Praterinsel

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Praterinsel
The northern tip of the Praterinsel is spanned by the Maximiliansbrücke with the mouth of the Auer Mühlbach on the left side of the picture
The northern tip of the Praterinsel is spanned by the Maximiliansbrücke with the mouth of the Auer Mühlbach on the left side of the picture
Waters Isar
Geographical location 48 ° 8 '11 "  N , 11 ° 35' 26"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 8 '11 "  N , 11 ° 35' 26"  E
Praterinsel (Bavaria)
Praterinsel
length 524 m
width 95 m
surface 3.6 ha
main place (Water management office)

The Praterinsel is one of the two fortified and built-up river islands of the Isar in Munich , along with the Museum Island .

geography

The island has an area of ​​3.6 hectares with a length of 524 meters and a maximum width of 95 meters . It lies between the Isar arms known as the Great and Small Isar , into which the Isar is divided south of the Museum Island .

In the north of the island, the Maximiliansbrücke leads from Maximilianstrasse to the Maximilianeum . The Praterinsel is home to the “Praterinsel Action Forum” with artist studios and event rooms, as well as the Alpine Museum of the German Alpine Association .

The Praterinsel can be reached via several pedestrian bridges: the Mariannenbrücke connects the island with the west bank of the Isar, the cable bridge with the east bank. The weir footbridge creates the connection to the Museum Island upstream. The Praterinsel can be accessed from the west bank via the Praterwehrbrücke located immediately south of the Maximiliansbrücke . The Maximiliansbrücke only gives pedestrians access to the niche fountain for Mayor Alois von Erhardt , for road traffic it only spans the northern tip of the island.

The northern part of the Praterinsel, which is separated from the rest of the island by the Maximiliansbrücke , is called Schwindinsel after the romantic painter Moritz von Schwind . The undeveloped island is accessible from the middle of the Maximiliansbrücke. At its northern tip - also called "Spitz" - the Great and Small Isar meet .

history

Praterinsel with a view of the infirmary on the Gasteig, Johann Georg von Dillis (after 1800)
The restaurant "Isarlust" on the Praterinsel (approx. 1905)

The Praterinsel initially served as a recreation and useful garden , the Franciscan - monks had created there.

The first documented development took place in 1810, when the landlord Anton Gruber built an inn there, which he called "The Praterwirtschaft" based on the Viennese amusement park . He also opened a small park with a carousel, and his son expanded the inn in 1834 with a dance hall. Due to the great popularity of the localities at that time, the island was soon only called Praterinsel .

When the construction of the Maximilianeum and the Maximiliansbrücke that spanned the island began in 1857 , the attractiveness of the place declined significantly due to the extensive construction work (the bridge was completed in 1864), so that Gruber had to sell his economy.

The buyer was Anton Riemerschmid , who had factory buildings built on the property in 1870 for his “Royal Bavarian privileged wine spirit, spirit, liqueur and vinegar factory”. Today's studio house in the east of the island was built as a heating building.

As part of the construction work for the Great German National Applied Arts Exhibition in 1888, the raids between the Praterinsel and the fireworks island to the south of it and connected to it by a walk-on rampart were filled in. The name Feuerwerkinsel goes back to the pyrotechnician Heinrich Burg, who lived opposite in Quaistraße, today Steinsdorfstraße. and carried out pyrotechnic experiments on the island. On the former fireworks island - now part of the Praterinsel - the restaurant and café Isarlust was built for the exhibition visitors , in whose building the Alpine Museum is now located.

Barrages in the western arm of the Isar on the Praterinsel below the Maximiliansbrücke

Robert Riemerschmid, the grandson of the manufacturer Anton Riemerschmid, continued his liquor business and also organized symposiums and lectures with internationally known scientists, artists, writers and politicians on the island in the 1920s. In addition to adding one floor to the former tavern, the architect Richard Riemerschmid built another connecting structure between the north and west wings.

The schnapps factory relocated its production location in front of the gates from Munich to Erding in 1984 , the factory on the Praterinsel was shut down. In 1988, an investor acquired the site and had the factory and warehouse converted into artist studios, exhibition and event rooms (“Aktionforum Praterinsel”, a privately owned cultural institution). From February 1, 2010 to September 30, 2016, the event areas were managed by planworx GmbH under the motto praterinsel - room for events . The event marketing agency, founded in 1987, was based on the island until December 2016.

In 1993, the Munich City Council decided to use the Praterinsel primarily for cultural purposes. A corresponding overall concept is still not available.

The following parties are still on the Praterinsel: The Free State of Bavaria with the Ministry of Education and Culture, the forest service residential building, the Käfer Service GmbH team responsible for managing the event rooms there , and the German Alpine Association with its museum and library . The Austrian action artist Wolfgang Flatz had a studio on the Praterinsel since 1988 . In the meantime, Flatz has left the site under protest and has moved into new studio space in Obersendling (Kistlerhofstrasse).

The controversial previous owner of the Praterinsel Dieter Bock had terminated the artist colony there in 2006 with the grounds for an upcoming renovation and then sold the property empty. The Augsburg property management company Patrizia AG had been managing the island since 2007 before the property entrepreneur Urs Brunner bought the area.

A group of artists occupied the area on October 30th, 2009 under the motto We are Munich to point out the imbalance.

The former listed artist's building is now empty and is in ruins. The events on the island nowadays (2013 to 2015) are more likely to be assigned to the field of business events and have little in common with a cultural use by independent artists. Between May and September, the Praterstrand, operated by the Praterinsel team, has resided in the Isarhof's event space since 2013 .

Since 2010, the Prater power plant in the Isar arm that flows around the island to the west has been generating electrical energy.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Johannes Patzig and Robert Walser: Isar power plant: Stadtwerke threatens construction ban . In: merkur online , December 2, 2005. Accessed July 24, 2011. 
  2. ↑ Corinna Erhard: Did the Praterinsel serve as a fairground? Münchner Merkur No. 112, Tuesday, May 15, 2012, page 41
  3. ↑ City address book from 1884/85
  4. ↑ The writer Michael Georg Conrad wrote in his novel “ Was die Isar rausch” from 1888 about his neighbor from Quaistraße: ... on the right the fireworks island , where the small, fat, original Heinrich Burg lives every day at the same hour with his deep The floppy hat pressed into the face like a walking mushroom strides across the gangway of the raids, in order to be incumbent on his pyrotechnic magic in mysterious laboratories hidden between bushes in the form of old, weathered wooden houses ...

literature

  • Peter Klimesch: Isar lust. Discoveries in Munich. MünchenVerlag, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-937090-47-4 . (Therein chapter about the Munich Isar islands.)
  • Peter Klimesch: Munich Isar Islands - Past, Present and Future. In: Ralf Sartori (ed.): The new Isar. Volume 4. Buch & Media, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-86520-447-9 .
  • Karl Stankiewitz : Off is and off is! Taverns, theaters, cafés, night clubs and other lost places of Munich conviviality . Allitera Verlag, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-96233-023-1 .

Web links

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