The ensemble of the Tölzer Markstraße is part of the Bavarian list of monuments and is mentioned as one of the most impressive streets in Upper Bavaria. The buildings, erected since the Middle Ages, received a uniform appearance after 1900 through the historicist facades from the Munich architect Gabriel von Seidl. Carl Grossberg depicted this view in a free and by no means realistic way. He succeeded in depicting this urban masterpiece in a clear coolness. Everything cozy is reduced in favor of clear, factual forms. Carl Grossberg received the order from the Feile family, because the father-in-law of Peter Feile, a good friend of Grossberg's, bought the house on Marktstraße and was the landlord of the cafe and wine house Ott. A postcard still bears witness to the original place it was mounted.

Peter Feile, whose family owned this extraordinary work, was a close friend of Carl Grossberg. Peter Feile is known as one of the most important representatives of ‘Neues Bauen’ in Bavaria. With the model houses of the Lerchenhainsiedlung in Würzburg, he built the first flat-roof residential houses in Bavaria. With the increasing influence of the National Socialists the so-called "Heimatschutzstil" became the measure of all things. This backward-looking style ultimately drew on ideas such as those realized by Gabriel von Seidl on Marktstraße in Tölz.

From this point of view, the seemingly emotionless painting gets a new touch. Grossberg worked out a Tölz view for his friend Feile, which can also be understood as a criticism of the backwardness of the NS building guidelines. Because Feile was actually a convinced "Bauhaus" architect who, under the pressure of political developments, subordinated himself to the Heimatschutz style decreed from above. Feile himself moved to Bad Tölz after the war and would spend the rest of his life there. [EH]