Gollierplatz

The Gollierplatz is a square in Munich’s Westend district, laid out between Trappentreustraße and Bergmannstraße. It covers about ten thousand square metres and centres on a green space with play equipment, a table tennis table and a fountain. The Vier-Nymphen-Brunnen, a fountain with four figures by Elmar Dietz, has stood at the eastern edge since 1938. The square’s name honours the Gollier family, a Munich patrician clan last recorded in 1318. In the late 19th century the city ran a competition to expand the area, and the design of 1892 gave the square its present east–west shape. Carl Hocheder built a two-wing school on the south side between 1889 and 1891, and Gabriel von Seidl added the neo-Romanesque parish church of St Rupert between 1901 and 1903. Ludwig Naneder completed the parsonage in 1926. Visitors find a quiet rectangular space framed by late 19th- and early 20th-century apartment buildings. The north side is closed by monumental blocks from the 1920s, while the south side carries late Art Nouveau façades. Theodor Fischer’s Ledigenheim, an early New Objectivity landmark in brick, stands southeast of the fountain. The entire square and its buildings form a protected ensemble, offering a calm spot among Munich’s dense Westend streets.