The Königinstraße is a street in

Munich Munich is the capital and most populous city of Bavaria, Germany. As of 30 November 2024, its population was 1,604,384, making it the third-largest city in Germany after Berlin and Hamburg. Munich is the largest city in Germany that is no ...

. It runs west of 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 Coun ...

'' from the Von-der-Tann-Straße in the district of

Maxvorstadt Maxvorstadt (Central Bavarian: ''Maxvorstod'') is a central borough of Munich, Bavaria, Germany and forms the Stadtbezirk (borough) 3 Maxvorstadt. Since 1992, this borough comprises the former boroughs 5, 6 and 7 (Maxvorstadt-Universität, Maxvor ...

, to the north and to the

Maria-Josepha-Straße Maria-Josepha-Straße is a street in Munich's Schwabing district. It runs west of the ''Englischer Garten'' from Dillisstraße, or the Nikolaiplatz to the corner of Mandlstraße/Königinstraße, and forms the southern edge of the heritage-protect ...

and

Mandlstraße The Mandlstraße is a street in Munich's Schwabing district. It runs west of the Englischer Garten from the corner of Maria-Josepha-Straße / Königinstraße to the corner of Gunezrainerstraße / Biedersteiner Straße and forms the eastern edge of ...

in the Ensemble Alt-

Schwabing Schwabing is a borough in the northern part of Munich, the Capital (political), capital of the Germany, German state of Bavaria. It is part of the city borough 4 (Schwabing-West) and the city borough 12 (Schwabing-Freimann). The population of Sc ...

Description

At Königinstraße 5, is the American Consulate General. Due to the security precautions, entry into the Königinstraße from the Von-der-Tann-Straße is no longer possible for vehicles. On the estate of today's house number 28, was the ''Zoologischer Garten Benedikt'' (private zoological garden) from 1862, then still known as Wiesenstraße. In the former Wiesenstraße 6 (now also Königinstraße) was the homeopathic hospital of Joseph Buchner, homeopathic family doctor at the court of King

Maximilian II of Bavaria Maximilian II (28 November 1811 – 10 March 1864) reigned as King of Bavaria between 1848 and 1864. Unlike his father, King Ludwig I, "King Max" was very popular and took a greater interest in the business of Government than in personal ext ...

and

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professor Professor (commonly abbreviated as Prof.) is an Academy, academic rank at university, universities and other tertiary education, post-secondary education and research institutions in most countries. Literally, ''professor'' derives from Latin ...

at the

Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich The Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (simply University of Munich, LMU or LMU Munich; ) is a public university, public research university in Munich, Bavaria, Germany. Originally established as the University of Ingolstadt in 1472 by Duke ...

, for the purpose of "free treatment of poor servants, family members and workers". Further north, is the ancestral site of the veterinary faculty (still listed with the address Veterinärstraße 13). Already in Schwabing, with the house number 34, lies the ''Universitäts Reitschule München'' (university riding school Munich). The headquarters of BayBG Bayerische Beteiligungsgesellschaft is located in Königinstraße 23 in a richly structured historically listed

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building. With the historically listed main building containing the Schmuckhof of the

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on Königinstraße 107 and the, also historically listed, headquarters of

Allianz Allianz SE ( , ) is a German Multinational corporation, multinational financial services company headquartered in Munich, Germany. Its core businesses are insurance and asset management. Allianz is the world's largest List of largest insurance ...

SE at number 28, Königinstraße is the only

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street in which two

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companies have their headquarters. Other renowned financial service providers in the street are the

LfA Förderbank Bayern LfA Förderbank Bayern is the regional promotional bank () for the states of Germany, German state of Bavaria. It was established by law of , initially as (LfA), which makes it the oldest of the . It is headquartered in Munich. Overview LfA sta ...

and the Bayerische Beteiligungsgesellschaft (BayBG) The

Nanosystems Initiative Munich The Nanosystems Initiative Munich (NIM) is a German research cluster in the field of nano sciences. It is one of the excellence clusters being funded within the German Excellence Initiative of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. The cluster jo ...

is also located in the Königinstraße, the building emerged from an implementation competition with an urban planning and landscape planning component. The new building was controversial, since the around 1900 Veterinary Clinic of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University, including a 1902 -built

Art Nouveau Art Nouveau ( ; ; ), Jugendstil and Sezessionstil in German, is an international style of art, architecture, and applied art, especially the decorative arts. It was often inspired by natural forms such as the sinuous curves of plants and ...

building with Jurassic marble staircases with

wrought iron Wrought iron is an iron alloy with a very low carbon content (less than 0.05%) in contrast to that of cast iron (2.1% to 4.5%), or 0.25 for low carbon "mild" steel. Wrought iron is manufactured by heating and melting high carbon cast iron in an ...

Art Nouveau railings, had to be demolished. The building was classified as "worthy of a memorial" in the assessment of the state building authority of Munich but was not set by the

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on the list of buildings worth protecting. Altogether, 21 buildings are listed on the list of historical monuments in Maxvorstadt and Schwabing on the 1.45 km long road. At the corner of Königinstraße - Mary Josepha Straße – Mandlstraße, begins the protected building ensemble Altschwabing. At Königinstraße 85, is an Art Nouveau building built in 1906 by

Martin Dülfer Martin Dülfer (1 January 1859 in Breslau – 21 December 1942 in Dresden) was a German architect and professor; best known for designing theatres in the Historical and Art-Nouveau styles. Life and work His father, Carl Dülfer, was a publish ...

, which is protected together with the buildings at Ohmstraße 13, 15 and 17 as "Ensemble Ohmstraße". In 2016, the Königinstraße became a

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for a new joint project between

BMW Bayerische Motoren Werke AG, trading as BMW Group (commonly abbreviated to BMW (), sometimes anglicised as Bavarian Motor Works), is a German multinational manufacturer of vehicles and motorcycles headquartered in Munich, Bavaria, Germany. Th ...

and the city of Munich, where street lamps were used as

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s for

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s. Prinz-Carl-Palais 3550.JPG,

Prinz-Carl-Palais The Prinz Carl Palais in Munich is a mansion built in the style of early Neoclassicism Neoclassicism, also spelled Neo-classicism, emerged as a Western cultural movement in the decorative arts, decorative and visual arts, literature, theatre, ...

Amerikanisches Generalkonsulat in München.jpg,

Consulate General of the United States, Munich The Consulate General of the United States, Munich represents the interests of the United States government in Bavaria, Germany. Headed by the Consul General, the Consulate provides services to Americans in Bavaria and fostering Bavarian-American ...

Allianz Koeniginstr Aussenansicht.jpg, Directorate General of

SE in Königinstraße 28 Königinstr. 34 - Uni-Reitschule - München.jpg, ''Universitäts Reitschule München'' Aerial image of the headquarters of Munich Re (view from the southeast).jpg, Headquarters of

Englischer_Garten_from_Monopteros.JPG, ''

'' with view towards Königinstraße Koeniginstr. 11a Muenchen-1.jpg, Palais from 1913/14 at Königinstraße 11a Koeniginstr. 17 Muenchen-2.jpg, LfA Förderbank Bayern in Königinstr. 17 Königinstraße 22 München.jpg,

Neo-Renaissance Renaissance Revival architecture (sometimes referred to as "Neo-Renaissance") is a group of 19th-century Revivalism (architecture), architectural revival styles which were neither Greek Revival architecture, Greek Revival nor Gothic Revival ar ...

villa from the end of the 19th century in the Königinstr. 22 Koeniginstr. 23 Muenchen-2.jpg, Headquarters of BayBG Bayerische Beteiligungsgesellschaft in Königinstr. 23 Königinstraße 24 München.jpg,

villa in the Königinstr. 24 Koeniginstr. 27 Muenchen-1.jpg, 1893 built house of the painter

Franz Defregger Franz Defregger (after 1883 Franz von Defregger) (30 April 1835 – 2 January 1921) was an Austrian artist known for producing genre art and history paintings set in his native county of Tyrol. Biography Franz Defregger was born on 30 April 18 ...

in the Königinstr. 27 Koeniginstr. 29 Muenchen-1.jpg, Villa in the Königinstr. 29 Koeniginstr. 35a Muenchen-1.jpg,

residential building in the Königinstr. 35 Königinstr 44.JPG, Alois Alzheimer's House (

guest house) Koeniginstr. 51 Muenchen-1.jpg,

residential building in the Königinstr. 51 Königinstraße 85.JPG, Königinstraße 85 (belonging to Ensemble Ohmstraße)

References

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