In addition to the Dachau concentration camp memorial, there are other places in the old town of Dachau and the immediate surroundings that bear witness to the history of National Socialism.
In addition to the Dachau concentration camp memorial, there are other places in the old town of Dachau and the immediate surroundings that bear witness to the history of National Socialism.
Resistance Square | 85221 Dachau
Transport connection: Bus 719 / 720 / 722 (town hall)
In memory of the so-called Dachau Uprising and the citizens and concentration camp prisoners who lost their lives in it, the former “Platz an der Stadtlinde“ was given its current name in November 1946.
On April 28, 1945, Dachau concentration camp prisoners and Dachau citizens occupied the town hall. The uprising was put down by SS units.
A memorial plaque to the victims of the Dachau Uprising is located in the immediate vicinity of the savings bank building.
Listen to the contribution of the Audio tour to the place of resistance:
Konrad-Adenauer-Straße 2 - 6 | 85221 Dachau
Transport connection: Bus 719 / 720 / 722 (town hall)
Dachau commemorates the expulsion and murder of its Jewish citizens with two bronze plaques at the town hall.
In connection with the anti-Semitic progroms on November 9, 1938, the last Dachau residents of Jewish faith were expelled from their hometown.
Konrad-Adenauer-Straße 2 - 6 | 85221 Dachau
Transport connection: Bus 719 / 720 / 722 (town hall)
Since November 2005, fifteen so-called „Stumbling Stones“ by the artist Gunter Demnig have been laid in Dachau. You will find 2 Stolpersteine in Dachau's old town and 13 more in the town area.
The Stolpersteine are small memorial plaques made of brass, which the artist places in the pavement or pavement of the respective sidewalk in memory of the persecuted and murdered victims of the Nazi era in front of their last chosen place of residence. All people who suffered under the National Socialist regime are commemorated: Jews, Sinti and Roma, politically persecuted people, religiously persecuted people, Jehovah's Witnesses, homosexuals, mentally and/or physically disabled people, forced laborers and dessert workers.
Dachau has its own Dachau Stumbling Stones Working Group for this project, which is preparing the laying of the stones. The Dachau Forum, the Evangelical Church of Reconciliation and the contemporary history expert Richard Seidl are members of this group.
Theodor-Heuss-Str. / Sudetenlandstr. | 85221 Dachau
Transport connection: Bus 720/722 and 726 (J.F. Kennedy-Platz)
To commemorate the victims of the Dachau death march, Hubertus von Pilgrim designed a bronze sculpture that was erected at several stations where the SS had driven the prisoners past.
The evacuation march of the 6887 prisoners from the Dachau concentration camp, who had to leave for the south on April 26, 1945, began here.
Protestant Church of Reconciliation at the Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site
Evangelical Church of Peace Association for intern. Youth meeting and memorial work in Dachau
Dachau District Catholic Council
City of Dachau, Office for Culture, Tourism and Contemporary History
Further information can be obtained from the Dachauer Forum e.V:
Krankenhausstr. | 85221 Dachau
Transport connection: Bus 720/722 (Waldfriedhof)
After the Second World War, 1,268 concentration camp prisoners who died after the liberation of Dachau concentration camp were laid to rest in the forest cemetery.
The Jewish prisoners who perished on the death march from the Flossenbürg concentration camp to Dachau also rest here. A four-metre-high memorial was erected on the cemetery in their memory.
There is also a memorial to the Austrian victims of Dachau concentration camp, as well as a memorial stone to the victims of the Dachau Uprising (integrated into a row of graves near the main entrance).
Münchner Straße | 85241 Hebertshausen
Transport connection: From the memorial drive in the direction of Hebertshausen; turn left before Hebertshausen.
The memorial commemorates the more than 4,000 Soviet prisoners of war who were shot by members of the Dachau SS camp in 1941 and 1942.
An exhibition describes the historical context of the crime, biographies of the victims and the post-war history of the memorial site.
An artistic installation referring to the former crime scene contains the names of those murdered so far.
More than 4,000 Soviet prisoners of war were murdered on the Hebertshausen SS firing range in 1941/42. But it took almost 70 years for the shooting range to become a memorial - until 2014.
Further information is available from the concentration camp memorial.
A couple from Hebertshausen who live nearby talk about their connection to the memorial site.
Authors: Nora Limbach, Anna Schwarz, Speaker: Anna Schwarz
This station was created as part of the Hörpfade binational project. A cooperation between the Mauthausen - Gusen - St. Georgen memorial region and the Dachau Land region. The project was supported with LEADER funds from Perg Strudengau (A) and Dachau AGIL(D).
Leitenberg near Etzenhausen
85221 Dachau
The chapel is only open for some devotions.
Transport connection:
Parking at the foot of the Leitenberg. By public transport bus 720/722 to Etzenhausen, Veltenstr., then 15 minutes on foot.
The Leitenberg, built by the SS as a mass grave, contains the final resting places of 7,609 concentration camp prisoners.
All the mass graves were exhumed by the French Tracing Service for War Victims between 1955 and 1959. Identified victims were repatriated, the remaining dead were reburied on the Leitenberg. The cemetery of honor was inaugurated in 1949, the memorial hall two years later. The „Regina Pacis“ chapel was built in 1963 in memory of all the Italians who lost their lives. A memorial stone for the Polish victims was added in 1999.
Transport connection:
Bus 744 „Herb garden“
The former „herb garden“, where many prisoners died, is located directly next to the concentration camp memorial.
Munich-based artist Beo Tomek has created a virtual tour of the site: Plantage Dachau (plantage-dachau.de)
On May 7, 1967, the State Association of Jewish Communities in Bavaria inaugurated a Jewish memorial on the grounds of the Dachau concentration camp memorial. Designed by Zvi Guttmann, the parabolic-shaped building leads down a ramp into the depths and thus commemorates the extermination of European Jewry. At the lowest point, light enters the memorial through an opening. A menorah made of Peki'in marble - a seven-branched candelabrum - is located at the top of the building. The Israeli site of Peki'in symbolizes the continuity of Jewish life.
Bus 724/726 (memorial site)
Accessible during the opening hours of the memorial
(daily 09:00 - 17:00);
On August 5, 1960, the chapel was consecrated by the former Dachau prisoner and Munich Auxiliary Bishop Johannes Neuhäusler.
Archbishop (1952-1960) Joseph Cardinal Wendel chose the name „Of the Agony of Christ“ as a „reference to the agony under which tens of thousands of inmates had suffered day and night for years in this camp“.
The tower-like rotunda, open to the camp grounds, was designed by Munich professor Josef Wiedemann. The structure consists of unhewn pebbles (from the Isar riverbed near Bad Tölz), which were built around a reinforced concrete wall on the inside and outside.
Transport connection:
Bus 724/726 (memorial site)
Accessible during the opening hours of the memorial
(daily 09:00 - 17:00);
Devotion: Every first Friday of the month 2.30 pm
Free guided tours for groups on request.
The church, which was consecrated in 1967, is located on the grounds of the memorial site of the former Dachau concentration camp.
The structure of the church is reminiscent of a path that slowly leads into the depths - a symbol of suffering and dying, but also of contradiction and resistance.
Transport connection:
Bus 724/726 (memorial site)
Accessible during the opening hours of the memorial
(daily 09:00 - 17:00);
Church service Sunday 11:00 am;
Free guided tours for groups on request.
The monastery (Karmel = „vineyard of God“) is located directly to the north of the concentration camp memorial. It was built according to plans by Josef Wiedemann and consecrated in 1964. There are currently 16 Carmelite nuns in the convent, which was founded for prayer and in memory of the many victims.
The monastery is open all day.
Monastery store open:
Monday - Saturday 09:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m;
Sunday 10:00 am - 11:00 am
Church service
Sunday 09:00 a.m.
Rooms for a retreat / retreat are available by appointment.
Transport connection
Bus 724/726 (memorial site)
With the end of the East-West conflict, the public began to come to terms with the fate of the Soviet prisoners, the third largest group of victims of Dachau concentration camp. The initiative to erect the „Resurrection of Our Lord“ memorial chapel came from the Russian Orthodox church leaders in Germany and Russia as well as the Embassy of the Russian Federation. The design was created by the architect Valentin Utkin.
The octagonal wooden building was prefabricated in Moscow and erected by soldiers of the Russian armed forces in Dachau in 1994. The Metropolitan of Nizhny Novgorod and Arsamas, Nikolai Kutepov, consecrated the chapel on April 29, 1995.
Transport connection:
Bus 724/726 (memorial site)
Accessible during the opening hours of the memorial
(daily 09:00 - 17:00)
