KöNIGSPLATZ

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
Arcisstrassse 12 (Königsplatz)
Today: The führerbau is a musical school now
The two most important nazi-buildings on the Königsplatz are identical buildings, that are 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. There is a difference between the two buildings on the inside. The great hall of the führerbuilding has a large stairway in the middle of it, while in the other building the stairways are build on the 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. 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

The building has two identical entrances

The right frontdoor

The ceiling and the balcony on the top floor of one of the entrancehalls

Above and right: the stairs in the Führerbau are of much more grandeur than the ones in the Administration Building

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

Party Administration Building
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.

Above and right: the Adminstration Building from the side of the Führerbau

The ceiling outside above the frontdoor

Above, left and right: the entrancehall

The staircase in the entrancehalls

The red stairs are made of the same material as the stairs in the Führerbau

The cellar under the building. There is a tunnel between the Administration Building and Führerbau

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

Das Braune Haus
Brienner Strasse, on the right side behind the Führerbau
Today: grass-field
November 2006: the foundation of Das Braune Haus has been uncovered, for archaeological purposes. We’re not familair with the plans after this.
The headquarters of the nazi-party were located in the so called Braune Haus. It was bought by the nazi’s around 1930. Previously it was called the Palais Barlow. Between 1933 and 1935 there was a tunnel build between this building and the Führerbau. Hitler’s office was on the second floor. It looked out over the Königsplatz. The pictures shown here are pictures of the foundation of the building. The pictures were taken in November 2006.

The foundation of das Braune Haus. The Führerbau is right behind it
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

The Kartotheeksaal of
das Braune Haus

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

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

Ehrentempels
Königplatz (between the Führerbau and the Administrative Building)
Today: only the foundations are visible, trees and bushes are growing on the foundations
The Ehrentempels were build after the NSDAP took over the country. The remains of the sixteen puchists who had died on 9 November 1923 were brought here. If you want to see what they looked like, you can go to www.thirdreichruins.com. The first two foto’s you see underneath, show the Tempel on the Führerbau-side. The other two foto’s are the leftovers of the Tempel on the Administrative-side.

Left: the ruins of the Ehrenhalle on the side of the Führerbau
Above and right the Ehrenhalle on the side of the Administration Building
Beneath: The Königsplatz in February/March of 1945

Left: There were guards in front of the Ehrentampels. You can see the Führerbau in the back of the picture

The Ehrentempels on the Königsplatz

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 to 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.

Above: The Glyptothek today
Centre: Hitler inside the Glyptothek

Above: The Glyptothek today, with behind the trees the Führerbau

Architect Troost with a model of the Königsplatz. On the right an arial view of the Königsplatz with the Ehrentempels still in tact.