Schleißheimer Straße (Munich)
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Schleißheimer Straße is the second longest street in
Munich Munich is the capital and most populous city of Bavaria, Germany. As of 30 November 2024, its population was 1,604,384, making it the third-largest city in Germany after Berlin and Hamburg. Munich is the largest city in Germany that is no ...
after Dachauer Straße (11.2 km) with a length of 8.14 km. It starts in the city centre at Stiglmaierplatz, leads through five districts and ends at Goldschmiedplatz. It takes its name from the northern suburb of
Oberschleißheim Oberschleißheim (, , in contrast to " Lower Schleißheim") is a municipality in the district of Munich, and a suburb to Munich in Bavaria, in southern Germany. It is located 13 km north of Munich (centre). As of 2005 it had a population o ...
, where it originally ended.


Course

The Schleißheimer Straße starts as a one-lane one-way street in the center of
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district as a branch of the Dachauer Straße a little north of the Stiglmaierplatz, leads past the Maßmannpark and runs almost straight from south to north through
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 ...
, Am Riesenfeld, Milbertshofen, Lerchenau and Harthof to the district Hasenbergl. From the city centre to the height of Moosacher Straße / Frankfurter Ring, the road is mostly one-lane, with the exception of a section in front of
Petuelring The Petuelring is an approximately 2.2 km long road in the north of Munich and part of the Bundesstraße 2 R, Mittlerer Ring. It runs between Georg-Brauchle-Ring and Schenkendorfstraße. Location The Petuelring is located about four kilome ...
. Afterwards it leads continuously as two lanes up to its end at the Goldschmiedplatz / corner Aschenbrennerstraße. An extension to the north up to the A99 is being planned. Because of the adjacent residential areas, the ''
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- SPD'' is also bringing a 2.5 km long tunnel into discussion, which could run north from the height of Rathenaustraße. A special feature of Schleißheimer Straße is the fact that you can see the towers of Munich's Frauenkirche almost along their entire length up to and including the end in Hasenbergl. At the Schleißheimer Str. 142 in Schwabing there is the Nordbad in the district Milbertshofen at the Schleißheimer Str. 281 a bunker, the Kulturhaus Milbertshofen at the Curt-Mezger-Platz. At Schleißheimer Straße 387A there is the canal operating station of ''Stadtentwässerung München'' (city drainage), in Lerchenau at Schleißheimer Straße 393 the Virginia biotope, at Schleißheimer Straße 424 the research and innovation centre of the automobile manufacturer
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, at Schleißheimer Straße 506 the Mira shopping centre, at Schleißheimer Straße 510 the school centre Nordhaide, the Goldschmiedplatz and finally the
Panzerwiese The Panzerwiese is a 200 hectare heath area in Milbertshofen-Am Hart in the north of Munich, Germany. It bears its name due to its former military use as a training area for tanks ( and meadow ). The name "Nordhaide" is often used analogously to ...
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Panzerwiese The Panzerwiese is a 200 hectare heath area in Milbertshofen-Am Hart in the north of Munich, Germany. It bears its name due to its former military use as a training area for tanks ( and meadow ). The name "Nordhaide" is often used analogously to ...
File:Goldschmiedplatz_Hasenbergl_München-3.jpg, ''Fürstenachse'' at the end of Schleißheimer Straße in Hasenbergl


History

The road originally followed the course of today's Lerchenauer Straße in the direction of Feldmoching/Schleißheim. Since the 14th century it was called ''Rennweg/Reitweg'' (riding trail). From the 17th century onwards, Schleißheimer Straße connected Munich with the summer residence of the Bavarian rulers in
Schleissheim Palace The Schleißheim Palace () comprises three individual palaces in a grand Baroque park in the village of Oberschleißheim, a suburb of Munich, Bavaria, Germany. The palace was a summer residence of the Bavarian rulers of the House of Wittelsbac ...
. With the construction of the Oberschleißheim airfield in 1912, the road crossed the airfield and was permanently interrupted in 1917 after several near attacks. The Powder Tower was a well-known former meeting place of the Dark culture. It was closed on 1 January 2007 and has since been demolished. Between Nordbad and Petuelring, is the line 27 of the Munich tram, which runs on a section of the line 7 between Görresstraße and Petuelring, which was stopped in 1980 with the opening of the underground line U2. Until 1993, tram line 13 also ran on the section between Rathenaustraße and its end in Hasenbergl. This line was closed on 21 November 1993 as it was replaced by the underground line U2, which mostly ran parallel. The former Hasenbergl terminal was converted into a sport and play area.
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 in a room at Schleißheimer Straße 34 from May 1913 until he joined the
Bavarian Army The Bavarian Army () was the army of the Electorate of Bavaria, Electorate (1682–1806) and then Kingdom of Bavaria, Kingdom (1806–1918) of Bavaria. It existed from 1682 as the standing army of Bavaria until the merger of the military sovereig ...
in August 1914.


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