Kölner Platz (Munich)

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Cologne Square
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Place in Munich
Cologne Square
Schwabing Clinic at Kölner Platz 1
Basic data
place Munich
District Schwabing
Created Around 1900
Confluent streets Bonner Strasse, Parzivalstrasse, Hörwarthstrasse, Düsseldorfer Strasse
Buildings Schwabing Clinic
use
User groups Pedestrian traffic , bicycle traffic , individual traffic , public transport

The Cologne court, in 1906 named after the city of Cologne , is a place in the Munich district of Schwabing , in the district of Schwabing . Kölner Platz is located on Parzivalstrasse at the confluence with Bonner Strasse.

The most famous building on Kölner Platz is the Schwabing Clinic (Kölner Platz 1). Also to be found at the Cologne court the Catholic Institute Church of the Holy Cross , a drinking - fountain grotto in the Art Nouveau style of Maximilian Schachner (1911) and a large children's playground.

For the new hospital, which at that time was located far outside the city center, the tram was already included in the planning as a connection between the square and the city center. On February 1, 1910, a new connection from Bandstrasse via Leopoldstrasse to Parzivalstrasse with the terminus in front of the hospital on the newly built Kölner Platz began operations, just one month after the opening of the first sections of the Schwabing hospital in January 1910. The Tram connection to the clinic on Kölner Platz was maintained with different lines until November 22, 1975. Since then, the trams have ended or started at Scheidplatz . The tracks through Parzivalstraße are not freely passable after many years of complaints from some residents about the resulting noise. Currently, these are used exclusively to provide the railcars for regular operations between Münchner Freiheit and Schwabing Nord. There is no tram stop for passenger traffic on the square.

The square can be reached by local public transport at the stop of the same name by bus lines 140, 141, 142 and N41 as well as the underground lines U2 and U3 via the Scheidplatz underground station , connected by a short walk and also with plenty of parking spaces for the vehicles of the clinic visitors and a larger taxi stand.

layout

With its slender and elongated rectangular shape, the square creates a lot of space for nature. Linden trees have been planted along Parzivalstrasse and in the first meadow next to the taxi stand. There are also maple and cherry trees. The parking lot is framed by smaller shrubs and other deciduous trees. Behind the parking lot, the fenced-in area of ​​the playground is decorated with trees and the playground itself is decorated with lots of green. In the playground there are large natural stones that are spread out in groups or individually in the meadow. A special feature of this playground is a pump well to play with. The road surface is made almost entirely of natural stone blocks. This applies to the parking lot, the taxi stand, the foothills of Bonner Straße, Hörwarthstraße starting at the taxi stand and the connection from Düsseldorfer Straße to Kölner Platz. The short section from the junction Hörwarthstraße / Bonner Straße to the junction with Parzivalstraße is already paved.

In the area between the stop and the traffic lights, the course of the street on Parzivalstrasse is separated from the tram tracks by a curb system. This track area may only be used by buses and trams. The station planned for the tram with modern standard waiting rooms is currently geared to the needs of the bus routes that operate here. When tram line 23 returns to Einsteinstrasse , however, it can be observed that passengers are also served here.

Development

In 1981 the small building on the left hand side of the main entrance to the Schwabing hospital, which previously housed a public lavatory, was converted into a shop with shop windows. A small flower shop was opened there in 1982. The store with the address Kölner Platz 1a had its 35th anniversary in 2017. The building is one of a large number of public lavatories that Richard Schachner planned to improve the infrastructure and that have been built throughout the city since 1906.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hans Dollinger : The Munich street names. 3. Edition. Ludwig Verlag, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-517-01986-0 , p. 45.
  2. ↑ Heinz Mattiesen, in: Schattenhofer (Ed.): From the Groschenwagen to the subway. 100 years of Munich city transport. Stadtarchiv, Munich 1972, p. 49 (New series of publications by the Munich City Archives, Volume 60).
  3. ↑ 50 years of Munich trams. Deukula, Munich 1926, pp. 42-43.
  4. ↑ Bandstrasse was a formerly short connecting road from Ungererstrasse to Leopoldstrasse and led past the forecourt of the Erlöserkirche.
  5. ^ Richard Schachner: The municipal hospital in Munich Schwabing. In: Munich urban architecture from the last decades. Delivery 2nd Callwey, Munich 1912.
  6. ^ Thomas Krauss: The Munich tram lines. P. 103.
  7. ^ Newspaper report in the Münchner Wochenanzeiger from May 6, 2004.
  8. ^ Richard Schachner, in: Münchener Städtische Baukunst from the last decades, delivery 5 - showers and tubs and newer public lavatories in Munich. Callwey, Munich 1912. (Section Lounges).

Coordinates: 48 ° 10 ′ 11.4 "  N , 11 ° 34 ′ 41.6"  E