Theresienhöhe

The Theresienhohe is a newly created district of Munich. He is part of the boroughs Schwanthalerhoehe and Sendling.

History of Theresienhohe

From 1843 to 1853 was built on the site above the Theresienwiese with the Bavaria the Hall of Fame after plans by Leo Klenzes, surrounded by Bavariapark. As of 1900, the overall concept of an exhibition park was designed by Gabriel von Seidl, the 750 anniversary of the city in 1908 it was opened. A year later, an amusement park was opened as a summer use, which was closed in 1934 again. 1922 here the German trade show in Munich was performed. In the years 1925 and 1953 found large German transport exhibitions on the premises instead of, 1965, the first World Exhibition of traffic. For the Olympic Games in 1972 was built the wrestling hall. Until 1991, the fairgrounds have gradually been extended and expanded to other halls. Some of the former exhibition halls and the Bavariapark are now a protected monument.

New district

As the show Munich 1998 in the new exhibition center moved Riem, was the former exhibition grounds on the edge of downtown, about plans in the immediate vicinity of the Theresienwiese, as a new urban district with an area of ​​47.1 hectares. There have been or are about 4,000 to 5,000 jobs, 1,400 apartments, as well as the transportation center of the Deutsches Museum built.

The overall concept of the neighborhood was developed on the basis of an urban design ideas competition for 1996. Competition winner was that along with the landscape architecture office Thomanek and Duquesnoy (Berlin ) Office of the Munich architecture professor Otto Steidle.