Google translation : King Ludwig I. commissioned his architect Leo Klenze on the west side of the square king to build the Propylaea in the form of a temple entrance. The Propylaea are the last purely classical building which was built in Munich. The architect designed the building , modeled on the Propylaea of the Acropolis. The building was almost Seamlessly built of large blocks. Inside the roof beams supported by Ionic columns. The gate is on the left and right limits of three Doric columns on which a raised platform is with pediment . The pediment is richly decorated with a frieze of Louis Schwanthalerstraße of which also are the reliefs on the tower walls. The underside of the roofs of the towers was designed as a coffered ceiling. The Propylaea were from private funds Ludwig I. is built and later , together with the obelisk on Karolinenplace of Munich. From 1862 to 1928 were the portals and the main gate of the Propylaea as passages for traffic. 1928 but these were closed to traffic and then moved laterally outside the roadways around.
