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Georgenstraße
The Georgenstraße is a street in Munich, Germany and runs in an east-west direction north of the city center. It separates the Maxvorstadt in the south from Schwabing in the north. It leads from Leopoldstraße in the east to Lothstraße in the west. In the street, especially at the beginning are several magnificent buildings, in the western direction are simple rental units. The Georgenstraße has little traffic significance and it is quiet despite its relative proximity to the city center; apartments, small shops, cafes and other small businesses are found there. History The closed development of Maxvorstadt in the middle of the 19th century, extended from the city center only to the Adalbertstraße, a southern parallel street of Georgenstraße. The Georgenstraße was created between agricultural land areas and was initially referred to as "Tambosi-Anger". Since 1851, the plots were parceled along this dirt road, the way served since then as a shortcut or "Schleichweg" betw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Türkenstraße
The Türkenstraße is an inner city street in Munich's district Maxvorstadt. It is named after the Türkengraben (Turkish moat) to which it ran. In the list of historical monuments in Munich, more than 30 objects are listed in the Türkenstraße. Location The 1.3 km long Türkenstraße runs from the Brienner Straße in a northeasterly direction and ends at the border of the district Schwabing, in the Georgenstraße. History The approval of the street name in 1812 by royal rescript of Max I. is the first nomination as Türkenstraße. In 1823, the ''Türkenkaserne'' (Turkish barracks) were built on the area between Barer, Gabelsberger, Türkenstraße and Theresienstraße. Infantry regiments were initially stationed here, so the barracks was used by the Bavarian State Police after the First World War, which gave way during the '' Drittes Reich'' of the ''Wehrmacht''. After civilian use in the post-war period, the barracks were demolished in the 1960s. All that remains t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Winzererstraße
The Winzererstraße is a two-kilometer-long street in the Munich districts of Maxvorstadt and Schwabing. Description The Winzererstraße starts at the Hessstraße at the Massmannspark and runs almost parallel to Schleissheimer Straße, the road ends today in the North, after crossing the Ackermannstraße, southeast of the Olympiaberg. There are 11 architectural monuments, such as, the barracks building of the Prinz-Leopold-Barracks or the Obelisk in the triangle Winzererstraße / Lothstraße / Georgenstraße. The ''Bavarian Ministry of Labor, Social Affairs, Family and Integration'' is located on Winzererstraße 9, the ''Munich Wood Research'' (TU München) is located on Winzererstraße 45, the ''Munich Department of Finance'' is located at Winzererstraße 47a, the ''City Archive'' is located at Winzererstraße 68, an outside office of the ''Federal Office of Freight Transport'' can be found in house number 52, and the ''Higher Labor Court'' and the ''Munich Labor Court'' are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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, Maxvorstadt-Königsplatz-Marsfeld and Maxvorstadt-Josephsplatz). Location The borough is next to the north-western part of the Old City. The Englischer Garten is the Eastern border, Schwabing is in the North, Neuhausen-Nymphenburg in the North-West. The borough Schwanthalerhöhe is its south-western neighbor and Ludwigsvorstadt-Isarvorstadt is in the south. The Eastern parts of Maxvorstadt are often mistakenly attributed to the borough of Schwabing. Traffic The Maxvorstadt is drafted as a quadratical grid and is shaped by the north-south axes Schleißheimer Straße (Munich), Schleißheimer Straße and Ludwigstraße; the parallel streets Amalienstraße, Türkenstraße, Barer Straße, Schraudolphstraße, Arcisstraße, Luisenstraße and Augusten ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anton Ažbe
Anton Ažbe (30 May 1862 – 5 or 6 August 1905) was a Slovene realist painter and teacher of painting. Ažbe, crippled since birth and orphaned at the age of eight, learned painting as an apprentice to Janez Wolf and at the Academies in Vienna and Munich. At the age of 30, Ažbe founded his own school of painting in Munich that became a popular attraction for Eastern European students. Ažbe trained the "big four" Slovenian impressionists ( Rihard Jakopič, Ivan Grohar, Matej Sternen, Matija Jama), a whole generation of Russian painters ( Ivan Bilibin, Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, Igor Grabar, Wassily Kandinsky, Dmitry Kardovsky and Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, to name a few), Serbian painters Nadežda Petrović, Beta Vukanović, Ljubomir Ivanović, Borivoje Stevanović, Kosta Miličević, and Milan Milovanović or a Czech painter Ludvik Kuba. Ažbe's training methods were adopted by Beta and Rista Vukanović when they took over Kiril Kutlik's atelier and school and by Russi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
