Widenmayerstraße 2, Revenue house in Lehel, Munich, Germany
Widenmayerstraße 2 is a five-storey rental apartment building from the 1890s. Its pale grey stone and stucco facade has a rusticated ground floor with a diamond pattern, smooth middle floors framed by pilasters, and six columns of windows; the middle four columns project slightly and carry balconies with carved stone balustrades. A heavy carved cornice with a curved gable and sculpted relief tops the facade, and a round-arched doorway sits at street level centre-right.
Widenmayerstraße 2 was built in the 1890s as a tenement house at the start of Widenmayerstraße in the Lehel district. It is listed as a Baudenkmal in the Bavarian monument register and forms part of the protected ensemble Widenmayerstraße. In 1898/99 a coachman's and janitor's apartment was added in the courtyard; it was demolished in 1985 after serving as the filming location for Meister Eder und sein Pumuckl.
A memorial plaque on the street facade commemorates the television series Meister Eder und sein Pumuckl and its lead actor Gustl Bayrhammer, showing him as Meister Eder with Pumuckl. It was unveiled on 24 April 2023, the 30th anniversary of Bayrhammer's death, with Minister-President Markus Söder and Mayor Dieter Reiter present. The theologian and art historian Michael Hartig lived in the house.
Widenmayerstraße runs one-sided along the Isar quay at the start of the Lehel district, so house numbers follow a single continuous row: No. 2 stands between No. 1 and No. 3, with which it forms one building complex. The memorial plaque to the Pumuckl series and Gustl Bayrhammer is on the street facade; the courtyard behind, where the filmed flat once stood, belongs partly to the Bayerische Versicherungskammer.
A memorial plaque on the street facade commemorates the television series Meister Eder und sein Pumuckl and its lead actor Gustl Bayrhammer, showing him as Meister Eder with Pumuckl. It was unveiled on 24 April 2023, the 30th anniversary of Bayrhammer's death, with Minister-President Markus Söder and Mayor Dieter Reiter present.
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