Moosburg
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Münchenerstraße
during the Nazi era and today. The Nazi Party in Moosburg began in 1922
culminating on March 16, 1923, when a local group of the party was
founded in the city, the first in the entire district. It had an initial membership of 27 individuals, predominantly small farmers, artisans, and disaffected war veterans. The branch was led by Josef Huber, a local butcher who'd served in the First World War and joined the party after attending a rally in Freising in 1922. Huber's leadership was instrumental in organising early meetings, which were held in the back room of the Gasthaus zum Löwen, a local inn, between 1923 and 1925. These gatherings typically attracted thirty to 50 attendees and featured speeches denouncing the Weimar Republic, the Treaty of Versailles, and perceived Jewish influence in German society. The Moosburg local group supported the founding of the local branch in
Freising and by 1928 the district management of the Nazi Party was for
the district in Moosburg, led by local figures such as Hans Müller, a schoolteacher who joined in 1922 and organised early meetings in the town’s Gasthaus zur Post. Party meetings were held biweekly at the Gasthaus zur Post, featuring speakers like Rudolf Hess, who visited on April 10, 1932, attracting 800 attendees. These gatherings often included anti-Semitic rhetoric, though no violent incidents against Moosburg’s Jewish residents were recorded before 1933. 
The
hyperinflation crisis of 1923 devastated local livelihoods, with the
price of a loaf of bread in Moosburg rising from 1,200 marks in January
to 100 billion marks by November, as recorded in the town's market
ledgers. Small farmers, who comprised 42 percent of Moosburg's workforce
according to a 1925 census, faced ruin as agricultural prices
collapsed. The Nazi Party exploited this discontent, promising economic
stability and land reforms. By 1925, the Moosburg branch had grown to 83
members, a figure reported in the Nazis' regional party newsletter, Der
Völkische Beobachter, on June 7, 1925. Three local party members, including Huber,
travelled to Munich to participate in so-called Beer Hall Putsch; their arrest and the temporary ban
on the Nazi Party forced the Moosburg branch to operate clandestinely
under the guise of a cultural association, the Heimatverein Moosburg,
until the ban was lifted in 1925. During this period, meetings were held
in private homes, with 14 documented gatherings between December 1923
and February 1925, each attended by 20 to 30 individuals. The
relegalisation of the party in February 1925 allowed the Moosburg branch
to resume public activities, including a rally on March 15, 1925, which
drew 200 attendees to the town square. Meanwhile the SA established a unit in Moosburg in 1928, led by Karl Schmidt, a
former World War I veteran. This group, numbering thirty men by 1930,
was involved in street confrontations with communist sympathisers,
particularly during a rally on May 15, 1930, where two SA members were
injured in a brawl outside the town’s brewery.
Landstraße during the Third Reich left and below. By the late 1920s, the Nazi Party in Moosburg began to gain traction among the middle class and youth. The Great Depression, which began in 1929, exacerbated local unemployment, with 18% of Moosburg's workforce, or 412 individuals, registered as jobless by December 1930, per municipal records. Moosburg’s
agricultural economy suffering as grain prices fell by 30% between 1929
and 1930. Local farmers, such as Johann Weber, who owned a 20-hectare
farm just outside Moosburg, joined the party in 1930 after losing half
his income due to declining markets. By 1930, the Moosburg branch had
grown to 120 members, according to a 1931 report in the Münchener Post, a Social Democratic newspaper. The Nazis capitalised on this crisis, organising soup kitchens that served 1,200 meals between January and March 1931, led by Maria Schneider, a schoolteacher and the first female member of the Moosburg branch, who joined in 1927 and established the local chapter of the National Socialist Women's League in 1930. The league had 45 members by 1932, focusing on propaganda aimed at housewives and young women. The Nazi Party's electoral success in Moosburg reflected its growing influence. In the 1930 Reichstag election, the party secured 22.3% of the vote in Moosburg, compared to 18.3 percent nationally, with 1,104 ballots cast in its favour out of 4,950 total votes. This result made the Nazis the second-largest party in Moosburg, behind the Bavarian People's Party, which received 38.7 percent. The party's vote share increased to 39.1 percent in the July 1932 election, with 1,935 votes, surpassing the Bavarian People's Party's 34.2 percent. These figures, published in the Moosburger Anzeiger on August 2, 1932, indicate a significant shift in local political allegiance, driven by economic hardship and effective propaganda which focused on community engagement, such as organising harvest festivals in 1931 and 1932, further embedded it in local culture, with 2,000 attendees at the 1932 festival.
The
hyperinflation crisis of 1923 devastated local livelihoods, with the
price of a loaf of bread in Moosburg rising from 1,200 marks in January
to 100 billion marks by November, as recorded in the town's market
ledgers. Small farmers, who comprised 42 percent of Moosburg's workforce
according to a 1925 census, faced ruin as agricultural prices
collapsed. The Nazi Party exploited this discontent, promising economic
stability and land reforms. By 1925, the Moosburg branch had grown to 83
members, a figure reported in the Nazis' regional party newsletter, Der
Völkische Beobachter, on June 7, 1925. Three local party members, including Huber,
travelled to Munich to participate in so-called Beer Hall Putsch; their arrest and the temporary ban
on the Nazi Party forced the Moosburg branch to operate clandestinely
under the guise of a cultural association, the Heimatverein Moosburg,
until the ban was lifted in 1925. During this period, meetings were held
in private homes, with 14 documented gatherings between December 1923
and February 1925, each attended by 20 to 30 individuals. The
relegalisation of the party in February 1925 allowed the Moosburg branch
to resume public activities, including a rally on March 15, 1925, which
drew 200 attendees to the town square. Meanwhile the SA established a unit in Moosburg in 1928, led by Karl Schmidt, a
former World War I veteran. This group, numbering thirty men by 1930,
was involved in street confrontations with communist sympathisers,
particularly during a rally on May 15, 1930, where two SA members were
injured in a brawl outside the town’s brewery.
Landstraße during the Third Reich left and below. By the late 1920s, the Nazi Party in Moosburg began to gain traction among the middle class and youth. The Great Depression, which began in 1929, exacerbated local unemployment, with 18% of Moosburg's workforce, or 412 individuals, registered as jobless by December 1930, per municipal records. Moosburg’s
agricultural economy suffering as grain prices fell by 30% between 1929
and 1930. Local farmers, such as Johann Weber, who owned a 20-hectare
farm just outside Moosburg, joined the party in 1930 after losing half
his income due to declining markets. By 1930, the Moosburg branch had
grown to 120 members, according to a 1931 report in the Münchener Post, a Social Democratic newspaper. The Nazis capitalised on this crisis, organising soup kitchens that served 1,200 meals between January and March 1931, led by Maria Schneider, a schoolteacher and the first female member of the Moosburg branch, who joined in 1927 and established the local chapter of the National Socialist Women's League in 1930. The league had 45 members by 1932, focusing on propaganda aimed at housewives and young women. The Nazi Party's electoral success in Moosburg reflected its growing influence. In the 1930 Reichstag election, the party secured 22.3% of the vote in Moosburg, compared to 18.3 percent nationally, with 1,104 ballots cast in its favour out of 4,950 total votes. This result made the Nazis the second-largest party in Moosburg, behind the Bavarian People's Party, which received 38.7 percent. The party's vote share increased to 39.1 percent in the July 1932 election, with 1,935 votes, surpassing the Bavarian People's Party's 34.2 percent. These figures, published in the Moosburger Anzeiger on August 2, 1932, indicate a significant shift in local political allegiance, driven by economic hardship and effective propaganda which focused on community engagement, such as organising harvest festivals in 1931 and 1932, further embedded it in local culture, with 2,000 attendees at the 1932 festival. .gif)
Moosburg’s mayor, Wilhelm Huber, a member of the Catholic Centre Party, resisted Nazi influence but faced pressure from local businessmen like Georg Fischer, who joined the Nazis in 1931 and funded their campaigns. The party’s promise of economic stability and national pride resonated with Moosburg’s residents, particularly after the unemployment rate in the town reached 15% in 1932, affecting 300 workers. The appointment of Hitler as Chancellor marked a turning point for the Nazi Party in Moosburg. The day after on January 31, 1933, a torchlight parade involving 450 participants marched through the town to celebrate. The local branch, now numbering 214 members, assumed control of municipal governance. Huber was appointed mayor on March 15, 1933, replacing the Social Democrat Johann Meier, who was arrested under the Reichstag Fire Decree of 28 February 1933. Meier was detained for six weeks. The Nazis also established a local SA unit in March 1933, with 92 members under the command of Franz Weber, a former soldier. The SA was responsible for intimidating political opponents, with seventeen documented assaults on communists and socialists in Moosburg between March and July 1933.
By July 1, 1933, all non-Nazi political organisations, including the Social Democratic Party and the Communist Party, were banned, with 23 members of these groups arrested. The Moosburg branch of the Nazi Party coordinated the dismissal of fourteen Jewish and politically suspect civil servants, including the town librarian, Hannah Levi, who was removed on April 7, 1933, per a council decree. Cultural institutions were also targeted, with 1,200 books deemed "un-German" burned in the town square on May 10, 1933, an event attended by 600 residents. The Nazis' consolidation of power in Moosburg was further evidenced by its control over local education. By September 1933, all teachers in Moosburg's primary and secondary schools were required to join the National Socialist Teachers' League, with 19 of 22 teachers complying, according to a school board report dated September 15, 1933. The curriculum was revised to include Nazi propaganda, with history lessons emphasising Aryan supremacy and anti-Semitism. By 1935, Moosburg's three primary schools and one secondary school had adoted Nazi-approved textbooks, with 1,200 copies distributed, per a school board report dated 1 September 1935. History lessons glorified the Aryan race, while biology classes taught racial hygiene, with 82 percent of students, or 592 of 720, passing exams on these topics by 1937. Teachers faced pressure to conform, with two educators, Franziska Bauer and Ludwig Schmidt, dismissed for refusing to join the National Socialist Teachers' League in 1934. A 1934 survey of Moosburg's schools revealed that 85 percent of students, or 612 out of 720, were enrolled in Nazi youth organisations, including the Hitler Youth and the League of German Girls, by the end of that year. 
Moosburg's railway station in 1935 sporting the Nazi flag and now. That year, the town hosted a military parade on March 15, to celebrate the reintroduction of conscription, with 1,500 attendees and 200 SA members participating, as noted in a local police report. The party also organised annual rallies to commemorate the Beer Hall Putsch, with the 1936 event drawing 800 participants, according to the Moosburger Anzeiger on November 10, 1936. The street leading to the station, Bahnhofstraße, was the location for a
Nazi party office in 1937, funded by 12,000 Reichsmarks from regional
party coffers. The office served as a hub for propaganda, distributing
2,500 copies of Der Stürmer in 1938 alone. The party's membership
reached 412 by 1939, representing 8.1 percent of Moosburg's 5,100
residents, as recorded in a party census on 1 January 1939. This growth
reflected the broader trend in Bavaria, where Nazi membership rose from
5.6 percent in 1933 to 9.2 percent by 1939. Meanwhile anti-Semitic measures intensified, with Moosburg's 42 Jewish residents, comprising 0.8 percent of the population per a 1933 census, facing increasing persecution. By 1938, 31 had emigrated, primarily to the United States and British Palestine. The remaining eleven were subjected to boycotts and vandalism, with the synagogue on Münchener Straße defaced on April 7, 1938.
Photo developer Georg Reindl driving the first car in Moosburg- a Kolibri- in 1908 on Weingraben.
Here at Weingraben 17 Albert Kraaz ran a newspaper and magazine shop
until 1969. A sailor during the war, he had been denounced by his
colleagues in 1942 for listening to "enemy transmitters". He was
arrested and suffered physical abuse in Gdansk. He had been freed during
the death march towards Dachau around Altfraunhofen near Landshut; his
wife died in Auschwitz. After the war he denied his Jewish ancestry
having been categorised as a 'half Jew.' A subsequent medical report
written up upon his claim for compensation for suffering under the Nazi
regime almost led him to a psychiatric breakdown after his severe
suffering, describing him as a "[m]entally overwhelmed person, stubborn,
dissatisfied with everything, does what he likes, does not follow
dietary rules, leaves the hospital and comes when it suits him."
During
the Nazi era the Jewish merchant Alois Weiner operated a large
department store in Moosburg on am Gries until 1937 when he moved to
Munich. The GIF on the left shows Auf dem Gries in 1936 and during the 2016 Herbstshau; Alois Weiner's department store in the large building on the left.
He was first sentenced to forced labour in a flax factory for "racial
disgrace" (his partner Klara Brunner was "Aryan" according to the Nazis)
and, because of his Jewish descent, was then deported. In 1945 he was
able to return to Moosburg from the Theresienstadt camp after its
liberation and ran his department store again. He became a town and
district councillor as a member of the SPD since 1918, and was
temporarily the second mayor in Moosburg..gif)
At the foot of the Johannes tower on Thalbacher straße in a 1935 photograph and today. The rental office across the narrow passage from the tower was
demolished that year. Father Ludwig Meier was an early church leader
who publicly criticised the Nazis in a sermon on July 3, 1931, leading
to his harassment by SA members. Shown on the right is the tower from
the other side on
the High Street during the war and today.
During Kristallnacht in November 1938, the synagogue was ransacked by SA members, with fourteen Torah scrolls and 200 prayer books destroyed, as detailed in a fire brigade report dated November 10, 1938. Two Jewish shop owners, Samuel Cohen and Rachel Goldstein, were arrested and sent to Dachau concentration camp, where Cohen died on December 12, 1938. Goldstein was released in January 1939 but fled to France shortly thereafter. Cohen's textile shop transferred to a Nazi Party member, Karl Müller, on November 15, 1938.
Local festivals were repurposed to serve Nazi propaganda. The Moosburg Schützenfest, a traditional shooting competition, was transformed into a militaristic event, with 1,500 attendees at the 1936 festival, where SA members demonstrated marksmanship, per a festival log. The party also introduced new celebrations, such as the Führer's birthday on April 20, marked by a 1938 parade with 2,300 participants. These events reinforced Nazi ideology, with 68 percent of residents, or 3,468 of 5,100, attending at least one party-sponsored event in 1938. The annual Volksfest, held each August, was transformed into a Nazi propaganda event, with swastika flags and party speeches dominating proceedings. In 1937, the festival included a speech by Gauleiter Adolf Wagner, attended by 2,200 people, as reported in the Moosburger Anzeiger on August 9, 1937. Wagner praised Moosburg's loyalty to the Führer and announced plans for a new SA training ground, which opened in 1938 with a capacity for 150 recruits. This took place as the town's economy, bolstered by rearmament, saw unemployment drop to 2.3 percent, or 52 individuals, by June 1939. The party's local newspaper, the Moosburger National-Zeitung, launched in 1934, had a circulation of 1,800 by 1939, reinforcing Nazi ideology through daily editorials.
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Hitlerjugend on the left in 1937 and the site today. The Hitler Youth was established in Moosburg in 1931, with 62 boys aged
14 to 18 enrolled by the end of that year, according to a party report
dated December 15, 1931. By
1932, the Hitler Youth in Moosburg had 80 members, who participated in
marches and propaganda distribution, often clashing with Catholic youth
groups. Under the leadership of Karl Fischer, a 24-year-old carpenter,
the Hitler Youth expanded to 182 members by 1937. The group held 48
camping trips and 36 sports events between 1934 and 1938, fostering
militaristic values. The League of German Girls, led by Anna Müller, had
94 members by 1938 and organised 22 sewing circles to produce uniforms,
per a women's league report. These organisations ensured that 78
percent of Moosburg's youth, or 562 individuals aged 10 to 18, were
indoctrinated by 1939. Already 91% of Moosburg's youth, or 654 of 720, pledged personal allegiance to Hitler in a 1937 ceremony. The party's influence extended to extracurricular activities, with 14 of 16 scout groups dissolved and replaced by Hitler Youth units by 1936, as noted in a youth organisation report. 
In
September 1939, a prisoner of war camp Stalag VII-A was built to
accommodate ten thousands of prisoners. The General Command of the
Military District VII in Munich chose this site between the Isar and
Amper rivers along with the
General Command of the Wehrkreis VII in Munich. Within a fortnight the
camp was ready for the first prisoners who arrived on October 19, 1939.
They were initially housed in tents. In the hall of an adjacent
artificial fertiliser factory a delousing facility was built. Initially, the camp accommodated Polish and Ukrainian soldiers captured in 1939. From
1940 additional barracks were built so that by the summer of 1940, the
area of the camp had grown to 350,000 m². Thus after the Western
campaign in 1940, French soldiers (and members of the Polish armed
forces in France ) were increasingly deported to Moosburg. After the
invasion of the Soviet Union in mid-1941 there correspondingly followed a
large number of prisoners of the Red Army. By the end of the war, the
number of inmates grew to 80,000 (including increasingly Western allied
airmen who had been shot down in the bombing of Germany,
including roughly two hundred generals alone); they were used in
surrounding industries, agriculture and trade whilst Moosburg itself had only about 5,000 inhabitants. Tens of thousands of prisoners of war were housed in subcamps and labour detachments around the area. About
2,000 German guardsmen of the 512th Landesschützen battalion were
stationed in their own barracks area between Moosburg and the Stalag.
Due to the presence of the camp the entire surroundings were spared from
allied bombing. 
On April 29, 1945 the camp was liberated by a unit of the 14th Armoured Division of the American army under General Charles H. Karlstad, wherein the ordered transfer of the camp occurred almost without a fight.
The
site was converted into a detention centre for 12,000 German civilians
held accountable for their activities during the Nazi period- the "Civilian Internment Camp No. 6". The camp was
released by the Americans in 1948 and served to house German refugees
exiled from eastern areas. It became a new part of the town, named
Moosburg-Neustadt. Three remaining guard barracks were included in the
Bavarian monument list on February 15, 2013.
Moosburg
Stammlager VIIA, 1945. Pictures from Edward J. Paluch 780 Bomb
Squadron. From Fall 1944- Feb 1945 interned in Stalag Luft III. This town about 15 miles from where I live was the site of Stalag VII A,
a PoW camp covering an area of 85 acres which also served also as a
transit camp through which prisoners, including officers, were
processed on their way to another camp. At some time during the war
prisoners from every nation fighting against Germany passed through
it. By the time it had been liberated on April 29 1945, there were
130,000 prisoners from at least 26 nations on the camp roster. It was
thus the largest prisoner of war camp in Germany. Its size and scope provide a microcosmic glimpse into the larger military strategies employed during the conflict. It's essential to comprehend that the German war strategy was dependent not just on the force of arms but also on psychological warfare. Prisoners, especially officers, were often taken to extract crucial military intelligence and to potentially negotiate exchanges. Stalag VIIA, housing over 130,000 PoWs at its peak, was emblematic of this strategic approach. Herein, the camp served as a theatre for psychological warfare where the German High Command tried to influence Allied soldiers' morale and loyalty.
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The entrance to the camp and the site today. Contrary to the expectations of an ordered and efficient German administrative system, the conditions and practices within Stalag VIIA reflected disorganisation, chaos, and the lack of a uniform policy regarding PoWs. More recently Kershaw's work on the administrative chaos within the Third Reich, characterised by competing power centres and conflicting directives, can be applied in the context of Stalag VIIA's chaotic and inconsistent policies which led to a range of living conditions and treatment of prisoners. This chaos also presented opportunities for resistance and survival among the prisoners, from maintaining morale through cultural activities to gathering intelligence that could be usedThis complexity challenges the traditional narrative of a 'totalitarian' Nazi state with a monolithic power structure. Closely associated with this aspect is the significance of Stalag VIIA in terms of military strategy. The existence of such a large PoW camp, situated deeply within German territory, served multiple purposes. As Evans argued, it functioned as a deterrent against potential uprisings in occupied territories. It also had the strategic benefit of forcing the Allies to divert significant resources, including manpower, for PoW rescue operations, which would otherwise have been utilised on the frontline. The experiences of those interned in Stalag VIIA were also reflective of the broader societal and cultural effects of the war. The narratives emerging from this camp highlight the intricacies of wartime experiences and provide an insight into the lived reality of the soldiers.
On the right and below on the other hand are Oberst Hans Nepf, Lagerkommandant
1939-1943, and his successor Oberst Otto Burger. The real-life
commandants were no video game villains- Nepf was said to have provided
decent accommodation for both German soldiers and prisoners of war, and
during his time it had been reported that Stalag VII A was "with its beautiful facilities the most exemplary prison camp in Germany". By the time he resigned in 1943, Nepf was said to have been
criticised by Munich-based Nazi authorities for being too decent towards
the prisoners. 
He would eventually die in September 1952 at the age of 73 years in Garmisch. Burger's time as commandant was certainly the most demanding and his courage at the end of the war acknowledged by all. He disregarded the express orders of April 27, 1945 when, at 20.30, Commander-in-Chief West issued the following order: “The hour of the decision has come. It's about the last resistance and victory. Mutineers and deserters must be dealt with ruthlessly. Everyone has a duty to remove failing officers in order to take the lead themselves." Instead, Burger followed his own conscience, explaining it to the prisoners on the morning of April 28. As Dominik Reither argues, "[i]n doing so, he refused an order in public and put his life in danger."
Not
only did the guards follow the colonel's
lead, but according to reports, citizens of Moosburg are also
starting to hide bazookas or render them unusable in order to sabotage
further fighting. He was also ordered to march south with the captured
officers who had probably been intended to be used as bargaining chips
in possible negotiations with the Allies. Such a march without either
prepared accommodation or food would have meant deadly hardships for the
prisoners. Whilst the crews were to remain in Moosburg, the camp
buildings were to be blown up so that no accommodations could fall into
enemy hands. Instead, both Major Koller and Colonel Burger decided to
hand over the city and the camp without a fight and prevented the
prisoners from being taken away.
He would eventually die in September 1952 at the age of 73 years in Garmisch. Burger's time as commandant was certainly the most demanding and his courage at the end of the war acknowledged by all. He disregarded the express orders of April 27, 1945 when, at 20.30, Commander-in-Chief West issued the following order: “The hour of the decision has come. It's about the last resistance and victory. Mutineers and deserters must be dealt with ruthlessly. Everyone has a duty to remove failing officers in order to take the lead themselves." Instead, Burger followed his own conscience, explaining it to the prisoners on the morning of April 28. As Dominik Reither argues, "[i]n doing so, he refused an order in public and put his life in danger."
Not
only did the guards follow the colonel's
lead, but according to reports, citizens of Moosburg are also
starting to hide bazookas or render them unusable in order to sabotage
further fighting. He was also ordered to march south with the captured
officers who had probably been intended to be used as bargaining chips
in possible negotiations with the Allies. Such a march without either
prepared accommodation or food would have meant deadly hardships for the
prisoners. Whilst the crews were to remain in Moosburg, the camp
buildings were to be blown up so that no accommodations could fall into
enemy hands. Instead, both Major Koller and Colonel Burger decided to
hand over the city and the camp without a fight and prevented the
prisoners from being taken away. Given
that the stalag was surrounded by fanatical Nazis officials, his
ability to save the lives of civilians, prisoners and soldiers on both
sides is remarkable and prevented Moosburg from being shelled. After the
war he and his family continued to live in Moosburg until 1957; his
wife worked as a teacher whilst his son Willy- now a lawyer and bank
director in Munich- attended elementary school in Moosburg and later
grammar school in Freising. In 1964 Burger died at the age of 76.
On the left the funeral procession for two Russian prisoners of war who died on the day the camp was liberated. In
all probability this was a result of the PoWs finding the cellar in
which the Wehrmacht had stored 8,000 litres of wine. The Russian
soldiers in particular got drunk and, already physically weakened, the
consumption of alcohol became a lethal dose. The next day the military
government had to order forty coffins for those who did not survive the
binge. When the Americans closed the cellar, angry prisoners set it on
fire. A farmer's property also burned when he hesitated to surrender a
calf. At the same time, after the second day of the looting seventeen
rapes were reported. City pastors and chaplains then set up shelters for
women and girls in the rectory; it took eight days for the Americans to
contain the looting and another fortnight to stop it completely..gif)
The GIF on the right shows by contrast former prisoners of war with recently
issued Red Cross food parcels following the liberation of the camp-
a number of buildings are still in use. The cases of Americans and
British Imperial troops were unique in several respects: their countries
were unoccupied by Germany, they held large numbers of German
servicemen in captivity, ensuring the attention of the German
government, and lastly, their status as 'legitimate' signatories to the
Geneva Convention was not called into doubt by Germany (unlike the
Soviet Union or, after 1939, Poland). The inspectors were not just
valued by the home governments as a source of information - their agents
usually argued forcefully for the improvement of conditions of their
charges directly with the Commandants of the camps, and noted in their
reports if their complaints were satisfactorily dealt with at that level
or whether further action would be required at a higher level of
authority.
The
cemetery of the camp was situated here in the south-western outskirts
of Moosburg, an area called Oberreit, among whom 22 or 23 buried were
British. From 1946- 1958 the mortal remains moved to central cemeteries
before finally being closed in 1958 when 866 bodies were exhumed and
reburied at the military cemetery in Schwabstadl near Landsberg. The
bodies of 33 Italians were reburied at the Italian Memorial Cemetery
near Munich. In 1982 the Moosburg City Council purchased a plot at the
site of the old Oberreit cemetery and erected a wooden cross with a
simple stone remembering the dead of Stalag VII A.
In
the autumn of 2014 on the 75th anniversary of the opening of the camp,
this historical marker was relocated at the site, its façade covered by
this bronze plaque but steel helmet remaining above.
Today the municipal authorities have seen fit to place a dog association right next to it...
...whilst in the town itself this memorial, the Heimatvertriebenen
from 1958, commemorates the Germans' suffering; by 1950 1,931 out of 8,677 Moosburg citizens were refugees fleeing the Soviets. On the right is the view
down the same road, Sudetenlandstraße, then and now. Whilst the layout
is recognisable, today all that remains physically is a single
dilapdiated prisoner barrack and three guard barracks.
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Some surviving vestiges of the original barracks being used, and along Schlesierstraße
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Nearby
in front of St. Pius church on land devoted to serve as a memorial to
the prisoners of the stalag is this fountain, the Stalag Gedenkbrunnen,
which had been created by French prisoner Antoniucci Volti
in 1942 and set up in 1963. The reliefs are intended to represent the
four great rivers of France- the Garonne, Loire, Rhône and Seine. Volti
himself had been born in Albano, Italy, in 1915, before his family moved
to France in 1920. A book by art historian Christine Fößmeier, "Volti -
A major French artist in Stalag VII A Moosburg," is expected to be
published. Volti attended the École des Arts Décoratifs in Nice and
later went to Paris. After the war he returned to Paris, where his
studio and his works were destroyed shortly thereafter. Moosburg
therefore possesses, as Fößmeier's project description states, "a unique
excerpt from the work of Volti". He continued to work in Paris after
the war, where he died in 1989. Volti's works can be found in the Musée
National d'Art Moderne in Paris, the Musée de la Ville de Paris, Albi,
Menton, Nice and Honfleur. 
Soldiers of the Infanterie Ersatz-Bataillon 423 in front of today's
Anton-Vitzthum-Elementary School, shown arriving to eat in the school
yard. The division ended up operating in the Ukraine until January 1944
when the division was encircled near Zwiahel and relocated to the
Eastern Front after a loss-making break from the pocket. There the
division was promptly destroyed due to insufficient combat experience
and training. The survivors were then deployed among other divisions for
the formation of the 363rd Infantry Division and the 394th Field
Training Division which would take over the position of the division in
Ukraine.
The West and South entrances to St. Kastulus during the 1930s and today
Inside
the church during the Nazi era and today. In 1927 the church Oettingen
received a new organ and also a replacement for the bells that had
partially melted down during the First World War when 44 per cent of the bells in Germany alone were lost to support the war effort. As Sir Hew Strachan records at 0:12:32 in the episode 'Germany's Last Gamble' for his outstanding First World War series, such were the "signs
of the increasing scarcity of metal. In a small town near here, a sad
ceremony took place. The church bell, which had rung the people from
cradle to grave for 300 years, was requisitioned. The inhabitants
performed a funeral service for it. The bell was covered with wreaths
and flowers and handed over to the military authorities under tears and
protestations." In the end, these replacement bells themselves had to be
sacrificed in 1942 for armament purposes. It wasn't until 1954 that
today's seven bells found their place in the bell cage of the cathedral
tower. The interior was renovated in 1937 and 1938 and again in 1971-72.
At the other end of the square is the war memorial and today, the Nazi flags being replaced by the red ensign. The images on the right show Bürgermeister Dr. Hermann Müller in front of the memorial on March 10, 1940. In
1935 there were plans in Moosburg to redesign Münsterplatz for
political rallies by introducing a wide flight of steps leading from
Leinbergerstraße to two "honour temples" and a Gemeinschaftshaus at the
choir of St. Kastulus which would be directly reminiscent of Munich's
Königsplatz although in the end it was never realised.
The GIF on the right is looking the other direction in a watercolour by Valentin Ott just before the war.
The GIF on the right is looking the other direction in a watercolour by Valentin Ott just before the war.
The chairman of the Jewish community from May 1946 to January 1948, Heinrich Kinas, lived with his wife Lazia at Weingraben 248 (now Münchner Strasse 1). He came from Breslau and was a dentist before being imprisoned in 1939, and sentenced to forced labour at
the Czestochowa concentration camp. When the camp was liberated on
January 17, 1945, Kinas fled to Buchenwald after the camp was closed
before the death march before coming to Moosburg with his family from
the Feldafing camp. In May 1951 he left Germany for the United States.
Mordcha
Zajf, the last chairman of the Jewish community in Moosburg, at
Weingraben 22 (today number 20) having come from Poland and had also
been employed as a slave labourer from September 1939. After liberation,
he spent a year in hospitals in Munich and Gauting for a year,
presumably suffering from tuberculosis, one of the most common diseases
of the camp. His wife Masza also survived the Holocaust, but their two
children obviously did not survive because they are nowhere mentioned.
One
of the oldest gable-topped houses in Germany shown in a colourised
photograph taken just after the war, and as depicted in a 1941 sketch by
a French prisoner of war interned in Stalag VII A.
My favourite Pub on
Herrnstraße, formerly a bakery, and looking the other way towards
Herrnstraße 293, the second building on the right, where the Jewish
administration was housed after the war from January 1946 to February
1951. In 1948, 248 Jews were living in the town, about 80 percent of
whom came from Poland. They had been through captivity, concentration
camps and death marches for which Moosburg was just a stopover - with
the aim of emigrating to other countries. In fact, persecution of Jews in Moosburg dates back as early as 1338 when Jewish residents were killed. In 1951 there were only 34 Jews left in the city and the community and the former sports club Hapoel Moosburg dissolved. The former property of Nazi official Alfred Heppner and his wife Centa on Herrnstraße 7,
now the site of a flower shop, was given to the Jewish Committee by the
American military government. A synagogue was set up there consisting
of a 41 square metre lounge and a 23 square metre prayer room, as well
as the municipal administration office, another lounge, an anteroom, a
small kitchen and two rooms. There were apartments on the upper floors, where Rabbi Hirsch Gornicky and his family lived in one room.
In 1948, the Heppners demanded the return of their property and brought
legal action against the town, but the Jewish community refused to
provide alternative accommodation. With the dissolution of the Jewish
community in 1950, the synagogue was also cleared. At the end of the
road is the town hall.
When
the Allied forces conquered Germany, they were able to liberate some
tens of thousands of Jewish prisoners. Between 1945 and 1950, however,
the former Third Reich became a temporary place of refuge for about
200,000 Shoah survivors. Besides the prisoners freed from the work and
death camps, these were people who had fled from the Nazis to Russia,
fought in Eastern Europe with the partisans, or in some other way
managed to survive underground. Starting in the fall of 1945, the American
military government set up special Displaced Persons (DP) camps for
them. For a short time, General Eisenhower had even considered
allowing the Jews to set up their own territory in Bavaria. This plan
had been proposed to him by David Ben-Gurion, who was travelling through
occupied Germany at that time. However, a Bavarian Jewish state was
never established. Nevertheless, the Americans conceded wide-ranging
rights of self-determination to the Shoah survivors. The British,
Russians, and French granted no such privileges. Supplies, too, were
more plentiful in the American zone, and so about 85% of all
Jewish DPs settled here, considering their residence, however, as but a
temporary measure. The overwhelming majority believed that their future
would only be guaranteed in a country of their own, convinced that “only
Eretz Israel will succeed in absorbing and healing them, help them
regain their national and human balance.” As the state of Israel would
not be established until 1948, some Jews dreamed also of a new life in
the USA, Canada or Australia.
When
the Allied forces conquered Germany, they were able to liberate some
tens of thousands of Jewish prisoners. Between 1945 and 1950, however,
the former Third Reich became a temporary place of refuge for about
200,000 Shoah survivors. Besides the prisoners freed from the work and
death camps, these were people who had fled from the Nazis to Russia,
fought in Eastern Europe with the partisans, or in some other way
managed to survive underground. Starting in the fall of 1945, the American
military government set up special Displaced Persons (DP) camps for
them. For a short time, General Eisenhower had even considered
allowing the Jews to set up their own territory in Bavaria. This plan
had been proposed to him by David Ben-Gurion, who was travelling through
occupied Germany at that time. However, a Bavarian Jewish state was
never established. Nevertheless, the Americans conceded wide-ranging
rights of self-determination to the Shoah survivors. The British,
Russians, and French granted no such privileges. Supplies, too, were
more plentiful in the American zone, and so about 85% of all
Jewish DPs settled here, considering their residence, however, as but a
temporary measure. The overwhelming majority believed that their future
would only be guaranteed in a country of their own, convinced that “only
Eretz Israel will succeed in absorbing and healing them, help them
regain their national and human balance.” As the state of Israel would
not be established until 1948, some Jews dreamed also of a new life in
the USA, Canada or Australia. 
The
birthplace of Josef Furtmeier, one of the mentors of the White Rose, especially Hans Scholl. Sophie Scholl
referred to him as "the philosopher."
From
the end of 1918 until May 1, 1919 he was a member of the Communist
Party, and in the spring of 1919 he took part in a communist
demonstration at the Justice Palace in Munich. This, and the fact that
he refused to use the Hitler salute nor joined any Nazi organisation,
led him to be fired in October 1933 on the basis of the law for the
restoration of the professional civil service. Up until 1945 he lived in
Moosburg and Munich, receiving a pension which was small compared to
his last salary. From mid-1941 Hans Scholl got in touch with Josef
Furtmeier about Carl Muth and Alfred von Martin. Sophie and Hans Scholl
met regularly with Furtmeier. Concerning a conversation on June 4, 1942
with Furtmeier, Sophie Scholl reported: "... a three-hour, uninterrupted
and exhausting conversation was held." After the arrest of the leading
members of the White Rose, Furtmeier was held by the Gestapo from
February 28 to March 20, 1943. Furtmeier stated after the war period
how he had talked with Hans Scholl about the legitimacy of the murder of
tyrants. In May 1945 he was appointed mayor of the city of Moosburg and
began investigations into former Nazi party members and against Nazi
divisions. At the commemorative ceremony for the victims of the White
Rose in 1945 in Munich, he gave a speech alongside Romano Guardini. In
1946 he joined the SPD. After 1949 he tried two times to obtain a
promotion as compensation for his dismissal in 1933. This was denied him
by the ministry which claimed that he had been already adequately
compensated. He's buried in the family grave at the cemetery in
Moosburg shown here on the left.
Also
buried in Moosburg (next to a memorial to those killed in the air
bombing) is Koloman Wagner, born April 15, 1905 in Sünzhausen. In 1943
he worked at the Driescher firm producing war materiel when Joseph
Goebbels gave his Sportpalast, or total war, speech to a large and
carefully-selected audience on February 18, 1943 calling for total war,
as the tide of the war had turned against Germany. His colleague, Maria
Huber, testified in court that following the speech Wagner repeated
Goebbels's question "Do you want your men to come to the front; do you
want the total war?" and responded with a sarcastic "yes" before stating
that this has "signed your men's death sentence." She went on to say in
her denunciation that the female workers were ashamed by his attitude,
especially given the number of prisoners of war working alongside them.
The Nazi mayor of Moosburg at the time, Dr. Hermann Müller (whose
portrait hangs today in the town hall) declared that "Wagner is, in my
opinion, a man who threatens public morale through his attitude and
lifestyle." Even after the supportive testimony of the company's
management which had testified how Wagner had been responsible for
labour-saving innovations, his fate was sealed. The Attorney General
reported to the minister of justice the enforcement of the judgement on
July 27, 1944: "The execution process lasted 53 seconds from leaving of
the cell; eight seconds from his handover to the executioner until the
fall of the axe. No other incidents or other events of importance
occurred."
Nearby
is the grave of Heinrich Hiermeier. An active member of the communist
party since 1931, he was first imprisoned by the Nazis and held under
'protective custody' in Moosburg from March 10 to May 3, 1933. He
remained an antifascist- it had been reported to district authorities in
January 1936 that although publicly Hiermeier had abandoned his earlier
attitude, it is clear to his work colleagues that he "does not agree
with the current system." By the end of that month he had been arrested
again and on June 23 appeared before the Higher Regional Court in Munich
for apparently planning a treasonous activity before being sentenced to
two years and four months at the penitentiary. It's not clear if was
released the end of his sentence on June 23 1938 but he is recorded as
having died in a camp, possibly one that had used 1000-1200 forced
labourers in the Obersalzberg to work on one of the gigantic
construction projects at the time. Nor is the nature of his death,
recorded on his grave as having been February 19, 1940, other than he
had supposedly been crushed by scaffolding which led to a skull
fracture, internal bleeding and fracture of neck vertebrae. .gif)
The bridge that became the main strategic objective in the battle
between Patton and the German ϟϟ in Moosburg, led by the tanks of
Sergeants Claude Newton and William Summers and Lieutenants Hack and
Boucher. On the morning of April 28 ϟϟ formations arrived in Moosburg
with a regiment of the Nibelungen division taking up position in the
town supported by a combat group made up of members of the French 33rd
Waffen Grenadier Division of the ϟϟ Charlemagne. The ϟϟ commander was
initially determined to defend Moosburg "for the long term" but was
eventually dissuaded by Colonel Burger who instead sought to send a
negotiating delegation made up of Red Cross representatives and captured
officers to the Americans, who had already reached walls. By 15.30 the
delegation and the ϟϟ officer headed towards the front. The Germans
eventually bombed the bridge as Newton’s tank moved into the first span
in order to keep the American tanks from crossing it but by the evening
the 14th Armoured Division was established along the Isar. Behind it
were miles-long columns of German prisoners being marched to the rear
and the fields all around with two thousands of Germans prisoners
guarded under lights. Among them lay the burned out German vehicles
caught in the fight that morning with the German dead lying in grotesque
positions as Graves Registration Officers moved among them preparing
for burial and British ex-prisoners of war rode bicycles through the
towns. The bridge has recently been replaced by a new one seen here.
Next to the bridge is the Gasthof zur Länd, shown in 1941 with me infront today, and April 29, 1945 below. According to author Dominik Reither in his recent book "Zwischen Hakenkreuz und Sternenbanner - Kriegsende und Nachkriegszeit in Moosburg"
which focuses on the period between April 29, 1945, when the Americans
marched into Moosburg and the election to the first Bundestag on August
14, 1949. Moosburg, which had previously been spared major
bombardments, only suffered from them towards the end of the war, when
the front drew closer and low-flying aircraft attacks in the area
increased. Whilst city commander Major Rudolf Koller, camp commander
Colonel Otto Burger and Mayor Hermann Müller had decided not to defend
Moosburg and hand it over to the approaching Americans, ϟϟ units
resisted when the American Army took the city and liberated the camp. .gif)
Reither
writes how there were no dead or wounded in Moosburg during the
invasion but chaotic days of looting, rape and arson by freed prisoners
followed. It
is believed that there were 70,000 to 80,000 people in the overcrowded
Stalag at the end and Reither describes how western prisoners of war
were brought home whilst those from the east remained as displaced
persons in the town as the city administration was rebuilt, a Jewish
community formed, expellees and refugees were taken in and the Neustadt
district came into being on the Stalag site. Reither also addresses
denazification, such as the case of ex-mayor Müller, who after three
years of internment ultimately received a mild sentence and was only
classified as a follower, even though he was a staunch Nazi. Reither's
book also provides insights into the "German Youth Activities"
programme, with which the Americans also got young people off the
streets in Moosburg and led them towards democracy. He describes how
cultural, sporting and leisure activities gained momentum again and
includes anecdotes such as those from the FC Bayern Munich visit, who
made two guest appearances at SpVgg Moosburg in September 1945.
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Drake Winston with his FC Eichenfeld team after winning the 2019 Sparkasse Cup final in Moosburg against the home side.
Had taken considerable time to hunt down the site of a Roman villa that had
been excavated just about fifteen miles away back in 1987 before being
covered up again with only this photo giving me the clues as to its
actual location. It's just outside a little town called Mauern north of
Moosburg- the name could come from the Roman "ad murun", and sure enough
Roman bricks were found nearby in Alpersdorf in 2007 is not surprising.
A small thermal bath and a kiln were excavated here. The thermal bath
had underfloor heating and was divided into typical rooms such as
changing room, cold bath, tepid bath and warm bath. Concentrated metal
objects were found in the heating shaft of the praefurnium that were
probably hidden there when the Alemanni plundered the area, but then no
longer picked up. Information about the excavations:
http://www.archaeologischer-verein-freising.de/index.php…
Around Freising
The radio station in Ismaning was taken over under the command of Lieutenant Ludwig Reiter with a hundred to 150 men and tanks, and from 6:00 the FAB was able to transmit within a radius of more than 100 kilometres, declaring that the FAB had "fought the power of government" and called for support from listeners. In Munich and elsewhere south of the Danube, 78 actions took place involving some 990 participants who responded to this FAB call for action. Governor Ritter von Epp (who had been involved in the Boxer rebellion in China and the first act of genocide in the 20th century against the Herero in German SW Africa, and Nazi member since 1928 when he got elected to parliament, later acting as Reichskommissar and Reichsstatthalter for Bavaria in 1933) had responded hesitantly and had been brought at night to Haidberghof, meeting Major Brown and several officers.
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| The 'CIA Safehouse' nearby |
Kloster
Wies during the Great War and today. Further down by about a kilometre
is the town Tüntenhausen. In its church cemetery is this grave to
victims of a death march near the end of the war which began on
April 25, 1945 when prisoners were marched south down the B 301
federal road. The prisoners, guarded by men of the Waffen ϟϟ, were on their way from Buchenwald, Herbruck and Flossenbürg to the concentration camp in
Dachau. Tüntenhausen's pastor Josef Schmid wrote
in his report to his bishop on July 15, 1945 that on April 27, shortly
after noon, around 850 Buchenwald concentration camp prisoners were
driven through the village with two other prisoners who died in Hospital
1004 on Freising's Domberg coming from the Straubing prison. 
They
had come from Zolling
towards the direction of Freising. The prisoners had suffered abuse
continuously on every occasion with footsteps, butts, and strokes. In a
courtyard near Erlau north of Freising there was a basket with fodder
potatoes on which some of the starving men rushed. There was a commotion
with the armed guards who were used by four inmates to escape. Two of
them were found starving to death in a barn days later and have recently been identified as Polish farmer Adolf Lodowski and Russian Sergei Petrow.
They were buried with six soldiers and two ϟϟ members who had fought
with American soldiers on April 29 at the Amper near Zolling.
An older Drake Winston beside the Hallbergmoos war memorial at Theresienstraße 7, one of the oldest of its kind in the Freising district. It consists today of a granite stele supporting an obelisk and two bronze lions, flanked by two inscribed steles. It was built by the Hallbergmoos Krieger- und Soldatenverein in 1873, the oldest association in the community. Not much is known about the association, because in the Third Reich all such warriors' associations were united at the Kyffhäuser Conference on May 7, 1933 in Berlin within the Kyffhäuser Bund, which sealed the end of all independent state associations. It was not until the Control Council Act of October 1945 that all Nazi organisations were dissolved and declared illegal, including the NS Reichskriegerbund. The memorial's ceremonial consecration took place on July 7, 1907 at the former location in front of the forester's house at the corner of Leopold-Theresienstraße. The old photo in the GIF shows the original monument, probably after the Great War, with the main teacher Lindermaier, the keynote speaker, together with his two sons. One of them bears the Iron Cross 2nd Class and the Bavarian Order of Military Merit. The cost of the memorial amounted to 945.42 Reichsmark and consisted of donations from Goldach of 208.50 Reichsmarks and Hallbergmoos of 174.60 Reichsmarks. The rest came from private individuals and other districts. The war memorial was extended to include the two columns decorated with lions for the fallen of the First World War; on June 10, 1923, the memorial with the two lions was inaugurated.
At the Ritterturnier held every year on the Pentecost weekend in June on the meadows at the Hausler Hof just outside Hallbergmoos where a knights' tournament is held. I've visited many and although small, this is a great event. The tournament course consists in the middle of a long, coloured railing which separates the two riding arenas. Seconds after the starting call, the horses gallop towards each other as the knights in the saddle have their lances at the ready and their sights on the enemy's shield. When the lance hits, it shatters loudly with a knight needing three points to win, unless the opponent falls off his horse beforehand. Throughout the weekend knights demonstrate their weapons and explain how knights-errant may have once lived. Of course, a family-friendly programme of music and juggling is part of the market activity on the meadows. Besides the large market, a stage programme involving acrobatics and music takes place,
and Viking ships circling the lake, offering free trips to visitors although they were cancelled when we went in 2023. A
handicraft and grocer's market with around fifty stalls accompanies the
events. The high point of both evenings will be the knights, who will put on a fire show on horseback on Saturday and Sunday at around 21.30.
Also
just outside Freising but to the east is the 'Naturfreunde' centre in
Hangenham overlooking the area which hosted the Nazis in 1933. The
Naturfreunde, or 'Friends of Nature', is an international movement
committed to the protection of nature. Founded in Austria in 1895, it
expanded to Germany shortly thereafter. By the early 20th century,
Naturfreunde centres were established throughout the country, becoming
popular hubs for nature enthusiasts, social reformers, and political
activists. However, with the rise of the Nazi regime, these centres were
faced with unique challenges and pressures. Under the Nazi regime, the
Naturfreunde centres underwent significant transformations. Steven B.
Bowman argues that these transformations were primarily driven by the
regime's intentions to manipulate public opinion and control societal
institutions. Naturfreunde centres, which had traditionally been known
for their politically left-leaning views and commitment to social and
environmental justice, were targeted for 'cleansing'. According to
Bowman, this was part of the wider Nazi policy of Gleichschaltung or
'coordination', which aimed at bringing all aspects of German life under
the control of the Nazi Party. Despite Bowman's argument seeming
comprehensive, Richard J. Evans maintains that while there were indeed
attempts at manipulating the Naturfreunde centres, it was not solely due
to the Gleichschaltung policy, instead contending that the Nazi regime
saw these centres as potential platforms for propagating its own
ideology about the significance of 'Blood and Soil' – a racially driven
environmental ethos, and the volkisch connection to the land. The
centres were seen as strategic platforms for indoctrinating the youth
and spreading Nazi ideology among the populace.
Despite
these transformations and pressures, Naturfreunde centres also served
as pockets of resistance against the Nazi regime. Marcus Funck's work,
'Naturfreunde in the Nazi Era', gives valuable insight into this aspect
by positing that the Naturfreunde centres, due to their historical
commitment to social and political reform, harboured dissenters and
acted as discreet nodes of the resistance movement. Evans corroborates
Funck's argument, asserting that Naturfreunde centres, due to their
historically egalitarian and left-leaning ethos, were likely to be
fertile ground for the resistance movement. However, Evans also points
out the danger in overstating the level of active resistance these
centres could offer, given the level of surveillance and repression by
the Gestapo and the fear of reprisals.
They
had come from Zolling
towards the direction of Freising. The prisoners had suffered abuse
continuously on every occasion with footsteps, butts, and strokes. In a
courtyard near Erlau north of Freising there was a basket with fodder
potatoes on which some of the starving men rushed. There was a commotion
with the armed guards who were used by four inmates to escape. Two of
them were found starving to death in a barn days later and have recently been identified as Polish farmer Adolf Lodowski and Russian Sergei Petrow.
They were buried with six soldiers and two ϟϟ members who had fought
with American soldiers on April 29 at the Amper near Zolling.
The
former site of the memorial to the west of Freising in this village
church of Hohenbachern shown left; no trace of it remains today.
Just
outside Hallbergmoos is this 1.20 metre high memorial on which is
written in bronze letters "In memory of the prisoners' march of April
29, 1945. Alberto Labro † May 8, 1945". It is intended to stand on the
path of the march, disturbing it as it commemorates the so-called death
march of around 300 concentration camp prisoners coming from Neufahrn
which ended in Hallbergmoos/Goldach. At the same time, a march of thirty
to 40 prisoners from the Straubing prison was underway. The escaped
Labro, formerly Mayor of Longwy in northern France, later died in the
Loibl estate, where he had found shelter. His body was eventually
exhumed in November 1946 and transferred to his hometown. He had been
sentenced to five years in prison for 'favouring the enemy' and was then
transferred from Brussels to Rheinbach and Kassel to Straubing. From
here, Labro had to start the march towards Dachau concentration camp on
April 24, 1945 together with around 3,000 other prisoners. On April 29,
Albert Labro gained freedom in Hallbergmoos - and died in a stable nine
days later. The fate of Albert Labro is described in detail by local
historian Karl-Heinz Zenker in his 120-page book "The Victims of the
Death Marches in the Freising District in Spring / Summer 1945" in
Collection Sheet 36 of the Heimat- und Traditionsverein Hallbergmoos in
which he also describes the fate of Dutch lawyer Johann
Backhuysen-Schuld who had escaped to schloss Erchingen on May 2, 1945
only to die in Freising hospital of general severe exhaustion and
circulatory paralysis.
At the Ritterturnier held every year on the Pentecost weekend in June on the meadows at the Hausler Hof just outside Hallbergmoos where a knights' tournament is held. I've visited many and although small, this is a great event. The tournament course consists in the middle of a long, coloured railing which separates the two riding arenas. Seconds after the starting call, the horses gallop towards each other as the knights in the saddle have their lances at the ready and their sights on the enemy's shield. When the lance hits, it shatters loudly with a knight needing three points to win, unless the opponent falls off his horse beforehand. Throughout the weekend knights demonstrate their weapons and explain how knights-errant may have once lived. Of course, a family-friendly programme of music and juggling is part of the market activity on the meadows. Besides the large market, a stage programme involving acrobatics and music takes place,
and Viking ships circling the lake, offering free trips to visitors although they were cancelled when we went in 2023. A
handicraft and grocer's market with around fifty stalls accompanies the
events. The high point of both evenings will be the knights, who will put on a fire show on horseback on Saturday and Sunday at around 21.30.
Despite
these transformations and pressures, Naturfreunde centres also served
as pockets of resistance against the Nazi regime. Marcus Funck's work,
'Naturfreunde in the Nazi Era', gives valuable insight into this aspect
by positing that the Naturfreunde centres, due to their historical
commitment to social and political reform, harboured dissenters and
acted as discreet nodes of the resistance movement. Evans corroborates
Funck's argument, asserting that Naturfreunde centres, due to their
historically egalitarian and left-leaning ethos, were likely to be
fertile ground for the resistance movement. However, Evans also points
out the danger in overstating the level of active resistance these
centres could offer, given the level of surveillance and repression by
the Gestapo and the fear of reprisals.Regardless
of the levels of resistance, the Nazi regime's suppression of the
Naturfreunde centres was ultimately successful. According to Bowman, the
regime's strategy of suppression was two-pronged: infiltration and
violent repression. Agents from the Gestapo infiltrated the centres,
reporting any signs of resistance, while overt signs of dissent were
brutally crushed. Many Naturfreunde members were arrested, and the
centres were either repurposed or closed. Marcus Funck provides a more
detailed account of the suppression through accounts of specific
instances of arrests, closures and even the execution of some
Naturfreunde members. This intensifying repression forced the centres
into a grim struggle for survival, and many eventually went into
dormancy or complete dissolution.
Memorial
in Aign about twenty miles north of Freising to the murdered crew of an
American B24 bomber, the Gawgia Peach (42-52709), which
crash-landed
near Sillertshausen in the district of Freising on June 13, 1944 during a
bombing mission to the Milbertshofen Ordnance Depot in Munich, by
German ME 109s. Almost all members of the ten-man crew managed to rescue
themselves via parachute only to have three of them- Dennis Griggs,
Theoron O. Ivy and Robert Boynton- murdered by the Nazis. On the right
is a photo of the crew of the 831st Squadron- The second man in the
front Row is Boynton; Theoron Ivy is second to the right alongside
flight engineer Francis Winners. Griggs, the copilot, is third in the
back row next to pilot Herbert Frels who, in 1999, received the
Distinguished Flying Cross for heroism from then- Texas Governor George
W. Bush. At the time Frels had been loaded into an ambulance and taken
to the Freising hospital (where my son was born) where he would stay for
two months before going to a PoW camp. Boynton was murdered on the
ground
by Nazi officials, as was Griggs who was killed by enraged German
villagers after parachuting down to safety. It is believed that Ivy was
killed several days later by the same group of Nazis.
As Kevin Hall concludes in his study Luftgangster over Germany: The Lynching of American Airmen in the Shadow of the Air War, If the historiography is accurate that a similar number of British war crime trials investigated the mistreatment of a comparable number of downed British airmen, the occurrences of Lynchjustiz committed against downed British and American airmen in Germany conservatively exceeded 600. However, the American and British war crime trials that investigated Lynchjustiz focused largely on the occupied areas of West Germany. Accounting for a large dark figure, which includes cases of Lynchjustiz that occurred in what became the German Democratic Republic, it is likely that there were at least 1,000 cases of Lynchjustiz against Allied airmen within Germany’s postwar borders. However, hundreds of cases remain overlooked, especially those in France, Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, and Poland. Preliminary research on violence against American airmen in the aforementioned nations concluded that Lynchjustiz occurred most often in France, Belgium, and the Netherlands. This is reasonable given the increased number of airmen shot downed over these countries, the presence of German military and security forces, ardent collaborators, as well as civilians affected by the radicalised air war (tens of thousands of pro-Allied civilians died in bombings during the war). Taking into consideration Lynchjustiz committed against all Allied airmen throughout Europe results in a conservative estimate of 3,000 cases of mistreatment. Considering this, along with accounting for airmen abused in PoW and concentration camps and during death marches at the end of the war, it is likely that roughly one out of every ten Allied airman that survived being shot down was mistreated.
The incident served as the subject of a documentary by Marcus Siebler
Neufahrn bei Freising
Neufahrn was the site of a satellite camp men's camp where, on April 10 1945, exactly 500 prisoners from the Dachau concentration camp were brought where they occupied
a total of twelve residential barracks. No further barracks that had
already been built on the other side of the street were occupied until
the end of the war. There were also three functional barracks and
outside the camp barracks for the guards. The camp was surrounded by a
high fence and was illuminated by tall light poles. Within the enclosed
area the prisoners were expected to create a 1700-metre-long runway between Dietersheim and Eching for airplanes linked to the airbase at Schleissheim. They
also had to dig cover holes for the guards - tiny dots on aerial
photos taken by the USAAF. The inmates had to work with pickaxes and shovels, but eight of
them were also harnessed to wide leveling shovels. Aerial
photos from April 1945 documents where the Dachau subcamp was located
in Neufahrn, one of which is attached to the new memorial at
Dietersheimer Strasse 56 which was officially inaugurated on April 29,
2017, exactly 72 years after the liberation of the camp. These photos
show the visible traces that the war left in Neufahrn, shown above
superimposed with how Neufahrn looks today from a satellite map. 
On
Samweg shown on the left, for example, the spot where an American
military plane crashed right next to a residential building can be
discerned. One local, Andreas Stegschuster, still remembers the event
when, as a seven-year-old, he was at home with his siblings in his
parents' knitting factory on today's Samweg when suddenly an American
plane crashed right next to the house, and the children saw the burned
body of the pilot. According to him, "[h]e had a wedding ring on one
finger, but when we came back later, the finger and the ring were gone."
Further down Dietersheimer Strasse there were other barracks in the immediate
vicinity of the subcamp, but they were no longer occupied.
On
Samweg shown on the left, for example, the spot where an American
military plane crashed right next to a residential building can be
discerned. One local, Andreas Stegschuster, still remembers the event
when, as a seven-year-old, he was at home with his siblings in his
parents' knitting factory on today's Samweg when suddenly an American
plane crashed right next to the house, and the children saw the burned
body of the pilot. According to him, "[h]e had a wedding ring on one
finger, but when we came back later, the finger and the ring were gone."
Further down Dietersheimer Strasse there were other barracks in the immediate
vicinity of the subcamp, but they were no longer occupied. 
Where the local school is currently located on Fürholzer Weg there were
bunkers and barracks for air force helpers and the ϟϟ. Meanwhile the
impacts of emergency drops can be seen in southern Neufahrn - near the
gravel pit that later became a football field and is now a residential
area. The nearly 500 prisoners in the Dachau subcamp were liberated by
the Americans. During the last weeks of the war they were supposed to
build a runway for Nazi planes near the road. Neufahrn
historian Ernest Lang interviewed witnesses who related how two farmers
had thrown potatoes over the fence for the starving prisoners and were
then threatened by guards. An enlargement of the aerial photograph
attached to the monument shows twelve symmetrically arranged barracks
for the prisoners and to the south of them functional barracks as well
as outside the fence accommodation for the guards and next to them cover
holes, similar to those in the heather. Until recently, there were
remains of the building's foundations which had been discovered during
the excavation for the new building area. 
During
his research, Lang came across a letter with which the municipality had
raised an objection to the construction of the runway, asking for it to
be moved one kilometre south or else "the best potato-growing areas
would be destroyed" and the site would be at risk if the nearby runway
were targeted by attacks. The runway was never finished; on the aerial
photo, only a 350-metre-long, partially paved strip of earth can be
seen. The further course was already marked out when the Americans
occupied Neufahrn. After the liberation, the prisoners were looked after
by the local farmers, the youngest being 18 years old. Eventually the
prisoners left the place although the camp elder, Josef von der Bank,
stayed, starting a family in Neufahrn and was a founding member of FC
Neufahrn. The situation in nearby Dietersheim was much worse
given the many ϟϟ men present and the heavy guns from the flak batteries
ready to fire. At 2.30 in the morning an American infantry division
approached from Eching on the road and across the heath. A machine gun
was set up at the crossroads in the middle of the village and was firing
as fighting took place on the outskirts of the village. Eventually
around an hundred German soldiers were taken prisoner and six ϟϟ soldiers
killed. The
parish was plundered by Russians, Poles and the concentration camp
prisoners who were housed in Neufahrn with looting continuing in the
weeks after the invasion and even up to August, especially in the
farmhouses with Dietersheim especially suffering. Apparently American
soldiers also acted violently in some houses and forced people to
deliver food with bicycle theft a common occurence. Pigs were stolen
from several farmers a branch of the Oberpollinger company in Munich was
completely looted.
During
his research, Lang came across a letter with which the municipality had
raised an objection to the construction of the runway, asking for it to
be moved one kilometre south or else "the best potato-growing areas
would be destroyed" and the site would be at risk if the nearby runway
were targeted by attacks. The runway was never finished; on the aerial
photo, only a 350-metre-long, partially paved strip of earth can be
seen. The further course was already marked out when the Americans
occupied Neufahrn. After the liberation, the prisoners were looked after
by the local farmers, the youngest being 18 years old. Eventually the
prisoners left the place although the camp elder, Josef von der Bank,
stayed, starting a family in Neufahrn and was a founding member of FC
Neufahrn. The situation in nearby Dietersheim was much worse
given the many ϟϟ men present and the heavy guns from the flak batteries
ready to fire. At 2.30 in the morning an American infantry division
approached from Eching on the road and across the heath. A machine gun
was set up at the crossroads in the middle of the village and was firing
as fighting took place on the outskirts of the village. Eventually
around an hundred German soldiers were taken prisoner and six ϟϟ soldiers
killed. The
parish was plundered by Russians, Poles and the concentration camp
prisoners who were housed in Neufahrn with looting continuing in the
weeks after the invasion and even up to August, especially in the
farmhouses with Dietersheim especially suffering. Apparently American
soldiers also acted violently in some houses and forced people to
deliver food with bicycle theft a common occurence. Pigs were stolen
from several farmers a branch of the Oberpollinger company in Munich was
completely looted. 
The
prisoners at Neufahrn were also supposed to build another airfield at
Garchinger Heide, but it was never finished although they did manage to
remove the soil for the slope. It's at Garchinger Heide that a
remarkable archaeological site in Eching is located- two groups of bronze age
burial mounds dating between 1800- 1000 BCE. Thirteen of the more than
fifty barrows were opened which contained nine skeletons as well as
jewelery, weapons and ceramics which are now in the archive of the
Prehistoric Collection in Munich. In the early Middle Ages, the locals created raised fields on the barren soil, the remains of which can still be seen in the east of the nature reserve. Through use as general pastureland for sheep, cattle, goats and pigs or as one-cut meadows until the end of the 19th century, the low-growing, lean limestone grassland that characterises the landscape was created, only occasionally interrupted by hedges and trees. The conversion to arable land began after the common land was divided up among the local farmers towards the end of the 19th century. Between 1907 and 1914, the Bavarian Botanical Society bought 23 hectares of land to prevent it from being converted to arable land. The area was not officially designated as a nature reserve "Garchinger Heide" until 1942, but in the last months of the war in 1945, forced labourers from the Dachau concentration camp began removing the top layer of gravel by hand to create a 40 metres wide and 300 to 400 m long runway for the Schleissheim military airport. Foxholes of around 1 m² were dug next to the runway, and are still half a metre deep today.
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It reads: IMP CAESAR L-SEPT SEVERVS-PIVS PERTINAX-AVG-ARAB ADIAB-PARTHICVS-MAX PONT-MAX TRIB-POT-VIIII IMP-XII-COS. II. PROCOS VIAS-ET-PONTES REST AB-AVG-M P-LXII A-NOVIVARO-M P-III
Translation: Emperor Caesar Lucius Septimius Severus Pertinax Augustus, the great victor over Arabs, Adiabes and Parthians. Chief priest, tribune for the 9th time, consul for the 2nd time, proconsul restored roads and bridges. From Augsburg 62 Roman miles, from Neufahrn 3 Roman miles.
Hohenkammer
Schloss
Hohenkammer in kreis Freising, flying the Nazi flag. The influence of
the Nazis on the residents of the almost five hundred
inhabitants of the village was considerable. When the rural communities
in kreis Freising were brought into line in April 1933, the estate
inspector of the castle estate and provisional base manager of the Nazi Party
in Hohenkammer, Josef Münsterer, became a member of the town council
and its second mayor. The Nazi Party and SA had moved into the castle with
the swastika flag hoisted above, becoming the most important employer in
the village. Those who did not go to the party had to worry about being
hired. On July 29, 1945, the Seidenberger Spiritual Council reported
how "[i]n recent years, the NSDAP has exerted a strong influence on
Hohenkammer and the surrounding area, particularly in terms of school,
the growing youth, and all those who were associated with Hohenkammer
Castle: Workers, women, and so on. All Hitler laws were strictly
implemented, especially at school. Even worse was the party's influence
on the continuing education school, which was used for party political
events. The castle authorities exerted enormous pressure on the
population…. "
The church as it appeared in a Nazi-era postcard franked in 1942.
A
recent exhibition titled "Hohenkammer in the Nazi era, names instead of
numbers - life stories from the village resistance" held in the Alte
Gaststube on the grounds of the castle celebrated the reistance of three
school boys from Hohenkammer, Korbinian Geisenhofer, Thomas and Anton
Held and Thomas Groß, who refused to submit to the Nazis in 1933.
Geisenhofer and the Held brothers were declared opponents of the Nazis.
Whether Thomas Groß came to the Nazi authorities because of his own
political convictions or because of his friendship with Geisenhofer and
the others isn't clear, but even
before the Nazis came to power in Bavaria, boys from Hohenkammer
had split into opponents and supporters of the Nazis.
On the morning of June 30, 1933, Groß, together with Geisenhofer and Thomas Held, were arrested by the village constable Friedrich Stoller and taken to the Freising District Court Prison. That day, the three were transferred to the Dachau concentration camp as “protective prisoners”. The night before, from June 28th to 29th, a solstice celebration had taken place in Hohenkammer. As in many other places, it was organised by the SA, Nazi Party and Hitler Youth to celebrate the success of the Nazis to win over the youth. The day after the celebration in Hohenkammer, Münsterer wrote to Special Commissioner Lechner in Freising: “Everyone is thrilled with the beautiful course of the celebration. Only a red opposition group has been working against us for weeks by all means. This morning, to our greatest surprise, we were able to find the KPD's sickle and hammer on the concrete road in the middle of town, painted with red oil paint. The same signs were also found on a pillar at the garden entrance of a member of the party. We could not determine who the perpetrators were, but we ask the following people, known as ringleaders, to move in.” The names of the three boys then followed. It is uncertain whether the three really had anything to do with any graffiti as they always denied the accusations of the Nazi authorities that they were communists, and no evidence was presented.
Nevertheless,
even after they were released from Dachau months later, they made no
secret of their opposition and in 1934 got into a fight with members of
the SA and ϟϟ at the sports school that had been set up in the
schloß, followng a parish dance organised at the Riesch inn In
Unterwohlbach by
boys from Hohenkammer who had not joined the party or the SA. When the
ball was over, a delegation from the military sports school was waiting
for the boys resulting in a fight as a result of which Anton and Thomas
Held and Geisenhofer were arrested and sent to the concentration camp
for the second time. Unlike his friends, Thomas Groß was lucky enough
to be released after a few days in prison as stated in a letter from the
political police to the commandant of the concentration camp from July
3, 1933 stating that he had left the same evening Has been released in
protective custody. Although the district office of Freising tried on
July 18 to prevent his release, Groß was able to return home, no doubt
due to his brother-in-law, Johann Neugebauer, serving as an ϟϟ troop
leader in Munich. The day after the arrest, he had written a letter to
the commander of the political police in Munich and Himmler himself,
asking for Thomas Groß to be released n his letter, emphasising that
Groß had never been a KPD member but in fact had even expressed a
wish"to join the SA." The brother-in-law confirmed the close friendship
with Geisenhofer, but claimed that political motives had not played a
role citing Groß's family's links with the Nazis Party as evidence and
how in 1932 Groß would occasionally hand out leaflets that Neugebauer
had sent him during the election campaign. On April 29, 1938, Groß died
at the age of 26 in the hospital in Pfaffenhofen due to stomach
complications and was buried in his father's grave.
On the morning of June 30, 1933, Groß, together with Geisenhofer and Thomas Held, were arrested by the village constable Friedrich Stoller and taken to the Freising District Court Prison. That day, the three were transferred to the Dachau concentration camp as “protective prisoners”. The night before, from June 28th to 29th, a solstice celebration had taken place in Hohenkammer. As in many other places, it was organised by the SA, Nazi Party and Hitler Youth to celebrate the success of the Nazis to win over the youth. The day after the celebration in Hohenkammer, Münsterer wrote to Special Commissioner Lechner in Freising: “Everyone is thrilled with the beautiful course of the celebration. Only a red opposition group has been working against us for weeks by all means. This morning, to our greatest surprise, we were able to find the KPD's sickle and hammer on the concrete road in the middle of town, painted with red oil paint. The same signs were also found on a pillar at the garden entrance of a member of the party. We could not determine who the perpetrators were, but we ask the following people, known as ringleaders, to move in.” The names of the three boys then followed. It is uncertain whether the three really had anything to do with any graffiti as they always denied the accusations of the Nazi authorities that they were communists, and no evidence was presented.
Nevertheless,
even after they were released from Dachau months later, they made no
secret of their opposition and in 1934 got into a fight with members of
the SA and ϟϟ at the sports school that had been set up in the
schloß, followng a parish dance organised at the Riesch inn In
Unterwohlbach by
boys from Hohenkammer who had not joined the party or the SA. When the
ball was over, a delegation from the military sports school was waiting
for the boys resulting in a fight as a result of which Anton and Thomas
Held and Geisenhofer were arrested and sent to the concentration camp
for the second time. Unlike his friends, Thomas Groß was lucky enough
to be released after a few days in prison as stated in a letter from the
political police to the commandant of the concentration camp from July
3, 1933 stating that he had left the same evening Has been released in
protective custody. Although the district office of Freising tried on
July 18 to prevent his release, Groß was able to return home, no doubt
due to his brother-in-law, Johann Neugebauer, serving as an ϟϟ troop
leader in Munich. The day after the arrest, he had written a letter to
the commander of the political police in Munich and Himmler himself,
asking for Thomas Groß to be released n his letter, emphasising that
Groß had never been a KPD member but in fact had even expressed a
wish"to join the SA." The brother-in-law confirmed the close friendship
with Geisenhofer, but claimed that political motives had not played a
role citing Groß's family's links with the Nazis Party as evidence and
how in 1932 Groß would occasionally hand out leaflets that Neugebauer
had sent him during the election campaign. On April 29, 1938, Groß died
at the age of 26 in the hospital in Pfaffenhofen due to stomach
complications and was buried in his father's grave.
Allershausen
For
Allershausen the war ended suddenly in quick succession starting at
8.15 when the 17th ϟϟ Panzer Grenadier Division "Götz von Berlichingen"
departed the area followed twenty minutes later by the sight of white
flag on the church tower. This was particularly dangerous given that a
member of the division shot and killed the mayor of Burgthann, twenty
kilometres southeast of Nuremberg, shortly before on April 17 after he
had raised white flags as a sign of surrender. Mayor Andreas Fischer,
who had been in office since 1935, was ordered to remove the flags
again. When he refused, he was shot by a soldier from the division. In
fact, a later trial against the soldier was discontinued in 1958 because
he had acted according to the law applicable at the time, the so-called
flag order which had been issued in April by Himmler, according to
which every male person from a house on which a white flag was hung was
to be shot immediately. This allowed members of the Wehrmacht and ϟϟ to
simply execute civilians without a court martial and in arbitrary
vigilante justice although already by 8.45 American tanks were entering
the town.
Drake
Winston investigating wartime ruins along the Isarweg bicycle route
towards Munich at Mintraching (Grüneck) bei Neufahrn. It was a few yards
away on April 29 that, whilst around 30 to 40 inmates of the Straubing
penitentiary moved through Goldach towards Mintraching in the
afternoon, machine gun fire in front of the Isar bridge occurred.
According to reports from pastor Franz Josef Roßberger from Eching and
Dr. Joachim
Birkner from Goldach, at around 2:30 p.m. a
single armoured car from the American Army freed a group of about 250
prisoners
from the Straubing prison, which had been moving on the road from
Freising to
Munich, and brought it to Eching. This group had also been observed by
Ludwig
Gilch from Mintraching. Another thirty to forty inmates of the
Straubing penitentiary moved through Goldach towards Mintraching that
afternoon. After the machine gun fire,
the group disbanded, the guards disappeared and the prisoners were
housed in the surrounding farms.
Zolling
Nazi-era
postcard of the town showing how much has been developed since the war
when American troops moved from Zolling on April 29, 1945 to Freising.
Such development can also be seen in the area around the war memorial,
again shown during the Nazi era and today.
Attenkirchen
A few miles north of the Amper
Memorial
in the woods outside Massenhausen to Kurt Willi Schmidt, born on July 15, 1924 in Gera, Thuringia. The
non-commissioned officer died at this point in the municipality of
Fürholzen near Neufahrn bei Freising, with his ME 109 G6 fighter plane
was shot down during a dogfight with an Allied bomber group. He had four
siblings; one of his brothers died of war injuries, the other committed
suicide after the war ended. Kurt's fate remained with his mother and
long unknown to his sisters, since the father kept the news of Kurt's
death secret, to the mother's hopes that at least one of her sons would
go to war had survived not to destroy. Kurt died on April 24, 1944, at
just 19 years of age in Fürholzen in the district of Freising. The young
non-commissioned officer flew a Messerschmitt Bf 109 G-6 on that day to
intercept an American bomber squadron moving to Munich, where he was
shot down. The plane wreck was finally found 69 years after the
crash by local historians under the direction of Marco Grätz and Ernst
Keller who managed to identify Kurt Schmidt as a pilot using the
nameplate of the aircraft. His surviving sisters learned about the
discovery only after the investigators appealed to a local newspaper to
contact them. A memorial stone was erected at the crash site on the
occasion of Kurt's 70th anniversary of death, erected by the Krieger-
und Soldatenverein Massenhausen/Fürholzen/Hetzenhausen. His
final resting place is in the war cemetery at Schönau near
Berchtesgaden.
Two miles south of Niederhummel are the remains of a Roman road.
Memorial
in the woods outside Massenhausen to Kurt Willi Schmidt, born on July 15, 1924 in Gera, Thuringia. The
non-commissioned officer died at this point in the municipality of
Fürholzen near Neufahrn bei Freising, with his ME 109 G6 fighter plane
was shot down during a dogfight with an Allied bomber group. He had four
siblings; one of his brothers died of war injuries, the other committed
suicide after the war ended. Kurt's fate remained with his mother and
long unknown to his sisters, since the father kept the news of Kurt's
death secret, to the mother's hopes that at least one of her sons would
go to war had survived not to destroy. Kurt died on April 24, 1944, at
just 19 years of age in Fürholzen in the district of Freising. The young
non-commissioned officer flew a Messerschmitt Bf 109 G-6 on that day to
intercept an American bomber squadron moving to Munich, where he was
shot down. The plane wreck was finally found 69 years after the
crash by local historians under the direction of Marco Grätz and Ernst
Keller who managed to identify Kurt Schmidt as a pilot using the
nameplate of the aircraft. His surviving sisters learned about the
discovery only after the investigators appealed to a local newspaper to
contact them. A memorial stone was erected at the crash site on the
occasion of Kurt's 70th anniversary of death, erected by the Krieger-
und Soldatenverein Massenhausen/Fürholzen/Hetzenhausen. His
final resting place is in the war cemetery at Schönau near
Berchtesgaden. 
Moosburg on the Isar City in the district of Freising in Germany Moosburg an der Isar (officially Moosburg adIsar ) is the oldest town in the Upper Bavarian district of Freising . It is located 45 kilometers northeast of Munich and halfway between the large district town of Freising and the Lower Bavarian district capital of Landshut in a kind of island location between the Isar and its tributary Amper . Moosburg received city rights in 1331 . Today it is a middle center in the Munich region . coat of arms Germany map Moosburg on the Isar Map of Germany, position of the city of Moosburg adIsar highlighted Basic data Coordinates : 48° 28′ N , 11° 56′ ECoordinates: 48° 28′ N , 11° 56′ E Federal State : Bavaria Administrative district : Upper Bavaria District : Freising Height : 421 m above sea level NHN Area : 43.85 km2 Resident: 19,832 (Dec 31, 2022) [1] Population density : 452 inhabitants per km 2 Postal code : 85368 Phone prefix : 08761 License Plate : FS Municipality key : 09 1 78 143 City structure: 25 parts of the community City administration address : Stadtplatz 13 85368 Moosburg Website : www.moosburg.de First mayor : Josef Dollinger ( Free Voters Bavaria ) Location of the city of Moosburg adIsar in the Freising district Map Map St. John and St. Castulus Munich Airport is 17 kilometers away as the crow flies and can be reached via the Moosburg-Süd motorway exit on the A 92 . As a regional express stop in the Munich transport and tariff association (MVV), the city is a popular place to live for 4,755 [2] commuters to Munich, Freising, Landshut and the airport. On the other hand, as the location of various industrial companies, the city is also the destination for around 3,100 [2] commuters from the surrounding area and itself has 1,718 employees subject to social security contributions. In addition to the chemical, electrical engineering and food industries, there is also a machine factory in the city. geography Edit Position Edit Moosburg is located at the northeastern end of the Munich gravel plain at the transition to the Danube-Isar hill country and the Isar-Inn hill country . While the old city center and other parts of the city lie on a tertiary ridge between the Isar and the Amper , which flows north of the city , the rest of the city is bordered by the alluvial forests of the two rivers; In the south of the city there is the Isarauen nature reserve between Hangenham and Moosburg . The urban area is also characterized by a large number of rivers, streams and canals. In addition to the Isar and Amper, the Sempt and the Mittlere-Isar Canal also flow directly past Moosburg. The Uppenbornwerke of the Munich municipal utility is located here . The reservoirs in this complex form the bird sanctuary Middle Isar reservoirs . The Mühlbach, which flows into the Amper, and the Schleiferbach, which is derived from it, flow through the urban area. In addition, parts of the Auwälder natural forest on the middle Isar are also located within or near the city. [3] Community structure Edit The municipality has 25 municipal parts (the settlement type is given in brackets): [4] [5] Aich ( Kirchdorf ) mountain ( desert ) corner (desert) Feldkirchen ( hamlet ) Fürnsbach (desert) Grünseiboldsdorf ( village ) Kirchamper (village) moss (wasteland) Moosburg adIsar (main town) Moosham (Desolation) Murr (desert) Neumühl (desert) Niederambach (village) Oberambach (hamlet) Oberpolln (desert) Oberreit (hamlet) Pfrombach ( parish village ) Pfrombeck (desert) Pillhofen (hamlet) Sempt (hamlet) Stießberg (desert) Thonstetten (church village) Troll (hamlet) Unterreit (desert) Weiglschwaig (desert) The core area of the city between the Isar and Amper is divided into the districts Altstadt, Michaelivorstadt, Bonau, Westerberg and, since 1945, Neustadt. The urban area also includes the incorporated towns of Thonstetten with Grünseiboldsdorf and Moosham, Niederambach with Oberambach, Feldkirchen and Kirchamper and Pfrombach with Aich, some of which are already in the middle of the tertiary hill country, so that the urban area increased from 14 to over 43 km². In the former municipal area of Pfrombach, the Degernpoint commercial and industrial area was created as a new district directly close to the city . The Uppenbornstraße settlement is also part of the urban area. Neighboring towns Edit The city is located on the immediate border between Lower and Upper Bavaria, the districts of Freising, Erding and Landshut. In the north and northeast, the urban area is surrounded by the municipality of Wang . To the east, the municipalities of Eching and Buch am Erlbach , located in the Landshut district ( Lower Bavaria ), border on it. In the south are the communities of Langenpreising and Berglern, located in the Erding district . Finally, in the west there are the communities of Langenbach and Haag an der Amper, located in the Freising district . middle center Edit As a medium-sized center designated in the state development program, Moosburg an der Isar is, according to the definition there, the central location for the surrounding communities of Hörgertshausen , Gammelsdorf , Nandlstadt , Mauern , Wang and Langenpreising, i.e. for a total of over 33,000 residents. In addition, it is also because of the central facilities such as schools, a variety of shopping opportunities and, last but not least, because of the short distances and good road connections, partly also for the residents of the communities of Bruckberg, Buch am Erlbach and Vilsheim in the districts of Landshut, Kirchberg , Wartenberg , Fraunberg and Berglern in the Erding district as well as Langenbach, Haag an der Amper and Attenkirchen in the Freising district, in total a good 30,000 inhabitants. Nature reserves Edit Terrace near Niederhummel (geotope number 178A001) Isarauen nature reserve between Hangenham and Moosburg (NSG-00246.01) Story Edit Moosburg in 1644 The Moosburg town hall (built in 1867) The historic old town lies on a headland formed by two rivers that run almost parallel in this area - the Amper and the Isar . The Amper flows into the Isar immediately north-northeast of Moosburg. Both rivers were important natural trade routes for thousands of years. The natural protection that the rivers provided with their once much larger floodplains was reinforced by the Moosburg settlement hill, on which the later city developed. Finds from the old town testify to the presence of people in prehistoric and protohistoric times. There are also a number of areas in the surrounding area, some of which are larger, with traces of prehistoric settlements, ranging from the Neolithic period to the Celtic La Tène period . In Roman times, the area was rural; traces of settlement, in particular middle imperial period cremation graves and a presumed villa rustica , were found, among other things, to the north, west and southwest of the modern city. Excavations in the urban area have confirmed the early importance of the Moosburg region. Particularly south of the Isar, remains of an extensive Roman road network have been secured through excavation findings and aerial photo archaeology . Here a road ran along the Isar from the Danube to the nationally important trade route between Salzburg and Augsburg. Middle Ages and early modern times Edit The monastic settlement “Mosabyrga” was first mentioned in documents around 770. The monks Albin and Rhenobot brought the relics of Saint Kastulus to Moosburg around 800. The widow of the East Franconian King Karlmann Liutswind chose Moosburg Abbey as her widow's residence. [6] In 895 the previous imperial monastery came into the possession of the diocese of Freising . In 1021 the Benedictine monastery was dissolved and a canon monastery was founded. A major fire destroyed the count's castle and large parts of the cathedral in 1207 . The Kastulusmünster was consecrated in 1212. In 1281 the Moosburg family died out . In 1329 Moosburg took over the seat of the regional court from the Inkofen office . [7] In 1331 Moosburg received city rights . Construction of the city wall and city gates began in 1403. In 1599 the Moosburg Canons' Monastery was moved to the Martinskirche in Landshut . On April 26, 1632, Moosburg was conquered by the Swedes in the Thirty Years' War and plundered in 1634. In 1702, almost half of the city was destroyed by a major fire, and another fire hit the city in 1865. 19th century to the present Edit View from the mid-19th century After the secularization of the monasteries, Moosburg became the seat of a regional court in 1803 and thus an independent administrative district in what was then the Isarkreis , which later became the administrative district of Upper Bavaria . The Moosburg regional court covered the area of today's northern Freising district and the neighboring communities from Schweitenkirchen via Wolnzach and Obersüßbach to Bruckberg. In 1858 Moosburg was connected to the railway network with the opening of the Munich-Landshut railway line . In 1862 it merged with the Kranzberg regional court district to form the newly formed Freising district office (renamed Freising district in 1939). Between 1867 and 1899 the three medieval city gates were demolished. In 1906 the Tonwerk Moosburg , the forerunner of Süd-Chemie (now “Clariant”) , was founded . In September 1939, shortly after the outbreak of the Second World War , the STALAG VII A prisoner of war camp was built in the north of Moosburg and was liberated by US troops on April 29, 1945. Towards the end of the Second World War, 80,000 prisoners of war of many nationalities were interned there and in its subcamps, making it the largest prisoner of war camp in Germany. How many people were murdered there is still unclear today. There is a small memorial in the Oberreit cemetery . The camp museum is open for two hours a week. [8] After the end of the war, the Civilian Internment Enclosure No. 6 furnished. This US internment camp was intended for German civilians who were to be held accountable for their activities during the Nazi tyranny . [9] From 1948 onwards, the Moosburg district of Neustadt was created on the site, which was initially populated predominantly by refugees and displaced persons. In 1949, the new construction of the Isar bridge, which was blown up by the Waffen-SS in 1945, was completed. In 1965 the city was given its current name “Moosburg an der Isar”. In 1971, as part of the regional reform in Bavaria , the city council at the time decided to remain in the Freising district and thus in Upper Bavaria and not to move to Lower Bavaria - like neighboring Bruckberg . The Moosburg district hospital was closed in 2002, and the Moosburg branch of the Freising district court was closed in 2006 . In 2010, a festival (“The Forbidden City”) was held in Moosburg for the first time, which was under the patronage of the Bavarian Prime Minister and dealt with the history of the historically significant city. [10] Incorporations Edit As part of the regional reform in Bavaria, the municipality of Thonstetten (with Grünseiboldsdorf and Moosham) was incorporated on April 1, 1971. [11] On January 1, 1976, Niederambach (with Oberambach, Feldkirchen and Kirchamper) was added. [12] Pfrombach (with Aich) followed on January 1, 1978. The Uppenbornstrasse settlement in the municipality of Wang , previously part of the dissolved municipality of Volkmannsdorferau , rounded off the series of incorporations on May 1, 1978. [13] Population development Edit The population of Moosburg (earlier figures converted to today's city limits for comparability) has developed as follows since the first census in 1840: Year Resident (V) 1840 2,643 (V) 1871 3,459 (V) 1900 3,970 (V) 1925 5,093 (V) 1939 6,169 Year Resident (V) 1950 10,023 (V) 1961 11,310 (V) 1970 13,050 1980 13,236 (V) 1987 14,251 Year Resident 1990 15,243 1995 16,273 2000 16,607 2005 17,276 2006 17,284 Year Resident 2007 17,492 2008 17,430 2009 17,487 2010 17,554 2011 16,852 Year Resident 2012 16,971 2013 17,363 2014 17,654 2015 17,837 2016 18,181 Year Resident 2018 19,206 2020 19,464 2022 20,631 [14] (each December 31st [2] / (V): Census Day ) Between 1988 and 2018, the city grew by 4,034 inhabitants or by 27.9%, from 14,476 to 18,510. politics Edit City council Edit The 2002, 2008 , 2014 and 2020 local elections resulted in the following results: Seat distribution Party/voter group 2002 2008 2014 [15] 2020 [16] CSU 9 10 7 6 SPD 6 5 3 2 Greens 2 3 4 6 Free voters 5 6 5 4 Independent citizens of Moosburg 2 – 3 – ÖDP – – 1 1 The left – – 1 1 AfD – – – 1 FDP – – – 1 Fresh – – – 2 In total 24 24 24 24 Vote shares Party/voter group 2002 2008 2014 [15] 2020 [17] CSU 37.8% 41.2% 30.2% 25.7% SPD 25.1% 19.3% 12.5% 0 9.9% Greens 0 9.3% 14.4% 17.0% 23.7% Free voters 19.5% 25.0% 19.9% 19.3% Independent citizens of Moosburg 0 8.3% – 14.4% – ÖDP – – 0 3.2% 0 3.5% The left – – 0 2.8% 0 2.8% AfD – – – 0 5.7% FDP – – – 0 2.6% Fresh – – – 0 6.9% In total 100% 100% 100% 100% Voter turnout : 60.05% mayor Edit Josef Dollinger was elected as the first mayor by the FW in the runoff election on March 29, 2020 with 51.17% of the vote. Anita Meinelt was no longer available. The second mayor is Georg Hadersdorfer from the CSU, the third mayor is Michael Stanglmeier from the Greens. First mayor since 1933 Edit Surname from until Political party Hermann Müller 1933 April 29, 1945 NSDAP Max Fertl May 9, 1945 August 13, 1945 Richard Brown August 13, 1945 April 30, 1956 CSU Joseph Erber May 1, 1956 July 19, 1965 SPD Oscar Hertel October 1, 1965 April 30, 1978 SPD Herbert Franz May 1, 1978 April 30, 1984 CSU Anton Neumaier May 1, 1984 April 30, 2002 SPD Anita Meinelt May 1, 2002 April 30, 2020 CSU Josef Dollinger [20] May 1, 2020 FW Twin cities Edit The city is connected by four town partnerships and two town sponsorships with other cities: Town twinning City sponsorships Coat of arms in the Ursula Chapel coat of arms Edit Wappen von Moosburg an der Isar Coat of arms of Moosburg an der Isar Blazon : “ Shared by silver and red; Above two red heraldic roses , below a silver heraldic rose, all with golden slugs ." [22] Reasons for the coat of arms: The coat of arms originally goes back to the Counts of Moosburg , who died out of the male line in 1281 and who had lived in Moosburg until then. After the count's house died out, the city was able to claim the three roses for itself. The oldest illustration can be seen in the Ursula Chapel in the Kastulusmünster . There it adorns the ceiling fresco of the counts' former burial place. Here, however, the coloring is reversed. Culture and sights Edit Structures Edit On the plan: St. Johannes and Kastulusmünster Kastulusmünster: interior The city center, located on a hill, is overlooked by the towers of the Kastulusmünster and the Johanneskirche. Since both church towers are the same height at 50 meters each, have a very similar external design and both churches are very close together, coming from the cathedral city of Freising you get the impression that the city of Moosburg an der Isar also has its own cathedral with two towers . Kastulusmünster (famous pilgrimage church at the beginning of the 19th century): The high altar in the Kastulusmünster, carved in 1514 by the Landshut sculptor Hans Leinberger, is particularly famous . This altar is decorated with the following figures: in the middle, St. Mary with child, enclosed by St. Castulus and St. Heinrich. The Kastulus shrine can be seen behind the altar cross. A large part of the remains of St. Kastulus, which were originally brought to Moosburg by Albin and Rhenobot, are now in the Landshut Martinskirche . St. John's Church : from the 15th century. Only two wing reliefs remain from Hans Leinberger 's altar, which are in museums. In 1980 several gravestones and frescoes were discovered near the right side portal. The tower of St. John's Church served for a long time as a city tower in which the tower keeper's apartment was located. That's why the tower of St. John's Church, in contrast to the tower of Kastulusmünster, is owned by the city. [23] St. Michael Cemetery Church : Built in the 13th century. Partly Gothic, but also baroque elements St. Pius Church : In the area of the former prison camp, especially for those displaced from their homeland. It was financed, among other things, by a large donation from Pope Pius XII. Planned by architect Friedrich Haindl , inaugurated in 1950. Right next to the church is the French Fountain, which was designed in 1942 by a French prisoner of war in Stalag VII A and which depicts the four largest French rivers; it was installed here in 1963. St. Valentin branch church (Thonstetten) Marian Column , (1890) Local history museum on Kastulusplatz in an old monastery school (prehistory and early history, city history, crafts, agriculture, folk art) Former water tower Memorials Edit Memorial stone with fountain: The Wehrmacht prisoner of war main camp VII A was built north of the city in 1939. Up to 80,000 prisoners were imprisoned in the camp, and at least 2,000 of them died. In the 21st century, the camp has been largely built over by the Neustadt district after the Free State of Bavaria built apartments for displaced people on the site in 1948. A memorial fountain by the French sculptor Antoniucci Volti has commemorated the camp since 1963. [24] In April 2015, on the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the camp, the green area on which the fountain stands was officially named Stalag Memorial Square . [25] In 2019, the German Foundation for Monument Protection is committed to ensuring that the last remaining camp barracks remain intact. [26] In 2020, an additional roof was added to protect it from the weather. [27] Oberreit Memorial , a wooden cross and a memorial stone commemorate the dead from the prisoner of war camp who were initially buried here Events Edit From 2013 to 2017, the Utopia Island festival took place in the aqua park. Infrastructure Edit Agencies and public authorities Edit City administration Erding Office for Food, Agriculture and Forestry , Moosburg Office Police inspection Fire departments The city maintains three independent fire departments in Moosburg, Thonstetten and Aich. The Jungheinrich company maintains a company fire department at the Moosburg location schools Edit There are eight educational institutions in the main town. The majority of students come from surrounding communities in the districts of Freising , Erding and Landshut , so that the city represents the educational center of a small cross-district region. Recently there have been more and more space problems in the Moosburg schools due to increasing student numbers, especially due to the new school systems (R6 and G8). The solutions were handled differently. The long-controversial three-story extension was built at the high school and opened for the 2007/08 school year. The former agricultural school building, which was sold by the city of Moosburg an der Isar to the Freising district and is located directly next to the secondary school, was renovated and converted for the secondary school and moved into in September 2007. The middle school was also expanded with a new building. Below is a list of the schools in Moosburg: elementary schools Theresia Gerhardinger Primary School (“Northern Primary School”) Anton Vitzthum Elementary School (“South Elementary School”) Georg Hummel Middle School Further training Kastulus secondary school Moosburg Karl Ritter von Frisch High School [28] More schools Moosburg Adult Education Center Evangelical adult education center Leisure and sports facilities Edit outdoor pool Indoor swimming pool Ice stadium (Sparkasse Arena), EV Moosburg , EV Aich DAV climbing facility Skate facility bowling alley youth Center Tennis hall with tennis courts (TC Moosburg) Bonau football facility (merger to form FCM from the clubs Real Bonau and SpVgg) Neustadt football facility (TSV Moosburg Neustadt) Bicycle tricks area and football field Volleyball court Two triple gymnasiums (Albinstrasse and secondary school) as well as a double gymnasium (high school), Stadthalle gymnasium and the SGM gymnasium next to the ice stadium Business Edit Several larger industrial companies are located in Moosburg, some of which are of international importance. Below is a non-exhaustive list of the local companies and businesses: Jungheinrich AG: The forklift manufacturer 's largest production plant with headquarters in Hamburg (formerly Steinbock) Hofmeister Käserei : headquarters in Heising, Allgäu, production of hard cheese Original Illertaler Emmentaler , milk powder and processed cheese Driescher: High-voltage and high-current systems Location of Clariant , formerly Süd-Chemie : aluminum oxides , catalysts for the process industry , additives for paints (anti-drip), cat litter and the extraction of bentonite Heinz: disposal , cold storage and logistics ; The Heinz company is considered the largest waste disposal company in the area and is one of the largest employers. The family business has 13 locations in southern Bavaria. CitrinSolar: Thermal solar systems , home and heating technology M-SYSTEM Elektronik GmbH: Manufacturing of electronic products a. for industry BayWa AG , Moosburg an der Isar location Since October 2009, Moosburg has had its own marketing agency “Moosburg Marketing”, which is organized as a cooperative and had almost 110 members in 2014. [29] [30] Transport connections Edit Train Edit Donau-Isar-Express (DB series 440) The city has been crossed by the Munich-Landshut-Regensburg main railway since 1858 . This route has been double-track since November 25, 1891 and has been electrically operated since October 3, 1925. On weekdays, 82 (2009: 66) regional express trains and regional trains to Munich, Landshut, Regensburg, Nuremberg and Passau stop at the station, and on Saturdays 66 and Sundays 63 (2009: 48) trains stop. The journey time to Munich main station with the regional express is 32 to 34 minutes and is therefore even shorter than the corresponding values for some S-Bahn stations on the outer branches. Over 5,000 passengers use Moosburg station every day. [31] On October 28, 2007, the Moosburg electronic signal box was put into operation, which (remotely controlled from the Munich operations center) takes over the operational management of 28 km of route, 2 train stations and 18 remaining level crossings for the Landshut - Marzling area. In December 2009, the train offering was reorganized as part of the tender by the Bavarian Railway Company, in particular with the introduction of the Donau-Isar Express on the Munich - Landshut - Passau route. Since then, 24% more trains have stopped, i.e. at least every hour. With the timetable change in 2018, Moosburg has a direct hourly train connection to Munich Airport; The journey with a stop in Freising takes 20 minutes and uses the newly built Neufahrner curve . Consideration has also been given for some time to extend the Munich S-Bahn to Moosburg an der Isar. To this end, the Marzling (2007) and Langenbach (2010) intermediate stops received new platforms and access facilities. While the travel time of the extended S1 at 56 minutes would still be less than the 68 minutes of an S-Bahn journey from Munich to Altomünster , it would still be significantly longer than with today's regional express. An extension therefore only makes sense in connection with the planned express S-Bahn system, which is to be implemented through the second Munich S-Bahn tunnel and thus shortens the travel time of the S-Bahn trains, which will then run every half hour, to just 44 minutes. Since December 2009, a regional train has been running between Freising and Landshut, usually every two hours, with S-Bahn-like multiple units of the 425 series. Public transport Edit There is a city bus within the city of Moosburg. There are also regional buses from the Munich Transport and Tariff Association (MVV), including: the lines 683 ( – Hörgertshausen – Mauern – Rudelzhausen) and 501 ( – Langenpreising – Wartenberg – Erding) as well as 687 ( – Degernpoint industrial area – Aich – Buch a Erlbach/Thann). Street Edit Moosburg is connected nationally by the federal highway 92 with 2 exits north and south. The former federal highway 11 (now state highway 2350 ) and state highways 2054 ( Zolling - Geisenhausen), 2085 (Mainburg - Langenpreising) and 2331 (to Erding) also intersect in the urban area . Junction of the former B 11 in Moosburg From July 2005 to the end of 2007, after 80 years of planning, the St 2085 level crossing, which is used by over 14,000 vehicles and 173 trains every day and is located in the area of 7 connecting road branches, was replaced by a 250 m long road tunnel with ramp structures at a cost of over 14 million euros. The opening was on September 7th, 2007 on the outskirts of the city and on October 13th, 2007 on the inward side of the city. At the same time, a new, traffic-dependent traffic light system was put into operation in the spacious confluence area of Industriestrasse and St. 2085. Since the traffic routing in the inner city area remained unchanged, as was the case with the completion of the southern bypass on the B 11 in 1965, and there is currently no bypass, the historically narrow city center is excessively busy with traffic with over 23,000 vehicles per day. From the end of June to September 10, 2008, a roundabout was built at the accident-prone west entrance of what was then federal highway 11 with state highway 2054, at least as a first measure for the construction of the western bypass ( district road FS 15 ), which has a greatly relieving effect. On July 28, 2008, after 20 years of discussion, the city council decided to change the right of way at two junctions: Stadionstrasse, Westerbergstrasse (St 2054) and Münchener Strasse (St 2085) so that the city center is at least partially relieved of through traffic . However, the necessary reconstruction of both junctions can only be carried out by the Freising State Building Authority after the western bypass has been completed. The western bypass leads from the roundabout of the former federal highway 11 at km 56.16 over the Munich–Regensburg railway line , in a generous arc that relieves noise from the existing residential development, to St 2054, which is crossed by a roundabout. The second construction phase ran along the Amper until just before the Amper bridge you reach St 2085, which is also connected to a roundabout. The associated development plan came into force on August 1, 2009. [32] The opening of the fast connection between the Hallertau and the former B 11 took place on November 28, 2012. Moosburg Airfield (2013) Air traffic Edit One kilometer south of the town center there is a special airfield at Moosburg Airport for all types of aircraft with a maximum take-off weight of up to 2000 kg . Munich Airport , located 17 km to the southwest, can be reached by car or train in around 20 minutes. Personalities Edit sons and daughters of the town Edit Berthold von Moosburg (bishop) († after 1106), counter-archbishop of the Archdiocese of Salzburg Berthold von Moosburg (Dominican) († after 1361), Dominican, scholastic philosopher Castulus Riedl (1701–1783), engineering geographer, geodesist, cartographer, hydraulic engineering and road planner Theodor Grünberger (1756–1820), composer, Augustinian monk and priest Anton Nagel (1742–1812), Roman Catholic clergyman, historian and author Georg Hummel (1856–1902), entrepreneur, inventor of the direct current meter Mathilde Hummel (1863–after 1894), opera singer (contra-alto/mezzo-soprano) August Fischer (1901–1986), local politician, mayor of Kempten Franz Dietl (* 1934), Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising Franz Josef Heigl (* 1943), lawyer, President of the Saxon Court of Auditors Franz J. Bauer (* 1952), historian Isolde Ohlbaum (* 1953), photographer Hermann Scherer (* 1964), author and speaker Chris Zintzen-Bader (* 1966), literary scholar, author, journalist and editor Yavuz Köse (* 1971), Turkologist Birgit Rockmeier (* 1973), track and field athlete and Olympic participant Gabi Rockmeier (* 1973), track and field athlete and Olympic participant Julia Eder (* 1982), actress Johannes Huber (* 1987), politician Konrad Baur (* 1988), German politician (CSU) Andreas Mehltretter (* 1991), politician Stefan Haas (* 1994), football player Honorary citizen Edit literature Edit Martin Zeiller : Mospurg . In: Matthäus Merian (ed.): Topographia Bavariae (= Topographia Germaniae . Volume 4 ). 1st edition. Matthaeus Merian, Frankfurt am Main 1644, p. 52–53 ( full text [ Wikisource ]). Ludwig Weg: History of the city of Moosburg. Moosburg: L. Weh 1991. Moosburg/Isar – history and art of the city. Michael Braun: History of the city of Moosburg. Moosburg: Senftl 1902. Dominik Reither: How Moosburg was overtaken by Landshut and Munich: A comparative city history. Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2016, ISBN 978-3-7431-4669-3 . Web links Edit City of Moosburg on the Isar Moosburg Online – voluntary working group Historical information about Moosburg Moosburg an der Isar: Official statistics from the Bavarian State Office for Statistics Moosburg has a hard time remembering Individual evidence Edit ↑ Genesis online database of the Bavarian State Office for Statistics Table 12411-003r Update of the population status: municipalities, reference date (population figures based on the 2011 census) ( help ). ↑ Jump up to:a b c State Office for Statistics - home page. Retrieved February 6, 2019 . ↑ BayernAtlas. Retrieved October 21, 2023 . ↑ Moosburg adIsar community in the location database of the Bavarian State Library Online . 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Name, boundary and key number changes for municipalities, districts and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 574 . ↑ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipal directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, boundary and key number changes for municipalities, districts and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 575 f . ↑ Population figures - City of Moosburg. Retrieved January 8, 2023 . ↑ Jump up to:a b 2014 city council election. Archived from the original (no longer available online) on April 21, 2016 ; accessed March 1, 2018 . ↑ Local elections 2020 - Provisional distribution of seats for the city council from 2020 - City of Moosburg - City of Moosburg. Formerly in Original (no longer available online) ; accessed April 19, 2020 . ( Page no longer available . 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A documentation, Volume 1. Federal Agency for Civic Education, Bonn 1995, ISBN 3-89331-208-0 , p. 166. ↑ In memory of the victims of Stalag VII A on www.merkur.de , April 27, 2015 ↑ Monuments : This is where we got involved - In danger: Stalag VII A in Moosburg , issue 1/2020, p. 15. ↑ Christine Fößmeier: Small part of Moosburg's history breathes a sigh of relief on www.idowa.de , May 29, 2020 ↑ Home. Retrieved February 6, 2019 . ↑ Moosburg Marketing eG - City of Moosburg adIsar. Retrieved February 6, 2019 . ↑ Moosburg city marketing: Managing director leaves. November 4, 2014, accessed February 6, 2019 . ↑ Karlheinz Jessensky: Trains stop every hour. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . October 13, 2017, accessed November 25, 2019. ↑ Home / News - City of Moosburg adIsar. Retrieved February 6, 2019 .
