Local historian discovers something new from Ottobrunn's history

Created: 05.02.2022, 16:30

By: Marc Write

The former Ottobrunn "Hofbräustüberl" (Seebauerstraße 3 and 3a) in 1927. You can read something about this inn in the new book.

© K. Fleisch Photo Institute/Source: Roland Haase

The manuscript for Volume II of “Unser Ottobrunn und Riemerling” is available, proofreading is taking place at the moment.

If all goes well and paper prices don't continue to skyrocket, the book will appear later this year.

Ottobrunn

– Financial resources of 55,000 euros have now been made available in the municipal council.

The proceeds from the sale compensate for a good part of the municipal advance payment.

The community of Ottobrunn takes over the publication and also promises that volume III will also receive support.

3500 and 4000 hours per band

The Ottobrunn local historian Roland Haase sees "the fun of Freud" as a motivation for his voluntary work.

"Some play soccer, others tennis, some climb mountains, and I just write history books." A task that more than fills an entire evening.

He estimates 3500 and 4000 hours per tape.

Mayor Thomas Loderer (CSU) on the municipal council: "You can't put into words the achievement behind it." He has already seen the manuscript of the second volume and, as with the first volume, is impressed by the novelty value and the meticulousness of what was written.

With a lot of depth you learn something from people who have built up an existence.

Thomas Loderer: "I can only warmly recommend that we accept this gift."

It all started with postcards

Roland Haase has always been interested in history.

Ten years ago, he received the initial impetus for the book series “Unser Ottobrunn und Riemerling” from the director of the Otto König von Greece Museum, Jan Murken.

He had already started collecting postcards from Ottobrunn and Riemerling around 50 years ago.

In 2012 he stated that a critical mass had been reached and wanted to put together a postcard book with around 100 copies.

He got Roland Haase to help and found in him the ideal cast.

He studied the cards and set out to discover stories behind the pictures.

He experienced a key experience a short time later when he interviewed an 87-year-old contemporary witness to the former Café Danzer.

The building no longer exists, it was closed in 1970, and knowledge of its history seemed lost.

But then the 87-year-old family member showed up: Josef Danzer.

He spoke to the local historian.

The owner's nephew basically spent his childhood at Café Danzer.

his parents owned a lemonade factory in Neubiberg.

The interviewee died almost 40 days after they met and in this way bequeathed a gift to the community at the last moment with his stories and borrowed photos.

Roland Haase: "If I hadn't taken the opportunity, Josef Danzer's insider knowledge would have been lost forever."

Roland Haase is a passionate local researcher.

© Stäbler/Archive

Good luck finding eyewitnesses

So the local historian continued to look for contemporary witnesses who could contribute something worth reporting to postcards and bring Ottobrunn and Riemerling to life through the ages.

He was very lucky.

The people of Ottobrunn and Riemerling can read about the results in the historical volumes.

"I document the memories that contemporary witnesses have in their heads."

The municipal administration in Ottobrunn is also helpful.

Lots of memories gathered

Roland Haase has researched and written, researched and written.

After four years he realized that he already had much more content than could fit in one volume.

So he wanted to draw the chronological boundary from 1955, when Ottobrunn broke away from the parent municipality of Unterhaching.

But things turned out differently.

Several dozen people from Ottobrunn and Riemerling followed his call in the first volume to enrich the story with their memories.

The echo was overwhelming.

They also brought along photos and old documents.

However, there was also a lot that would have belonged chronologically in the first volume.

That is why Volume II begins as early as 1909.

Every third topic goes back to a reader suggestion.

The strict fixation on postcards was also softened, photographs of a different kind were included so as not to limit the diversity of life in Ottobrunn.

The edition of the book will be 2500 copies.

Here the community is guided by the lively demand for the first volume.