Lenbach Block

The Lenbachblock, as part of the "Maxburg", together with the so-called "BMW Pavilion" forms the eastern end of Lenbachplatz.

The building complex, still called "Maxburg" today, stands on the site of the "Wilhelminian Veste" once built by Duke Wilhelm V. At the beginning of the 17th century, the name changed to "Maxburg" when Elector Maximilian Philipp used it as a residence. This building, originally from the Renaissance period and later expanded, burned down after a heavy air raid on the 24th/25th. April 1944 completely out. Only the facade, which was demolished in 1951, and the six-story square tower remained.

In the years 1954 to 1957, today's concrete frame structure was built at this location under the local construction management of Sep Ruf according to execution plans by Theo Pabst from Darmstadt and Sep Ruf.

The Maxburg is one of the outstanding architectural achievements of the 1950s in Munich. This applies both from an urban planning perspective as well as with regard to the internal structures and the detailed design. In 1995, the entire building complex, together with the neighboring archiepiscopal ordinariate, was entered into the monument list of the state capital Munich. Between 1996 and 1998, the Lenbachblock was completely renovated while respecting monument protection concerns.
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After almost complete destruction in the Second World War, a complex of administrative and commercial buildings was built on the same site in the city center on Lenbachplatz according to a design by the architects Sep Ruf and Theo Pabst. This is called the New Maxburg and includes the Maxturm as the only surviving element of the fortress. The New Maxburg is considered one of the best buildings of 1950s architecture nationwide. In 1999 it was listed as a historical monument. Source and further information
de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxburg_(M%C3%BCnchen) According to legend, the spirit of the Electress Maria Anna is said to still walk here.

The Maxburg in a bird's eye view (Design Office Josef Grillmeier) Hardly any post-war construction project polarized Munich's citizens as much as the modern reconstruction of the Herzog Max Castle.
Critical press articles described the architecture as “hard”, “American” and “un-Munich”.

The art historian Sigfried Giedion, however, praised the complex in a letter to Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius in 1960 as the only architecture that stands out from the “hopeless reconstruction of the Munich city center”. During the Second World War, the old Herzog Max Castle - the Wittelsbach family's third city palace alongside the Old Court and the Residenz - was completely destroyed. In April 1952, the Free State of Bavaria, together with the client and leaseholder, the construction company Fries & Co, launched a competition for a modern commercial and administrative building for the Ministry of Justice as well as buildings for the Archbishop's Ordinariate. The architect friends Sep Ruf and Theo Pabst won first prize with a design for a relaxed, structured building structure.
The complex consists of three blocks – Pacelli, Lenbach and Maxburg
block - in which there are numerous shops and cafés as well as the district court
and the Munich I Regional Court are housed. The transparency of the
Courtrooms in the Lenbachblock with floor-to-ceiling windows are also more architectural
Expression of democratically open jurisprudence. Diverse and colorful
Differentiated facades contribute to the structure of the building complex. The
Facade of the Pacelli block above the extensively glazed ground floor
seems to float, the architects developed it from the proportions of
The isolated tower preserved from the old Maxburg.

After completion, the reviews soon fell silent and the Maxburg
became a popular meeting place for decades. A highlight was the glass one
BMW pavilion, which glowed at night and attracted passers-by. An exhibition
in the Munich District Court in cooperation with the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation and the Sep Ruf Gesellschaft e.V. tells the history of the Maxburg in the shop windows of the MINI Pavilion (formerly the BMW Pavilion) using photos, texts and film clips.

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