The formerly referred to as Sendlinger way road, was named in 1883 after the lawyer, historian and archivist Michael Adam von Bergmann (1733–1783), who was city chief judge starting in 1762 and then became mayor in Munich.

North of the Bergmannstraße runs the multiple track railway lines from about 1.5 kilometers east of the München Hauptbahnhof (main train station), south of the Bergmannstraße the branching tracks of the Munich South Ring run towards the Munich East station and from there, on towards Rosenheim and Salzburg.

The northern part of the Bergmannstraße is dominated mostly by simple four-storey to five-storey rental units and individual small businesses.

In the middle part of the street, on the western side, lies the Gollierplatz, a green area of about 10,000 square meters.

South of it stands the Ledigenheim (asylum for unmarried people), which was built as a Rohziegelbau (brick building) in the new objectivity style under the direction of the architect Theodor Fischer, originating from Lower Franconia, in the years 1925–1927.

The Bergmannstraße connects at its southern end, to the Ridlerstraße which runs parallel to the railway line of the Südring, which leads from the main station to Ostbahnhof.

[3] Since today's Bergmannstraße was on the municipal boundary of Neuhausen and Sendling, there was still paving duties charged in 1865, for example, when a wedding party wanted to cross the border.