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Kardinal-Faulhaber-Straße
The Kardinal-Faulhaber-Straße is a street in the old town of Munich. It runs from Salvatorplatz in a southwesterly direction to Promenadeplatz. History The street is in the '' Kreuzviertel''. Its earlier names were ''Barts Gassen'' (around 1375) and ''Graf-Portia-Prangers-Gasse'' (towards the end of the 18th century). From 1818 it bore the name ''Promenadegasse''. After the death of the Munich Archbishop Michael von Faulhaber (1869-1952) it received its present name in 1952. Streetscape The streetscape is dominated by representative designed aristocratic palaces and administrative buildings. Just like the adjacent Prannerstraße and the Promenadeplatz to the south, Kardinal-Faulhaber-Straße was an address for the aristocratic palace concentrated in the ''Kreuzviertel''. The '' Königliche Filialbank'' (today: HVB Forum) was built in 1893/94 at the corner of Salvatorstraße. The Spreti Palais was built around 1730. François de Cuvilliés built the Holnstein Palace between 17 ...
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Altstadt (Munich)
The Munich Old Town is part of the Bavarian capital Munich and has belonged to the city the longest, even if some places which are meanwhile Boroughs of Munich, districts of Munich, were mentioned long before Munich's documents spoke of the Old Town. The Old Town forms together with the district ''Lehel'', the municipality No. 1 ''Altstadt-Lehel''. The entire area of the Old Town is listed as both a historical ensemble as well as a historical monument listed in the Bavarian historical monument list. Location Munich's old town district essentially corresponds to the area of Munich's historic city center, the area that was surrounded by Munich's city fortifications since the Middle Ages to the end of the 18th century. It is located on two plateau levels of the Munich gravel plain, the ''Hirschauterrasse'', which formed the original floodbed of the Isar, and Old Town plateau located only a few meters higher on which the original city was founded. The sloping edge runs along the west ...
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Michael Von Faulhaber
Michael von Faulhaber (5 March 1869 – 12 June 1952) was a German Catholic prelate who served as list of bishops of Freising and archbishops of Munich and Freising, Archbishop of Munich and Freising for 35 years, from 1917 to his death in 1952. Created a Cardinal (Catholic Church), cardinal in 1921, von Faulhaber remained an outspoken monarchist and denounced the Weimar Republic as rooted in "German Revolution of 1918–1919, perjury and treason" against the German Empire during a speech at the Katholikentag, 62nd German Catholics' Day of 1922. Cardinal von Faulhaber was a senior member and co-founder of the Opus sacerdotale Amici Israel, Amici Israel, a priestly association founded in Rome in 1926 with the goal of working toward the Jewish people's conversion to Roman Catholicism, while also seeking to combat antisemitism within the church. After the Nazi Party seized control of German government in 1933, von Faulhaber recognized the new Nazi government as legitimate, require ...
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Bayerische Hypotheken- Und Wechsel-Bank
The ''Bayerische Hypotheken- und Wechsel-Bank'' (, also known as Hypo-Bank) was a German bank founded in 1834 in Munich. It developed into one of the largest regional banks in Germany, before merging in 1998 with Bayerische Vereinsbank to form HypoVereinsbank (HVB). Overview The Bayerische Hypotheken- und Wechsel-Bank was founded by law of on the initiative of King Ludwig I of Bavaria, following discussions going back to 1818. It started operations on , with the king as one of its founding shareholders. While established as a stock corporation, it was under tight government supervision and its commercial business was initially limited to mortgages. In 1836, it was granted the privilege to issue notes in Bavaria and kept it until the creation of the Reichsbank in 1875, when the purpose-created Bayerische Notenbank took it over. It also had the right to issue Pfandbriefs from 1864, eventually developing into the largest mortgage bank in Germany in the late 19th century. Until ...
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Bavarian State Bank
The Bavarian State Bank () was a German government-owned bank, initially founded in 1780 and merged into Bayerische Vereinsbank in 1971. Overview In 1780, Alexander, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach, Margrave Alexander of Brandenburg-Ansbach, inspired by the example of the Prussian Royal Bank in Berlin, founded the ''Hochfürstlich-Brandenburg-Anspach-Bayreuthische Hofbanco'' () in Ansbach, using a small amount of 15,000 guilders as operating capital. The margrave resorted to this plan for economic reasons, as he wanted to avoid the fees charged by the foreign banks and access the aid funds provided by England for his soldier trade. The American Revolutionary War between England and France in North America had led England to conclude contracts with German counts and request troops from them in exchange for aid funds. In 1792, the Principality of Ansbach was taken over by Prussia and the bank was renamed . In 1806, Ansbach became part of Bavaria and the bank became , then as its ...
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Buildings And Structures In Munich
A building or edifice is an enclosed structure with a roof, walls and windows, usually standing permanently in one place, such as a house or factory. Buildings come in a variety of sizes, shapes, and functions, and have been adapted throughout history for numerous factors, from building materials available, to weather conditions, land prices, ground conditions, specific uses, prestige, and aesthetic reasons. To better understand the concept, see ''Nonbuilding structure'' for contrast. Buildings serve several societal needs – occupancy, primarily as shelter from weather, security, living space, privacy, to store belongings, and to comfortably live and work. A building as a shelter represents a physical separation of the human habitat (a place of comfort and safety) from the ''outside'' (a place that may be harsh and harmful at times). buildings have been objects or canvasses of much artistic expression. In recent years, interest in sustainable planning and building pract ...
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Streets In Munich
Streets is the plural of street, a type of road. Streets or The Streets may also refer to: Music * Streets (band), a rock band fronted by Kansas vocalist Steve Walsh * ''Streets'' (punk album), a 1977 compilation album of various early UK punk bands * '' Streets...'', a 1975 album by Ralph McTell * '' Streets: A Rock Opera'', a 1991 album by Savatage * "Streets" (Doja Cat song), from the album ''Hot Pink'' (2019) * "Streets", a song by Avenged Sevenfold from the album ''Sounding the Seventh Trumpet'' (2001) * The Streets, alias of Mike Skinner, a British rapper * "The Streets" (song) by WC featuring Snoop Dogg and Nate Dogg, from the album ''Ghetto Heisman'' (2002) Other uses * ''Streets'' (film), a 1990 American horror film * Streets (ice cream), an Australian ice cream brand owned by Unilever * Streets (solitaire), a variant of the solitaire game Napoleon at St Helena * Tai Streets (born 1977), American football player * Will Streets (1886–1916), English soldier and poet o ...
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Kurt Eisner
Kurt Eisner (; 14 May 1867 21 February 1919)"Kurt Eisner – Encyclopædia Britannica" (biography), ''Encyclopædia Britannica'', 2006, Britannica.com webpageBritannica-KurtEisner. was a German politician, revolutionary, journalist, and theatre critic. As a socialist journalist, he organized the socialist revolution that overthrew the Wittelsbach monarchy in Bavaria in November 1918, which led to him being described as "the symbol of the Bavarian revolution". He is used as an example of ''charismatic authority'' by Max Weber. Eisner subsequently proclaimed the People's State of Bavaria but was assassinated by far-right German nationalist Anton Graf von Arco auf Valley in Munich on 21 February 1919. Life and career Kurt Eisner was born in Berlin on 14 May 1867, to Emanuel Eisner and Hedwig Levenstein, both Jewish. Newspaper reports of his death identify him as being born in the Kingdom of Galicia (Eastern Europe), Galicia. From 1892 to 1917 he was married to painter Elisabeth Hendr ...
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Palais Porcia
The Palais Porcia is a Baroque architecture, Baroque mansion in Munich, southern Germany, which served as residence for Count Fugger. It is Munich's oldest still existing Baroque-style palace. Building style Enrico Zuccalli built the mansion in Italian baroque style in 1693 for the Count Fugger. In 1710 it was bought by Count Törring and in 1731 by Elector Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor, Charles Albert. His architect François de Cuvilles restored the mansion in 1736 in Rococo style for the countess Topor-Morawitzka, a mistress of Charles Albert. History

The mansion was named after her husband, Prince Porcia. In 1819, a concert hall was integrated by Métivier for the "Museum", a cultural association which had acquired the mansion. In 1934, the Palais Porcia was acquired by a bank. The restoration after the destruction during World War II took place in 1950–1952. After renovations it received a prize by the city of Munich, the ''Fassadenpreis der Landeshauptstadt M ...
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Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor
Charles VII (6 August 1697 – 20 January 1745) was elector of Bavaria from 26 February 1726 and Holy Roman Emperor from 24 January 1742 to his death. He was also King of Bohemia (as Charles Albert) from 1741 to 1743. Charles was a member of the House of Wittelsbach, and his reign as Holy Roman Emperor thus marked the end of three centuries of uninterrupted Habsburg imperial rule, although he was related to the Habsburgs by both blood and marriage. Charles was the eldest son of Elector Maximilian II Emanuel of Bavaria and the Polish princess Theresa Kunegunda Sobieska. He became elector following the death of his father in 1726. In 1722, Charles married Archduchess Maria Amalia of Austria, daughter of Holy Roman Emperor Joseph I and niece of Emperor Charles VI. The couple had seven children together. After Charles VI died in 1740, Elector Charles claimed the Archduchy of Austria and briefly gained hold of the Bohemian throne. In 1742, he was elected e ...
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Bayerische Vereinsbank
The ''Bayerische Vereinsbank'' () was a German bank founded in 1869 in Munich. It developed into one of the largest regional banks in Germany, before merging in 1998 with Bayerische Hypotheken- und Wechsel-Bank (also known as Hypo-Bank) to form HypoVereinsbank (HVB). Overview The Bayerische Vereinsbank was the result of a private initiative by Munich- and Augsburg-based court bankers, members of the nobility as well as common merchants in 1869, for which King Ludwig II granted a concession to set up a public company limited by shares. Two years later, it received permission for land-financing transactions. Bayerische Vereinsbank was then allowed to carry out mortgage banking business operations in addition to other banking business. By 1930, it was Germany's tenth-largest joint-stock bank with 201 million Reichsmarks in total deposits, behind Deutsche Bank, Deutsche Bank & Disconto-Gesellschaft (4.8 billion), Danat-Bank (2.4 billion), Dresdner Bank (2.3 billion), and Commerz- u ...
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Roman Catholic Archdiocese Of Munich And Freising
The Archdiocese of Munich and Freising (, ) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in Bavaria, Germany."Archdiocese of München und Freising "
''Catholic-Hierarchy.org''. David M. Cheney. Retrieved February 29, 2016
"Metropolitan Archdiocese of München und Freising"
''GCatholic.org''. Gabriel Chow. Retrieved February 29, 2016
It is governed by the Archbishop of Munich and Freising, who administers the see from the co-cathedral in Munich, the Munich Frauenkirche, Frauenkirche. The other, much older co-cathedral is Freising Cathedral. The see was canonically erect ...
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