Karolinenplatz

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Karolinenplatz
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Place in Munich
Karolinenplatz
Karolinenplatz seen from the northwest. The Frauenkirche can be seen in the background.
Basic data
place Munich
District Maxvorstadt
Created around 1810
Confluent streets Brienner Strasse , Barer Strasse, Max-Joseph-Strasse
use
User groups Pedestrian traffic , bicycle traffic , individual traffic , public transport
Space design obelisk
Aerial view of Karolinenplatz (right) and Königsplatz (left)

The Karolinenplatz is a public square in Munich's district Maxvorstadt . It is the first place in Munich that takes up the motif of the radiation place. At the same time, Karolinenplatz symbolizes the development of the special relationship between Bavaria and France in the early 19th century.

location

After Wittelsbacherplatz and the place of the victims of National Socialism, Karolinenplatz is the third place from the east that divides Brienner Straße . It lies at the point where Barer Strasse intersects with Brienner Strasse at a right angle. It is followed to the west by Königsplatz .

traffic

In private transport of Karolinenplatz plays as a feeder between the Old Town Square (to which it is connected by the Max-Joseph-Strasse and Briennerstrasse) and the Maxvorstadt , the Stachus and Munich Central Station through the Barer Strasse (partly restricted traffic) play an important role.

Karolinenplatz is connected to local public transport by tram lines 27 and 28.

history

The history of Karolinenplatz is closely linked to Brienner Straße. Already in an urban planning competition of 1807 for the Maxvorstadt, from which the plan for a Hippodamically organized quarter emerged, a place on the old Wittelsbach prince's path from the Munich residence to Nymphenburg Palace , today's Brienner Strasse, was planned on the place of today's Karolinenplatz.

Karl von Fischer , who, on behalf of the then Crown Prince and later King Ludwig I, together with Friedrich Ludwig Sckell, expanded the former Fürstenweg to the splendid and main street Brienner Straße, tried to break up the rigid grid plan of Maxvorstadt with squares that he had in places where diagonally sloping streets leading to the Fürstenweg, planned. These squares were realized primarily through extensions to Brienner Strasse itself. Unlike the other two squares, Wittelsbacherplatz and Königsplatz, Karolinenplatz was not created by extending the street. This was designed - as the very first place in Munich - with the motif of the radiation place. As a result, Karolinenplatz stands out from the free rhythm of Brienner Strasse and has an independent character.

Karolinenplatz was named after King Maximilian I's second wife , Princess Karoline von Baden . In the Second World War severely damaged the Karolinenplatz is largely dominated by new buildings today, not restore the classical impression.

Urban planning concept by Karl von Fischer

Karl von Fischer cleverly placed the main buildings on Karolinenplatz as a radiant place on the diagonal square axes and moved them away from the round street edges. At the same time he built small flanking ancillary buildings at the road junctions. Karolinenplatz gets its spatial cohesion through the planting and the center emphasized by the obelisk .

Karolinenplatz as a symbol of the relationship between Bavaria and Napoléon

The history of Bavaria is closely linked to that of France. The 29-meter-high obelisk in the middle of the square , unveiled in 1833, commemorates the 30,000 Bavarian soldiers who fell in Napoleon's Russian campaign in 1812, in which Bavaria sided with France. Brienner Strasse and Barer Strasse, which cross the square, are named after locations of battles during the Wars of Liberation against Napoléon from 1813 to 1815, where Bavarian troops fought against French ones . Thus, both sides of this special relationship between Bavaria and Napoléon are united at Karolinenplatz.

Karolinenplatz in the Third Reich

The administration buildings of the NSDAP with the “ Brown House ” as the center were located between Karolinenplatz and Königsplatz . The supreme party court of the NSDAP was located on Karolinenplatz itself .

Attractions

View from the southeast

Public facilities

University and research

culture and education

  • America house with
    • Bavarian America Academy
    • Bavarian-American Center

Other facilities

literature

  • Alexander Moutchnik (2012): 1812 год в исторической памяти Мюнхена и Баварии. Обелиск на Каролинской площади в Мюнхене как место памяти. [The year 1812 in Munich and Bavaria's memory. The obelisk on Karolinenplatz in Munich as a place of remembrance]. International Conference "After the Storm. The Historical Memory upon 1812 in Russia and Europe", German Historical Institute, Moscow, 28. – 30. May 2012.
  • Klaus Gallas : Munich. From the Guelph foundation of Henry the Lion to the present: art, culture, history . DuMont, Cologne 1979, ISBN 3-7701-1094-3 (DuMont documents: DuMont art travel guide).

Web links

Commons : Karolinenplatz  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hans Dollinger : The Munich street names . Südwest, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-517-08370-4
  2. ↑ Moving the lottery numbers. Süddeutsche.de, August 26, 2014, accessed on September 5, 2014 .

Coordinates: 48 ° 8 ′ 41 ″  N , 11 ° 34 ′ 9 ″  E