Connollystraße

Connollystraße with a fountain

The Connollystraße is a street in the Olympic Village and student quarter of the Olympic Park Munich.

Description

The street was named in 1971 after James Brendan Connolly, the first Olympic champion of the modern era (1896).

It leads from the Helene-Mayer-Ring to the Kusocinskidamm to Straßbergerstraße. The road is accessible on the surface for pedestrians and cyclists, and underground for motorists. Access is via the Lerchenauer Straße.

The sculpture "Olympic Rings" from 1972 by Ruth Kiener flame, with the new version from 2000 by Peter Schwenk, is found here.[1] In Connollystraße 20, is the "Theater Unterwegs".

Connollystraße 31 was the ground-floor, left-side apartment where the Israeli Olympic team was taken hostage during the 1972 Summer Olympics.[2] Following the Olympic Games, initial designs were in discussion to make it a "House of peace",[3] but the building was given to the Max Planck Society,[4] which uses it as a guest house.[5] 200 meters south is the memorial place of the Olympia attack.

North of the Connollystraße is the Nadisee, in the west the Central University Sports Center.

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  Sculpture "Olympic rings"
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  Fountains on Connollystraße
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  Connollystraße above ground for pedestrians and cyclists
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  Connollystraße underground car parking garage
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  Nadisee
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  Commemorative plaque at the entrance of Connollystraße 31 (see 1972 Munich massacre)
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  Front view and entrance of the apartment building Connollystraße 31 in 2012. A memorial plaque is visible to the right of the front door
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  Rear view of the apartment building at Connollystraße 31 in 2017
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  Commemoration ceremony of German and Israeli delegates with a wreath laying on 5 September 2012, under the watch of the German Police SEK positioned on the rooftop, in front of the Connollystraße 31 building

Movies

• "Architektur im Spiegel der Gesellschaft" Archived 2017-12-08 at the Wayback Machine

References

1. "SkulpTour München" (in German). Welt der Form. July 2011. Retrieved 8 December 2017.
2. "Olympia-Attentat: Gedenkfeier für die Opfer" (in German). Abendzeitung. 5 September 2012. Retrieved 8 December 2017.
3. "Hinterher leer" (in German). Der Spiegel. 25 September 1972. Retrieved 8 December 2017.
4. "Die Olympischen Sommerspiele von 1972 in München – Ein Traum wird zum Alptraum" (in German). Das Bundesarchiv. 27 April 1973. Archived from the original on 23 August 2017. Retrieved 8 December 2017.
5. "Heute ist in dem Gebäude in der Connollystraße 31 das Gästehaus der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft untergebracht" (in German). Focus. Archived from the original on 27 February 2017. Retrieved 8 December 2017.