Kurfürstenplatz (Munich)
The Kurfürstenplatz is a place in the Munich district of Schwabing and is about two and a half kilometers north of the city center. It is the intersection of several streets and tram lines and was named in 1915 after the Elector Maximilian II Emanuel , who was born in Munich in 1662 .
location
Kurfürstenplatz is located in the center of Schwabing and belongs to the Schwabing-West district . In an east-west direction, Hohenzollernstrasse runs over Kurfürstenplatz. It crosses Schwabing over a length of around two kilometers. The Belgradstrasse branches off to the north , a two-kilometer connection to the northern section of the Middle Ring . In a southerly direction, both Nordendstrasse and Kurfürstenstrasse branch off from Kurfürstenplatz and run parallel for a length of almost one kilometer into Maxvorstadt, which is located to the south . Road traffic flows via Belgradstrasse and Nordendstrasse from the northern district of Milbertshofen via Kurfürstenplatz towards the city center.
history
Originally, to the south of today's square, the castle truce column , which was built in 1521 and now stands on Elisabethplatz, stood.
Although there is no architectural monument directly on Kurfürstenplatz, it is characterized by two listed buildings: The five-storey monumental corner house on the north side, Belgradstrasse 1 / Hohenzollernstrasse 86, on the ground floor of which is the “Neuhauser” of the Hacker-Pschorr brewery , was built in 1898 by Xaver Heininger Erected in the forms of the German Renaissance with bay windows, gable gables and polygonal corner bay windows with bell roof and is a listed building . South of today's Kurfürstenplatz, the architect Paul Breitsameter built the also listed, neo-baroque tenement house at Nordendstrasse 64 with two oriel turrets at the corners and stucco decor on the gable, on the ground floor of which there is now a branch of the Munich bank .
On August 15, 1900, the last horse-drawn tram drove from here via Hohenzollernstrasse to Ludwigstrasse . Before the First World War , the tram line was laid from Kurfürstenplatz via Hohenzollernstrasse and Tengstrasse to Augustenstrasse , creating today's square. In Oscar Brunn's (1853–1919) plan of Munich from 1914, only the junction between Kurfürstenstrasse and Belgradstrasse to Hohenzollernstrasse is shown. In 1915 the square was named after Elector Maximilian II Emanuel . As early as the 1930s, the famous dance bar “ Bohème -Diele” was located on the square , which was still a meeting place for artists for decades, later under the name “La Bohème”.
At the time of National Socialism , the graduate engineer Hans Atzenbeck received the order for the planning and execution of a uniform square design through a closed development. From 1938 onwards, the apartment blocks with 37 2½ to 3½ room apartments, a savings bank branch, a police section command with attached shops and a coffee house were built. For a long time after the Second World War, house number 5 was the city police office north of the then city police of Munich .
Known residents
Actress Ali Wunsch-König , founder and director of the New Munich Drama School , which was also located there before the move to Dachauer Straße 15, lived on the first floor of the backyard garden house at Kurfürstenplatz 2 . At Kurfürstenplatz 6 was the seat of the artist group “ Der Rote Reiter ”.
Transport links
The three run into Kurfürstenplatz tram lines 12, 27 and 28. The first line connects the Scheidplatz in the north of Schwabing with the west of the city near the Nymphenburg Palace located Romanplatz . Lines 27 from the direction of Petuelring and 28 from the direction of Scheidplatz connect the north of Schwabing with the city center. In addition, there are two Metrobus routes running across the city on Kurfürstenplatz .
literature
- Kulturreferat München (Ed.): Kulturgeschichtspfad 4: Schwabing Nord . Self-published 2014, page 28f. Online at muenchen.de
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Hohenzollernstrasse 86. In: Michael Petzet monuments in Bavaria. 2. Upper Bavaria. Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation , Oldenbourg 1985, p. 218, ISBN 978-3-486-52391-1
- ↑ Upper Bavarian Archives , Volume 108, Part 1 - Volume 109, Part 1, Verlag des Historischen Verein von Oberbayern, 1983, p. 207.
- ↑ Reinhard Bauer ; Knuth Weidlich: Schwabing. The district book. HPV / Historika Photoverlag, 1993, p. 41.
- ^ Brunn's plan of Munich. 1914 ( Bavarian State Library )
- ↑ Dance Bar Bohème-Diele, Kurfürstenplatz Schwabing. Advertising entry, Illustrierter Sonntag , Naturrechts-Verlag, 1930, p. 6.
- ^ Ludwig Schrott: Everyday life in Munich in eight centuries. Life story of a city. Hugendubel, 1975, p. 269.
- ^ Schwabing Kurfürstenplatz, La Bohème, beauty dancers from all over the world, Schwabing artist bar. Advertising entry in: Great Art Exhibition Munich 1959 , Haus der Kunst , 1959, p. 195.
- ^ Winfried Nerdinger ; Katharina Blohm: Building under National Socialism. Bavaria 1933–1945. Klinkhardt & Biermann, 1993, p. 284.
- ^ Helmut Weihsmann : Building under the swastika. Architecture of doom. Promedia, 1998, p. 675.
- ^ Police office north. In: City atlas of the economic area of Munich. Including Dachau, Fürstenfeldbruck, Starnberg, etc. Volume 4, Kompaß-Verlag, 1963, p. 8.
- ^ New Munich drama school Ali Wunsch-König. In: The Federal Republic of Germany State Manual. Part of the Free State of Bavaria. C. Heymanns, 1960, p. 158.
- ↑ Thomas Gautier: Acting teacher - Fire death in Schwabing. Evening paper, March 4, 2008.
- ^ Artist of the Red Rider Munich-Schwabing. In: Walter Kaupert (Ed.): Anuario Internacional de Las Artes. Volume 2 of the International Art Address Book, Kaupterverlag, 1982, p. 941.
Coordinates: 48 ° 9 ′ 36 " N , 11 ° 34 ′ 30.1" E