For more than 100 years, miners in Hausham have mined coal.
A backbreaking job that the exhibits in the town hall are reminiscent of today.
However, there is no museum.
Hausham - That is what the "Mining Museum Interest Group" wants to change - which was founded 40 years ago on Sunday.
There has been no mining in Hausham for more than 50 years, and former miners and those interested in mining keep the memories of coal mining alive for almost as long.
On October 24, 1981 they founded an association, the "Interest Group Mining Museum Hausham".
There would be no semiconductor industry without mining
Why is it so important to the stakeholders to remember an industry that is out of date? "Everything comes from the mining industry," explains Wolfgang Bloch, the association's second chairman. “We make phone calls with high-tech devices, the components of which we have taken from the earth.” Cobalt, for example, or nickel. Plastics made from petroleum. “No semiconductor company works without mining,” says the doctor of mineralogy. In addition, Hausham’s history and identity cannot be understood without mining. More than 8,000 people worked in mining between Peiting, Peißenberg, Penzberg and Hausham, says Bloch, who comes from a mining family in Essen. Around 1500 people worked in the mining industry in Hausham. “Your work was not without its dangers,” says Bloch. "After the Second World War, they worked extra shifts,so that it could be heated. "
A museum in the basement
In 1982 the association had achieved its goal - after a stubborn tug-of-war: in the basement of the former Haushamer town hall, a life-size replica tunnel with rails and hunt illustrated the work underground.
Mining tools, fossils, films and photos told of mining in the Oberland.
Around 800 visitors came to the museum every year, which the group of interests ran with a lot of passion.
But this museum is also history: after the town hall had moved, it had to vacate its space in spring. As is well known, apartments are being built on the site. Since then, some exhibits have been on display in the new town hall. "It is important to us that there is also the possibility of keeping the mining history alive during the transition phase," says Mayor Jens Zangenfeind (FW). After all, it is part of the local history. “We owe our many associations and our social cohesion to the generation of workers.” The community is currently holding talks with property owners and potential investors. As reported, a museum is to be built near the winding tower. "It looks pretty good at the moment," says Zangenfeind. "I hope that we can present a concept in the next few months."
From mining to building the Munich subway
Good news for the miners, whose frustration was great after the pit was closed in 1966.
Although replacement companies such as WMF had settled in which some were accommodated, it was frustrating for the proud miners, who had worked independently, to stand at a machine that makes pot lids.
Those who found work in the tunnel construction for the Munich subway were more lucky.
All of this needs to be told.
“Our association has not been in deep sleep since the museum was closed,” emphasizes Bloch.
An open day is planned for the town hall soon.
Club members in miner's costume then want to explain the exhibits to visitors.
In addition, a miner's flag from 1850 is currently being restored.
"As soon as it is finished, we'll get something going."
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