Am Riesenfeld is the westernmost of the three subdistricts of the
Munich city district 11
Milbertshofen-Am Hart
Milbertshofen (Central Bavarian: ''Muibatshofa''), Am Riesenfeld and Am Hart (Central Bavarian: ''Am Hoart'') are three boroughs situated in the north of Munich in Germany. Jointly, they form the city district 11 Milbertshofen-Am Hart. , the t ...
.
Location
North of the Petueltunnel route, borders the district Am Riesenfeld which is further separated by the Korbinianstraße or
Schleißheimer Straße to the east, to the neighboring district
Milbertshofen. In the north, it is separated from the district Lerchenau by the railway tracks or a part of the Wilhelmine-Reichard-Straße, in the west it is separated by the
Landshuter Allee
The Landshuter Allee is an avenue in Munich and through most of its course it is part of the ''Mittlerer Ring'', the Bundesstraße 2 R. It joins ''Donnersbergerbrücke'' at Arnulfstraße in the Neuhausen district and runs from Dachauer Straße we ...
or the abandoned tracks of the
Moosach district. In the southwest, the boundary of the district Am Riesenfeld to the district of
Neuhausen-Nymphenburg
Neuhausen (Central Bavarian: ''Neihausn'') and Nymphenburg are boroughs of Munich, the capital of the German state of Bavaria. They had been merged into the borough 09 - Neuhausen-Nymphenburg (german: Stadtbezirk 09) in 1992. For further informatio ...
runs along the ''Willi-Gebhardt-Ufer'' to the ''Spiridon-Luis-Ring'', which forms the western boundary of the ''Olympia Park'' on the western border of the larger ''Olympiaberg'', and then along to Ackermannstraße. In the south, the border with
Schwabing
Schwabing is a borough in the northern part of Munich, the capital of the German state of Bavaria. It is part of the city borough 4 (Schwabing-West) and the city borough 12 (Schwabing-Freimann). The population of Schwabing is estimated about 100 ...
-West runs along the curve of the Ackermannstraße to
Winzererstraße The Winzererstraße is a two-kilometer-long street in the Munich districts of Maxvorstadt and Schwabing.
Description
The Winzererstraße starts at the Hessstraße at the Massmannspark and runs almost parallel to Schleissheimer Straße, the road ...
, which together with the
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 ...
to the Petueltunnel also forms the south-east border to Schwabing-West.
Profile
27,049 people live in Am Riesenfeld (2016). It has a population density of 6,255 inhabitants/km
2 (2016). Am Riesenfeld is dominated by the
Olympia Park
Olympia Park Stadion is a multi-purpose stadium located in Rustenburg, South Africa. Not to be confused with the Royal Bafokeng Stadium, where the 2010 FIFA World Cup games were played, it is currently used mostly for football and rugby match ...
(with the
Olympiaturm
The Olympic Tower (German: ) in the Olympic Park, Munich has an overall height of and a weight of 52,500 tons. At a height of there is an observation platform as well as an exhibition commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the Tower. Previousl ...
,
Olympiahalle
Olympiahalle is a multi-purpose arena located in Am Riesenfeld in Munich, Germany, part of Olympiapark. The arena is used for concerts, sporting events, exhibitions or trade fairs. The seating capacity for the arena varies from 12,150 up to 14,0 ...
,
Olympiastadion
Olympiastadion is the German, Finnish and Swedish word for Olympic Stadium and may refer to:
* Stockholm Olympic Stadium, the host of the 1912 Summer Olympics (though mostly referred as simply ''Stockholms Stadion'')
* Olympiastadion (Berlin), the ...
,
Olympia Eishalle
Olympia Eishalle (originally known as Eisstadion am Oberwiesenfeld) is an indoor sporting arena located in Munich, Germany. It is used for various indoor events and is the home arena of the ice hockey team EHC München now playing in the Deutsch ...
, Sea Life
Munich
Munich ( ; german: München ; bar, Minga ) is the capital and most populous city of the German state of Bavaria. With a population of 1,558,395 inhabitants as of 31 July 2020, it is the third-largest city in Germany, after Berlin and Ha ...
,
Olympia Schwimmhalle
The Olympia Schwimmhalle is an aquatics centre located in the Olympiapark in Munich, Germany. It hosted the swimming, diving, water polo, and the swimming part of the modern pentathlon events at the 1972 Summer Olympics. At the Olympics, the ...
,
Olydorf Olympic Training Center Bavaria), BMW (with
BMW Welt
The BMW Welt is a combined exhibition, delivery, adventure museum, and event venue located in Munich's district Am Riesenfeld, next to the Olympic Park, in the immediate vicinity of the BMW Headquarters and factory. It was built from August 200 ...
,
BMW-Vierzylinder,
BMW Museum
The BMW Museum is an automobile museum of BMW history located near the Olympiapark in Munich, Germany. The museum was established in 1973, shortly after the Summer Olympics opened. From 2004 to 2008, it was renovated in connection with the con ...
,
BMW Group Classic, BMW Plant) and the
Studentenviertel Oberwiesenfeld
The Studentenviertel Oberwiesenfeld, also known as a student village or because of its location in the Olympic Park, sometimes called Olydorf, is a student residency in Munich. It is located on the former site of the Olympic Village of the 1972 S ...
(student residential), Am Oberwiesenfeld and
Olympic Village
An Olympic Village is an accommodation center built for the Olympic Games, usually within an Olympic Park or elsewhere in a host city. Olympic Villages are built to house all participating athletes, as well as officials and athletic trainers. Afte ...
.
The compact development in the Olympic Village provides foe a quiet, child-friendly living, as the traffic within the residential area (on 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 modern era (1896).
It leads from t ...
or the
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 ...
) runs in the built-up basement below the pedestrian level. In Olydorf lies, with the
Nadisee
The Nadisee is a urban lake with an integrated system at Munich's Olympic Village precint, inside the Am Riesenfld area localized at the Milbertshofen-Am Hart district.
With an area of about , it is Munich's smallest bathing lake. The approxima ...
, Munich's smallest bathing lake. At the Helene-Mayer-Ring 23 lies the ecumenical church center. The Christl-Marie-Schultes-Weg, a pedestrian and cycle underpass under the
Munich North Ring
Munich North Ring (german: Münchner Nordring), section of which are only used by freight trains, is a railway bypass on the northern edge of the Bavarian state capital of Munich. The line’s importance for freight also partly arises from its acc ...
of the railway, connects the Wilhelmine Reichard Street with the street Am Oberwiesenfeld. The tunnel connects the southern Lerchenau with the
subway station Oberwiesenfeld. There, is also the Adolf Kolping vocational school. The München Caribes train in the northern part of the ''
Zentrale Hochschulsportanlage
The Zentrale Hochschulsportanlage (ZHS) is with 125.000 Students and over 17.000 active participants each semester the biggest university sports facility in Germany. The 45 ha area lies at the Olympiapark in Milbertshofen-Am Hart in Munich and cou ...
'' or the Sports Center of the
Technical University of Munich
The Technical University of Munich (TUM or TU Munich; german: Technische Universität München) is a public research university in Munich, Germany. It specializes in engineering, technology, medicine, and applied and natural sciences.
Establis ...
. In 2017, the
Erinnerungsort Olympia-Attentat
The Erinnerungsort Olympia-Attentat is a memorial in the Munich Olympiapark for the victims of the Munich massacre during the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany, at which eleven Israeli Olympic team members were taken hostage and eve ...
(memorial site Olympia assassination) was opened. In the Olympic Park is
Bavaria
Bavaria ( ; ), officially the Free State of Bavaria (german: Freistaat Bayern, link=no ), is a state in the south-east of Germany. With an area of , Bavaria is the largest German state by land area, comprising roughly a fifth of the total lan ...
's largest
beach volleyball facility. On
Moosacher Straße
Olympiapark
Knorr Bremse headquarter
BMW Group Classic
The Moosacher Straße is an approximately long street in the district Am Riesenfeld of Munich, Germany, north of the Olympiapark.
It is the extension of the Frankfurter Ring.
Descrip ...
is the company headquarters of
Knorr-Bremse
Knorr-Bremse AG is a German manufacturer of braking systems for rail and commercial vehicles that has operated in the field for over 110 years. Other products in Group's portfolio include intelligent door systems, control components, air c ...
. In 2011, the city of Munich has acquired a 6.7-acre site around the
railway station Munich Olympic Stadium from the ''
Deutsche Bahn''. This is to improve the network of cycle paths in Munich and create a
High line
The High Line is a elevated linear park, greenway and rail trail created on a former New York Central Railroad spur on the west side of Manhattan in New York City. The High Line's design is a collaboration between James Corner Field Opera ...
-like park trail towards ''
Dreiseenplatte''. At ''Willi-Daume-Platz'' is the Munich Olympic Walk of Stars. The entire area is connected via the
Olympiazentrum Underground Station and the
Oberwiesenfeld Underground Station to the
U3 line.
Events
Larger concerts and sports events take place in the Olympiahall and in the Olympic Stadium. At the intervening Coubertinplatz, the annually Impark Summer Festival,
Theatron-Festival
The admission-free music festival in Munich was first held in the early 1970s and attracts more than 100,000 visitors annually. With the "MusicSommer" program in August 2000, the event achieved an entry in the 2002 Guinness World Records as the "lo ...
, Munich Mash, the SattelFest, the Munich Midsummer Night's Dream and other concerts take place. In addition, the Coubertinplatz is regularly the starting point of numerous running events such as the
Munich Marathon, the
Wings for Life World Run
The Wings for Life World Run is a running competition held on the first weekend of May since 2014 to collect funds for the not-for-profit foundation ''Wings for Life''. The entry fee goes completely to Spinal Cord Research. It became the largest r ...
Munich, the
Spartan Race
Spartan Race is a series of obstacle races of varying distance and difficulty ranging from 3 miles to marathon distances. These races are held in the United States and have been franchised to 30 countries, including Canada, South Korea, Austra ...
Munich, the Red Bull
Crashed Ice
Crashed Ice (full official name: ''Red Bull Crashed Ice'') is a world tour in the winter extreme sporting event, ''ice cross downhill'' (or downhill ice cross), which involves downhill skating in an urban environment, on a track which includes ...
, the Munich company run or the B2RUN German company run championship. See also:
Events in the Olympic Park
Munich Olympiapark.jpg, Olympiapark
Munich - Olympiapark 3.jpg, Olympiahalle
Olympiahalle is a multi-purpose arena located in Am Riesenfeld in Munich, Germany, part of Olympiapark. The arena is used for concerts, sporting events, exhibitions or trade fairs. The seating capacity for the arena varies from 12,150 up to 14,0 ...
, Olympiastadion
Olympiastadion is the German, Finnish and Swedish word for Olympic Stadium and may refer to:
* Stockholm Olympic Stadium, the host of the 1912 Summer Olympics (though mostly referred as simply ''Stockholms Stadion'')
* Olympiastadion (Berlin), the ...
und Olympia Schwimmhalle
The Olympia Schwimmhalle is an aquatics centre located in the Olympiapark in Munich, Germany. It hosted the swimming, diving, water polo, and the swimming part of the modern pentathlon events at the 1972 Summer Olympics. At the Olympics, the ...
München - Olympisches Dorf (Panorama).jpg, Olympic Village
An Olympic Village is an accommodation center built for the Olympic Games, usually within an Olympic Park or elsewhere in a host city. Olympic Villages are built to house all participating athletes, as well as officials and athletic trainers. Afte ...
with student district
Nadisee GO-2.jpg, Nadisee
The Nadisee is a urban lake with an integrated system at Munich's Olympic Village precint, inside the Am Riesenfld area localized at the Milbertshofen-Am Hart district.
With an area of about , it is Munich's smallest bathing lake. The approxima ...
Centro deportivo universitario, Olympiapark, Múnich, Alemania 2012-04-28, DD 03.JPG, ''Zentrale Hochschulsportanlage
The Zentrale Hochschulsportanlage (ZHS) is with 125.000 Students and over 17.000 active participants each semester the biggest university sports facility in Germany. The 45 ha area lies at the Olympiapark in Milbertshofen-Am Hart in Munich and cou ...
''
BMW Welt Night.jpg, BMW Welt
The BMW Welt is a combined exhibition, delivery, adventure museum, and event venue located in Munich's district Am Riesenfeld, next to the Olympic Park, in the immediate vicinity of the BMW Headquarters and factory. It was built from August 200 ...
, BMW-Vierzylinder und BMW Museum
The BMW Museum is an automobile museum of BMW history located near the Olympiapark in Munich, Germany. The museum was established in 1973, shortly after the Summer Olympics opened. From 2004 to 2008, it was renovated in connection with the con ...
BMW Group Classic.jpg, BMW Group Classic
Firmenhauptsitz des Knorr-Bremse Konzerns München.jpg, Headquarters of the Knorr-Bremse
Knorr-Bremse AG is a German manufacturer of braking systems for rail and commercial vehicles that has operated in the field for over 110 years. Other products in Group's portfolio include intelligent door systems, control components, air c ...
Group
S-Bahn Haltestelle Olympiastadion München Bewuchs.jpg, Greenroute at the abandoned station Munich Olympic Stadium
Muenchen marathon 2004 zieleinlauf.jpg, Munich Marathon
History
1800 was the 1764 first ''Schwaige'' named ''St. Georgenschwaige'' (1568 St. Georgen, 1620 at St. Georgen) sold to four Upper Palatinate settlers. On the property which was uncovered after the destruction, the settlement with the name ''Riesenfeld'', which today is known as ''altes Riesenfeld'' (old giant field), was built at the curve of the ''Nymphenburg-Biedersteiner Kanal'' at the today's corner
Petuelring /
Belgradstraße
The Belgradstraße is a 2.0-kilometer-long street in Munich's Schwabing district. It runs in a south-north direction between Kurfürstenplatz and Petuelpark, where it merges into Knorrstraße. The street was named after the Serbian capital Belgrad ...
. This area was in 1818, part of the then community Schwabing and was together incorporated into Munich in November 1890.
The today's area Am Riesenfeld was named ''Risenfeld'' for the first time on 8 January 1800. It goes back to the couple Andrä von Riß, ''Hofkammerrat'' (Council of the Court Chamber) in Freising and Theresia, which on 12 June 1796 bought the bleacher based on a Dutch (English) system, operated since 1790 at the canal curve, from the brothers Franz Xaver and Joseph Lunglmayr. Andrä von Riß died already in 1798. His widow and the children then again sold the possession called ''izt Risenfeld'', on 8 January 1800. The Restoration ''Bad Georgenschwaige'' was later set up in the former bleach house.
North of the channel was later a new settlement Riesenfeld, but which was on Milbertshofener area and was incorporated with Milbertshofen in 1913.
In 1941, the above ground
bunker
A bunker is a defensive military fortification designed to protect people and valued materials from falling bombs, artillery, or other attacks. Bunkers are almost always underground, in contrast to blockhouses which are mostly above ground. T ...
s Lerchenauer Straße and ''Anhalter Platz'' were built.
Before the site in the period from 1966 to 1972 was completely redesigned due to the games of
XX. Olympia 1972, it was called
Oberwiesenfeld and housed only a large airfield in addition to its use as a military site, on which the first commercial airport of Munich was located from 1929 to 1939 and the
aircraft engines manufactured in the neighboring factory of BMW were tested until 1945 and from 1957 to 1968 the general aviation harbored. The area south of today's Georg-Brauchle-Ring, which is characterized by the sports venues, the ''Olympia-Parkharfe'' and the large ''Olympiaberg'', belonged to the district Neuhausen-Oberwiesenfeld until 1992 and came part of the district Am Riesenfeld during the redivision of the districts in 1996.
Others
The Munich Riesenfeldstraße is named after the district Am Riesenfeld.
References
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Quarters of Munich
Buildings and structures in Munich