Streets
Six axes, one grid, two centuries: the streets along which the history of the Maxvorstadt can be read — names, houses, residents.
Six streets, one quarter
Six streets carry the Maxvorstadt. Four run from south to north — Luisenstraße, Barer Straße, Türkenstraße, Amalienstraße — and two cross them from east to west: Schellingstraße and Theresienstraße. Together they form the grid that Friedrich Ludwig Sckell and Leo von Klenze laid over the fields outside the Schwabing gate after the edict of 1808, and the addresses where Munich history has condensed ever since: barracks and art academy, bohème and beer cellar, university and party headquarters, Pinakotheken and student pubs.
Each street has its own page: where the name comes from, how it was built up, which house numbers matter, who lived and worked here — with a chronicle and references from the Maxvorstadt Vibes library. The map is schematic; to walk the streets, see our walks.
Türkenstraße
From the Kunstareal to a strip of pubs: the street of the Elf Scharfrichter cabaret, the Simplicissimus, the Türkenkaserne and small shops.
Read → № 02 · named 1857 · 1,9 kmSchellingstraße
University street, bohemian pub row, “birthplace of the Movement” and street of the 1968 Easter riots: the east–west axis of the student quarter.
Read → № 03 · named 1812 · 1,5 kmTheresienstraße
The Maxvorstadt's long east–west axis between the university, the Pinakotheken and the Technical University – once a street of barracks and artists with the Café Größenwahn, today a museum mile and home to Munich's first residential high-rise by Sep Ruf.
Read → № 04 · named 1826 · 1,6 kmBarer Straße
The Maxvorstadt's museum axis: between Karolinenplatz and Nordendstraße the Alte and Neue Pinakothek, the Pinakothek der Moderne and Gründerzeit façades line the tram route – and in between lie Lola Montez's palais, the Nazi party quarter and the lodgings of Thomas Mann, Duchamp and Oskar Maria Graf.
Read → № 05 · named 1812 · 1,45 kmLuisenstraße
Long north–south axis from the main station past Königsplatz to the Alter Nordfriedhof, lined by the Luisengymnasium, the Heyse villa, the Lenbachhaus and the TU München.
Read → № 06 · named 1812 · 830 mAmalienstraße
The street behind the university: antiquarian bookshops, cafés and a dense run of surviving Historicist façades, from the Café Stefanie to the Klingenbeck memorial, the "Witwe Bolte" and the Amalienpassage – and the cradle of the Wienerwald chain.
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