The Winzererstraße is a two-kilometer-long street in the

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districts of

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and

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Description

The Winzererstraße starts at the Hessstraße at the Massmannspark and runs almost parallel to Schleissheimer Straße, the road ends today in the North, after crossing the Ackermannstraße, southeast of the Olympiaberg. There are 11 architectural monuments, such as, the

barracks Barracks are buildings used to accommodate military personnel and quasi-military personnel such as police. The English word originates from the 17th century via French and Italian from an old Spanish word 'soldier's tent', but today barracks ar ...

building of the Prinz-Leopold-Barracks or the Obelisk in the triangle Winzererstraße / Lothstraße /

Georgenstraße The Georgenstraße is a street in Munich, Germany and runs in an east-west direction north of the city center. It separates the Maxvorstadt in the south from Schwabing in the north. It leads from Leopoldstraße in the east to Lothstraße in the ...

. The ''Bavarian Ministry of Labor, Social Affairs, Family and Integration'' is located on Winzererstraße 9, the ''Munich Wood Research'' (

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) is located on Winzererstraße 45, the ''Munich Department of Finance'' is located at Winzererstraße 47a, the ''City Archive'' is located at Winzererstraße 68, an outside office of the ''Federal Office of Freight Transport'' can be found in house number 52, and the ''Higher Labor Court'' and the ''Munich Labor Court'' are located at Winzererstraße 106.

History

The street is named after the

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and

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leader Winzerer, which in 1525 prevented the encroaching of the peasant wars on Bavaria. It runs on a part of the Oberwiesenfeld. Starting in 1902, 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 ...

occupied the Prinz-Leopold-Kaserne. The casino ("Offizierspeiseanstalt") at Winzererstraße 41 - in the 1980s, until a fire, was temporarily used as a chemical factory - was later a popular film site, for example by director

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or for

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s. At that time, the filmmakers had simply completed the arduous walls for the shooting with

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and the like. Around 1905, it found itself, between the Lothstraße and the Elisabethstrasse, which had not yet been fully developed, along the Winzererstraße existing building portion so the 1. Pionier battalions barracks, in which part of the Oberwiesenfeld barracks was found east of the Infanteriestraße. At that time, Winzererstraße had already been extended to Herzogstraße, but not asphalted. North of Herzogstraße, in 1941, just south of the later amassed Schuttberg, which later became the Olympiaberg, the

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''Nordmolkerei Deller KG'' was founded, and until the end of the 1990s was still in operation. In the year 2000, the diary was demolished and the residential complex at the Olympiapark was built. After 1946 to 1992, the Winzererstraße formed, between Lerchenauer Straße and Lothstraße, the border between the municipalities of Schwabing-West and Neuhausen-Oberwiesenfeld. It was only with the construction of Ackermannstraße in the late 1960s, that the northern part of Winzererstraße (from the height of house number 89) to the Lerchenauer Straße was paved, as part of the construction measures for the

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. In the 1970s, the access road from Lerchenauer Straße to the Winzererstraße was closed for cars. Later, the sub-area below the Olympiaberg was converted, from the present residential complex at the Olympiapark to the Lerchenauer Straße, so that the road ends at the level of the residential complex. 1980 until 1981, an 11-meter-long tree trunk section from Africa was set up for research purposes at the Wood Institute on Winzererstraße 45. Since 1996, the Winzererstraße between Lerchenauer Straße and Ackermannstraße forms the border between the municipalities of Schwabing-West and

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. MaßmannInnenhof.JPG, Residential Dormitory of Maßmannplatz Obelisk Oberwiesenfeldkaserne Muenchen.JPG, Oblisik in the triangle Winzererstraße / Lothstraße / Georgenstraße Ben Muthofer Stele diagonal 1986 Muenchen-1.jpg, Stele diagonal (1986) by Ben Muthofer Stadtarchiv München 17.jpg, Munich City Archives, Winzererstraße 68 Winzererstraße 35 - Muenchen.jpg, Baroque residential building in Winzererstraße 35 Winzererstr. 45 Muenchen-1.jpg, Barracks building Winzerstraße 45 Winzererstraße 43 - München.jpg, Barracks building, former part of the Prinz-Leopold-Kaserne in Winzererstraße 43 Olympiapark_in_M%C3%BCnchen.JPG, Olympiapark

References

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