In the Gröbenzell Local History and Peat Museum slumbers a very special testimony to long-forgotten carpentry: a roof beam.
This is also an important relic of the earliest history of the place.
Gröbenzell
- The bar comes from one of the first buildings on Gröbenzell.
The really first house was built in 1570.
The order was given by Duke Albrecht V .. One of the first residents was the Gröbenhüter (later Gröbenzöllner), who gave the building its name.
They were the overseers over the Groebenbach and over a street.
However, the Gröbenhüter house has been rebuilt over and over again over the years.
From 1747 the customs station was built at today's Gröbenzeller Hof.
And here the house stood for two and a half centuries - until it was demolished in 2002.
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High carpentry: the construction was built by a Dachau carpenter with seven journeymen.
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It turned out that the house hides "many architecturally valuable details that the layman probably won't even notice," said restorer Thomas Mack in his report.
He regretted that the house had been demolished and advised that parts be preserved to document the earliest history - at least the supports of the roof truss.
"They are evidence of past carpentry of very high quality, of which many a museum would be proud."
The annual rings of the beams revealed the old age of the house.
The roof structure was erected in 68 days by a carpenter from Dachau with seven journeymen.
As an expert report showed, the spruce trees used for this had only been felled in the previous winter and were probably built without any drying time.
The carpenter had invoiced 192 guilders and 40 kreuzers for the roof truss and other woodwork.
In total, the 20 meter long house with the attached stable cost 843 guilders and 58 crowns.
The builder was Ignaz Seemüller, a local customs officer.
He had lived in the previous house with his wife and children since 1745.
But this was dilapidated.
Seemüller applied to the responsible Castenamt for the "repair of the ruinous Zohl dwelling," as Horst Hell writes in his home book.
As Hell also found out, an appraisal showed that repairs were not worthwhile and that a new building was necessary.
But the decision was a long time coming.
Seemüller therefore resorted to self-help: Before the beams fell on his head, he started the new building himself.
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Memorial for the Gröbenhüterhaus on Olchinger Strasse in Gröbenzell.
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The customs officer had to pay for this.
After a tough struggle, he was initially reimbursed only half of the construction costs.
Even then, he would have had to wait for approval first.
And he was accused of enrichment: "because he also hadn't forgotten himself by building additional stables," says Hell's home book.
When the internal customs duties were lifted in 1766, Seemüller asked for his retirement and again for reimbursement of the remaining costs.
He was finally granted both.
Shortly afterwards, the nasty surprise: Seemüller is ultimately up and away with everything that was mobile around the house, as was officially determined.
He was later found again in Allach.
The local museum showed the secured beams in a special exhibition in 2003.
One of the beams is still in the museum today, others are stored in the building yard.
Other parts of the memorial for the former Gröbenhüterhaus on Olchinger Straße can be viewed at any time.
The beam parts were used for the roof structure of the memorial site, reports museum director Werner Urban. (Sus)
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