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How a street became a trade route

2020-10-26T10:47:52.242Z


The Alte Bergstrasse in Puchheim-Ort is now more of an insignificant side street. It used to be very different: it was considered an important trade route.


The Alte Bergstrasse in Puchheim-Ort is now more of an insignificant side street.

It used to be very different: it was considered an important trade route.

Puchheim-Ort

- The Alte Bergstrasse developed from a muddy path to an important trade route.

It was an important part of the mail route.

Nevertheless, for all its importance, it was only an extremely modest connection between Munich and Bruck.

Because it was narrow and the farmers drove their cattle over it, so that it was heavily polluted by dung and mud and almost impassable.

Initially only one ford led across the Gröbenbach.

The Puchheim miller was responsible for the maintenance.

A bridge was built at some point, but the condition of the road deteriorated considerably at the end of the 18th century as it was used by a number of soldiers during the Napoleonic Wars.

The postman of Fürstenfeldbruck complained: "During the whole war period I had to do the postal service against the friendly and hostile armies in an unmade way to the sensitive disadvantage of my horses." Because of its military importance, the mail route from Munich via Bruck to Augsburg became a commercial route in 1804 declared a trade route.

The road should therefore be expanded and graveled accordingly.

Protest against straightening

The state had to bear at least some of the costs.

The state directorate then demanded that the street be straightened, as the sharp curvature of the street in Puchheim-Ort would make gravel too expensive.

In Ort, however, there was a protest against it, because this would cause farmland to be lost.

But the government only announced: “According to the most gracious resolution of the most highly intended place, the municipality of Buchham will mean that it has to calm down.” This is how today's Augsburger Straße was created.

The Alte Bergstrasse remained part of the state road until the end of 1928.

Only then was today's route built behind the mill.

The Alte Bergstrasse was characterized by two buildings: the mill and the gendarmerie station.

The mill was mentioned as early as 1247 in the documents of the Schäftlarn monastery and is shown on the first maps of Puchheim in 1613 with a water wheel.

In 1863 a house owner from Munich bought the building.

It burned down in 1894.

After the reconstruction, a pasta factory moved there.

In 1903 a new owner expanded it into the "Upper Bavarian steam mill with bread and pasta factory" with a machine house.

This was followed by a liquor factory and, finally, a curtain rail company.

In 1990 the property was demolished and a commercial building was built.

This year the building has been converted into a so-called boarding house.

Above the mill, the innkeeper Leonhard Huber built a house for the Royal Bavarian Gendarmerie in 1897.

The previous station in Unterpfaffenhofen had become too small.

The commandant at the time had married and there was not enough space for him and his wife in the previous premises.

In 1896, the relocation to Puchheim-Ort was therefore applied for and approved.

In 1933, for reasons unknown, the station moved to what was then the town hall in Germering.

The building on Alte Bergstrasse is still standing, but is uninhabited today.

The series

The history of Puchheim goes back to the year 950.

In the daily newspaper, the cultural association d'Buachhamer looks back on the most important historical events and developments in the place.

If you want to get an impression on site, you can visit the 22 stations of the history trail.

Source: merkur

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