Five storey stucco tenement blocks line a planned quarter of diagonal avenues, including the real apartment behind a Bavarian television classic.
What Haidhausen looks like
runs as a wide boulevard through the Franzosenviertel, five storey stucco blocks lining both sides with little variation from one building to the next. Rustication covers the ground floors. Bay windows repeat up the facades toward the roofline, with pediments over the upper windows and wrought iron balconies below them. A sushi restaurant now fills the ground floor at number 7, under carved window surrounds and a small decorative shield set into the plaster.
Side streets off the boulevard carry smaller, older buildings next to the tenement blocks. On a row of two storey gabled cottages with dormer windows and tiled roofs stands beside taller neighbours, cars parked along the kerb on both sides. The corner blocks at and rise in pale yellow and white stucco, bay windows stacked above arched doorways and a small statue set into a corner niche.
A disused public bathhouse stands on , its original lettering still carved into pale blue plaster above a row of arched windows and a dark wooden door. Nearby on , low gabled houses with shutters and wrought iron balconies stand close to the pavement, mature trees breaking up the street line.
Streets through the quarter are narrow, parked cars lined nose to tail along both kerbs. Canvas awnings mark the restaurants and small shops that fill the ground floors under the stucco facades above.
Shot in Haidhausen
The Bayerischer Rundfunk series Monaco Franze, der ewige Stenz used a real Wörthstraße address rather than a set for one of its main characters. In the 1983 episode Abgestürzt, the apartment above the street's shops belongs to Franz Münchinger's friend and colleague Manni Kopfeck.
Monaco Franze, der ewige Stenz, 1983
Wörthstraße 7
In the episode, Franz Münchinger sets fire to the apartment while Manni Kopfeck is out at the Preysing-Garten getting food. The building's bay window and ground floor arcade match the broadcast, the ground floor now a sushi and ramen restaurant rather than the shop seen in 1983. Street View
Prenzlauer Berg's five storey Gründerzeit tenement blocks share this quarter's scale and its stucco facades, bay windows repeating up the front the same way. Berlin's courtyards tend to run deeper and the render is often plainer, so a frame close on the facade line holds the match better than a wide courtyard shot. Try searching Gründerzeit stucco tenement block now.
Vienna's eighth district has the same Neo Baroque stucco blocks from the same building boom, with rusticated ground floors and bay windows repeated along the street. Vienna's streets usually run wider and often still carry tram tracks, so a tighter frame keeps the comparison honest. Try searching Neo Baroque stucco block now.
Erzsébetváros in Budapest, Hungary
Budapest's seventh district has the same era of stucco apartment blocks around small courtyards, though the ornament runs more elaborate and the render colours tend warmer. A corner building shot close keeps the extra ornament out of frame. Try searching stucco courtyard apartment block now.
