Degerndorf (Münsing)

Degerndorf is a district of the Münsing community and a district in the Upper Bavarian district of Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen .

View of Degerndorf

Degerndorfer Weiher

geography

Degerndorf is about 30 km south of Munich and about three kilometers from Lake Starnberg . The church village has about 800 inhabitants and is at an altitude of 681 m above sea level. NN . The highest point is the Fürst-Tegernberg, about one kilometer to the west, at an altitude of 719 m above sea level. NN . It offers a 360 ° panoramic view of the entire Alpine chain in the south with its foothills and Lake Starnberg (Würmsee) in the west. The district, which also includes the places Achmühle , Bolzwang , Bruckmaier and Sonderham , has an area of about 2.7 km² .

history

A secular priest named Oadalscalch (Odalschalk) had his own little church here. It was the baptistery of a Christian cell congregation in this area and consecrated to St. John. In a document from the year 814, this priest Odalschalk handed over his own church in Tegardorf into the hands of Bishop Otto zur Domkirche in Freising .

If a church already existed then, it can also be assumed that people had been living on the Degerndorfer Höhe for a long time. It is one of the highest elevations of the lateral moraine and is 681 m above sea level.

The name Degerndorf is derived from Tighearna or Tegardorf, which means something like village of the Tegerin. According to the historian Meichelbeck, Tagerin or Tegerin means something like Prince or Lord. The place names formed with "Tegern" were places that belonged to a noble gentleman. The field name Fürst-Tegernberg is probably derived from this meaning.

According to research, Degerndorf has existed since 721 AD. From 1841 Degerndorf was a separate municipality before it was largely transferred to the municipality of Münsing in 1978 as part of the municipal reform . Achmühle came to the Eurasburg community.

Culture and sights

Maria-Dank-Chapel

By far the most famous sight in Degerndorf is the Maria-Dank-Chapel on the 719 m high Fürst-Tegernberg. The construction of the chapel goes back to the events of the last years of the Second World War. Since the nearby ammunition factory in Geretsried was exposed to bombing by the Allies and Degerndorf was also in the path of the Allied bombers approaching Munich, Degerndorf was always at risk of being hit by a misdirected bomb. On November 22, 1944, 20 heavy explosive bombs fell between Degerndorf and Bolzwang, but they only caused damage to the fields.

The events around December 17, 1944 are particularly noteworthy. That night it became particularly dicey for the village when an English Avro Lancaster Mk. III bomber, shot down by an anti-aircraft gun over Munich, loaded with incendiary bombs, did not crash into the village, but a few hundred meters away near the current location of the chapel Town center went down. No house was damaged and no resident was injured. Seven crew members of the Royal Air Force sat in the machine, of whom only the rear gunner Sergeant Charles Samuel Joce was able to save himself by parachute. The injured Charles Samuel Joce wandered around all night seeking help. The day after, he finally ran into the hands of the residents of Degerndorf, who brought him to the then mayor Georg Bolzmacher.

Now the mayor asked himself how to deal with six enemy corpses and an injured prisoner of war. Before more detailed considerations could be made, however, a resident reported to the police in Wolfratshausen to have the Englishman picked up. The officials in Wolfratshausen wanted nothing to do with the matter and only made the following traditional recommendation: “Daschlagts'n glei, then hamma koane trouble with erm” (in German: “Kill him right away, then we will not have any trouble with him . "). The Degerndorfer, on the other hand, did not adhere to this recommendation, they took care of the Englishman medically and nursed him for several days. The six corpses were to be buried in the forest at the behest of the NSDAP. But the locals also resisted this instruction. Since the names of the fallen soldiers could be identified on the basis of their brands, each of them was given a cross with its own name on the cemetery of the village church of St. Michael. Their names were accordingly Edward Roy Newland, Ronald William Bennett, David Thomson Muir, Percy Barlow, Hilton Alfred Hales and Herbert Alfred Tuck. After a few days, Charles Samuel Joce was finally picked up by German soldiers at the train station in Wolfratshausen, but because of his injuries he was not sent to a prisoner of war camp, but to a hospital. At the end of the 1950s, Sgt. Charles Samuel Joce returned to the place of his crash and to his "rescuers". When the Americans moved through the country at the end of the war, they also arrived in Degerndorf at some point. They learned about the incident with the British bomber and the respectful treatment of the residents with the corpses and the surviving prisoner of war. In gratitude for this the order was given not to plunder the village.

During all these events, the vow was made that a chapel would be built in honor of Mary in the most beautiful place in Degerndorf if the war ended well for the place. Until the end of the war, Degerndorf did not hit a bomb, so planning for the Maria-Dank-Chapel on the Fürst-Tegernberg began just one year after the end of the war. Most of the building material was taken from the ruins of bombed Munich. The remaining materials such as cement or nails were procured by the builders through barter deals. Finally, on May 23, 1948, the Maria-Dank chapel was inaugurated. Since the inauguration of the chapel, the people of Degerndorf have been going to the Fürst-Tegernberg in a procession of thanks every 13th of the month (from May to October). The chapel is now a well-known excursion destination far beyond the municipality's borders, and every year in June the local boys' association hosts the Johannifeier on the Fürst Tegernberg.