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Browsing through the past: New book gives insights into life in the past

2022-12-03T07:37:57.638Z


Browsing through the past: New book gives insights into life in the past Created: 03/12/2022 08:04 By: Katrin Hager Thomas Landerer has been collecting historical postcards, photographs, lithographs and documents from his home town of Weyarn for more than 20 years. Now he has put together a book. © Thomas Plettenberg Posing farmers and workers, forgotten farms, memorable events and a vanished


Browsing through the past: New book gives insights into life in the past

Created: 03/12/2022 08:04

By: Katrin Hager

Thomas Landerer has been collecting historical postcards, photographs, lithographs and documents from his home town of Weyarn for more than 20 years.

Now he has put together a book.

© Thomas Plettenberg

Posing farmers and workers, forgotten farms, memorable events and a vanished village: The book "Das Weyarner Land in Alten views" gives an insight into life in the past.

Thomas Landerer put it together from his rich fund.

Weyarn

– It's been a good 20 years since everything started.

"I had a serious accident and didn't go out anymore," remembers Thomas Landerer.

A colleague packed it up and took it to a stamp exhibition in Munich.

Someone was selling old postcards there.

Landerer was fascinated by the windows on the past.

"That's where it started."

Today, the native of Esterndorf, who lives in Hausham, has a unique collection of around 3000 historical postcards, photographs, lithographs and documents from his homeland.

"I've got the postcard virus," says Landerer and laughs.

They show how Weyarn and its surroundings changed from the beginning to the middle of the last century and how people lived back then.

The largest airship of its time, the LZ 127 "Graf Zeppelin", hovered over Holzkirchen, Weyarn and Miesbach ten days after it was commissioned.

© Archive Thomas Landerer

The largest airship in the world hovers over Weyarn

In 2008, Landerer put together such a book with historical views.

"It was sold out after two weeks," the author recalls.

Just recently, someone asked if they could still have a copy.

"People seemed to like it," says Landerer.

He has been putting together the new book since May.

The content is completely different, except for a photo that Landerer has since been able to add information to: The newly built airship "Graf Zeppelin" - at the time the largest of its kind - floats with passengers such as Reichstag President Paul Löbe and technology pioneer Oskar von Miller on board on September 28, 1928 via Weyarn.

"A rarity," says Landerer.

Something that even a savvy collector rarely sees.

Also the construction of the observation tower on the Taubenberg,

Looking out of Landerer's book are workers posing cheekily with cigarettes in the corners of their mouths during the construction of the tunnel from Reichersdorf to Seehamer See, uniformly dressed members of the Gotzing Concordia 1925 cyclists' club or proud athletes at the gymnastics festival on Taubenberg.

You are there when the new bells for St. Dionysius arrive in Neukirchen in 1922 by horse-drawn carriage or in 1941 when the soldiers from Weyarn marching to the front march through Mühlthal to Darching station.

Or when children are given military drills in the Kasperlmühle in the Hitler Youth Leadership School in 1943, just as they posed a few years earlier in the convalescent home with a teddy bear in their arms.

A village that no longer exists: Unterthalham, once with factories and its own train station, on a hand-colored postcard.

© Archive Thomas Landerer

Lost village lives again in color

Old courtyards, some of which have long since been demolished, and their former inhabitants are revived, as is the lost village of Unterthalham - for example in a hand-colored postcard that was painted in colour.

"These are real works of art," explains Landerer.

He also unearthed curious newspaper reports, such as the report about a thief who stole five shirts from the clothesline and a Munich woman’s gold watch chain from the popular Holzollinger teacher Josef Brunhuber – later transferred to Föching.

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The Brucker Kircherl also made it into the edition at the last minute: the book had already been printed when Landerer got hold of a photo album containing St. Rupert.

"I had to take that with me." Without further ado, Landerer redesigned the back of the book.

St. Rupert is no longer in the book, but on it.

The book "The Weyarner Land in old views" (140 pages, color print, high-quality binding) is available for 32 euros at the Alter Wirt and in the Klostercafé Weyarn, in Naring in the Gasthaus zum Goldenen Tal, in Holzolling in the Gasthaus Kreuzmair and on 10./ 11.

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Source: merkur

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