Konigsplatz Munich

Konigsplatz Munich

Konigsplatz, Munich
The Konigsplatz (King's square) is a square in the inner city of Munich and together with the Karolinenplatz a part of the Brienner Strasse, one of four royal avenues. The square was designed at the command of Ludwig I of Bavaria by Karl von Fischer and laid out by Leo von Klenze with the "Doric" Propylaen and the "Ionic" Glyptothek in 1812 in anticipation of Munich’s expansion. Karl von Fischer, saw in the Konigsplatz a “Forum for the Arts” comparable to the “Forum of the Sciences”. The square took 50 years to complete, the final building, the Propylaen, being finished in 1862, 14 years after the abdication of King Ludwig I who originally commissioned the scheme.

Between 1933 and 1935 the appearance of the Konigsplatz was completely transformed. During the Third Reich the Konigsplatz was designed as a field for the Nazi Party's mass rallies. Two "Honor Temples" were erected at the east side for the remains of the sixteen Nazis who died in the 1923, but both temples were blown up after World War II as part of the process of de-nazification. Two buildings of the Nazi party constructed by Paul Troost next to the temples still exist, in one of them the Munich Agreement was signed in 1938.

True to its original Neo-Classical conception the square has again taken on since June 1988 the character of an “ancient forum” emphasized by the solitary grandeur of the three tree-framed principal buildings, the Glypotothek, Staatliche Antikensammlung and Propylaen.

The "Corinthian" State Museum of Classical Art was erected by Georg Friedich Ziebland; on its back side St. Boniface's Abbey is situated. The area around Konigsplatz is today the home to the Kunstareal, Munich's gallery and museum quarter.
It is one of the must visit tourist destinations in Munich which should not be missed.

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Brienner Strasse
Third Reich
Corinthian
Georg Friedich Ziebland
Honor Temples
Nazi Party
Kunstareal
Tourist destinations
Paul Troost

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