The Isarring is a four-lane section of the Mittlerer Ring, the ''

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'' (federal highway), in

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. It is used by 110,000 cars every day and was constructed in 1966.

Route

The Isarring joins at the

Ungererstraße The Ungererstraße is a street about 2.5 km long in the Schwabing district of Munich. It leads (parallel to the English Garden) from Leopoldstraße at the Münchner Freiheit in the north-east direction past the Ungererbad and the Nordfriedhof to ...

exit onto

Schenkendorfstraße The Schenkendorfstraße is a four- to ten-lane section of the '' Mittlerer Ring'' in Munich. Location The Schenkendorfstraße is located about four kilometers north of the Munich city center in the district Schwabing-Freimann. It runs in a wes ...

. From this intersection-free junction, the Ungererstraße turns into the '' Bundesstraße 11'' as it leaves the city. On the side leaving the city is now, the '' Nordfriedhof''; the ring is lowered at this point. After a right turn, the road leads into the ''Biederstein Tunnel'', whose name derives from the ''Schlösschen Biederstein'' (Castle Biederstein), but which was demolished decades ago. In its place are a

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and a

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. After the tunnel and a left turn, the ring leads through the ''

Englischer Garten The ''Englischer Garten'' (, ''English Garden'') is a large public park in the centre of Munich, Bavaria, stretching from the city centre to the northeastern city limits. It was created in 1789 by Sir Benjamin Thompson (1753–1814), later Count ...

'' (English Garden). On the right is the '' Kleinhesseloher See'' (lake) with the restaurant ''Seehaus''. It then follows the ''Tucherpark'' exit, where the road crosses the

Isar The Isar is a river in Tyrol, Austria, and Bavaria, Germany, which is not navigable for watercraft above raft size. Its source is in the Karwendel range of the Alps in Tyrol; it enters Germany near Mittenwald and flows through Bad Tölz, Munic ...

on the John F. Kennedy bridge - hence the name Isarring - and runs to the Effnerplatz.

Public transport

Immediately at the junction Ungererstraße is the U6 subway line station Nordfriedhof. Since the Schenkendorfstraße ends there, the station was originally supposed to been called Schenkendorfstraße. At the Nordfriedhof, there is a direct connection to the

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, with the airport bus.

Initiative M-ein Englischer Garten

The Isarring cuts the ''Englischer Garten'' into a southern and a northern part. The ''Initiative M-ein Englischer Garten'', would like to lay the Isarring, at 380 meters, into a tunnel in order to reunite the northern and southern portions of the ''Englischer Garten''. This is to restore the historical shape of the ''Englischer Garten'', as it was before the construction of the Isarings. The ''Englischer Garten'' would then again be a continuous city park with north-south extension of 5 km length. On 28 June 2017, the Munich City Council unanimously approved the project.

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