Maria-Josepha-Straße is a street in

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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 ...

district. It runs west of the ''Englischer Garten'' from Dillisstraße, or the Nikolaiplatz to the corner of Mandlstraße/

Königinstraße The Königinstraße is a street in Munich. It runs west of the ''Englischer Garten'' from the Von-der-Tann-Straße in the district of Maxvorstadt, to the north and to the Maria-Josepha-Straße and Mandlstraße in the Ensemble Alt-Schwabing. Desc ...

, and forms the southern edge of the heritage-protected building ensemble Alt-Schwabing. The name of the street came from

Maria Josepha of Portugal Infanta Maria José of Portugal (Maria José Joana Eulália Leopoldina Adelaide Isabel Carolina Micaela Rafaela Gabriela Francisca de Assis e de Paula Inês Sofia Joaquina Teresa Benedita Bernardina; 19 March 1857 – 11 March 1943), sometimes kn ...

, the second wife of

Karl Theodor, Duke in Bavaria Karl Theodor, Duke in Bavaria (9 August 1839 – 30 November 1909), was a member of the House of Wittelsbach and a professional oculist. He was the favorite brother of Empress Elisabeth of Austria, and the father of Queen Elisabeth of the Bel ...

. The renaming of the street from its originally name, Wiesenstraße, took place in the course of 1891 and was carried out with the incorporation of Schwabing to Munich. Countless streets of the Altschwabinger village center were then given new addresses and names. According to Rambaldi, the street name assignments were officially carried out as early as 1890, and for the postal detection of the buildings along this road, the name had been recognized since 12 November 1892. On city maps from the years 1890 and 1891, the street name was not yet to be found. At the beginning of Maria-Josepha-Straße is the Seidlvilla (also called ''Villa Lautenbacher''), built in 1905 by Emanuel von Seidl in the style of

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with

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forms. On the Nikolaiplatz is the 1928-1929 designed ''Fischerbrunnen'' by Eugen Mayer-Fassold. At the corner Kaulbach Straße and Maria-Josepha- Straße is a former publishing house of the ''Bayerischen Telefonbuchverlag'' (Bavarian telephone book publisher) from the 1950s, which is to be replaced by a complex building with 28 apartments, offices and practices. Further along the street is an office building of

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, which was completed in March 2013 and whose construction was very controversial. Until the 1960s, the then tram line 22, drove to Schwabing and turned in a loop at Nikolaiplatz. In the curve between the Maria-Josepha-Straße and the Nikolaiplatz, the tram tracks are still visible through holes in the pavement and through the cooling of the

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. From here, tracks were also laid for a possible connection through the ''Englischer Garten''. With the postal address Nikolaiplatz 1b, which is also on the Maria-Josepha-Straße Seidlvilla, as well as the ''Fischerbrunnen'' also counted, there are only 9 historically listed buildings on the only 260 m long road, which is also included in the Ensemble protection Altschwabing. File:Fischerbrunnen Nikolaiplatz Muenchen Eugen Mayer 1929-1.jpg, 1928-1929 built by Eugen Mayer-Fassold ''Fischerbrunnen'' File:Seidlvilla-Schwabing (4).jpg, Seidlvilla File:Maria-Josepha-Str. 5, München-Schwabing.JPG,

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- late-classicist house from the 2nd quarter of the 19th century at Maria-Josepha-Str. 5 File:Maria-Josepha-Str. 8, München-Schwabing.JPG, Built in 1909 by Carl Sattler Villa Loeb File:Maria-Josepha-Str. 10, München-Schwabing.JPG, Built in 1800

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house in Maria-Josepha-Straße 10 File:Maria-Josepha-Str. 12 Muenchen-1.jpg, Neoclassical-objective raw brick villa from the beginning of the 20th century at Maria-Josepha-Str. 12 File:Maria-Josepha-Str. 16 Muenchen-1.jpg, Villa-style semi-detached house in

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style 1886 at Maria-Josepha-Straße 14-16 File:Wzwz schwabing 27 mandlstrasse 01.JPG, 1906/07 built by Frederick of Thiersch Walmdachvilla in

forms in the Mandlstraße 1

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