Alter Botanischer Garten (Munich)

The Old Botanical Garden is located at Lenbachplatz in Munich in the district court of the king part Maxvorstadt and is now a park. It is bounded on the south by a straight and 360 -meter-long section of the Elise road while it is limited arc on the other sides by Sophie street. In the south, bordering on the opposite side of the Elisenstraße the grounds of the Palace of Justice, and in the North West The Charles Hotel. The site occupies an area of about four acres.

It was built from 1804 to 1814 after plans by landscape architect Friedrich Ludwig von Sckell. 1812 a neoclassical entrance portal was built to a design by Joseph Emanuel d' Herigoyen on Lenbachplatz. 1854, the glass palace was built on the north side of the park at the International Industrial Exhibition in Munich, in 1931 a major fire fell victim.

After 1914, the New Botanical Garden in front of the then outskirts of Munich had been invested in Nymphenburg, the Old Botanical Garden was transformed in 1937 from a sketch by Paul Ludwig Troost and plans of the architect Oswald Bieber and the sculptor Joseph Wackerle to a park; it was the Neptune fountain in the center of the plant and a coffee in historicist style, today's Park Café. In addition, a small exhibition building was built. It was heavily damaged in World War II, later rebuilt by Munich artists in self-help again. Today it uses the club line pavilion exhibition eV for exhibitions of contemporary visual art.

At the original function of the Old Botanical Garden today still remember numerous exotic trees.

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Old Botanical Garden

Memorial stone commemorating the first direct current transmission ( Mies Bach Munich) in 1882