KöNIGSPLATZ

The area around the Königsplatz was the NSDAP-centre of München. Famous are Das Braune Haus and the two identical buildings of architect Troost: the Führerbau and the NSDAP-Administration Building. In front of these buildings, on the side of the road of the Führerbau (the building on the left as seen from the Königsplatz), is a map of the area with some explanation and some pictures. The information on it is also part of this page.
A lot of buildings in the area were already there before they were used by the nazi’s. Some of the big plans for the area were never realised.

Führerbau
:ocation: Arcisstrassse 12 (Königsplatz)
Today: The führerbau is a school for music now.
The two most important nazi-buildings on the Königsplatz are identical. They’re good exemples of nazi-architecture. They were build by Paul Ludwig Troost. Seen from the Königsplatz the symetrical placing of the buildings as well as the colour of the stone, the large number of windows and the straight lines are striking. On the inside the both buildings have two identical halls, but there is a difference between the two buildings on the inside. The great hall of the führerbuilding has a large stairway in the centre, while in the other building the stairways are on both sides of the halls. The führerbau had a large room for Hitler. Hitler had the ‘peace in our time-meeting’ with Chamberlain here. Today you’re free to enter the building. There isn’t any information about the past inside the building, so it’s not easy to find out what Hitler’s office was. It was located behind the door in the middle of the second floor. From the outside Hitlers office was the room behind the window of the large balcony on the left. In a lot of rooms they’re busy making music, so you can’t look inside the rooms without disturbing people.

The Führerbau from the side.
(picture: the Hitler Pages, 2006)

The building has two identical entrances. (picture: the Hitler Pages, 2006)

Above: The frontdoor on the right. Below: The Führerbau has become the Hochschule für Musik und Theater. (picture: the Hitler Pages, 2006)

The ceiling and the balcony on the top floor of one of the entrance halls. (picture: the Hitler Pages, 2006)

Above and right: the stairs in the Führerbau are of much more grandeur than the ones in the Administration Building.
(picture: the Hitler Pages, 2006)

The three pictures above and the one on the left show the halls inside the Führerbau like they were.
Right: The working room of Adolf Hitler.

Left: Hitler inside the Führerbau. Right: An old picture of the building, with one of the Ehrentemples in front of it.

Party Administration Building
Location: Meierstrasse 10 (Königsplatz)
Today: The building houses (amongst other institutes) the Institut Fur Agyptologie Der Universitat München.
This building was connected to the führerbau by an underground tunnel. The administration of the NSDAP was located here. You’re free to enter the building. We have found our way to the basement of the building.

The cellar. There must be a tunnel between the Administration Building and Führerbau, but we haven’t foud it. (picture: the Hitler Pages, 2006)

The staircase in one of the entrance halls. (picture: the Hitler Pages, 2006)

The red stairs are made of the same material as the stairs in the Führerbau. (picture: the Hitler Pages, 2006)

Above and right: the Adminstration Building from the side of the Führerbau. (picture: the Hitler Pages, 2006)

The ceiling outside above the frontdoor. (picture: the Hitler Pages, 2006)

Above, left and right: the entrance hall. (pictures: the Hitler Pages, 2006)

This old picture of the building shows the eagles on the wall and the Ehrentempels, that have dissapeared now.

Above: The foundation of das Braune Haus. Left: The Führerbau is right behind them.
(pictures: the Hitler Pages, 2006)
Right: An old picture of Das Braune Haus.

Hitler and Troost looking at the plans to rebuilt the Palais Barlow into a NSDAP-party building.

Left: Das Braune Haus behind one of the Ehrentempels. On the left side of the picture you can see a part of the Führerbau.
Right: An old picture of the building.

Das Braune Haus had a bust of Dietrich Eckart inside.

Hitler in his working room in
das Braune Haus.

Hitler looking at the renovation of the building.

Hitler in front of the buidling in 1938.

The ruïns of the building after the war.

Ehrentempels
Location: Königplatz (between the Führerbau and the Administrative Building)
Today: Only the foundations are visible, trees and bushes are growing on them.
The Ehrentempels were build after the NSDAP took over the country. The remains of the puchists who had died on 9 November 1923 were brought here.

Both pictures on the left: The ruins of the Ehrenhalle on the side of the Führerbau. (pictures: the Hitler Pages, 2006)
Above and right: The Ehrenhalle on the side of the Administration Building. (pictures: the Hitler Pages, 2006)

There were guards in front of the Ehrentempels. You can see the Führerbau in the back of the picture.

Above: The Ehrentempels on the Königsplatz Below: Hitler inside one of the tempels

The Königsplatz in February/

March 1945.

Nazi Party Quarter, 1941
On the side of the road of the Führerbau (the building on the left as seen from the Königsplatz), is an information stand with a map of the area. If you look closely at the first picture of the Ehrentempel, you can see it. You can see a map with the same information here. For information about the plans the nazi’s had for the Königsplatz you can look here: http://denkmaeler-muenchen.de.

Glyptothek
Location: Königsplatz
Today: Still there.
Hitler must have been in the Glyptothek several times. He held a speech there once, in 1938.