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The hand-drawn map, created around 1830, shows many settlements.
Within around 110 years, the number of residents has increased almost tenfold.
© Hochenauer
A lot has happened in Hohenpeißenberg in the past 200 years: the village has changed significantly, especially as a result of mining.
This report examines the period up to the end of the Second World War.
Hohenpeißenberg
– About 200 years ago, things looked completely different in Hohenpeißenberg: there were almost no houses where the main street runs today.
On the south side there was no real street that ran through the town, and it didn't even exist as such.
And there was no road leading to the Hohen Peißenberg on the south side either.
The first street in the south of the town was only built in 1889.
Until then, the road that was called “Main Street” was the one that ran on the north side of the mountain.
It led from Peißenberg over the steep Schlagberg past Krönau towards Hetten and then went to Peiting.
All commercial traffic took place on it.
It was also used by Ludwig II when he traveled to Neuschwanstein by carriage.
In the period around 1810, Hohenpeißenberg consisted of 17 loose settlements, often with only a few houses.
Some of them have only changed slightly, such as the Krönau or the Pröbstlberg.
In most districts there has been so much construction that they have grown together with other settlements.
A look at the hand-made map, which is around 200 years old, clearly shows this change.
Within around 110 years, the number of residents has increased almost tenfold
The big boost for local development in Hohenpeißenberg came from the mine, which began in 1837 in the area of today's main tunnel and grew continuously on the substructure from 1847 onwards.
Because a lot of workers were needed in the mine, more living space had to be created in the area.
While Hohenpeißenberg had a population of 374 in 1840, it was already 646 in 1871. The population was steadily increasing; 30 years later, around 1900, it was already 1,077. In 1925 the town had more than 2100 inhabitants.
25 years later, in 1950, 3,575 people lived in Hohenpeißenberg - after the Second World War, many refugees were accommodated in the town.
Within around 110 years, the population had increased almost tenfold.
120 years ago the town had no center; for centuries the central point was the mountain.
There was the church, the inn, the cemetery and the school.
The children hiked up the mountain to school six days a week and the adults hiked up the mountain to church on Sundays.
Even the growth and influx of workers did not change this.
Mining was also the driving force for further housing construction.
Construction of buildings around the main tunnel began in the 1840s.
A good 50 years later, residential buildings were built in the Ammerhöfe area.
The children from Ammerhöfe had to go to school on the mountain.
In 1906, on the initiative of Leonhard Klein, five single-family houses were built on what is now Blumenstrasse.
This settlement was called a “colony”.
In 1906 five single-family homes were built
After the First World War, the construction of single-family houses continued on Blumenstrasse - at that time the area was called “Brandach”.
At the same time, a building cooperative was founded in Hohenpeißenberg, which built apartment buildings near the main tunnel from 1919 and then on today's Wankstrasse and Jahnstrasse in 1929.
This building cooperative was very active and was forced by the state to merge with the Peißenberg building cooperative in 1942.
After 1933, construction took place in what is now Brandachstrasse and at Steinfall - at that time the motto was “we create living space for the national community”.
Between 1939 and 1945 there was a standstill in the construction of housing.
The building material was needed for more state-important buildings.
Purchase certificates were needed for cement and other building materials.
It was only after the Second World War that construction activity in Hohenpeißenberg gained new momentum.
Rudi Hochenauer