Altstadtring

The Old Town Square is next to the motorway ring and the middle ring one of the main thoroughfares of Munich. It runs along the former second city wall and surrounds the old town of Munich. With the exception of the section between Isar Gate and Sendlinger Tor it is accessible via a four - or fünfstreifig.

Road

The description of the course of the road is clockwise, starting in the north with derm therethrough under the Ludwig street Altstadtring tunnel.

Altstadtring tunnel

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The Old Town Square tunnel begins west of the Ludwig street, at the intersection of Oskar- von -Miller-Ring and Gabelsbergerstraße. To the east of the traffic flows to three lanes, the two-lane main tunnel leads to the Prince Regent Street to the east, the lane side arm follows the Old Town Square and closes at the level of the State to the Franz- Josef- Strauß-Ring and then on to the Karl -Scharnagl-Ring of. To the west of the tunnel runs two -, or three lanes. A single-lane access road from the Von-der- Tann -Straße allows access from the Old Town Square.

Tunnel portal in Prinzregentenstraße

Tunnel entrance to the Von-der- Tann -Straße

Exit tunnel in the Franz- Josef- Strauß-Ring

Von-der- Tann -Straße - Franz- Josef- Strauß-Ring - Karl -Scharnagl-Ring

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Aboveground crosses the ring as Von-der- Tann -Straße Ludwigsstraße and closed to road traffic Queen Street, where you will find the Consulate General of the United States. Then the Prince Regent street is crossed in the form of an up-and downhill. The route of the ring, now named after the former Bavarian Prime Minister Franz- Josef- Strauß-Ring, leads past the Prince -Carl -Palais, the Bavarian State Chancellery and the main Headquarters of the Max Planck Society on Marstallplatz. When Karl -Scharnagl ring he then crosses the Maximilian street. The Old Town Square is conducted almost continuously four lanes on this section.

Karl- Scharnagl- Ring: before the junction with the Maximilian street

Karl -Scharnagl-Ring

Karl- Scharnagl- ring: in front of the Bavarian State Chancellery

Thomas -Wimmer- Ring - Isartorplatz - Frauenstraße - Flower Street

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The Thomas -Wimmer-Ring leads to Isartorplatz where southeast Zweibrückenstrasse branches, constituting another important traffic route in its extension as Rosenheimerstraße. To the northwest opens up the wide road "valley" the town of the Isar side. The woman street and sometimes the flowers are expanded only two-lane road for reasons of space, leading to regular congestion on this section of the ring. At the Frauenstraße the Viktualienmarkt and the Schrannenhalle newly built can be found.

Mrs. Street: the Viktualienmarkt

Flowers Street: left Schrannenhalle, in the background of the Viktualienmarkt

Flowers Street: cornering through the existing buildings

Sendlinger- Tor-Platz - Sun road - Karlsplatz

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Finally, the road reaches the flowers Sendlinger- Tor-Platz, crosses there Lindwurmstraße, an important traffic route for the southwestern suburbs, and leads their way as solar street continues. The construction of this section required a major intervention into the cityscape as the sun road led in part achtstreifig due to the large crowds and traffic in the middle of the road is a four-lane streetcar line. The Karlsplatz, popularly called " Stachus ", has long been one of the busiest squares in Europe, to the eastern part of the square was transformed into a pedestrian zone. At the northern end of Karlsplatz branches westward from the Elise Street, which opens the nearby Munich Main transport links. The Old Town Square now continues on his way to the northeast.

Lenbachplatz - Maximiliansplatz - Oskar-von -Miller-Ring

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The Maximiliansplatz houses in its center a small park and the interesting Wittelsbach Fountain, while the traffic is passed two lanes. Approximately in the middle of the square is crossed by a road that runs through the Maxtor in the old town. At the northern end of the square of the old town ring crosses the Briennerstraße, one of the four ceremonial streets of Munich. He then continues his way as Oskar-von -Miller-Ring and reach the Old Town Square tunnel.

Maximiliansplatz: this is a traffic island between the carriageways

Architectural History

The Munich Old Town Square was planned since the 1940s and increasingly since the mid- 1960s. In 1966, many citizens objected to the plan to relocate the historic center ring under the Prinz- Carl- Palais into a tunnel. Center of the protest was the citizens' initiative "Munich Construction Forum ". The construction of the tunnel could be not prevent, but Mayor Hans -Jochen Vogel took up the idea of building forum, and called 1968 the "Munich discussion forum for urban development issues " in life. It was formed in 1972 which still exists today "Munich Forum " ( Munich Discussion Forum for Development Studies eV). In October 1968, the Old Town Square East to traffic was released, and the Olympic year 1972, the Old Town Square was completed.

Buildings and attractions on the Old Town Square

From north clockwise

• U.S. Consulate General
• Prinz- Carl- Palais
• Bavarian State Chancellery
• Headquarters of the Max Planck Society
• Government of Upper Bavaria
• Isartor
• Viktualienmarkt
• Schrannenhalle
• Urban high-rise, called Old Technisches Rathaus
• Sendlinger Tor
• Karlstor
• Palace of Justice
• Maxburg
• Börse München
• Maximiliansplatz with Wittelsbach Fountain
• Square of the Victims of National Socialism with the eternal flame of the monument to the victims of Nazi tyranny
• Siemens Forum in Munich