Max-Joseph-Platz

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Max-Joseph-Platz
Muenchen Small City Coat of Arms.svg
Place in Munich
Max-Joseph-Platz
Max-Joseph-Platz, National Theater at the entrance to Maximilianstrasse
Basic data
place Munich
District Old town
Created 1802
Confluent streets Residenzstrasse , Maximilianstrasse , Perusastrasse
Buildings Munich Residence , National Theater
use
User groups Pedestrian traffic , bicycle traffic , individual traffic , public transport
Space design Monument to King Max I Joseph ( Christian Daniel Rauch , 1825)
Max-Joseph-Platz / Residenzstrasse

The Max-Joseph-Platz is a square in the old town of Munich , which is located in the northeast of the old town south of the Munich Residence . It is the western starting point of Maximilianstrasse . The square bears its name after King Max I Joseph . Court architect Leo von Klenze designed the square based on the model of the Piazza del Campidoglio in Rome and the Piazza della Santissima Annunziata in Florence .

location

Max-Joseph-Platz is located in the northeast of the historic old town south of the Residenz in the Altstadt-Lehel district . The square is bounded in the north by the royal building of the Residenz, in the east by the National Theater and in the south by the former Palais Törring-Jettenbach . The facades of town houses are on its west side on Residenzstrasse . Here at Residenzstraße 13 is the Renaissance Laubenhof, built around 1560 and best preserved .

history

Solemn unveiling of the monument for King Maximilian on October 13th. 1835
Max-Joseph-Platz with the Königsbau of the Munich Residence (left) and the National Theater (right), photograph by Joseph Albert (1860)

The history of the square begins with the demolition of the Franciscan monastery in 1802 to make room for the newly built National Theater, the construction of which began on October 26th, 1811 by Karl von Fischer . The model was the Paris Odeon . Between 1825 and 1842 under King Ludwig I , the royal building of the residence was built on the north side by Leo von Klenze in the classicism style based on the model of the two Florentine palaces Palazzo Pitti and Palazzo Rucellai . Opposite the Toerring-Jettenbach Palace, a rococo palace built by Ignaz Anton Gunetzrhainer between 1747 and 1754 , Klenze provided a Florentine columned hall and transformed it into the main post office.

In the middle of the square is the monument to King Max I Joseph. It was based on a design by Christian Daniel Rauch , was executed by Johann Baptist Stiglmaier and only erected ten years after the king's death in 1835, because he had refused to be immortalized in a seated posture.

After the Second World War , the construction of an underground car park under the square impaired its appearance. In 1963 the underground remains of the Franciscan monastery and its cemetery were cleared without any major scientific investigation. Between the Königsbau and the National Theater, its facade was rebuilt with a modern loggia during the reconstruction of the war-damaged Residenztheater located there , which, however, adapted to the architectural style of the National Theater.

art

The Max-Joseph-Platz has been part of art projects in public space several times.

  • On the occasion of the 1998 Opera Festival, the artist Ottmar Hörl installed 4,000 garden gnomes around the statue of the first Bavarian king.
  • As part of the 2012 Opera Festival, the American artist Spencer Tunick photographed 1700 naked people at Max-Joseph-Platz. The participants, painted with red and gold body colors, formed a ring around the monument of King Max I Joseph.
  • 2014 installation made Trojan horse of Sebastian brain to irritation. An overturned semi-trailer was lying in the square. The roof of the crashed truck was torn open and art transport boxes were scattered across the square.

Attractions

Public facilities

literature

  • Adrian von Buttlar: Leo von Klenze. Life, work, vision. CHBeck, Munich, 2014.
  • Martin Höppl: The Max-Joseph-Platz. The newly created center as a stage for the king, in: Stephan Albrecht u. Martin Höppl (ed.): Munich. Urban history from the Middle Ages to the present, Petersberg 2016, pp. 114–135.
  • Martin Höppl: Change in square design concepts in the 19th century. University thesis (Master's thesis) LMU Munich 2009. Online edition without illustration
  • Karlheinz Hemmeter: The monument to King Max I Joseph in Munich by Christian Daniel Rauch. History of origin - contemporary art literature - on the genesis of Max-Joseph-Platz , in: Susanne Böning-Weis (Red.): King Max I. Joseph. Model and monument. On an installation by Erich Lindenberg in the Alte Münze in Munich (= workbooks of the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation, No. 86), Munich 1996, pp. 35–85.

Web links

Commons : Max-Joseph-Platz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hemmeter, Karlheinz: The monument to King Max I Joseph in Munich by Christian Daniel Rauch. History of origin - contemporary art literature - on the genesis of Max-Joseph-Platz, in: Susanne Böning-Weis (Red.): King Max I. Joseph. Model and monument. On an installation by Erich Lindenberg in the Alte Münze in Munich (= workbooks of the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation, No. 86), Munich 1996, pp. 35–85, here p. 77.

Coordinates: 48 ° 8 ′ 23.3 "  N , 11 ° 34 ′ 41"  E