North of the Petueltunnel route, borders the district Am Riesenfeld which is further separated by the Korbinianstraße or Schleißheimer Straße to the east, to the neighboring district Milbertshofen. In the north, it is separated from the district Lerchenau by the railway tracks or a part of the Wilhelmine-Reichard-Straße, in the west it is separated by the Landshuter Allee or the abandoned tracks of the Moosach district. In the southwest, the boundary of the district Am Riesenfeld to the district of Neuhausen-Nymphenburg runs along the Willi-Gebhardt-Ufer to the Spiridon-Luis-Ring, which forms the western boundary of the Olympia Park on the western border of the larger Olympiaberg, and then along to Ackermannstraße. In the south, the border with Schwabing-West runs along the curve of the Ackermannstraße to Winzererstraße, which together with the Lerchenauer Straße to the Petueltunnel also forms the south-east border to Schwabing-West.
1800 was the 1764 first Schwaige named St. Georgenschwaige sold to four Upper Palatinate settlers. On the property which was uncovered after the destruction, the settlement with the name Riesenfeld, which today is known as altes Riesenfeld, was built at the curve of the Nymphenburg-Biedersteiner Kanal at the today's corner Petuelring / Belgradstraße. This area was in 1818, part of the then community Schwabing and was together incorporated into Munich in November 1890. The today's area Am Riesenfeld was named Risenfeldfor the first time on 8 January 1800. It goes back to the couple Andrä von Riß, Hofkammerrat in Freising and Theresia, which on 12 June 1796 bought the bleacher based on a Dutch system, operated since 1790 at the canal curve, from the brothers Franz Xaver and Joseph Lunglmayr. Andrä von Riß died already in 1798. His widow and the children then again sold the possession called izt Risenfeld, on 8 January 1800. The Restoration Bad Georgenschwaige was later set up in the former bleach house. North of the channel was later a new settlement Riesenfeld, but which was on Milbertshofener area and was incorporated with Milbertshofen in 1913. In 1941, the above ground bunkers Lerchenauer Straße and Anhalter Platz were built. Before the site in the period from 1966 to 1972 was completely redesigned due to the games of XX. Olympia 1972, it was called Oberwiesenfeld and housed only a large airfield in addition to its use as a military site, on which the first commercial airport of Munich was located from 1929 to 1939 and the aircraft engines manufactured in the neighboring factory of BMW were tested until 1945 and from 1957 to 1968 the general aviation harbored. The area south of today's Georg-Brauchle-Ring, which is characterized by the sports venues, the Olympia-Parkharfe and the large Olympiaberg, belonged to the district Neuhausen-Oberwiesenfeld until 1992 and came part of the district Am Riesenfeld during the redivision of the districts in 1996.
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The Munich Riesenfeldstraße is named after the district Am Riesenfeld.
