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24-581: Milbertshofen-Am Hart is surrounded by Schwabing-Freimann (east), Schwabing-West (south), Neuhausen-Nymphenburg (southwest), Moosach and Feldmoching-Hasenbergl (west). North of it comes the municipality Oberschleißheim . In Milbertshofen-Am Hart is the Olympiapark (with the 291-metre-high Olympiaturm Munich's tallest building, the Olympiahalle , Olympiastadion , Erinnerungsort Olympia-Attentat , Sea Life München , Olympic Village ), and

48-518: A letter to his brother. In 1876, Luitpold was appointed Field Marshal . On 10 June 1886, Luitpold's nephew King Ludwig II was declared mentally incompetent and Luitpold was named Regent . Luitpold's part is still controversial. Following Ludwig II's mysterious death a few days later, his brother Otto assumed the throne. However, Otto was likewise (or more so) mentally incapable of reigning; he had been under medical supervision since 1883. Accordingly, Luitpold continued to serve as regent. Prince Luitpold

72-578: Is part of the city borough 4 ( Schwabing-West ) and the city borough 12 ( Schwabing-Freimann ). The population of Schwabing is estimated at 100,000, making it one of the largest districts of Munich. The main boulevard is Leopoldstraße . (For further information on the Munich boroughs, see Boroughs of Munich .) Schwabing was a village, with a church documented in the 14th century. Schwabing used to be famous as Munich's bohemian quarter, but has lost much of this reputation due to strong gentrification in

96-922: The Prinzregententheater in Munich and the Luitpoldarena and the Luitpoldhalle in Nürnberg . In 1891 Luitpold established the Luitpold Gymnasium in Munich. Prinzregententorte is a multi-layered cake with chocolate butter cream named in his honour. The vessel SMS Prinzregent Luitpold of the Imperial German Navy and the Luitpold Coast were named for Luitpold. Luitpold's great passion next to

120-594: The Munich Marathon and Start of the Wings for Life World Run Munich . 48°11′54″N 11°34′35″E  /  48.19833°N 11.57639°E  / 48.19833; 11.57639 This Munich location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Schwabing-Freimann Schwabing is a borough in the northern part of Munich , the capital of the German state of Bavaria . It

144-725: The Prinzregentenjahre ("The Prince Regent Years") or the Prinzregentenzeit . Bavaria prospered under a liberal government and Munich became a cultural centre of Europe. Thomas Mann wrote about this period "Munich shone" (1902 Gladius Dei ). Schwabing became an important artists' quarter in Munich. There are numerous streets in Bavarian cities and towns called Prinzregentenstrasse or Luitpoldstrasse . Many institutions are named in Luitpold's honour including

168-616: The BMW Museums ( BMW Welt , BMW Group Classic , BMW Museum and BMW Tower ). Other notable buildings include BMW FIZ , Knorr-Bremse headquarter, Bayerisches Landesamt für Verfassungsschutz , Euro-Industriepark, Mira shopping center and Gymnasium München Nord . Green Areas include: Petuelpark , Hartelholz and Panzerwiese . The Olympiapark is the location of the Zentrale Hochschulsportanlage , Spartan Race Sprint as well as Start- and Finish location of

192-590: The Landtag as a House of Representatives and meant therefore indirectly the first step toward parliamentary rule in Bavaria. Today the connection of these two developments is regarded as a main cause for the unspectacular end of the Bavarian kingdom without opposition in the course of the November revolution of 1918. However the course of his 26-year regency Luitpold grew to overcome, by modesty, ability and popularity,

216-515: The age of fourteen, Luitpold joined the Bavarian Army and was promoted to captain of the artillery in 1835. During the revolutions of 1848 , Prince Luitpold mediated and facilitated an audience of discontented citizens with his father. During the rule of his brother Maximilian II (1848–64), Luitpold did not play a significant political role. With the reign of his nephew Ludwig II (1864–1886), Prince Luitpold had increasingly to represent

240-532: The appointment of the Centre Party politician Georg von Hertling as minister president; this also effectively brought about a parliamentarisation of the government, as Hertling's Centre Party was the largest group in the Landtag . It had long been speculated that Ludwig and Otto's diagnoses of mental incapacity were pretexts to shunt them aside, given that they were rather cool toward Prussia while Luitpold

264-421: The constitution was amended to add a clause stating that if a regency for reasons of incapacity had lasted for at least 10 years with no prospect of the king being able to actively reign, the regent could assume the throne in his own right. Soon after this amendment was promulgated, Ludwig ended the regency, deposed Otto and assumed the throne as Ludwig III . The Prinzregentenzeit ("prince's regent's time"), as

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288-605: The creation of the German Empire with the King of Prussia , Wilhelm I , as German Emperor . Since Ludwig, who nonetheless regretted Bavaria's loss of independence, refused to attend Wilhelm's 18 January proclamation as Emperor in the Palace of Versailles , Ludwig's brother, Prince Otto, and his uncle Luitpold represented him in the Palace of Versailles . Otto then criticized the celebration as ostentatious and heartless in

312-554: The initial uneasiness of his subjects. These prince's regent's years were transfigured, finally – above all in the retrospect – to a golden age of Bavaria, even if one mourned the "fairy tale king" Ludwig II furthermore what happens in a folkloric-nostalgic manner till this day. Tutored as a child by Domenico Quaglio the Younger , Luitpold had a great feeling for the arts. Luitpold's years as regent were marked by tremendous artistic and cultural activity in Bavaria where they are known as

336-604: The last decades. A popular location is the Englischer Garten , or English Garden, one of the world's largest public parks. Other not so commonly known parks in Schwabing are Leopoldpark , Petuelpark and Biotop am Ackermannbogen . The main buildings of Munich's largest universities , Ludwig Maximilian University and the Technical University of Munich and Academy of Fine Arts are situated in

360-985: The nearby Maxvorstadt . A student housing area called " Studentenstadt " (literally, "student city") is located in the north of Schwabing. The gentrification of Schwabing and various construction projects led to various protests around the year 2011. Schwabing became very famous especially during the reign of Prince Regent Luitpold when numerous artists like Ludwig Ganghofer , Heinrich Mann , Thomas Mann , Oskar Panizza , Otto Julius Bierbaum , Frank Wedekind , Ernst von Wolzogen , Gustav Meyrink , Rainer Maria Rilke , Isolde Kurz , Ludwig Thoma , Max Halbe , Annette Kolb , Stefan George , Karl Wolfskehl , Ludwig Klages , Roda Roda , Christian Morgenstern , Max Dauthendey , Mechtilde Lichnowsky , Lion Feuchtwanger , Leonhard Frank , Joachim Ringelnatz , Claire Goll , Oskar Maria Graf , Hugo Ball , Hermann Kesten , Thomas Theodor Heine , Olaf Gulbransson , Bruno Paul , Eduard Thöny and Rudolf Wilke lived or worked there. Lenin

384-503: The regency of Luitpold is often called, marked the gradual transfer of Bavarian interests behind those of the German empire. In connection with the unhappy end of the preceding rule of King Ludwig II, this break in the Bavarian monarchy looked even stronger. Finally, the constitutional amendment of 1913 brought the determining break in the continuity of the king's rule in the opinion of historians, particularly as this change had been granted by

408-421: The resulting high rents. It has become the city's most coveted and expensive residential district, attracting affluent citizens with little interest in partying. 48°10′02″N 11°35′10″E  /  48.16722°N 11.58611°E  / 48.16722; 11.58611 Luitpold, Prince Regent of Bavaria Luitpold Karl Joseph Wilhelm Ludwig, Prince Regent of Bavaria (12 March 1821 – 12 December 1912),

432-777: The royal house due to the king's long absence from the capital. In the Austro-Prussian War in 1866 Luitpold was commander of the 3rd Royal Bavarian Division . After the war, he participated in the reorganization of Bavarian Army . In 1869, he became Inspector General of the Bavarian Army, during the Franco-Prussian War in 1870 and 1871, he represented Bavaria in the German General Staff . In that capacity, he handed over Ludwig's Kaiserbrief on 3 December 1870, in which Ludwig endorsed

456-411: The underwater nightclub Yellow Submarine , as well as many bars such as Schwabinger 7 , Drugstore and Schwabinger Podium. From the active nightlife during this time, the district became known as "Schwabingbang". The Schwabinger Krawalle unrests of 1962 were a prelude for the student protests of 1968. In the last decades Schwabing has lost much of its nightlife activity, mainly due to gentrification and

480-480: Was a resident of Schwabing for some years, as was noted psychoanalyst and bohemian Otto Gross . The Countess Fanny zu Reventlow was known as "The Bohemian Countess of Schwabing". In the 1960s and 1970s Schwabing became a hotspot for the flower power and 1968 movements as well as an internationally renowned party district with legendary clubs such as Big Apple , PN hit-house, Domicile, Hot Club, Piper Club, Tiffany, Germany's first large-scale discotheque Blow Up and

504-437: Was even accused by some people of the murder of his nephew, but soon the decent and affable prince became one of Bavaria's most popular rulers. One of his first actions (on 1 August 1886) was to open several of the palaces of Ludwig II to the public. Politically, Luitpold remained largely passive. His governments gradually moved away from the previous anti-Catholic Kulturkampf policies. This development culminated in 1912 when

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528-754: Was in line to succeed to the throne of the Kingdom of Bavaria , and was also heir presumptive to the throne of Greece, since his brother Otto had no children. However, the Greek constitution required that Otto's heir should belong to the Greek Orthodox Church . Otto was deposed in 1862 and replaced by Prince William of Denmark , who became George I, King of the Hellenes. Otto died in 1867, leaving Luitpold and his descendants as representatives of Otto's claim. However, Luitpold never pursued that claim. At

552-461: Was the de facto ruler of Bavaria from 1886 to 1912, as regent for his nephews, King Ludwig II and King Otto . His regency arose due to his nephews' mental incapacity. Luitpold was born in Würzburg , the third son of King Ludwig I of Bavaria and his wife, Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen . He was the younger brother of King Maximilian II of Bavaria and of King Otto of Greece . Luitpold

576-517: Was thought to be pro-Prussian. However, during Luitpold's regency, relations between Munich and Berlin remained cold as Bavarians resented Prussia's strategic dominance over the empire . Luitpold continued to serve as regent until 1912, when he contracted bronchitis and died in Munich. He is buried in the crypt of the Theatinerkirche in Munich. He was succeeded by his eldest son, Prince Ludwig, who remained as regent for another year. In 1913,

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