Lenbachplatz
| Lenbachplatz | |
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 Wittelsbacher fountain |
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| place | Munich |
| District | Maxvorstadt |
| Created | around 1800 |
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| User groups | Pedestrian traffic , bicycle traffic , individual traffic , public transport |
The Lenbachplatz is a public place on the northwestern edge of Munich city center in the Cross area of the old town on the border with Maxvorstadt . In its design - the staggering of several buildings without any closer relationship to one another - it is typical of the late 19th century. The area of Lenbachplatz was originally part of the apron of the second Munich city fortifications . The Capuchin Monastery, consecrated at the later square, was founded in 1600 and dissolved in 1802. The monastery building and church were demolished.
As part of Munich's Altstadtring , Lenbachplatz adjoins Stachus in the northeast and forms the transition to the small park on Maximiliansplatz . The square is named after the Munich painter prince Franz von Lenbach .
Buildings on Lenbachplatz
- Wittelsbacher Brunnen , a monumental fountain based on classicism , built from 1893 to 1895 according to plans by Adolf von Hildebrand .
- A memorial stone erected in 1968/69 commemorates the old main synagogue , built between 1884 and 1887 according to plans by Albert Schmidt , demolished on June 9, 1938.
- Former headquarters of the Munich Stock Exchange , Lenbachplatz 2, also built from 1896 to 1898 according to plans by Albert Schmidt for Deutsche Bank in the style of classic historicism .
- Bernheimer-Haus , Lenbachplatz 3, built between 1887 and 1889 according to plans by Friedrich von Thiersch and Martin Dülfer
- Neue Maxburg , Lenbachplatz 7, built from 1954 to 1957 by the architects Sep Ruf and Theo Pabst on the site of the Herzog-Max-Burg, which was destroyed in the Second World War , of which only the tower now in front of the north side remained.
- Künstlerhaus , Lenbachplatz 8, club house of the Munich artists' cooperative built from 1892 to 1900 according to plans by Gabriel von Seidl .
- Victoria Insurance House, Lenbachplatz 9, built in 1955 by Georg Werner
Panorama of Lenbachplatz
reception
The entrance to Munich is where Hildebrand's fountain is. The station square means nothing to anyone; the roundabout of the Karlstor opens the main artery of the city, but has become a mere transit point. If you turn left, Lenbachplatz opens up, the Maximiliansanlagen become visible and in front of them the bright marble figures with the rushing water basins, then you know that you are in Munich, the cheerfully festive suburb of southern Germany. There is something extremely lively and naturally magnificent about the place. Everything interlocks. It is as if the fountain has always stood here. And should one or the other remember a Roman complex, it would not be a strange tone: in how many places in the city must it occur to you that Munich is at the beginning of the Alpine road to Italy!
Web links
Remarks
- ^ Heinrich Wölfflin, 1917, cited above. after Norbert Huse: Small art history of Munich. 3. Edition. Munich 2004, p. 168.
literature
- Josef H. Biller, Hans-Peter Rasp: Munich Art & Culture Lexicon. W. Ludwig Verlag, Munich 1994, ISBN 3-7787-2133-X .
- Martin Höppl: Change in square design concepts in the 19th century. The Max-Joseph-Platz and the Lenbachplatz in Munich . Munich 2009. (pdf of the text part of the master’s thesis on the homepage of the university library of the LMU Munich)
Coordinates: 48 ° 8 ′ 27 ″ N , 11 ° 34 ′ 7 ″ E