Pope Benedict XVI Pope Benedict XVI Pope Benedict XVI (; ; ; born Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger; ; 16 April 1927) served as Pope of the Catholic Church and as sovereign of the Vatican City State from 2005 until his resignation in 2013. Benedict's election as pope occurred in the 2005 papal conclave that followed the death of Pope John Paul II. The Vatican announced his withdrawal by bestowing him the title Pope Emeritus shortly after his resignation. Ordained as a priest in 1951 in his native Bavaria, Ratzinger had established himself as a highly regarded university theologian by the late 1950s and was
Pelkovenstraße a street town with its location on this trade route and consisted of about a dozen courtyards in the 9th century. General Eisenhower held several parades in Moosach in 1945-46. In 1951, Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger, the later Pope Benedict XVI, lived at the parsonage on the Pelkovenstraße. Within the scope of the construction measures in the area for the 1972 Summer Olympics, the street was broadened, which lead to the bowling alley of the adjoining Gasthaus "Spiegl" having to be demolished. There are 11 monuments (including the Alte Pfarrkirche St. Martin, the Pelkovenschlössl, the Gasthaus Spiegl and the Moosach Parsonage),