Türkengraben

The Turk was a digging temporarily existing channel in Munich, the Turks of today's street its name.

Owner of the Turk trench was the Elector Max Emanuel ( 1662-1726 ). The aim was to combine the Residenz in Munich with the new castle in Schleißheim. The electoral Geometer Mathias Paur planned the channel in 1701, construction began in May 1702nd

The canal was dug by soldiers of the electoral infantry. Later it was the rumor that Turkish prisoners of war had been involved in the work. This was not correct, as the Turkish prisoners of war had already been replaced from the Great Turkish War to 1699, however, led to the name "Turk trench ".

1704, the work was stopped by the canal. At this time, the first section of the channel of the Munich Residenz was done provides to its confluence with the Nymphenburg- Kleinhesseloher channel. The northern end was located near the present intersection of Belgrade street and Petuelring. The dried- channel was filled from 1811 and partly built over. The direction of the channel show today at the Prince Street, the Nordendstraße, Kurfürstenstrasse and the Belgrade road.

In the Munich Schelling, corner of Turk Street, remember five recessed into a wall " window " of the artist Joachim Jung at the Turkish trenches. The windows were funded by the " Stiftung street art " Munich City Savings Bank and inaugurated in 2005.