Calle de Müller

The surname Müller, the most common in Germany, points to a foreign origin, but no record or neighborhood chronicle has kept any account of which Müller this Valdeacederas street honors. The name arrived without a biography and so it remains. What does have a history is the ground. The street runs through Valdeacederas, the “valley of the sorrels,” a hollow in the northern outskirts where that sour-leaved wild plant once grew. In the 1940s it was among the poorest corners of Tetuán, with shacks lacking sewers and low houses thrown up by families arriving from the countryside. Müller is among the streets the neighborhood saw refurbished when the shantytowns gave way to apartment blocks, with the odd low house still surviving among taller façades.