The Fürstenrieder Straße is an almost five-kilometer-long important inner-city connecting road in

Munich Munich is the capital and most populous city of Bavaria, Germany. As of 30 November 2024, its population was 1,604,384, making it the third-largest city in Germany after Berlin and Hamburg. Munich is the largest city in Germany that is no ...

, Germany. It is named after the

Fürstenried Palace Fürstenried Palace is a Baroque ''maison de plaisance'' and hunting lodge in Munich, Germany. It was built from 1715 to 1717 for Elector Maximilian II Emanuel. Today the palace serves as spiritual house for archdiocese and as pastoral center. ...

, which lies near its southern end.

Route

The Fürstenrieder Straße leads through the districts of

Laim Laim (Central Bavarian: ''Loam'') is a district of Munich, Germany Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It lies between the Baltic Sea and the North Sea to the north and the Alps to the sout ...

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and

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to the northern edge of Fürstenried and forms a section of the only partially completed Outer Ring. Over almost its entire length it is made up of six-lanes with a green central strip. It is also part of the shortest inner-city connection between the

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(Westast) and the

Bundesautobahn 95 is a motorway in southern Germany, supposed to connect Munich with Garmisch-Partenkirchen. Route General The A 95 is part of the European route E533 for its entire length. The northern part, to the Starnberg 3-way interchange is ada ...

. The road starts at Landsberger Straße in Laim as the southern continuation of Wotanstraße. It runs in a straight line to the south, crosses Agnes-Bernauerstraße and Gotthardstraße and crosses the

Bundesautobahn 96 is a motorway in southern Germany, leading from the Austrian border ( A14) near Lindau (Lake Constance) through Memmingen, Landsberg am Lech to Munich. Two European routes lead through the autobahn: E 43 and E 54. It was first plan ...

at junction 38. It passes close to Westpark, from which it is separated only by several school buildings (''Erasmus-Grasser-Gymnasium'', ''Ludwigsgymansium''). It then passes Waldfriedhof to the east. It crosses under the Bundesautobahn 95 leading into the city at exit 2 Kreuzhof and changes there into Boschetsrieder Straße and therefore into a west-eastern tangential road of the Outer Ring.

History

The current route of Fürstenrieder Straße used to be an alleyway connecting

Nymphenburg Palace The Nymphenburg Palace (, Palace of the Nymphs) is a Baroque palace situated in Munich's western district Neuhausen-Nymphenburg, in Bavaria, southern Germany. The Nymphenburg served as the main summer residence for the List of rulers of Bavaria, ...

and Fürstenried Palace. The expansion into an inner-city main road already began in the 1950s before the Munich General Traffic Plan was drawn up in 1963, in which it was included as part of the Tangente 5-West. From 1948 to 1966, a

trolleybus A trolleybus (also known as trolley bus, trolley coach, trackless trolley, trackless tramin the 1910s and 1920sJoyce, J.; King, J. S.; and Newman, A. G. (1986). ''British Trolleybus Systems'', pp. 9, 12. London: Ian Allan Publishing. .or troll ...

line ran through the Fürstenrieder Straße (until 1961 as line O32). Since 2005, the construction of a

tram A tram (also known as a streetcar or trolley in Canada and the United States) is an urban rail transit in which Rolling stock, vehicles, whether individual railcars or multiple-unit trains, run on tramway tracks on urban public streets; some ...

in Fürstenrieder Straße has been the subject of controversial discussion, and the timetable for its implementation is still open.

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Route

History

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