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Municipality in Bavaria, Germany

Haimhausen Municipality Schloss Haimhausen Coat of arms Location of Haimhausen within Dachau district Location of Haimhausen Haimhausen Show map of Germany Haimhausen Show map of Bavaria Coordinates: 48°19′N 11°34′E / 48.317°N 11.567°E / 48.317; 11.567 Country Germany State Bavaria Admin. region Oberbayern District Dachau Subdivisions 8 Ortsteile Government • Mayor (2020–26) Peter Felbermeier[1] (CSU) Area • Total 26.73 km2 (10.32 sq mi) Elevation 487 m (1,598 ft) Population (2024-12-31)[2] • Total 5,615 • Density 210.1/km2 (544.1/sq mi) Time zone UTC+01:00 (CET) • Summer (DST) UTC+02:00 (CEST) Postal codes 85778 Dialling codes 08133 Vehicle registration DAH Website www.haimhausen.de

**Haimhausen** is a [municipality](/source/Municipalities_of_Germany) located on the [Amper River](/source/Amper) in the district of [Dachau](/source/Dachau_(district)) in [Bavaria](/source/Bavaria), Germany, about 20 kilometres north of [Munich](/source/Munich).

## Geography

Haimhausen borders directly on a marshy area called the Dachauer Moos. The landscape around Haimhausen has springs, oxbow lakes, mossy fields, forests, bogs, swamps, and wild grass meadows. Some of the natural areas are still ecologically valuable and are home to rare plants and animals.

The following villages belong to the Haimhausen community: Amperpettenbach, Hörgenbach, Inhausen, Inhausermoos, Maisteig, Oberndorf, Ottershausen and Westerndorf.

## History

According to local legend, Haimhausen was founded by three brothers: Heimo, Petto and Indo, (which form the placenames Haimhausen, Amperpettenbach and Inhausen), these three villages are near each other.

Nevertheless, the area around Haimhausen may have been inhabited as far back as the [Bronze Age](/source/Bronze_Age).[3]

Haimhausen first appeared on a document in AD 772 as 'Heiminhusir'. It one time had a court square (Schranne) in AD 829. Haimhausen had always been a noble estate since the Middle Ages. The complicated ownership of land showed transfers of estates from various noble houses. A simple castle or manor house (Schloss) was first mentioned in the late 13th century. The first record of a Catholic church (St. Nikolaus) was in 1485.[4]

Haimhausen was in the middle of hereditary feuds by various Bavarian ducal houses in the late Middle Ages, especially the [House of Wittelsbach](/source/House_of_Wittelsbach). On August 5, 1504, during the [War of the Succession of Landshut](/source/War_of_the_Succession_of_Landshut) (Landshuter Erbfolgekrieg) Haimhausen was burnt to the ground.

During the [Thirty Years War](/source/Thirty_Years_War), Haimhausen was severely damage by the invading Swedes in 1632 during their march to Munich, followed by a plague in 1633/1634. Then later in the war, the town was attacked again by Swedes and French in 1648, and again decimated by plague in 1649. The manor house/castle was rebuilt in 1660.[5][6]

By the mid-18th century, the castle came under the ownership of [Count Sigmund von Haimhausen](/source/Sigmund_von_Haimhausen). He would later be the founding president of the [Bavarian Academy of Sciences](/source/Bavarian_Academy_of_Sciences_and_Humanities), and the [Nymphenburg Porcelain Factory](/source/Nymphenburg_Porcelain_Manufactory).

Haimhausen had a 400 year-old beer brewery until it closed in 2019 and converted into a Wirtshaus/Restaurant, (Schlossbrauerei Haimhausen).[7]

The modern community of Haimhausen, as a municipality, was created during the Bavarian Administrative Reforms of 1818.[8]

By the late 19th century, Haimhausen and the surrounding villages became a magnate for artists to sketch and paint portraits of the various landscapes. In 1895, the artist [Bernhard Buttersack](/source/Bernhard_Buttersack) began an artists colony, similar to one in [Dachau](/source/Dachau_art_colony). He founded an art studio in Ottershausen to teach his students. By the 1920s, the artist Max Bergmann moved to Haimhausen and taught students for 30 years. His students included Arthur Niso, Helene Harth, Alice Krüger and Hermann Koenemann. With the death of Paul Erbe in 1972, the small art colony vanished.[9]

Near the end of the Second World War, units of the U.S. Army passed through Haimhausen and the surrounding areas in late April 1945, shortly before the liberation of [Dachau](/source/Dachau_concentration_camp) and Munich.[10]

In 1998, [Haimhausen Castle](/source/Schloss_Haimhausen) became the location of the [Bavarian International School](/source/Bavarian_International_School). The school is designed to cater to children/teens of English-speaking [expatriates](/source/Expatriate) and professionals from all over the world for short-term work in the Munich area.[11]

In 2018, St. Nikolaus Church was renovated at a cost of about 4 million euros.[12]

In May 2026, Haimhausen celebrated the 155th anniversary of the founding of their local fire department. The highlight of the event was a comedy night with political cabaretist Wolfgang Krebs. [13]

## Businesses and Services

Haimhausen has several shops and restaurants on its main streets: including a bike shop, post office, flower shop, butcher, bakery, shoe shop, ice-cream parlor, mini-supermarket and Shell petrol station. Not to mention the Rathaus (City Hall), a bank, a sportsclub (SV Haimhausen),[14] driving school, elementary and middle-school, pharmacy and several medical/dental clinics. It has its own motorway exit on the Autobahn A99. Haimhausen also has an adventure playground and skatepark.

The current Mayor (Bürgermeister) of Haimhausen is Stefan Jänicke-Spicker (Local Citizens Party, since 2026).

A small hydropower facility on the Amper, between Haimhausen and Ottershausen, has been in operation since 1902 and sells renewable electricity to local customers.[15]

## Objects of interest

- [Description of the Schlosskapelle](http://www.kirchenundkapellen.de/haimhausen-schloss.htm)

- [Description of the church St.Martin in Amperpettenbach](https://web.archive.org/web/20160303210255/http://www.kirchenundkapellen.de/amperpettenbach.htm)

- [Description of the church St.Peter und Paul in Westerndorf](http://www.kirchenundkapellen.de/westerndorf-portal.htm)

- [Description of the Stidlkapelle in Oberndorf](http://www.kirchenundkapellen.de/kirchenko/oberndorf.htm)

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** [Liste der ersten Bürgermeister/Oberbürgermeister in kreisangehörigen Gemeinden](https://www.statistik.bayern.de/wahlen/kommunalwahlen/bgm/), [Bayerisches Landesamt für Statistik](/source/Bayerisches_Landesamt_f%C3%BCr_Statistik), accessed 19 July 2021.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** ["Gemeinden, Kreise und Regierungsbezirke in Bayern, Einwohnerzahlen am 31. Dezember 2024; Basis Zensus 2022"](https://www.statistik.bayern.de/mam/produkte/veroffentlichungen/statistische_berichte/a1210c_202400.pdf) [Municipalities, counties, and administrative districts in Bavaria; Based on the 2022 Census] (CSV) (in German). [Bayerisches Landesamt für Statistik](/source/Bayerisches_Landesamt_f%C3%BCr_Statistik).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** ["Die Geschichte von Haimhausen"](https://www.haimhausen.de/kultur-geschichte/ueber-haimhausen/die-geschichte-von-haimhausen/). *Gemeinde Haimhausen* (in German). Retrieved 2023-09-08.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** ["Haimhausen-St.Nikolaus - Kirchen und Kapellen im Dachauer Land"](http://kirchenundkapellen.de/kirchen/haimhausen-1.php). *kirchenundkapellen.de*. Retrieved 2023-09-08.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** Gemeinde Haimhausen im Landkreis Dachau - Die Geschichte von Haimhausen. [https://haimhausen.de/index.php?id=0,26](https://haimhausen.de/index.php?id=0,26) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20210622224307/https://haimhausen.de/index.php?id=0,26) 2021-06-22 at the [Wayback Machine](/source/Wayback_Machine)

1. **[^](#cite_ref-6)** Christian Pantle: Der Dreissigjährige Krieg. Als Deutschland in Flammen stand. Propyläen Ullstein Buchverlage GmbH, Berlin 2017, [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-3-549-07443-5](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-3-549-07443-5), S. 128 ff.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-7)** ["Kult-Brauerei muss nach 400 Jahren dichtmachen"](https://www.merkur.de/lokales/dachau/haimhausen-ort28784/haimhausen-bayern-kult-brauerei-muss-nach-400-jahren-dichtmachen-landkreis-dachau-13059068.html). *www.merkur.de* (in German). 2019-12-11. Retrieved 2023-09-08.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-8)** Bayern (1818). [*Gesetzblatt für das Königreich Bayern: 1818*](https://books.google.com/books?id=WrREAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA49) (in German).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-9)** Ottilie Thiemann-Stoedter: Die Malerkolonie Haimhausen. In: Amperland. Jg. 10, 1974, S. 518–527.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-10)** ["Haimhausen - Kriegsende - Kirchen und Kapellen im Dachauer Land"](http://kirchenundkapellen.de/kirchen/haimhausen-z-kriegsende45.htm). *kirchenundkapellen.de*. Retrieved 2023-09-08.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-11)** ["BIS | Bavarian International School in Munich"](https://www.bis-school.com/). *www.bis-school.com*. Retrieved 2023-09-08.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-12)** ["Es strahlt wieder golden"](https://www.merkur.de/lokales/dachau/haimhausen-ort28784/goldenes-turmkreuz-von-st-nikolaus-in-haimhausen-restauriert-10844282.html). *www.merkur.de* (in German). 2018-12-11. Retrieved 2023-09-08.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-13)** Münchner Merkur. Fest zum 155-jährigen Bestehen - Darüber spricht Haimhausen noch lange. 18 Mai, 2026

1. **[^](#cite_ref-14)** ["SV Haimhausen – Willkommen beim SV Haimhausen"](https://svhaimhausen.de/). *SV Haimhausen*.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-15)** ["E-Werke Haniel Haimhausen - YouTube"](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCefx8EHip9HfrXIsE6x9v2w). *www.youtube.com*. Retrieved 2023-09-08.

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