The Ungererstraße is a street about 2.5 km long in the

Schwabing Schwabing is a borough in the northern part of Munich, the capital of the German state of Bavaria. It is part of the city borough 4 (Schwabing-West) and the city borough 12 (Schwabing-Freimann). The population of Schwabing is estimated about 100 ...

district of

Munich Munich ( ; german: München ; bar, Minga ) is the capital and most populous city of the States of Germany, German state of Bavaria. With a population of 1,558,395 inhabitants as of 31 July 2020, it is the List of cities in Germany by popu ...

. It leads (parallel to the

English Garden The English landscape garden, also called English landscape park or simply the English garden (french: Jardin à l'anglaise, it, Giardino all'inglese, german: Englischer Landschaftsgarten, pt, Jardim inglês, es, Jardín inglés), is a sty ...

) from

Leopoldstraße Leopoldstraße is a street in the Munich districts Maxvorstadt, Schwabing and Milbertshofen. It is a major boulevard, and the main street of the Schwabing district. It is a continuation of Ludwigstraße, the boulevard of King Ludwig I of Bavaria, n ...

at the

Münchner Freiheit The Münchner Freiheit (called ''Münchener Freiheit'' until 1998) is a square in Munich's Schwabing, near the English Garden. It is a popular tourist attraction, especially during winter when one of Munich's largest Christmas markets takes plac ...

in the north-east direction past the Ungererbad and the Nordfriedhof to Freimann past the

Studentenstadt Studentenstadt Freimann is a student housing complex in Munich, Germany. The complex was built in two stages, between 1961-1968 and between 1970-1977, and is Germany's largest student housing complex with 2,478 residential units in 14 building ...

to Freisinger Landstraße at the corner of the

Frankfurter Ring Frankfurter Ring The Frankfurter Ring is an approximately long street in the districts Milbertshofen and Freimann of Munich, Germany. It is connected to Moosacher Straße (west) and Föhringer Ring (east). The subway station of the same name ...

. In the northern part, west of the road, lies Neuer Israelitische Friedhof. The street's subway stations are: Dietlindenstraße, Nordfriedhof, Alte Heide and

. The Ungererstraße was formerly called ''Landshuter Straße'' and ''Freisinger Landstraße'', before it was renamed after August Ungerer (1860–1921), the engineer and owner of the ''Ungererbad''. In 1886, August Ungerer opened the

Ungerer Tramway The Ungerer Tramway was the first electrical tramway in Munich. It was built by engineer and owner of the Ungerer Bath, August Ungerer to connect the bath with the 750 m distant stop of the horse powered tramway. The 1.2 km long Ungerer ...

in the Freisinger Landstraße, which was the first electric

tram A tram (called a streetcar or trolley in North America) is a rail vehicle that travels on tramway tracks on public urban streets; some include segments on segregated right-of-way. The tramlines or networks operated as public transport are ...

in Munich to link Schwabing's ''Würmbad'' (today Ungererbad) to the horse-drawn railway network at the Schwabinger Großwirt. In 1895, the Ungererbahn was replaced by a new horse-drawn carriage track, which continued on the Freisinger Landstraße to the Nordfriedhof. In 1900, the tram line in the Ungererstraße was the last Munich horse-drawn railway line to be converted to electric operation. In 1917, the tram was extended from the Nordfriedhof on the Ungererstraße to the Frankfurter Ring. In the course of the construction of the subway, the since 1935 driven "Straßenbahnlinie 6" route was moved between the

and

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 ...

to the parallel Leopoldstraße and Berliner Straße in 1965, at the same time, the section from the Nordfriedhof to the Freimanner platz was stopped. In 1967 the section from Schenkendorfstraße to the Wendeschleife at the Nordfriedhof was the last tram line on the Ungererstraße to be closed down. Since 1970, the subway line 6 runs to the subway station ''Alte Heide'' under the Ungererstraße and in the north section parallel to the Ungererstraße. From 1901 to 1949, the railway connection of the locomotive factory J. A. Maffei in the

Hirschau Hirschau () is a municipality in the Amberg-Sulzbach district, Upper Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany. Geography Hirschau lies directly on the Bundesstraße 14 (Nuremberg - Rozvadov), 13 km northeast of Amberg and about 65 km east of Nur ...

at the Munich-Schwabing station, crossed the Ungererstraße south of Schenkendorfstraße with a

railway crossing A level crossing is an intersection where a railway line crosses a road, path, or (in rare situations) airport runway, at the same level, as opposed to the railway line crossing over or under using an overpass or tunnel. The term also ...

. Through this, a

rail crossing A level crossing is an intersection where a railway line crosses a road, Trail, path, or (in rare situations) airport runway, at the same level, as opposed to the railway line crossing over or under using an Overpass#Railway, overpass ...

was created with the tram rails. File:Muenchner_Freiheit-1.jpg,

File:Ungererbad_GO-4.jpg, Ungererbad File:Nordfriedhof_Aussegnungshalle.jpg, Nordfriedhof File:StuStaCulum.2010.png, Studentenstadt File:Frankfurter_Ring-bjs091129-02.jpg,

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