Concentration camp memorial site

Dachau - here the Nazis installed the first concentration camp, the motto that greeted arrivals at the gates has taken its chilling place in the history of Third Reich brutality: Arbeit macht frei, means "Work brings freedom". Of the original buildings, only the gas chambers, which were never used, remain. However, a replica hut gives an idea of the conditions under which prisoners were forced to live, and the permanent exhibition of photographs speaks volumes.

To reach the site take buses line 724 und 726. Opening hours: Tuesday to Sunday 9.00 am - 5.00 pm. They more..

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Dachau Castle

In the year 1806 three of the originally four wings from the imposing Renaissance castle were ruptured. The last remaining wing of the Dachau castle was rebuilt in the baroque style at the beginning of the 18th century by the master-builder at the Munich court Joseph Effner. The very famous Renaissance casket ceiling of the hall by the cabinet maker Hans Wisreuther remained unchanged as well as the "grisaille" painting (which means one colour is dominant, mostly grey) by Hans Thonauer.

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Town centre

The centre of our town with its charming silhouette is standing under protection in its unity. (bus line 720)

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Town hall fountain

Ignaz Taschner was the creator of this fountain. In 1915 this masterpiece was built out of red marble from Ruhpolding. The pillar in the middle is decorated with figures of farmers and farmers' wives wearing the traditional costumes of Dachau. (bus line 720)

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Town hall

The whole block of the today's town-hall was built in 1974. The old town-hall and the façade of the "Lebzelterhaus" (means gingerbread-baker house) were combined. The plan derived from Prof. Dr. Werner Fauser, the stone creations came from the workshop of the sculptor Reinhold Grübl. (bus line 720)

St.Jakob

The parish church St. Jakob was built up in the 17th century after the rupture of the old gothic church. It was rebuilt in the style of the late Renaissance.

The building of the choir was effected under the command of the master-builder at the Munich court Friedrich Sustris, the main aisle was a plan of Hans Krumpper.

The altar-painting was created by Prof. Josef Hauber (1816), Adam Luidl was responsible for the cover of the christening font showing the baptism of Jesus (1675), Constantin Pader for the apostle figures (1625).

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Gallery - exhibition of paintings

The Gemäldegalerie is showing in its representative permanent collection landscape and genre paintings of the 19th and the early 20th century. Famous painters - like Christian Morgenstern, Carl Spitzweg, Eduard Schleich the older one or Adolf Hoelzel, Ludwig Dill and Arthur Langhammer- , esteemed the "Dachauer Moos" (bog and moss area) as a very charming motive.

At that time there arose one of the most important colonies of artists in Germany with respect to the history of art, which had a great influence on the development of the Modern Art of the 20th century.

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Chapel of the churchyard

It was built in the years 1627/28 according to plans of Hans Krumpper and renovated in the years 1992 - 1995. (bus line 720)

District museum Dachau

In this district museum, which was decorated in the year 1993 with the Bavarian Museum Price, the history of civilization of the town Dachau and the rural district is represented.

Divided over three floors, one can find numerous pieces of exhibition, showing very impressingly forms of settlement and the history of the town, system of guilds and market-regulations, handicraft and agriculture, history of the everyday life and festivity customs, religious costums and many other things.

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New gallery Dachau - Neue Galerie

The "Neue Galerie" shows actual tendencies of the modern art of present time. The courageous programme and the uncommon locality, situated at the Amper canal, did raise this institution for young, as well as internationally well-known artists to an esteemed place for exhibitions - for experts the hot tip ahead of the borders of Munich.

(bus line 720)

Office of Ludwig Thoma

The Bavarian writer Ludwig Thoma (1867-1921) had as the first lawyer in Dachau established his lawyer's office at Augsburger Str. 13.

In his memoirs he writes: "One evening in August I went to Dachau with a friend in order to go from there to Schwabhausen. When we came up the hill and the centre of the market with its gable-houses lay quite solemnily in front of me, a strong yearning did overcome me to live here in this tranquillity."

Thoma was one of the most important Bavarian writers. His works: Lausbubengeschichten (funny stories about a lazy boy), Die more..