A bronze founder as namesake
The square was named in 1853 after the Munich bronze founder Johann Baptist Stiglmaier (1791–1844), who ran the royal bronze foundry on today's Erzgießereistraße and helped cast, among other things, the Bavaria statue on the Theresienwiese. The sculpture of a drinking faun (Joseph Knabl) adorns the fountain basin.
Today Stiglmaierplatz is a central traffic junction with a U-Bahn connection (U1, U7), surrounded by the historicist Löwenbräukeller (Albert Schmidt, 1883), the surviving Löwenbräu brewery buildings and a dense mix of offices and inner-city flats.
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The other buildings of the area — galleries, museums, classicism, industrial history.