Lothstraße is a roughly 1.3 kilometer long street in

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. It runs through the St. Benno district and forms the boundary between the municipality of

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, which lies southeast of the street, and the districts of Neuhausen and Schwabing-West, which are located northwest.

Description

It runs from Nymphenburger Straße (house number 1 or 2) to

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(number 29 or 54). From Linprunstraße to Thorwaldsenstraße, the Lothstraße forks off and forms a ''green'' triangle, a branch then leads to Nymphenburger Straße.

Buildings

On Lothstraße is the Zeughaus München, the back of the ''Deutsches Herzzentrum München'' (German Heart Center Munich) (now Lazarettstraße 36), the

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and its library, and the ''Forschungsinstitut für Wärmeschutz'' (Research Institute for thermal insulation). Since 1975, the ''Bayerische Blindenhörbücherei e.V.'' (Bavarian library for blind people) at Lothstraße 62, and in the Lothstraße 29, the ''Deutsche Landwirtschaftsverlag'' (German Agricultural Publishing house). In Lothstraße is the war memorial of the 2. Bayerischen Infanterie-Regiment, and at the intersection with the Dachauer Straße is a measuring station of the ''Umweltbundesamt'' (Federal Environmental Agency). File:Lothstr. 17 Muenchen-1.jpg, Lothstraße 17: ''Zeughaus München'' (1861–1865) File:Lothstr. 28 Muenchen-1.jpg, Lothstraße 28 (1910) File:Geschäftshaus - Lothstraße 29 - München.jpg, Lothstraße 29: North wing of the former officer's casino of the 2. Bayerischen Infanterie-Regiment (1898) File:Lothstr. 32-30 Muenchen-1.jpg, Lothstraße 30-32 (1920/21 by Franz Deininger) File:Lothstr. 34 Muenchen-1.jpg, Lothstraße 34: Oskar-von-Miller-Polytechnikum (1925–26 by Karl Meitinger) File:Lothstraße-Obelisk - Muenchen.jpg, War Memorial of the 2nd Bavarian Infantry Regiment (Obelisk, 1923 by Herman Broxner) File:Lothstr. 62 Brunnen Muenchen-3.jpg, Step fountain on the corner Lothstraße 62 / Dachauer Str. 98

Campus Lothstraße

The ''Campus Lothstraße'' of the Munich University of Applied Sciences is its largest location and includes all central administrative units, nine faculties and the CAREER Center, the e-learning center, the further education center and the Open University of Upper Bavaria (OHO). Which are located directly in buildings on Lothstraße: * Lothstraße 13d: Central Library and Mensa * Lothstraße 17: the Zeughaus is being renovated for use by the university * Lothstraße 21: the so-called "W-Bau", including workshops, studios and student rooms * Lothstraße 34: Supply Engineering, Process Engineering, Printing and Media Technology (FK 05) and Applied Sciences and Mechatronics (FK 06) * Lothstraße 64: Electrical Engineering and Information Technology (FK 04), Computer Science and Mathematics (FK 07) and Industrial Engineering (FK 09) 2004, the so-called ''Roter Würfel'' was completed in the Lothstraße 64, which has since then also become a landmark anchored in corporate design of the University of Applied Sciences. File:Roter Würfel.jpg, ''Roter Würfel'' of the University of Applied Sciences File:HochschuleMuenchenBib1.jpg, Library of the University as seen from Lothstraße

History

The street was named in 1877 after the Bavarian court painter Johann Ulrich Loth. Towards the end of the 19th century, it formed the southeastern boundary of the Barackenkasernements Oberwiesenfeld. From 1879 to 1904 the ''Bayerisches Armeemuseum'' was housed in the Zeughaus in Munich, before it moved into the newly built monumental building in the Hofgarten, the present state chancellery.

Adolf Hitler Adolf Hitler (20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician who was the dictator of Nazi Germany from 1933 until Death of Adolf Hitler, his suicide in 1945. Adolf Hitler's rise to power, He rose to power as the lea ...

lived during his affiliation to the infantry in the Lothstraße 29 and stayed there officially until 1 May 1920. From the ''Führergeburtstag'' (Birthday of Adolf Hitler) 1934 until

denazification Denazification () was an Allied initiative to rid German and Austrian society, culture, press, economy, judiciary, and politics of the Nazi ideology following the Second World War. It was carried out by removing those who had been Nazi Par ...

in 1945, the barracks in Lothstraße therefore held the name Adolf-Hitler-Kaserne.

Transportation access

The trams lines 20 to 22 and the city bus 153 have a stop at the University of Munich with the name Lothstraße.

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