It runs west of the Englischer Garten from Dillisstraße, or the Nikolaiplatz to the corner of Mandlstraße/Königinstraße, and forms the southern edge of the heritage-protected building ensemble Alt-Schwabing.
[1] The name of the street came from Maria Josepha of Portugal, the second wife of Karl Theodor, Duke in Bavaria.
The renaming of the street from its originally name, Wiesenstraße, took place in the course of 1891 and was carried out with the incorporation of Schwabing to Munich.
At the beginning of Maria-Josepha-Straße is the Seidlvilla (also called Villa Lautenbacher), built in 1905 by Emanuel von Seidl in the style of German Renaissance with Art Nouveau forms.
[8] With the postal address Nikolaiplatz 1b, which is also on the Maria-Josepha-Straße Seidlvilla, as well as the Fischerbrunnen also counted, there are only 9 historically listed buildings on the only 260 m long road, which is also included in the Ensemble protection Altschwabing.