Rindermarkt (Munich)

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Beef market
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Place in Munich
Beef market
Cattle market, in the background the Church of St. Peter
Basic data
place Munich
District Old town
Created before 1272
Newly designed 2002
Confluent streets clockwise, starting in the north: Rosenstrasse, Marienplatz , Petersplatz, Rosental, Pettenbeckstrasse, Sendlinger Strasse , Fürstenfelder Strasse
Buildings see text
use
User groups Foot traffic
Ruffinihaus at the Rindermarkt with the Ruffini tower fresco

The Rindermarkt is one of the oldest streets in Munich , which once connected Marienplatz in the north with what was then the Inner Sendlinger Tor . Today it is continued by Sendlinger Straße , which leads to the (outer) Sendlinger Tor .

Originally this street was used as a cattle marketplace, from which the street name is derived. Later on, noble patricians built their houses here. During the Second World War , the houses on the Rindermarkt were badly damaged. During the reconstruction, the original streets in the direction of Oberanger were extended to today's square. Only the north side of today's cattle market still follows the old street . Today the Munich cattle market acts as an oasis of calm in the middle of Munich's old town . Many traditional companies as well as retail stores have settled on the Rindermarkt. During the Advent season , the Kripperlmarkt took place here until 2011 as part of the traditional Christkindlmarkt .

Buildings at the Rindermarkt

  • The Sankt Peter church , Munich's oldest parish church, the tower of which is popularly called Alter Peter , bears the house number Rindermarkt 1 and marks the northern end of the Rindermarkt towards Marienplatz.
  • The cattle market fountain depicts a seated shepherd who watches over three cattle.
  • The lion tower on the southeast side of the cattle market is a water tower from the 15th century, decorated with frescoes with birds, trees and characters.
  • The Ruffinihaus from 1905 is actually a group of three houses at Rindermarkt 10, which are particularly richly decorated. A fresco on the facade shows the Ruffini Tower (the former Inner Sendlinger Tor ), which stood nearby at the end of Rosenstrasse.
  • From the Palais Wartenberg of Duke Ferdinand of Bavaria (Haslingerhaus) from the end of the 17th century at Rindermarkt 6 nothing has survived after the destruction in the Second World War. His church of St. Nicholas of Tolentino and St. Sebastian, which was secularized in 1807, was also located here .

Web links

Commons : Rindermarkt (Munich)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

  • Josef H. Biller, Hans-Peter Rasp: Munich: Art & and Culture Lexicon. W. Ludwig Verlag, Munich 1994, ISBN 3-7787-2133-X .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hans Dollinger: The Munich street names. 3. Edition. Ludwig Verlag, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-517-01986-0 .
  2. ↑ City administration> Building department> Design of public space and maintenance of the cityscape> Square design> Rindermarkt ( Memento from January 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ muenchen.de: The cattle market in Munich. Retrieved December 27, 2019 .

Coordinates: 48 ° 8 ′ 11 ″  N , 11 ° 34 ′ 27 ″  E