Armory Munich (Lothstrasse)

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The armory Munich at the Lothstraße on the Oberwiesenfeld in Munich district Neuhausen-Nymphenburg was an arsenal of the Bavarian army . Until 2014 it was used by institutions of the Technical University of Munich . After handing over to the University of Applied Sciences in Munich , it was renovated from 2015 to 2019 and has been the seat of the Faculty of Design since 2019.

building

Middle wing

Andreas Friedlein and Matthias Glaeser designed the old armory as a raw brick building in the historicist arched style ; Construction time was from 1861 to 1865.

The symmetrical complex with flat roofs is divided into several wings. The entrance is in the two-storey central wing , highlighted there in a three-storey central pavilion . The two side wings are also two-story, but slightly lower than the central wing, against which they are clearly set back. The side wings are closed off by three-storey pavilions, about as high as the middle part of the building. The corners of the central wing and the pavilions at the ends of the building are decorated with turrets and battlements .

The building was expanded in 1975 with a new aluminum- clad building on the rear, which was demolished again in 2015 as part of the renovation. In its place, the building in the courtyard was supplemented by a glass pavilion in front of the listed brick facade by Staab Architects , which was designed for exhibitions, presentations and as a work space for the Faculty of Design and at the same time serves as a distributor inside as well as the opening to the adjacent creative quarter in Munich .

Todays use

The Technical University of Munich only used the building for the media center and the chair for psychology from mid-2013 . Previously, the old and new buildings were also used for the chairs for business ethics , political science and education . Among other things, parts of the TUM School of Education were also housed there. From 2015 to the beginning of 2019, the building was adapted to the requirements of a modern university as part of a complete renovation.

On February 7, 2019, the now completed building was opened as the seat of the Faculty of Design at the Munich University of Applied Sciences in a public ceremony.

history

In addition to the municipal armory on the Anger, which now houses the Munich City Museum , there was also the sovereign's armory in Munich. After a previous one burned down, it was located east of the Munich residence from 1615 . For the construction of the royal stables , it had to cede part of its area as early as 1807; It was finally dissolved step by step between 1853 and 1863 on the occasion of the construction of Maximilianstrasse , until the move to the new building on Oberwiesenfeld in 1866, there were provisional workshops in the Isarvorstadt .

Behind the new armory building, in other words to the northwest, extensive workshops were set up along Dachauer Strasse ; At the beginning of the 20th century, over 1,000 people were employed there. The middle wing housed the Bavarian Army Museum between 1880 and the completion of the museum building at the Hofgarten . After the First World War, the north wing of the armory was used by the Munich branch of the Central Evidence Office for war casualties and war graves . Their holdings were relocated to Memmingen during World War II and were handed over to the Bavarian Main State Archives in 1949 . After the war, the vocational education institute was housed in the building. From 1970 it was rebuilt for today's use.

literature

  • Christian Lankes: Munich as a garrison in the 19th century . Mittler, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-8132-0401-4
  • Winfried Nerdinger (Ed.): Architecture Guide Munich. Reimer, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-496-01211-0 .
  • Birgit-Verena Karnapp: Zeughaus, in Winfried Nerdinger (ed.): Between the glass palace and the Maximilianeum. Architecture in Bavaria at the time of Maximilian II. 1848 - 1864, exhibition catalog Münchner Stadtmuseum 1997, pp. 385–386, without ISBN

Web links

Commons : Lothstraße 17 (Munich)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.sueddeutsche.de/muenchen/architektur-ideenschmiede-statt-waffenkammer-1.4317907
  2. ↑ BauNetz: Armory becomes a faculty for design - renovation by Staab Architects in Munich. February 5, 2019, accessed July 27, 2020 .
  3. ^ Munich University of Applied Sciences - Faculty of Design - News. Retrieved February 8, 2019 .
  4. ↑ cf. z. B. Address book for the city of Munich and the surrounding area , year 1930, p. 568
  5. ^ Announcements for archive maintenance in Bavaria , 9th year, volume 3/4, Munich 1963, p. 37/40

Coordinates: 48 ° 9 ′ 18 ″  N , 11 ° 33 ′ 17 ″  E