Sankt-Jakobs-Platz

Sankt-Jakobs-Platz
Place in Munich
	; Today, Sankt-Jakobs-Platz is characterized by the Jewish Center and the Munich City Museum , which is housed in the former armory.
Basic data
place	Munich
District	Old town
Created	in the Middle Ages, 1221 St. Jakob am Anger chapel
Newly designed	2007
Confluent streets	Oberanger, Sebastiansplatz , Nieserstraße, Corneliusstraße, Prälat-Zistl-Straße
use
User groups	Pedestrian traffic , private traffic
Space design	After 2007, granite paving
Technical specifications
Square area	1.1 hectares

The Sankt-Jakobs-Platz is a public space in the Munich district of Old Town . In the first decade of the 21st century, a problematic urban development area became a culturally significant place, which appropriately accentuates the Jewish Center Munich , Jewish Museum Munich , Munich City Museum and Angerkloster and has thus significantly upgraded the old town in terms of urban development. It merges almost seamlessly into Sebastiansplatz , which is bordered to the east by Prälat-Zistl-Straße.

location

Sankt-Jakobs-Platz is located in the Angerviertel in the historic old town of Munich. This old town quarter takes its name from an anger , i.e. an open square, which was originally located in the area of today's Sankt-Jakobs-Platz.

traffic

Sankt-Jakobs-Platz is demarcated by bollards. For security reasons, no unauthorized vehicles can approach the Jewish Center. That is why it is a quiet place, which is attractive for children in summer with play equipment and a well sunk in the ground.

history

the Franciscan monastery was taken over by the Order of the Poor Clares

St. Jakob - the new building

St. Jakob am Anger - also called Angerkloster - is a Roman Catholic monastery of the poor school sisters of Our Lady in Munich. It is the oldest still existing monastery in the city. It goes back to a Jacob's chapel from the 12th century, where a Franciscan monastery was first built.

At the request of Duke Ludwig the Strict , in 1284 the Franciscans relocated their convent to an area north of the Old Court , close to today's National Theater . In the same year the Poor Clares took over the Angerkloster. The Munich Franciscans continued to run the nuns' businesses. On February 14, 1327, a fire broke out in the Pfisterei of the Angerkloster (see also City of Munich-> History-> Founding Period), which spread over most of the city, reducing about a third to rubble and causing 30 deaths.

In 1404 parts of the monastery church collapsed. It was rebuilt in 1408. Around 1600, a renaissance style restoration took place , with the Gothic frescoes being whitewashed, and the monastery church later given a baroque interior.

In 1804 the Poor Clares gave up their convent in the course of secularization . After secularization, the church, which, like the monastery, was to be auctioned for demolition in 1805, was preserved after protests by the Munich population.

As early as 1804, the Royal Employment Institute was set up in part of the abandoned monastery, to which the Lithographic Institute was affiliated in 1810 as an additional source of income .

In 1843 Maria Theresia Gerhardinger , the founder of the poor school sisters of Our Lady, took over the convent building and the church on the mediation of King Ludwig I.

In December 1944, the outer walls of St. Jakob am Anger were destroyed by an air raid. From 1955 to 1957 the church was completely rebuilt as a brick building according to plans by Friedrich Haindl . The spacious church, which has two floors, has a white interior. The monastery and institute church of St. Jakob am Anger, the so-called "Jakobskirche", is the only completely new church in the historic old town of Munich since the Second World War.

To this day, the poor school sisters of Our Lady maintain the Theresia-Gerhardinger-Gymnasium am Anger , which has replaced the former monastery building.

Urban development concept for Sankt-Jakobs-Platz

View of Sankt-Jakobs-Platz and the new main synagogue

Main entrance to the city museum in the inner courtyard ⊙

As early as the end of 1998, a decision of principle by the Munich City Council stipulated that a permanent Jewish Museum should also be set up in cooperation with the Israelite Community. Two years later, the opportunity arose to build this municipal museum on Sankt-Jakobs-Platz together with the new buildings for the Munich Jewish Center (synagogue and parish hall).

Despite their different sizes and shapes, the three buildings are shaped by travertine from the outside . The free position of the synagogue and museum on the area between the city museum, the Angerkloster and a more recent residential area created different public spaces that can be experienced as a series of squares, paths and passages between the buildings.

A meeting place was created on a 1.1 hectare fallow area in the south of the old town through the redesign with the construction of the Jewish Center and the Jewish Museum. Until the 19th century, Sankt-Jakobs-Platz in the Angerviertel was an important market square with a stuff, fire and silk house. Destroyed in the Second World War and then only partially restored, it has since been a kind of “inner-city wasteland”. Since 2007/08, it has presented itself again as a place of cultural importance and inner-city tranquility, appropriate to its central location.

Fountain on Sankt-Jakobs-Platz

The basis for the design was the result of a implementation competition organized by the building department in 2003. After completing the building work, the city council commissioned the building department in March 2007 with the design of the square, the aim of which was to create a variety of quality of stay: for believers and those interested in culture and for everyone looking for space to stroll, relax and play.

The entire square is paved at right angles to the Jewish community center. The plaster image gives the impression of a flowing, wide space. The carefully selected material of the granite pavement ties in with the historical pavement of the old town and sets a contrast to the travertine facades of the high-rise buildings. Trees and benches, a fountain and a playground with a sand field, bouncy plates, seesaw and a carousel are loosely arranged. The Gleditschien, planted in small groups, are robust and provide an umbrella-shaped, light shade.

City Museum Munich, in front a corner of the synagogue

ORAG house, to the left of it the narrow Ignaz Günther house