Denning is a district of the

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n capital

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that belongs to district 13

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Geography

Denning is located in the eastern part of Bogenhausen urban district between ''

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'' in the north and ''Zamdorf'' in the south. The historic city center is located at the intersection between the east-west axis formed by Denninger and Daglfinger Straße and the north-south axis formed by Friedrich-Eckart-Straße and Ostpreußenstraße. The borders of Denning are the Vollmannstraße in the west, the Memeler Straße in the north, the

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line in the east and the ''Denninger Anger'' in the south.

History

The Denning area was settled during the

Roman period The Roman Empire ( la, Imperium Romanum ; grc-gre, Βασιλεία τῶν Ῥωμαίων, Basileía tôn Rhōmaíōn) was the post-Roman Republic, Republican period of ancient Rome. As a polity, it included large territorial holdings aro ...

around the end of the first to the middle of the third century CE. A relic of the Roman past of Denning is a

villa rustica Villa rustica () was the term used by the ancient Romans to denote a farmhouse or villa set in the countryside and with an agricultural section, which applies to the vast majority of Roman villas. In some cases they were at the centre of a large ...

with its own bathhouse. It was excavated in 1928. In official documents, Denning was first mentioned in 1200 as ''Tenningen'' or ''Danningen'', which probably refers to the personal name ''Tenno''. Around 1800, Denning was a hamlet with four farms, of which only the ''Alte Kernhof'' is preserved, along with the

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Chapel. One of the courtyards and the Guardian Angel Chapel were demolished in the 1950s. The other two courtyards were demolished around the end of the 1970s, due to the relocation of the Daglfinger Straße. When the village was incorporated into Bavaria in 1818, Denning initially formed the independent municipality Zamdorf with Zamdorf and Steinhausen, which was incorporated in 1820 into the community Daglfing. An application by Denning to be converted to Bogenhausen was rejected in 1873 by the presiding authorities. The Obermaier ''Kiesquetschwerks'' was mined in the 19th century for brick production for Munich's growing construction industry. For example, the ''

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'' was built with

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s burned in Denning. After the

clay Clay is a type of fine-grained natural soil material containing clay minerals (hydrous aluminium phyllosilicates, e.g. kaolin, Al2 Si2 O5( OH)4). Clays develop plasticity when wet, due to a molecular film of water surrounding the clay par ...

was exhausted, the pits were used for

gravel extraction A gravel pit is an open-pit mine for the extraction of gravel. Gravel pits often lie in river valleys where the water table is high, so they may naturally fill with water to form ponds or lakes. Old, abandoned gravel pits are normally used eith ...

. At the end of the 19th century, eight properties were in Denning. Settlement activity began in 1924. East of today's Ostpreußenstraße to today's ''Platz Zur Deutschen Einheit'' ('place for German unity') was the Obermaiersche colony, named after the lead contractor. From 1926, the Denning colony arose west of today's Ostpreußenstraße. The number of houses increased to 140 by 1930 when Daglfing was incorporated on 1 January into Munich. At the end of the 1960s, the Denninger Straße-Warthestraße was built up with four to eight-story residential developments south of the Denninger Straße, which were also called ''Denninger Hochhäuser'' (Denninger skyscrapers) due to the otherwise lower development of Denning. Following the quarry's closure, the unused gravel plant stood on Denninger Straße until approximately 2000, more precisely on the Pühnstraße. In a dilapidated state, it was demolished and converted to recreation and nature.

Geology and land use

An almost two-meter-thick layer of clay lies beneath a thin layer of humus.

Neighborhoods

Denning is characterized by residential areas with single-family homes surrounded by gardens. Skyscrapers are found in the settlement Denninger Straße-Warthestraße at the southern end of Denning. The oldest remaining property in Denning is the restaurant ''Alter Kernhof'' on the corner of Ostpreußen-Denninger Straße. The main thoroughfare in Denning is the Ostpreußenstraße, which holds more than 100 shops and service companies. Restaurants and a pub are there. In the core area of Denning are found small parks such as that at ''Posener Platz'' or at the ''Platz Zur Deutschen Einheit''. Therefore, the ''Denninger Anger'' extends along the entire southern border of Denning. In the west, a green band runs in the north-south direction. In the ''Denninger Anger'', at the Denninger Straße 190, the gravel plant's administrative building is the last reminder.

Religion

Since the demolition of the Guardian Angel Chapel in 1953, no Roman

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building is in Denning. However, the Catholic parish church of St. Emmeram in the neighboring Englschalking district is located on the Ostpreußenstraße a few meters from the border between the two districts. Near the same border on the Denninger side, is the

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Lutheran Lutheranism is one of the largest branches of Protestantism, identifying primarily with the theology of Martin Luther, the 16th-century German monk and reformer whose efforts to reform the theology and practice of the Catholic Church launched th ...

Immanuel Church on the Memeler Straße.

References

External links

{{Commons, Denning (Munich), Denning (München)
Denning
Official website Verein für Stadtteilkultur im Münchner Nordosten e.V. Boroughs of Munich Archaeology of Bavaria