The Landsberger Straße is one of the main arterial roads in

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Route

The road, with a length of about 6.6 km, leads south into the extension of the Bayerstraße, parallel to the railway lines of the Munich-Hauptbahnhof- Munich-Pasing-

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tracks from the confluence of the Martin-Greif-Straße, through the Munich urban districts of Schwanthalerhöhe (Westend),

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and Pasing until the Pasinger Marienplatz. At its eastern end, the road crosses the small ridge of the

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/ Maßmannbergl, a runoff from the western high bay of the

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Valley. The roads continuation to the west is the Bodenseestraße. From its junction with the '' Mittlerer Ring'' at the Trappentreustraße / Donnersbergerbrücke, it forms a section of the '' Bundesstraße 2'' to the west. At the height of the Laim S-Bahn station, the Wotanstraße coming from the north through the Laimer underpass and the south coming

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(both parts of the so-called outer ring) cross. In the center of Pasing, however, the B2 is routed further north through the ''

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'' on to the Josef-Felder-Straße. The

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runs on the Landsberger Straße from the eastern end of the street to Elsenheimerstraße and then from the street ''Am Knie'' to the center of Pasinger. The road crosses two railway lines, namely the '' Münchner Südring'' through an underpass and the Sendlinger Spange by means of a bridge, the Hackerbrücke.

Name

The name of the street comes from the city

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, which is reached further down the route of the road.

Important buildings on the street

On the Landsberger Straße there are, among others, the operating buildings of the '' Augustiner-Bräu'' (Augustiner brewery) (No. 31-35), the ''Central Tower München'' high-rise building, the former ''Hauptzollamt'' (main customs office) (No. 122-132), the ''Persil-Schule'' (No. 150), the ''ICE-Halle der Deutsche Bahn'' (No. 158), a hall from the

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, the ''Villa Kürth'' near the Laimer underpass, the Munich branch of

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(formerly ''Pianohaus Lang'') (No. 336), the '' Pasinger Rathaus'' and the

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2. At the corner of Elsenheimerstraße is a sculpture that was erected by Reinhart R. Wolke. The street was used as a filming location for

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Music video in 1992, just 2 days before the

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References

External links

Historical pictures of Landsberger Straße
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