DK Travel : Munich : Schwabing & University District

Schwabing & University District : Overview & Top 10

Encompassing Schwabing, Maxvorstadt , and the fringes of Lehel, this district covers the entire area lying to the left and right of Ludwigstraße and Leopoldstraße. At the beginning of the 19th century, the expansion of the Old Town north and west of Odeonsplatz began with the development of Maxvorstadt, then a suburb. This is where you will find numerous museums, the university, polytechnics, colleges, and libraries. Schwabing, an idyllic suburb to the north, became a well-known bohemian district inhabited by artists and intellectuals toward the end of the 19th century. Even today, you can still feel the flair of this interesting area, the centre of Art Nouveau in Germany.

For information on sights in Schwabing, visit www.muenchen.de Fragments of White Rose broadsheets are set into the courtyard of the main university building to commemorate this movement. Examples of Art Nouveau can be seen in the Villa Stuck (see Museum Villa Stuck). For Art Nouveau tours, visit www.stattreisen-muenchen.de In the 1920s, the artists Rilke, Gabriele Münter, Kandinsky, and Klee, to name but a few, lived in Ainmillerstraße.