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Königsplatz, Munich

Index Königsplatz, Munich

Königsplatz (King's Square) is a square in Munich, Germany. [1]

35 relations: Acropolis, Athens, Beer Hall Putsch, Brienner Straße (Munich), Brown House, Munich, Corinthian order, Der Marsch zum Führer, Doric order, Ehrentempel, Germany, Glyptothek, Hitler Youth, Ionic order, Karl von Fischer, Königsplatz (Munich U-Bahn), Kunstareal, Lenbachhaus, Leo von Klenze, Ludwig I of Bavaria, Munich, Munich Agreement, Munich U-Bahn, Nazi architecture, Nazi book burnings, Nazi Germany, Nazi Party, Neoclassicism, Nuremberg, Otto of Greece, Paul Troost, Propylaea, Propylaea (Munich), St. Boniface's Abbey, Staatliche Antikensammlungen, University of Music and Performing Arts Munich.

Acropolis

An acropolis (Ancient Greek: ἀκρόπολις, tr. Akrópolis; from ákros (άκρος) or ákron (άκρον) "highest, topmost, outermost" and pólis "city"; plural in English: acropoles, acropoleis or acropolises) is a settlement, especially a citadel, built upon an area of elevated ground—frequently a hill with precipitous sides, chosen for purposes of defense.

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Athens

Athens (Αθήνα, Athína; Ἀθῆναι, Athênai) is the capital and largest city of Greece.

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Beer Hall Putsch

The Beer Hall Putsch, also known as the Munich Putsch,Dan Moorhouse, ed.

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Brienner Straße (Munich)

The neoclassical Brienner Straße in Munich is one of four royal avenues next to the Ludwigstraße, the Maximilianstraße and the Prinzregentenstraße.

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Brown House, Munich

The Brown House (Braunes Haus) was the name given to the Munich mansion located between the Karolinenplatz and Königsplatz, known before as the Palais Barlow, which was purchased in 1930 for the Nazis.

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Corinthian order

The Corinthian order is the last developed of the three principal classical orders of ancient Greek and Roman architecture.

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Der Marsch zum Führer

Der Marsch zum Führer (The March to the Führer) is a Nazi propaganda film released in 1940.

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Doric order

The Doric order was one of the three orders of ancient Greek and later Roman architecture; the other two canonical orders were the Ionic and the Corinthian.

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Ehrentempel

The Honor Temples (Ehrentempel) were two structures in Munich, erected by the Nazis in 1935, housing the sarcophagi of the sixteen members of the party who had been killed in the failed Beer hall putsch (the Blutzeugen, "blood witnesses").

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Germany

Germany (Deutschland), officially the Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesrepublik Deutschland), is a sovereign state in central-western Europe.

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Glyptothek

The Glyptothek is a museum in Munich, Germany, which was commissioned by the Bavarian King Ludwig I to house his collection of Greek and Roman sculptures (hence γλυπτο- glypto- "sculpture", from the Greek verb γλύφειν glyphein "to carve").

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Hitler Youth

The Hitler Youth (German:, often abbreviated as HJ in German) was the youth organisation of the Nazi Party in Germany.

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Ionic order

The Ionic order forms one of the three classical orders of classical architecture, the other two canonic orders being the Doric and the Corinthian.

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Karl von Fischer

Karl von Fischer (19 September 1782 – 11 February 1820) was a German architect.

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Königsplatz (Munich U-Bahn)

Königsplatz is an U-Bahn station in Munich on the U2 line of the Munich U-Bahn system.

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Kunstareal

The Kunstareal ("art district") is a museum quarter in the city centre of Munich, Germany.

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Lenbachhaus

The Lenbachhaus is a building housing an art museum in Munich's Kunstareal.

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Leo von Klenze

Leo von Klenze (Franz Karl Leopold von Klenze; 29 February 1784, Buchladen (Bockelah / Bocla) near Schladen – 26 January 1864, Munich) was a German neoclassicist architect, painter and writer.

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Ludwig I of Bavaria

Ludwig I (also rendered in English as Louis I; 25 August 1786 – 29 February 1868) was king of Bavaria from 1825 until the 1848 revolutions in the German states.

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Munich

Munich (München; Minga) is the capital and the most populated city in the German state of Bavaria, on the banks of the River Isar north of the Bavarian Alps.

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Munich Agreement

The Munich Agreement was a settlement permitting Nazi Germany's annexation of portions of Czechoslovakia along the country's borders mainly inhabited by German speakers, for which a new territorial designation, the "Sudetenland", was coined.

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Munich U-Bahn

The Munich U-Bahn (U-Bahn München) system is an electric rail rapid transit network in Munich, Germany.

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Nazi architecture

Nazi architecture is the architecture promoted by the Third Reich from 1933 until its fall in 1945.

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Nazi book burnings

The Nazi book burnings were a campaign conducted by the German Student Union (the "DSt") to ceremonially burn books in Nazi Germany and Austria in the 1930s.

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Nazi Germany

Nazi Germany is the common English name for the period in German history from 1933 to 1945, when Germany was under the dictatorship of Adolf Hitler through the Nazi Party (NSDAP).

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Nazi Party

The National Socialist German Workers' Party (abbreviated NSDAP), commonly referred to in English as the Nazi Party, was a far-right political party in Germany that was active between 1920 and 1945 and supported the ideology of Nazism.

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Neoclassicism

Neoclassicism (from Greek νέος nèos, "new" and Latin classicus, "of the highest rank") is the name given to Western movements in the decorative and visual arts, literature, theatre, music, and architecture that draw inspiration from the "classical" art and culture of classical antiquity.

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Nuremberg

Nuremberg (Nürnberg) is a city on the river Pegnitz and on the Rhine–Main–Danube Canal in the German state of Bavaria, in the administrative region of Middle Franconia, about north of Munich.

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Otto of Greece

Otto (Óthon; 1 June 1815 – 26 July 1867) was a Bavarian prince who became the first modern King of Greece in 1832 under the Convention of London.

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Paul Troost

Paul Ludwig Troost (17 August 1878 – 21 January 1934), was a German architect.

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Propylaea

A propylaea, propylea or propylaia (Greek: Προπύλαια) is any monumental gateway in ancient Greek architecture.

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Propylaea (Munich)

The Propylaea (German:Propyläen) is a city gate in Munich at the west side of Königsplatz.

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St. Boniface's Abbey

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Staatliche Antikensammlungen

The Staatliche Antikensammlungen (State Collections of Antiquities) is a museum in Munich's Kunstareal holding Bavaria's collections of antiquities from Greece, Etruria and Rome, though the sculpture collection is located in the opposite Glyptothek and works created in Bavaria are on display in a separate museum.

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University of Music and Performing Arts Munich

The University of Music and Performing Arts Munich (in German Hochschule für Musik und Theater München), also sometimes called the Academy of Music and Performing Arts, is one of the most respected traditional vocational universities in Germany, specialising in music and the performing arts.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Königsplatz,_Munich

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