Würmmühle (Dachau)
The Würmmühle is a mill with surrounding residential developments in the municipality of the city of Dachau . It is located just before the Würm meets the Amper . The mill has continued to this day and has been expanded to include a beekeeping, a chicken farm and a funeral home. In addition to a mill shop, there is a shop with products from the farm. A field chapel from the 17th century stands near the mill.
history
Roman road station Ambra
In all likelihood, the Roman road station Ambra, which was an important junction for road connections in the province of Raetia, was located around the Würmmühle . At this point of the Amper there was a ford that made the transition on such an important city link much easier. Hans Bauer counted seven feeders. The most important connections through Ambra ran from Augsburg to Salzburg , from Kempten to Salzburg and from Ambra via Partenkirchen into the Inn Valley. Further connections led north to the Danube and on to Regensburg , along the Amper and Isar to the Danube and on to Passau and a connection via Föhring towards Wasserburg .
Documentary mention of the mill
The mill was first mentioned in a document by the Bishop of Freising in the 10th century . In addition to the milling business, the miller also led travelers across the ford in the Amper-Würm-Aue, at that time a branched estuary, as had already happened under the Romans. A bridge near the Würmmühle was mentioned for the first time in 1230. In the 14th century, the mill - owned by the Bavarian dukes for the first time - was called "Würmmühle" for the first time.
Economic life in modern times
The emergence of rafting from the High Middle Ages from the Alps or the Alpine foothills did not pass the Amper by either. The street name "An der Floßlände" near the Würmmühle suggests a Trifthof east of the Amper. It is proven that the Würmmühle operated a sawmill at least in the 18th century, which probably processed parts of the raft wood.
The mill in the 20th century
The connection between the Würmmüller and the directly adjacent Dachau concentration camp has not yet been fully clarified. In accordance with municipal law, at the request of the SS in 1938 , the Würmmühle was incorporated together with part of the site of the concentration camp from the municipality of Hebertshausen into the area of the city of Dachau. This makes it clear that the Würmmühle in its location between the prisoner camp, the SS settlement and the SS shooting range was not unaffected by the camp operations for purely practical reasons. It can be assumed that the Würmmühle was in lively economic exchange with the SS settlement. An entomological institute was also located directly at the Würmmühle , which employed four concentration camp inmates.
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supporting documents
- ↑ Hans Bauer: The Roman highways between Iller and Salzach according to the Itinerarium Antonini and the Tabula Peutingeriana. New research results on route guidance. Munich 2007, pp. 52ff and 103.
- ↑ Route sketches by Hans Bauer, accessed on October 18, 2016 ( Memento from March 19, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Erich Keyser: Bavarian city book. Stuttgart 1974, p. 133.
- ^ History of the Würmmühle ( Memento from February 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Rafting and logging. In: Georg Paula, Stefanie Berg-Hobohm: District Weilheim-Schongau. Monuments in Bavaria, Volume 1. Munich 2003, p. 23.
- ↑ Street names in Dachau
- ↑ The Würm. In the flow of history n . Munich 1995, p. 156.
- ^ Sybille Steinbacher : Dachau, the city and the concentration camp in the Nazi era. Investigating a neighborhood . Frankfurt a. M. 1993, p. 117.
- ↑ Hans-Günther Richardi: School of violence. Munich 1983, p. 264.
- ↑ Wolfgang Benz , Barbara Distel (ed.): The place of terror . History of the National Socialist Concentration Camps . Munich 2005, p. 304f.
Coordinates: 48 ° 16 ′ 45 " N , 11 ° 27 ′ 53" E