A look at Benediktbeurer history: Sindlhauser books are available again
Created: 12/21/2022, 09:00
By: Christiane Mühlbauer
A picture of the Draxlhof in Benediktbeuern, taken around 1900, is on the cover of the book.
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Abrahamhof farmer Peter Sindlhauser, who died in 2013, gave many insights into rural life in Benediktbeuern in two books.
These are out of stock.
The family is now publishing it as a new book.
Benediktbeuern – February next year will mark the 100th birthday of Peter Sindlhauser, and March 2023 will mark the tenth anniversary of his death.
The Abrahamhof farmer left many traces in the village throughout his life.
Not only was he a wedding loader for decades and Haberfeldmeister for 42 years, he also sat on the municipal council for over 20 years.
But he literally wrote history through his three books, two of which deal with the history of the village from a rural point of view: "The Benediktbeurer Past in Episodes" and "Benediktbeuern, the old Lainggruben".
The booklets, published in 2001 and 2002, are out of print.
"But we're always asked about it," reports daughter-in-law Cordula Sindlhauser.
So the family decided
to republish the two little books as a newly printed "complete work".
The book is bound with a cloth spine, making it easier to hold and read.
It will be available from Thursday, December 22nd.
From the 1950s he took a lot of photographs himself
Peter Sindlhauser was interested in history from an early age.
In the 1950s he began to document rural life with photos, both the hard work and the beautiful festivities and customs.
"The photos of my father are a treasure," says Franz Sindlhauser.
The family has been based at the Abrahamhof since 1590.
But Peter Sindlhauser had also collected pictures of other farms in “Lainggruben”, as Benediktbeuern was called until 1865.
They are shown in the book.
There are many historical photographs in the book.
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History of house names and anecdotes
Granddaughter Elisabeth has been typing her grandfather's books over the past few months, merging them and arranging the photos accordingly.
The story goes back to 1560 and initially tells of the everyday life of the schoolmaster, the first Sindlhauser in the village.
At that time, the parents had to pay taxes to the teacher, and he also received goods in kind from the monastery.
The further course of the book deals with, among other things, church history and carnival, hunting and the rights and duties of farmers.
Sindlhauser reports how the holidays were celebrated and what the impact was when the state became the landlord.
In addition, the old farms are described and anecdotes are told.
"It's so important to know the story, because then you can classify and understand many things better," says Franz Sindlhauser.
His father also described what it was like when the monastery was used as a barracks and conscription was introduced.
The time of inflation in Germany in the 1920s was also dark.
Sindlhauser had an invoice from the former “Grüner Hut” inn in Bichl.
In September 1923, the landlord billed a wedding party of 31 people for 565,600,000 marks.
The bill had been "paid with thanks".
Peter Sindlhauser was born in 1923 and died in 2013. He has written a total of three books.
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When US soldiers had to pull tanks out of the moor
Sindlhauser also documented more recent history, much of it from his own memory.
For example, in September 1960, twice a tank was half-sunk in the moor.
American soldiers used it to pull out a truck that had also gotten stuck.
At that time, the locals made pilgrimages to the moor for days to marvel at the vehicles and observe the rescue attempts.
There are photos of this in the book.
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Sindlhauser's memories are also so valuable because there are no village chronicles in Benediktbeuern.
The new book is now available with a print run of 1000 copies.
The book costs 18 euros and is available from Guest Information, the monastery shop, Baader stationery and the Abrahamhof.
You can find more current news from the region around Bad Tölz at Merkur.de/Bad Tölz.
