Theresienhöhe
The Theresienhöhe is a district of Munich , the extent of which goes beyond the Theresienhöhe street of the same name and its surroundings. It is part of the Schwanthalerhöhe and Sendling districts .
history
From 1843 to 1853 the Bavaria with the Hall of Fame was built according to plans by Leo von Klenze on the site above Theresienwiese , surrounded by the Bavariapark (until 1850 "Theresienhain", later also called "Bavariahöhe"). From 1900 Gabriel von Seidl developed the overall concept for this exhibition park, and it was opened for the 750th anniversary of the city in 1908. A year later, an amusement park was opened for summer use, which was closed again in 1934. In 1922 the German Trade Show Munich was held here . In 1925 ( German Transport Exhibition 1925 ) and 1953, major German transport exhibitions took place on the site, and in 1965 the first World Transport Exhibition . The wrestling hall was built for the 1972 Olympic Games . Until 1991, the exhibition grounds were expanded and additional halls were added. Some of the former exhibition halls and the Bavariapark are now under monument protection .
New district
Since the Munich Exhibition Center moved to the new Messestadt Riem in 1998, the former exhibition site on the edge of the city center, in the direct vicinity of Theresienwiese, was planned as a new city quarter with an area of 47.1 hectares. Around 4,000 to 5,000 jobs, 1,400 apartments and the traffic center of the Deutsches Museum have been or are being built.
The overall concept of the district was developed on the basis of an urban planning ideas competition in 1996. The winner of the competition was the office of the Munich architecture professor Otto Steidle , together with the landscape architecture office Thomanek and Duquesnoy (Berlin).
Web links
- Theresienhöhe planning area Department for urban planning and building regulations
- Explanations of the Steidle competition design for the Theresienhöhe, Baunetz ( Memento from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
Coordinates: 48 ° 7 ′ 57 ″ N , 11 ° 32 ′ 26 ″ E