War.
  • The Slovene Anton Ažbe ran a painting school in the house at Georgenstrasse 16 , which attracted artists, some of whom later became world famous. They include Wassily Kandinsky and Alexej von Jawlensky . Among other things, they studied technology and color theory with Ažbe. Kandinsky lived from 1898 to 1901 not far from the painting school in Georgenstrasse 35.
  • Lion and Marta Feuchtwanger lived in a condominium in the house at Georgenstrasse 24 from 1917 onwards.
  • The harpsichordist Julia Menz lived in the house at Georgenstrasse 30 .
  • The German-Jewish composer and conductor Werner Richard Heymann (1896–1961) lived in the house at Georgenstrasse 34 after his return from exile in Hollywood with interruptions from 1951 until his death.
  • From the summer of 1919 on, “Hitler's first enemy” Konrad Heiden lived in the house at Georgenstrasse 35 .
  • At Georgenstrasse 71 there is a secondary synagogue belonging to the Munich Jewish community.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bavarica Online: Königlich Bayerischer Polizey-Anzeiger for the year 1856, November 30, p. 1166.
  2. ↑ Rambaldi. Munich street names and their explanation p. 92.
  3. ↑ R. Schachner and G. Wimmer: Münchens Badeanlagen , Munich 1908, p. 4 - Summer bathing establishments with swimming pools and cabins, all located on the Würm Canal - Georgenschwaige, Riesenfeld 2.
  4. ^ Franz Zauner : Munich in art and history. Lindauer, Munich 1914, p. 363. (leads to Milbertshofen, the former Georgenschwaige)
  5. ^ Dollinger: Die Münchener Straßeennamen 09/1999, p. 95.
  6. ^ Address book for Munich: 1859 , 1859, pp. 33f. ( Bavarica Online )
  7. ^ The house owners and hostels in the KB capital and residence city of Munich on May 1, 1861 ... , p. 31: Georgenstrasse 1–17 ( Bavarica online ).
  8. ↑ Commercial supplement to the Allgemeine Zeitung (Augsburg) 78/1873, p. 311: message from March 29, 1873
  9. ↑ State capital Munich: Kulturgeschichtspfad Schwabing-West , p. 13
  10. ↑ Gerhard Neumeier: Munich around 1900: Living and working, family and household, city districts and social structures, house owners and factory workers, demographics and mobility. Studies on the social and economic history of a major German city before the First World War , 1995, p. 106
  11. ^ Gustav Wenng : Plan of the royal capital and residence city of Munich presented in its entire truce (1858/59)
  12. ^ Meyers Konversationslexikon, (4) 1888: Map of Munich
  13. ↑ Munich city map lithograph 1891 on machinatemporis.de
  14. ^ T. Krauss: Die Münchener Trambahnlinien , SMeV & ABSeV, Transpress Berlin 1992, p. 46, line 7 in the year 1917-1919
  15. ↑ B. Rausch: City map of Munich in 1956, scale 1: 20000 , no more loop.
  16. ↑ Grieben: City map of Munich scale 1: 12000, 1935 , loop still installed.
  17. ↑ City map of Munich 1908/1909, scale 1: 5000, no loop yet, but tram line 7 already leads to Schleißheimer Straße.
  18. ↑ Fleischmann: Compass City Map Munich , scale 1: 22500, 1968. Tram 2, 6, 7, 8 with the crossing points on Georgenstrasse
  19. ^ City portal Munich: Architectural monuments - Georgenstrasse
  20. ^ Benedikt Weyerer: Munich 1919–1933. City tours on political history. Buchendorfer Verlag, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-927984-21-3 , p. 176.
  21. ↑ Munich new buildings ( portfolio ), Jos. Albert Successor, Munich 1896, plate 42. (there marked Georgenstrasse 16)
  22. ^ Marshal: Friedrich von Thiersch 1852-1921. Munich 1982, p. 342.
  23. ^ Habel, Hallinger, Weski: Landeshauptstadt München, Mitte. (= Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , monuments in Bavaria. ) P. 255.
  24. ^ Bauer, Graf: Munich at a glance. P. 81. (Access road to Thiersch house, aerial view)
  25. ↑ State Capital Munich, Kulturreferat (Ed.): KulturGeschichtsPfad 12 Schwabing-Freimann , p. 30
  26. ↑ April 30, 1917
  27. ^ Lion Feuchtwanger: Success. Three years of history in a province. 1930.
  28. ↑ The harpsichordist Julia Menz. See: Meta Weigel's letter of October 19, 1981 to Hilde Spiel . Austrian National Library : Signature: http://data.onb.ac.at/rec/AC14423428 .
  29. ↑ Stefan Aust: Hitler's first enemy. The fight of Konrad Heiden. 2016.
  30. ^ The synagogues in Munich (Bavaria) from the Middle Ages to the present
  31. ↑ Further synagogues in Munich

Coordinates: 48 ° 9 ′ 21 ″  N , 11 ° 34 ′ 24 ″  E