Originally, the road was called Sendlinger Weg or Kirchweg, because Neuhausen was not a parish in its own right and the services were held in Sendling until 1871.
This road went along the today's Donnersbergerstraße, led slightly to the east at the height of the present Richelstraße, crossing the railway tracks at Maillingerstraße, went over into Bergmannstraße and continued to the old Sendlinger church.
On 1 June, 1877, the municipality of Neuhaus changed the streets name to Uhlmannstraße, after the hop-merchant Jakob Uhlmann (1829–1895) from Fürth, who owned the properties there and had made the trail into a road.
In addition to the numerous private or pensioner homes, the railway cooperatives on the west side erected their large housing units.
The first suburban public transportation that passed through Donnersbergerstraße was the Omni bus line number 31, which led from the Wholesale Market Munich to the Rotkreuzplatz.
Until the completion of the new Donnersberger bridge in the 1972 Olympic year, Donnersbergerstraße was part of the Mittlerer Ring, which resulted in the removal of almost all of the front gardens.
These were simply simple workers' economies, the clientele of which consisted almost exclusively of the inhabitants of Donnersbergerstraße and their side streets.
After completion of the Donnersberger bridge in 1972 and the streets new route along the Mittlerer Ringes through the Landshuter Allee, Donnersbergerstraße lost importance.
Since then, the district has increasingly transformed itself into the focus area for real estate investments, because of its central, traffic-friendly but quiet location.
A large part of the historically listed buildings were renovated, as well as numerous new shops, restaurants and bars opened (gentrification).
In Donnersbergerstraße 50a, the well-known folk actor Helmut Fischer (most famous role: Monaco Franze) grew up.
During the construction of the resident parking garage, the renovation of the property Donnersbergerstraße 42 had to take place because of an unexpected building collapse, which never was fully explained.