For a whole year, Haimhausen celebrates its first documentary mention 1250 years ago, with music theatre, classical concerts in the castle park, brass band music, cabaret, children’s afternoon and of course a ceremony where not only speeches are given. However, Corona has already left its mark on the program: the Haimhausen theater group canceled their play, it would have been shown from March 25th, and the rehearsals should have taken place in the elementary school. “But we didn’t want to endanger the hygiene concept,” explained chairman Helmut Hinterholzer. The school also canceled its school festival, which was planned for the end of April and should also have been dedicated to the anniversary.
Of course, Haimhausen has been inhabited for much longer than 1250 years, not just since the Celtic tribe of the Ambronen, which can still be found today in the name of the river Amper. But on August 18, 772, the place emerges from the darkness of history as “Heiminhusir”. Then the nobleman Rihperht handed over the inheritance of his mother Adalswind to the Freising Cathedral, which was recorded in writing in a declaration of transfer that has survived to this day in the Freising traditions. In addition to other places in the area, this heritage also included “Heiminhusir”, including maids, servants, freedmen, meadows, fields and forests.
Around 100 helpers will be involved in the planned music theater “The Secret of Haimhausen”.
The Kulturkreis’s theater ensemble promises an explosive evening of musical theater when they reveal the “Secret of Haimhausen”.
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“Between Fake and Facts” is how Marja-Leena Varpio, Chairwoman of the Haimhausen Cultural Group, describes the planned music theater entitled “The Secret of Haimhausen”, to which the cultural group is inviting audiences from Friday, June 24th. Around 100 helpers and contributors will be there. Although the play refers to the history of the community, it is set in two different time periods and finally reveals the secret of the town’s sudden economic rise after the 30-year war.
Varpio calls the production “semi-professional” because of the theater ensemble and the choir voice break and the Haimhauser Dorfmusik would consist of amateurs, but with author Carsten Golbeck, director Philipp Jescheck, stage designer Andreas Schiebel and the musicians from dr Will & The Wizards you also have professionals on board. For Varpio, the latest production of the culture group is an “adventure playground for grown-ups”. In any case, she promises a spectacle that will be performed on June 25th, 29th and 30th and on July 1st and 2nd in the Haniel’schen Stadl. Advance ticket sales start at the end of March. When and where will be announced in good time.
For a long time there were only house numbers in Haimhausen, no street names
Hans Schindlböck and Hiltrud Frühauf are working flat out on the book on Haimhauser street names. It has to be ready by August.
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Haimhausen already has a chronicle, created in the best possible way by the former Haimhausen teacher and local researcher Markus Bogner. That is why the working group on local history concentrated on the meaning of the street names when it came to writing a new book about the place for the big anniversary. Until the 1960s, Haimhausen, like almost all communities, only had house numbers, no street names. An important source was therefore the first Haimhausen street directory from 1977, in which the then mayor wrote down the meaning of the eight to ten streets that existed at that time. “That was the hook for our street name book,” says Hans Schindlböck from the local history working group, and now there are 94 streets. No wonder the book is longer than expected, with two or three texts still missing.
The team, which also includes Hiltrud Frühauf and Gabriele Donder-Langer, dug deep into the history of the place to find out the meaning of the street names. “It’s on a high historical level. We’ve done extensive research, which is why there are endless footnotes. We had to put them in an extra appendix,” says Schindlböck. There are not only stories about field names, but also about artists, old houses and counts. A “Castrum” in Haimhausen is mentioned as early as the 13th century, and Haimhausen has been a Hofmark since the 16th century. The current castle was built in 1660 after the previous structure was destroyed by fire. The history of the lords of the castle in Dachau, who were not just administrators, is roughly divided by Schindlböck: “The Viehbecks were here for the first 200 years, then the Butlers for 100 years and the Haniels for 100 years.” The new Haimhausen book will be presented at the anniversary ceremony on Thursday, August 18, in the Golden Hall of the palace, which today houses a private school.
Some of the paintings that the Heimatmuseum team, Elke Niedermair (left) and Dörthe von Haniel, will be showing at the anniversary exhibition have already been decided.
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The team at the Haimhauser Heimatmuseum is still relaxed about the opening of the anniversary exhibition. “It won’t be our turn until October, before that there’s enough else,” says Dörthe von Haniel from the local history museum team. For the anniversary exhibition, she and Elke Niedermair have come up with something special: “We are looking for Haimhauser motifs in the depot and put photos from today next to them. That doesn’t work with every motif, but with many.” There is also a short biography for each artist.
Like Dachau, Haimhausen was an artist colony in the 19th and 20th centuries
The selection of paintings is large because Haimhausen, like Dachau, was an artist colony in the 19th and 20th centuries. The founder was Bernhard Buttersack, a landscape painter from the Munich School. In 1889 he was drawn to the Dachauer Moos because of the landscape and the light, he lived first in Oberschleißheim, then in Haimhausen from 1893. There he had a house with a studio built and opened a painting school. The artists, says Dörthe von Haniel, naturally caused a stir in the small farming village, “that was fascinating, the lifestyle of the painters, but people also enjoyed it, and not just because the rent was a small extra income.”
Works by Buttersack’s students will also be on display at the anniversary exhibition, as well as by Max Bergmann, who is attributed to late German Impressionism. “These are depictions of animals, so we have to put a tractor next to them,” says Dörte von Haniel with a smile. There will also be contemporary painters, such as a sculpture by Wolfgang Sand, who has had his studio in Haimhausen since 1986.
Delegations from the partner communities have also announced that they will attend the celebrations
The Board of Directors of the Warriors and Soldiers Association (from left) consisting of Martin Hachinger, Thomas Erlebach and Martin Kranz is already planning the celebration of the 150th birthday.
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From Wednesday, May 25th to Sunday, May 29th, apart from corona imponderables, the celebrations for the 1250th anniversary of Haimhausen will take place. Delegations from the partner communities have also announced their attendance. Two cabaret evenings are also planned in the marquee, with Luise Kinseher (Thursday, May 26) and Django Asül (Saturday, May 28). This is followed seamlessly by the birthday celebration of the Haimhausen Warriors and Soldiers Association, which celebrates its 150th anniversary on Sunday, May 29th. This should actually have taken place in the previous year, but the festivity was postponed by a year due to Corona. Dozens of delegations of Bavarian soldiers, reservists and other associations in formation will then organize a procession through the decorated village, after a gun salute at 7 a.m., white sausage breakfast and before the final field service in front of the castle.
On Saturday, July 23rd, fans of classical music will meet in the castle park for an open-air event, before the local cultural pub invites you to the “Haimhausen ART” at various locations in the community on September 10th and 11th. “Always this youth” is the title of an event to which the local youth center is inviting on October 14th. A big choir evening takes place in November. The anniversary year ends with the Haimhauser Christmas market.