From the airfield to the Russian cemetery: a new book illuminates the history of Puchheim
Created: 12/16/2022 11:38 am
By: Kathrin Böhmer
The book about the history trail was created in cooperation with the Tagblatt.
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Just in time for Christmas, the home care association "D'Buachhamer" published a very special book.
Puchheim-Ort - The reader can travel through the city's past and find out about the most important stations, from the airfield to the Russian cemetery.
The idea came up through the Puchheim history trail - and through a series in the daily newspaper.
South of Puchheim-Ort, the Parsberg towers 20 to 30 meters above the surrounding plains.
It alone tells the story of millions of years and times when rhinos, elephants, crocodiles and mammoths lived here.
The subsoil from that time is only visible in a few places such as the eastern slope or the Aubinger Lohe.
After all, glacial runoff from Lake Ammersee and Lake Starnberg carried debris, crushed stone and gravel to Puchheim.
This is how the Munich gravel plain was created - and an excellent filter for drinking water.
The series initially ran in the daily newspaper
This is one of the oldest stories told by the 22 Puchheim panels throughout the city.
And which is now also available in book form, so you can read it in the warm room.
The "D'Buachhamer" association published the 160-page work together with Tagblatt employee Andreas Schwarzbauer.
Schwarzbauer reported back then about the opening of the Puchheim history trail.
This was initiated by Johann Aichner, the former long-time honorary chairman of the association.
A series was created in cooperation with the Tagblatt: Throughout the year 2021, articles based on the history tables appeared again and again.
Then the idea came up: Why not make a book out of the articles?
True teamwork
"We thought it was great how Mr. Schwarzbauer presented it and did additional research," explains current chairwoman Marianne Schuon.
And the people from Buachham don't hesitate when they tackle a project: the work was ready for printing after nine months.
Alexandra Kornacher (board design), Hannelore Keil (editing) and Erich Rosner (overall design) helped a lot.
Erich Hage is also one of the authors of the table texts.
"So it was real teamwork," says Schuon.
Telling the story of her homeland is important to the Ortler, who has lived here for 30 years, for several reasons.
"It contributes a lot to the identification." Again and again, she experiences that people who have just moved here are surprised by what was offered here historically.
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By the way: everything from the region is now also available in our regular
FFB newsletter.)
The Buachhamer therefore also offer guided tours.
One of Schuon's favorite stations, if you want to call them that, is the sign about the airfield.
The first civilian airfield in southern Germany was built in Puchheim in 1910.
"It's just fascinating how contrary the development was here." Once up and coming with spectacular performances by a French aerobatic pilot and tens of thousands of spectators.
And then a very dark chapter followed: With the outbreak of the First World War, all private airfields closed.
Instead, a huge prisoner of war camp was set up on the site, which is still remembered by the name Lagerstraße.
Today, on the former site, there is a part of the town with Mayor's Streets, a sports center, schools and a fairground.
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Books sell like hotcakes
Schuon finds this chapter “very exciting”, as does that of the household waste factory, which went into operation on July 1, 1898.
"Quasi one of the first recycling plants ever," says the Buachhamer chairwoman.
And as macabre as it sounds: Puchheim owes its growth to the Munich garbage.
So there is a lot to read, for the well-informed perhaps one or the other surprising detail, for those new to history a good overview of local history.
The interest seems great.
750 copies were ordered for the first edition.
In the Bräunling bookstore on Lochhauser Strasse, these are already selling like hotcakes: the boss has already ordered more.
Meanwhile, the Buachhamer are already working on the next project.
In 2024, the anniversary of the station building is to be celebrated together with the city.
This will be 125 years old.
And Schuon promises one or the other attraction, and of course: a lot of living history.
The book
is available for 19 euros from the Bräunling bookshop on Lochhauser Straße in Puchheim and from the “D'Buachhamer” association.
Information at www.buachhamer.de.
You can find more current news from the district of Fürstenfeldbruck at Merkur.de/Fürstenfeldbruck.
