Stiglmaierplatz

Stiglmaierplatz
Place in Munich
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Basic data
State capital	Munich
Borough	Maxvorstadt
Created	around 1820
Hist. Names	Ludwigplatz (1826-?) Kronprinzenplatz (? -1845)
Confluent streets	Dachauer Strasse , Brienner Strasse , Seidlstrasse, Nymphenburger Strasse
Buildings	Löwenbräukeller
use
User groups	Pedestrian traffic , bicycle traffic , individual traffic , public transport

The Stiglmaierplatz (the previously fluctuating spelling in 1903 as determined by the City Council) is a place in the Munich district Maxvorstadt . It was named after the artist Johann Baptist Stiglmaier in 1845 and was previously called Kronprinzenplatz and since 1826 Ludwigplatz .

traffic

Today the Stiglmaierplatz is crossed by the Dachauer Straße in a north-westerly direction ; shortly before that, at the level of the southern tram stop, the multi-lane traffic of the Seidlstraße that ends here joins it. From the east, Brienner Strasse ends at Stiglmaierplatz and merges into Nymphenburger Strasse to the west . Schleissheimer Strasse begins in the northeast . The square can be reached by public transport using underground lines 1 and 7 and tram lines 20, 21 and 22.

history

In the Middle Ages, the place was on a street leading from Neuhauser Tor to Schleissheim and from the end of the 14th century at the latest it served as a point of departure for horse races on the so-called "Rennweg", which ran where today's Schleißheimer Straße was built. From 1448 the races were held annually during the Jakobidult on the route from Neuhauser Tor in the direction of Feldmoching , which until 1878 was also known as "Rennweg". Not far north of today's Stiglmaierplatz was the country estate “Wiesenfeld” from the end of the 18th century.

Crown Prince Ludwig I commissioned Karl von Fischer with the redesign of the square, the plans of which were supposed to form an artistic unit with the Königsplatz and Karolinenplatz , but the result did not come close to their public impact. Jakob Bradl the Elder, Professor Jakob Bradl's father , founded the Munich wood carver and sculpture workshop on Kronprinzenplatz . In 1851 Joseph Gabriel Mayer, the founder of the Mayer'schen Hofkunstanstalt, also acquired a plot of land here and built a new building in which there were studios and workshops as well as an exhibition hall. This object on the south side later served as the main building of the Hofkunstanstalt, but was destroyed in the Second World War. On October 21, 1876, the first Munich horse tram passed the square on its route from Promenadeplatz to Nymphenburger Strasse / Burgfriedensstrich ( Maillingerstrasse ). In 1882 and 1883, the Löwenbräukeller to the northwest was built according to plans by Albert Schmidt and opened on June 14, 1883. In the same year, the first Munich steam tram drove from today's Stiglmaierplatz to Nymphenburg, which was then outside of the city . As the trains frightened the horses on Nymphenburger Strasse due to the noise, the line was moved to less busy parallel streets. The new tram connection from Stiglmaierplatz to Leonrodplatz was used for the first time on July 25, 1909 . In 1977 the construction of the subway line to Maillingerstraße began, two years later the tram track was cut to the west.

If one compares the situation today with historical maps, it can be seen that the square expanded in a southerly direction in the second half of the 20th century. At the beginning of the 20th century, the southern Dachauer Strasse and Seidlstrasse met at the level of Brienner / Nymphenburger Strasse, and Schleissheimer Strasse also ended directly at Stiglmaierplatz. On the city map from 1855 it can be seen that at this point in time the Hasenstraße, i.e. the later Seidlstraße, was not yet expanded to the level of the Stiglmaierplatz. The architecture on the south side of the square is today characterized by new buildings. To the south-east, where the Marienanstalt for female servants used to be, there was a car sales house after the Second World War and today a bank building, while the “Nymphe” high-rise complex designed by architects Walter and Bea Betz is adjacent to the south-west .

Exit to the subway tracks from Stiglmaierplatz
around 1885
Postcard from 1918
Map section from 1922
The eye falls on the car dealer in 1962. The glass container Nymph is currently on the site .