Anton Stetter and Daniel Glasl have rewritten the history of the Schlierachtal.
As of today, your “Exit from Schliersee via Hausham to Miesbach in historical photographs” is available.
At a press conference, the authors revealed why their book is anything but a normal chronicle.
Schlierach- / Leitzachtal
- Chronicles are usually quite difficult.
Not only in terms of weight, but also in terms of reading fluency.
Much dry text, peppered with even more years.
Pictures, on the other hand, are often in short supply, mostly limited to black and white pictures in postage stamp format.
Even the recently published work “Das Schlierachtal” by Anton Stetter and Daniel Glasl is not a book for the back pocket.
And yet it differs from other literature on local history.
As a “coffee table book”, Stetter wants to understand the 329-page “Exit from Schliersee via Hausham to Miesbach in historical photographs”.
A book that you leaf through during a 15-minute coffee break - only to lose yourself in the large-format black-and-white photos.
“We let the pictures tell the stories,” explains Glasl, who, as a photo designer based in Tegernsee, published his first illustrated book almost exactly a year ago - with historical photos from the Tegernsee valley.
Inspired by the Tegernsee
This is also the trigger for the jump over to the Schlierachtal, Stetter reported at a press conference at the Lantenhammer distillery in Hausham.
Glasl's book sold so well in the Tegernsee Arkaden, said the chairman of the Miesbach employers' association (UVM), that as a self-confident Schlierachtaler he thought: "We can do that too."
Together with Glasl, he considered going on a photo tour - geographically and chronologically.
The route leads from Josefstal to Taubenberg, downstream along the Schlierach.
The recordings date from around 1860 to the Second World War.
During their extensive research, Stetter and Glasl discovered how complex the section, which is just eight kilometers long, has developed.
They worked out three focal points in the “conglomerates”: tourism in Schliersee, mining in Hausham and urban development / economy in Miesbach.
Extensive research
In addition to many historians and local historians, clubs and contemporary witnesses also used them as a source.
"I called a 98-year-old in a retirement home to find out who used to live in the house on one of our historical photos," said Stetter.
Existing local chronicles would have turned out to be "valuable pioneering work", even if three different dates could sometimes be found for one and the same event.
“We tried to catch up,” explained Stetter.
Stetter and Glasl thanked not only the many contributors, including Miesbach's city archivist Barbara Wank and Wolfgang Grützner from the Haushamer Bergmannsverein, but also their partners.
A look at the book printed on Gmund paper shows that digging for historical treasures was worth gold in the end.
Because instead of just listing dry historical facts, the authors direct attention to everyday social life.
“We looked people in the face,” said Glasl.
The authors brought many exciting details to light.
For example, that already at the end of the 1920s day trippers stormed the Schliersee mountains en masse.
Or that in Schliersee for five years, unsuccessfully and almost ruinously for the community budget, iodine was drilled in order to be allowed to call itself “bath”.
And that the Haushamer parish church of St. Anton should originally have stood on the Haushamer Alm.
The three mayors present were full of praise for Stetter and Glasl's work.
"The pictures speak for themselves", said Franz Schnitzenbaumer (Schliersee) and nodded appreciatively.
Gerhard Braunmiller (Miesbach) said that he once worked on a chronicle himself.
“It is always very difficult to say when you are really finished.” If Jens Zangenfeind (Hausham) has his way, Glasl and Stetter are happy to continue.
"When the second volume comes out," smirked Zangenfeind, "we'd love to come back."
The book
“Das Schlierachtal” by Anton Stetter and Daniel Glasl was published by Kleineheimat-Verlag and costs 59.90 euros.
It is available in the book oasis in Schliersee, in the Lantenhammer distillery in Hausham, in the book on the market in Miesbach and in the Kolmansberger bookstore in Rottach-Egern.
Online orders are possible at www.schlierach talbuch.de.
Shipping is free.
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