Kaufingerstrasse
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| Kaufingerstrasse near Marienplatz | |
| Basic data | |
| place | Munich |
| Borough | Altstadt-Lehel |
| Created | before 1239 |
| Newly designed | 1972 (conversion to a pedestrian zone ) |
| Hist. Names | Chufringerstraße, Kaufringerstraße |
| Connecting roads | Neuhauser Strasse |
| Cross streets | Mazaristraße, Kaufingertor, Liebfrauenstraße, Fürstenfelder Straße, Färbergraben, Augustinerstraße |
| Places | Marienplatz |
| use | |
| User groups | Foot traffic |
| Technical specifications | |
| Street length | 260 m |
The Kaufingerstrasse is one of the oldest streets of Munich and, together with the Neuhauser Strasse , its continuation to the west, to the main shopping streets of Munich.
location
Kaufingerstraße borders on Marienplatz to the west and is part of the large west-east axis of the historic old town and thus part of the Salzstraße from Salzburg or Reichenhall via Landsberg to Switzerland . It begins at Marienplatz and ends at the Färbergraben / Augustinerstraße intersection, which roughly follows the position of the moat of the Leon city fortifications . This is where its extension begins, Neuhauser Strasse.
history
Surname
Kaufingerstraße is probably named after the patrician Chunradius Choufringer , who is historically documented for the first time in a document dated May 28, 1239, in which he was named as a witness. He probably owned a prestigious house on Kaufingerstrasse. For a time it was assumed that the name was given to a place called “Kaufing”, which, however, cannot be proven. Nevertheless, in sometimes appeal on that presumption Kaufingerstraße written incorrectly disconnected.
The street that was initially written on Kaufringerstraße lost the letter “r” following the “f” for the first time in 1379. Since the 17th century at the latest, the street has only been referred to as Kaufingerstraße without the “r”.
development
Kaufingerstraße already had a special position as part of Salzstraße in the Leon city complex. Munich merchants soon built their homes here. The Obere Tor , which closed off Kaufingerstrasse, was considered a particularly representative building that shaped the ensemble of buildings. The upper gate was soon given the name Chufringer Tor (interestingly, always written separately) before the name Schöne Turm was established. Even before it was first mentioned in documents in 1316, the street was called Chufringerstraße . This makes Kaufingerstraße, next to Rindermarkt, the street with the oldest street name in Munich.
In the 19th century, the baroque houses of the Munich merchants were replaced by department stores , the largest of which is the Zum Schönen Turm commercial building , now the Hirmer men's clothing store .
During the Second World War , the buildings on Kaufingerstraße were largely destroyed and finally demolished. One of the numerous losses was the Palais Lamberg at number 10, from the first half of the 18th century.
In the 1990s and the following years, the buildings from the 1950s and 1960s were again replaced by postmodern structures.
Kaufingerstrasse has always been a very important traffic axis. It has been part of the pedestrian zone in central Munich since 1972 . For this purpose, the Altstadtring was built to direct car traffic around the old town and the old town section of the tram lines from Karlsplatz (Stachus) to the Isartor were shut down. In the same year, the main line of the Munich S-Bahn was opened as an additional traffic axis under Kaufingerstraße .
With an average of 12,975 passers-by per hour (as of May 5, 2011), Kaufingerstraße is one of the shopping streets with the highest turnover in Germany. In addition, the rental prices are around € 300 and purchase prices for building sites of € 50,000 per square meter (year 2008) are not higher in any street in Germany than in Kaufingerstraße. In 2008, the street was one of the 10 shopping miles (9th place) with the highest rental prices in the world. In 2010, it was the third most frequented shopping street in Germany with 11,905 passers-by per hour. In 2011, Kaufingerstrasse slipped into fourth place among the most visited shopping streets in Germany, behind the Zeil in Frankfurt am Main (13,035 passers-by per hour). Meanwhile, Neuhauser Straße took second place in the list. According to a study by Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL), it was the most visited street in Munich with 13,515 passers-by per hour on the cut-off date and was subject to Cologne's Schildergasse with 14,265 passers-by. Also in 2013, Neuhauser Straße took second place with 11,920 passers-by, this time behind Dortmund's Westenhellweg (12,950 passers-by). But Munich is the only German city that has two shopping streets in the list of the five most visited. According to an analysis by JLL from 2015, Kaufingerstrasse is the most expensive shopping street in Germany with a prime rent of 360 euros per square meter. In 2019 the average number of passers-by per hour was 13,275, which is the highest frequency of visitors of all shopping streets in Germany.
Landmarks and monuments
- House at Kaufingerstraße 2 (around 1770, today connected to Thomass-Eck, Marienplatz 1)
- Zum Schönen Turm office building (today Hirmer, Eugen Hönig & Karl Söldner, 1914; sculptures by Julius Seidler )
- Memorial plaque for the beautiful tower (at the Hirmer department store, Kaufingerstraße 28, with a floor plan in the pavement)
literature
- Hans Dollinger : The Munich street names. Published in cooperation with the city archives, the city surveying office and the building department of the state capital. 5th updated edition. Ludwig, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-7787-5174-3 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Mühlhäuser, Modehaus am Dom: After more than 100 years - a fashion era ends
- ↑ Worldwide study on commercial rents Teuer, more expensive, Munich ( Memento from September 27, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Jones Lang LaSalle: Almost a fan mile - Cologne's Schildergasse is the champion among Germany's best-visited shopping streets. ( Memento of September 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) July 7, 2010, accessed on July 16, 2010 and table of the 10 most popular shopping miles in Germany . In: Börsenblatt des Deutschen Buchhandels. July 15, 2010, p. 11.
- ↑ Dortmunder Westenhellweg is the most visited shopping mile in Germany ( Memento from September 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Jones Lang LaSalle: Cologne's Schildergasse is the most popular shopping street in Germany. ( Memento from October 19, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) August 4, 2011.
- ↑ Kaufingerstraße, Tauentzienstrasse, Zeil - Germany's most expensive shopping streets / prime locations remain attractive , in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung November 6, 2015, page 13
- ↑ Average number of pedestrians per hour on the selected shopping streets in Germany in 2019 , destatis. Retrieved May 10, 2020.
Coordinates: 48 ° 8 ′ 16.4 ″ N , 11 ° 34 ′ 22 ″ E