A separate Geretsrieder issue for the Sudetenstrasse
Created: 04/11/2022, 20:00
By: Doris Schmid
Forerunner: As early as 1823 there was a connection from Einöd to Geretsried in the Wolfratshauser Forest.
© Helmut Schmidmeier
The amateur historian Helmut Schmidmeier has dedicated his own Geretsrieder issue to the Sudetenstrasse.
The street has borne this name for 70 years.
Geretsried – The Sudetenstrasse has a special meaning for Helmut Schmidmeier.
It has borne this name for 70 years.
"The traffic route that is known today was built in 1823," reports the member of the Historical Geretsried working group.
Schmidmeier sees the street as a central signpost through the history of Geretsried.
Reason enough for the 83-year-old to dedicate a publication to her.
A separate Geretsrieder issue for the Sudetenstrasse
In his 36-page special issue 6 of the "Geretsrieder Hefte" series, Schmidmeier explains the history of Geretsried briefly and concisely using the example of the Sudetenstraße, which was once a forest path and served as a traffic route within the Munitionswerk Deutsche Sprengchemie (DSC) during the armament period.
According to the former surveyor, the two ammunition plants DSC and Dynamit AG (DAG) were built on an area that did not belong to any municipality and was called the "Wolfratshausen forest district".
"Part of this forest district still exists today," adds Schmidmeier.
Helmut Schmidmeier is an enthusiastic amateur historian.
© Hans Lippert
An old name of the Wolfratshauser forest is the name "Church princely Farchenwald", the history of which begins in 1004 with a document from Emperor Heinrich II.
Farchenbaum is the southern German name for the pine, the type of tree that once dominated the Wolfratshauser forest.
And according to the amateur historian, some streets in the two Geretsrieder districts of Gartenberg and Geretsried go back in their basic structure to this Farchenwald.
Chief Forester Mathias Schilcher, who was also the landowner in Dietramszell, suggested around 1820 that a new crossing, a ferry, should be built across the Isar in Einöd in order to improve traffic conditions east of the river.
He caused a dead-straight aisle to be cut from the ferry to the village of Geretsried, to the "Chaussee" to Mittenwald, today's B11.
The newly created royal road construction commission then had the road built and extended the new road on the right side of the Isar to Bad Tölz.
It was not until a hundred years later that a bridge was built over the Isar, albeit a little further north near Tattenkofen.
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The road surface of this nameless forest road was replaced with concrete during the construction of the munitions works in 1936.
Schmidmeier: "As an industrial road, it was in turn the central development axis of the munitions plant." In 1952, the main artery in the south of the city was given the name Sudetenstrasse - the Sudetes are a 310-kilometer-long mountain range in Germany, the Czech Republic and Poland.
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The Sudetenstraße is also special for Schmidmeier because history can be experienced through it.
There is always great interest in the popular “Bunker in the Forest” city tours along the road.
In the east it ends at a forest.
There one of the last taxiways from the armament period leads in a straight line to the Isar.
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The special issue 6 “From the Electoral Farchenwald to the Sudetenstraße” is available, like all publications of the Historical Geretsried Working Group, at the following points of sale: Geretsried town hall and museum, Gelting village shop, Osiander bookshop, Schröter office supplies and Sparkasse branches.
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