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Helene-Mayer-Ring
The Helene-Mayer-Ring is a street in the Olympic Village of the Olympic Park Munich in Munich, Germany. Description The Helene-Mayer-Ring is named after the Olympic fencing champion Helene Mayer. The road is accessible to pedestrians on the surface and underground for motorists. The Helene-Mayer-Ring is the shopping street of the village with 36 shops, designed and occupied by the Olywelt eG u.a. who became engaged through buying stores. At the Helene-Mayer-Ring 4, stands the 88-meter-high Olympia Tower, on Helene-Mayer-Ring 10 another tower block with a height of 76 meters. At the Helene-Mayer-Ring 23/25 lies the Ecumenical Church Center of the Olympic Village. To the east, the Helene-Mayer-Ring joins Lerchenauer Straße and in the west the Connollystraße The Connollystraße is a street in the Olympic Village and student quarter of the Olympic Park Munich. Description The street was named in 1971 after James Brendan Connolly, the first Olympic champion of the mod ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lerchenauer Straße
The Lerchenauer Straße is a 5.5 km long arterial road in Munich. Description Lerchenauer Straße runs from Schleissheimer Straße east of the Olympiapark (with access to the Central Hochschule Sports Complex, a bunker, the Olympic Village and the Studenten quarters via the Helene-Mayer-Ring and Connollystrasse) at the BMW Welt, the BMW Museum and passed the U-Bahn -Bahnhof Olympiazentrum in north-north-west direction near the Dreiseenplatte up to the Plaumstraße in Feldmoching. It crosses the Moosacher Straße and the Georg-Brauchle-Ring / Petuelring. The Lerchenauer Straße therefore crosses the districts of Schwabing, Am Riesenfeld and Feldmoching. North of Moosacher Straße, it crosses the Munich North Ring through an underpass at the Milbertshofen station. South of the Feldmoching railway station, the Lerchenauer Straße crosses the connecting route of Feldmoching to the North Ring and the Munich–Regensburg railway on two over passes. The Lerchenauer Straße was n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helene Mayer
Helene Julie Mayer (20 December 1910 – 10 October 1953) was a German-born fencer who won the gold medal at the 1928 Olympics in Amsterdam, and the silver medal at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin. She competed for Nazi Germany in Berlin, despite having been forced to leave Germany in 1935 and resettle in the United States because she was of Jewish descent. She was studying in an American University and later returned to Germany in 1952 where she died of breast cancer. Mayer had been called the greatest female fencer of all time, and was named by ''Sports Illustrated'' as one of the Top 100 Female Athletes of the 20th Century, but her legacy remains clouded. At the Olympics in Berlin, where she was the only German athlete of Jewish origin to win a medal, she gave the Nazi salute during the medal ceremony and later said it might have protected her family that was still in Germany, in labor camps. Some consider her a traitor and opportunist, while others consider her a tragic figur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Connollystraße
The Connollystraße is a street in the Olympic Village and student quarter of the Olympic Park Munich. Description The street was named in 1971 after James Brendan Connolly, the first Olympic champion of the modern era (1896). It leads from the Helene-Mayer-Ring to the Kusocinskidamm to Straßbergerstraße. The road is accessible on the surface for pedestrians and cyclists, underground for motorists. Access is via the Lerchenauer Straße. Connollystraße_GO-8.jpg, Connollystraße above ground for pedestrians and cyclists Connollystraße_GO-7.jpg, Connollystraße underground for cars The sculpture "Olympic Rings" from 1972 by Ruth Kiener flame, with the new version from 2000 by Peter Schwenk, is found here. In Connollystraße 20, is the "Theater Unterwegs". Connollystraße 31 was the apartment of the Israeli Olympic team who was taken hostage at the 1972 Summer Olympics. Following the Olympic Games, initial designs were in discussion to make it a "House of peace", but the b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olympic Village, Munich
The Olympic Village (German: "Olympisches Dorf") was constructed for the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany and was used to house the athletes during the games. The Munich massacre took place in one of its apartment blocks, Connollystraße 31; the street was named for an Irish-American participant in the 1896 Olympics. la84foundation.org; accessed 8 November 2010. The Olympic Village is in the north part of the . Since 1973, the former male section is a neighborhood, and the female area is used as student housing area (German: " [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olympiapark (Munich)
The Olympiapark (English: Olympic Park) in Munich, Germany, is an Olympic Park which was constructed for the 1972 Summer Olympics. Located in the Oberwiesenfeld neighborhood of Munich, the Park continues to serve as a venue for cultural, social, and religious events, such as events of worship. It includes a contemporary carillon. The Park is administered by Olympiapark München GmbH, a holding company fully owned by the state capital of Munich. Location and structure The use of the term ''Olympiapark'' to designate the overall area has prevailed as a semiofficial practice, but no official name for the entire area exists. The general area comprises four separate sub-areas:Otto Haas, Wolfgang Kösler (Red.): Offizieller Olympiaführer der Spiele der XX. Olympiade München 1972. Organisationskomitee für die Spiele der XX. Olympiade München 1972. Atlas Verlag, München 1972. * Olympic Area: Includes the Olympic sports facilities such as the Olympic Stadium and the Olympic Hall wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Munich
Munich ( ; german: München ; bar, Minga ) is the capital and most populous city of the States of Germany, German state of Bavaria. With a population of 1,558,395 inhabitants as of 31 July 2020, it is the List of cities in Germany by population, third-largest city in Germany, after Berlin and Hamburg, and thus the largest which does not constitute its own state, as well as the List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, 11th-largest city in the European Union. The Munich Metropolitan Region, city's metropolitan region is home to 6 million people. Straddling the banks of the River Isar (a tributary of the Danube) north of the Northern Limestone Alps, Bavarian Alps, Munich is the seat of the Bavarian Regierungsbezirk, administrative region of Upper Bavaria, while being the population density, most densely populated municipality in Germany (4,500 people per km2). Munich is the second-largest city in the Bavarian dialects, Bavarian dialect area, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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