The Villenkolonie Pasing II is a single-family home colony 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 ...

Pasing Pasing is a district in the city of Munich, Germany, and part of the borough Pasing-Obermenzing. Overview Pasing is located west of the Munich city centre, at the north-western edge of the city's innermost traffic zone. The district is mainly res ...

. It was built according to the model of a garden town.

History

The idea of the Villenkolonie Pasing II, west of the

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river, also came from August Exter, but he failed to execute the plan. In 1897, Exter gave up his construction business and gradually withdrew himself from architectural activity. Contrary to the widely assumed rumors that Exter also built the Villenkolonie Pasing II, the undeveloped property became the property of the ''Terraingesellschaft Neu-Westend AG'' in 1899. The highest bidder was Lazard Speyer-Ellissen, a

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-based bank led by Georg Speyer. The development of the site was carried out by the ''Neu-Westend AG''. Extern's debts to the city of Pasing were taken over by the royal bank branch. Until 1900, 90 houses were built, but then the construction progress stagnated. In 1929, there were 106 houses under construction for several hundreds of first inquiries. The settlement with numerous historically listed buildings extends today from the railway line in the south and west to the river

in the east and the Bergsonstraße to the north.

Streets

In brackets original description: * Alte Allee (Langwieder Straße) * Apfelallee (III. Apfelallee) * Barystraße (Kleiststraße) *

Hofmillerstraße The Hofmillerstraße, named after the critic and translator, Josef Hofmiller (1872–1933), is a street in the Munich district of Obermenzing that was developed around 1897. History Originally called IV. Apfelallee, the street runs west in the ...

(IV. Apfelallee) * Lützowstraße (II. Apfelallee) * Mark-Twain-Straße (Kirchenstraße) * Marschnerstraße (Riemerschmidstraße) * Pippinger Straße (the Pippinger Straße already existed before the creation of the Villenkolonie Pasing II, the street was partly built up as part of the Villenkolonie) * Rembrandtstraße (I. Apfelallee) * Rubensstraße (V. Apfelallee)

References

{{reflist Quarters of Munich Buildings and structures in Munich Historicist architecture in Munich Pasing-Obermenzing