The Kardinal-Faulhaber-Straße is a street in the

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. 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

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(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.

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built the

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between 1733 and 1737, contracted by Elector

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for his son Franz Ludwig. Since 1821 it has been the official residence of the

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. In 1885/86 an administrative building of the

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was built, in 1895/96 the west wing of the

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. House number 12 refers to the former

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. In front of house no. 8, the Kurt-Eisner monument on the sidewalk commemorates the assassination of the first Bavarian Prime Minister

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on 21 February 1919.

References

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