Maxvor stadt
For 200 years: Germany's most exciting neighbourhood. The heart of Munich. Munich Innovation Belt & Isar Valley. Between Altstadt and Schwabing, between Klenze and Kandinsky, between lecture hall and Löwenbräukeller. Parties in the Innovation Lab, Campari Spritz & unicorns.
Yad Vashem
is coming to
Maxvorstadt.
The World Holocaust Remembrance Center Yad Vashem will open its first education center outside Israel on Karolinenplatz in Munich's Maxvorstadt — right in the heart of the former NSDAP "party district". The site was chosen after a nationwide feasibility study, with Bavaria prevailing over North Rhine-Westphalia and Saxony. An additional satellite office will open in Leipzig; the educational partnership with North Rhine-Westphalia will be expanded into a nationwide cooperation model. The center is set to open within three years and will focus on teacher training. On the federal side the project is supported by Chancellor Friedrich Merz, Federal Minister of Education Karin Prien and Minister of State for Culture Wolfram Weimer; in Bavaria the State Government under Minister-President Markus Söder provided the financial commitment.
What was,
what is,
what comes.
Historical alongside contemporary. Past alongside hidden. Browse, skim, look.
of a Quarter
From bastion to bohème: Ludwig I., Sckell's plan, Klenze's ambition and Gärtner's counter.
1923–1945
"Capital of the Movement" — interactive map with 9 sites from the Brown House to today's Documentation Centre.
today
Three areas, four main axes, 52,434 residents — and why the Maxvorstadt is one of Germany's priciest postcodes.
Türken-, Schelling-, Barer- and Augustenstraße: from the Sep-Ruf-Haus to the Schelling-Salon. History, present, rents.
Germany's No. 1 and No. 2 — both in the world's top 40, side by side. Plus UnternehmerTUM, Europe's leading start-up biotope.
& Bohème
One of the world's densest museum quarters — a chronological arc from antiquity to contemporary art.
Pinakotheken, Glyptothek, Brandhorst, Lenbachhaus — 13 houses, from Klenze (1830) to Sauerbruch Hutton (2009).
Thomas Mann, Kandinsky, Klee, Wedekind — why the real "Schwabing" bohème actually lived here.
Bars,
Galleries
Alter Simpl, Schelling-Salon, Lost Weekend — and 200 more addresses for day and night. As of May 2026.
MunichThomas Mann · Gladius Dei, 1902
was radiant
Mann describes here not Schwabing — but life in the Maxvorstadt, Munich's pulsating bohème centre and the heart of Ludwig I.'s Greek revival.
Three maps,
one district.
Quarter
Where Klenze, Gärtner and Ludwig I. thought monumentally and where students fill the Türkenstraße today. Ludwigstraße, LMU, Siegestor, Academy, English Garden.
Quarter & TU
The art quarter around Königsplatz — Klenze's "Athens on the Isar", three Pinakotheken, Brandhorst, Lenbachhaus, NS-Documentation Centre and TU Munich.
From parade ground to Silicon Maxvorstadt — Apple, Google, Bavarian Broadcasting, Augustiner-Bräu, Löwenbräukeller, Circus Krone, Arnulfpark.
Nine texts
to start with.
- № 01 How a quarter is born — 1791 to 1812
- № 02 Klenze versus Gärtner — a dossier
- № 03 Königsplatz — Athens on the Isar
- № 04 Blue Rider, Munich New Secession, the Schwabing myth
- № 05 Where Maxvorstadt ends — and Schwabing begins
- № 06 200 addresses for day and night
- № 07 Franz Höllriegel — King Ludwig's Stonemason
- № 08 Jewish Maxvorstadt — Past and Present
- № 09 Yad Vashem in Maxvorstadt — the first Education Center outside Israel
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we should know.
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