The Prinzregentenstraße was the last avenue built under the Wittelsbach family in the 19th c. It was named after Prince Regent Luitpold who ruled in Bavaria after King Ludwig II. has been taken his legal rights away. Contrary to the other densely built boulevards (e.g. Ludwigstraße, Maximilianstraße) the Prinzregentenstraße was laid out as a garden street with shifted building facades. Originally only the southern part of the street was built up and you had an unhindered view into the English Garden up to the Bavarian National Museum. Only from there the street was lined with representative buildings which are partly used as museums and galleries.
The beginning of the Prinzregentenstraße is at the Haus der Kunst, a typical example of the monumental architectural style of the Nazi period. Passing the very interesting Bavarian National Museum with Bavarian handicraft from nine centuries and the Schack Gallery designed by Max Littmann, an important picture collection of the German Romantic Period. After the Prinzregentenbrücke - a present of Prince Regent Luitpold to the city on the occasion of his 70th birthday in 1891 - with four lying figures symbolizing the four tribes of old Bavaria it winds up the high terrace of the Isar to the Friedensengel. Then the street passes the Art Nouveau Museum Villa Stuck with the speer-wielding Amazon at the entrance and the delicatessen store Feinkost Käfer until it finally ends at the remarkable Prinzregentenheater by Max Littmann.
U-Bahn: U4 to Prinzregentenplatz
Bus 53