The Kardinal-Faulhaber-Straße is a street in the old town of Munich. It runs from Salvatorplatz in a southwesterly direction to Promenadeplatz.
History edit
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 Archbishop Michael von Faulhaber (1869-1952) it received its present name in 1952.[1]
Streetscape edit
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[2] was built around 1730. François de Cuvilliés built the Holnstein Palace between 1733 and 1737,[3] contracted by Elector Karl Albrecht for his son Franz Ludwig. Since 1821 it has been the official residence of the Archbishop of Munich and Freising. In 1885/86 an administrative building of the Bayerische Vereinsbank was built, in 1895/96 the west wing of the Bayerische Hypotheken- und Wechsel-Bank.[4] House number 12 refers to the former Palais Porcia.
In front of house no. 8, the Kurt-Eisner monument on the sidewalk commemorates the assassination of the first Bavarian Prime Minister Kurt Eisner on 21 February 1919.[5]
References edit
- ^ "Kardinal-Faulhaber-Straße". Stadtportal München (in German). Retrieved 12 July 2019.
- ^ "Ehemaliges Palais Spreti" (in German). Stadtgeschichte München. Retrieved 12 July 2019.
- ^ "Marx residiert in millionensaniertem Prunk-Palais" (in German). Welt. 10 July 2012. Retrieved 12 July 2019.
- ^ "Geoinformation" (in German). Bayerisches Landesamt für Denkmalpflege. Archived from the original on 15 January 2016. Retrieved 12 July 2019.
- ^ "Kurt-Eisner-Denkmal am Oberanger" (in German). münchen.de. Retrieved 12 July 2019.