Hohenzollernstraße is a street in
Munich
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's
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.
Location
It starts at
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, ...
, then crosses the
Kurfürstenplatz and Hohenzollernplatz and changes after the
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 roa ...
in the west to the Schwerere-Reiter-Straße as its extension. Between Kurfürstenplatz and Leopoldstraße are smaller shops. Together with Leopoldstraße the shopping street forms the so-called ''Schwabinger T''.
According to a study by the traffic data and
SaaS
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provider
INRIX
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of 2016, Hohenzollernstraße is the most heavily
occupied road in
Germany
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.
History
Until the incorporation of Schwabing to Munich in 1890, the
Burgfrieden
The or ' was a German medieval term that referred to imposition of a state of truce within the jurisdiction of a castle, and sometimes its estate, under which feuds, i.e. conflicts between private individuals, were forbidden under threat of the ...
around Munich ran at the height of Hohenzollernstraße.
In 1892 the street was renamed "Hörmannstraße" after the
Hohenzollern
The House of Hohenzollern (, ; , ; ) is a formerly royal (and from 1871 to 1918, imperial) German dynasty whose members were variously princes, electors, kings and emperors of Hohenzollern, Brandenburg, Prussia, the German Empire, and Romania. ...
nobility. In 1901,
Wassily Kandinsky
Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky ( – 13 December 1944) was a Russian painter and art theorist. Kandinsky is generally credited as one of the pioneers of abstract art, abstraction in western art. Born in Moscow, he spent his childhood in ...
founded his art school "
Phalanx
The phalanx (: phalanxes or phalanges) was a rectangular mass military formation, usually composed entirely of heavy infantry armed with spears, pikes, sarissas, or similar polearms tightly packed together. The term is particularly used t ...
" on Hohenzollernstraße 6a, where
Gabriele Münter
Gabriele Münter (19 February 1877 – 19 May 1962) was a German expressionist painter who was at the forefront of the Munich avant-garde in the early 20th century. She studied and lived with the painter Wassily Kandinsky and was a founding mem ...
became a pupil.
In the house number 104, Willibald Besta had his studio there until 1929. Hohenzollernstraße 21 was the location of the 1902 founded "Lehr- und Versuchsatelier für angewandte und freikunst", of
Wilhelm von Debschitz and
Hermann Obrist
Hermann Obrist (23 May 1862 at Kilchberg (near Zürich), Switzerland – 26 February 1927, Munich, Germany) was a Swiss sculptor of the Jugendstil and Art Nouveau movement. He studied Botany and History in his youth; the influence of those sub ...
, which developed into Germany's largest private educational institution.
Paul Klee
Paul Klee (; 18 December 1879 – 29 June 1940) was a Swiss-born German artist. His highly individual style was influenced by movements in art that included expressionism, cubism, and surrealism. Klee was a natural draftsman who experimented wi ...
taught there in 1908. In 1910 Emil Preetorius was the director of the school. In house number 1 lived the writer and painter
Fanny zu Reventlow
Countess Fanny "Franziska" zu Reventlow (''Fanny Liane Wilhelmine Sophie Auguste Adrienne'') 18 May 1871 – 26 July 1918) was a German writer, artist and translator, who became famous as the "Bohemian Countess" of Schwabing (an entertainment dis ...
, who was known as "Schwabinger Skandalgräfin".
Joachim Ringelnatz
Joachim Ringelnatz is the pen name of the German author and painter Hans Bötticher
(7 August 1883 in Wurzen, Saxony – 17 November 1934 in Berlin). From 1894 to 1900 he lived with his family in the Gottschedstrasse 40 in Leipzig. Profile
Hi ...
lived in the Gartenhaus of Hohenzollernstraße 31a /I from 1920 to 1930. In Hohenzollernstraße 110,
Werner Heisenberg
Werner Karl Heisenberg (; ; 5 December 1901 – 1 February 1976) was a German theoretical physicist, one of the main pioneers of the theory of quantum mechanics and a principal scientist in the German nuclear program during World War II.
He pub ...
spent some fourteen years of his youth.
In 1910,
Georg Kerschensteiner
Georg Michael Anton Kerschensteiner (July 29, 1854 in München – January 15, 1932 in München) was a German professor and educational theorist. He was director of public schools in Munich from 1895 to 1919 and became a professor at the U ...
founded an experimental school in Hohenzollernstraße 14 which was built in 1905/1906. In 1938, the building was transformed into a hospital, which from 1945 to 1960 served as the "Chirurgisches Krankenhaus München-Nord". In 1961, a high school took its place, where for example, Michael Lerchenberg went to school. Since 1941, between Zentnerstraße and
Schleissheimer Straße, on Hohenzollernstraße is the
neo-classical styled Nordbad, which includes a grandstand for 1,400 spectators. From 1959 to 2009,
Theater44 was located at Hohenzollernstraße 44.
From the Kurfürstenplatz to the west, the
tram lines 12 and 27 run over Hohenzollernstraße. Until August 1900, a
horse-drawn carriage had already been running along the line from Promenadeplatz to Hohenzollernstraße. Later, tram lines ran from Nikolaiplatz along the entire length of Hohenzollernstraße to Barerstraße, Schwerere-Reiter-Straße and Schleissheimer Straße. In the 1970s, the section between Nikolaiplatz and Kurfürstenplatz was no longer used.
Historic buildings / Heritage buildings
33 historic architectural monuments lie with Hohenzollernstraße.
See also
*
Schwere-Reiter-Straße
References
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Streets in Munich
Arts districts
Shopping districts and streets in Germany
Retailing in Munich