Between 1546 and 1577, the House of Wittelsbach had the Dachau Palace erected in the Renaissance style.

The Nymphenburg Palace was enlarged, the Dachau Palace redesigned and the new Schleissheim Palace was constructed during his reign.

The first known documentation of Dachau was a medieval deed by the Noble Erchana of Dahauua to the Bishop of Freising, both descendants of the lineage of the Aribons.

It is located on the grounds of an abandoned munitions factory near the medieval town of Dachau, about northwest of Munich in the state of Bavaria, in southern Germany.

The building material recovered from the demolition of three wings of the Dachau castle was transported to Schleißheim this way.

The town is also known for its proximity to the infamous Dachau concentration camp built in 1933 by the Nazis, in which tens of thousands of prisoners were murdered.

The name “ Dachau ” originated in the Celtic Dahauua, which roughly translates to “ loamy meadow ” and also alludes to the loamy soil of the surrounding hills.

The town is also served by Dachau Stadt Railway Station which serves the local A line with the rural vicinity.

There are five bus lines which are operated by Stadtwerke Dachau: 719, 720, 722, 724 and 726.

Dachau is connected to Bundesautobahn 92 via Oberschleißheim connector which is located east of Dachau.

Bundesautobahn 99 is connected with Dachau via Karlsfeld which is located south of Dachau.

These differed from concentration camps, such as Dachau and Belsen, which were initially prison camps for people defined as socially or politically undesirable in Nazi society.

Known as the " Death's Head Units ", the SS-TV was first organized as several battalions, each based at one of Germany's major concentration camps, the oldest of which was at Dachau.

Notable internment and concentration camps include Dachau, Dieselstrasse, Marzahn ( which evolved from a municipal internment camp ) and Vennhausen.

: Serling meted out nightmarish justice of a worse kind in " Deaths-Head Revisited " ( directed by Don Medford ), Serling's statement on the Holocaust, written in reaction to the then-ongoing Eichmann trial, in which a former Nazi, played by Oscar Beregi, on a nostalgic visit to Dachau, is haunted and ultimately driven insane by the ghosts of inmates he had killed there during the war.

However, it was later renamed because documents from the Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal linked Strughold to medical experiments in which inmates from Dachau were tortured and killed.

As an officer he was given better treatment than most of the 22, 000 inmates of Flossenburg, who were forcibly evacuated on the 220 km death march to Dachau concentration camp, during which one third died.

There he meets a young SS Soldier who informs him that his mission there is to convince the local bishop to cooperate with the Nazi Party, in which case he will not be sent back to Dachau.

It borders ( from the north and clockwise ) the districts of Dachau, Freising, Erding, Ebersberg, Rosenheim, Miesbach, Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen, Starnberg, Fürstenfeldbruck, and almost encircles ( except for the west and northwest sides ) district-free city Munich itself, which is the district seat.

On September 15, 1944 both Patriarch Gavrilo V of Serbia ( Dožić ) and Bishop Nikolaj were sent to the Dachau concentration camp, which was at that time the main concentration camp for priests arrested by the Nazis.

During the liberation of the sub-camps surrounding Dachau ( which happened on the same day as the main camp's surrender on 29 April ) the advance scouts of the US Army's 522nd Field Artillery Battalion, a Nisei-manned segregated Japanese-American Allied military unit, liberated the 3, 000 prisoners of the " Kaufering IV Hurlach " slave labor camp.

* Dachau is depicted as the setting for The Twilight Zone episode " Deaths-Head Revisited ", in which a former SS captain revisits the place he once worked in and the ghosts of the men who died there.

During his time there, he performed for Adolf Hitler and visited the Dachau concentration camp which made him a controversial figure for many Dutch.

In late April 1945 he and about 140 other prominent inmates of Dachau were transferred to Tyrol by the SS, which left them there.

The following description is based on the badge coding system used before and during the early stages of the war in the Dachau concentration camp, which had one of the more elaborate coding systems.

In November 1944, she was assigned to the Mühldorf subcamp of Dachau concentration camp, and Elisabeth Volkenrath became head of the crumbling Auschwitz empire of camps, which were liberated in early January 1945.

After the " Anschluss ", the Nazis deported Figl to Dachau concentration camp in 1938, from which he was released in May 1943.

During the Second World War, she became an acclaimed war correspondent for Vogue, covering events such as the London Blitz, the liberation of Paris, and the concentration camps at Buchenwald and Dachau.

He saw the Buchenwald and Dachau concentration camps after they were liberated, and became disillusioned with Communism when he encountered Russian slave laborers who had been taken to Nazi Germany by force but refused to return to the Soviet Union at the end of the war.

In the last months of the war, the conditions at Dachau became even worse.

Further, in 1935, Dachau became the training center for the concentration camps service.

For Gellhorn, Dachau had " changed everything ", and she became a lifelong champion of Israel.

Baer was born in Floss, Bavaria in 1911 ; originally a trained confectioner, he became a guard in Dachau concentration camp after becoming unemployed in 1930.

In 1937, he became head of the Dachau SS-Führerschule or SS officers school.

In 1935 Dachau became the training center for the concentration camps service.

The book was immensely popular and he became a leading public figure on autism until his death, but he became controversial after a biography, written 7 years after his death by a disgruntled cousin of a patient, claimed that he exaggerated his credentials and Dachau experiences.

Koegel became adjutant of the Dachau concentration camp commander in 1937.

In July 1934 he became the commander of KZ Esterwegen where he was the Commandant for two years before being transferred back to serve as Commandant of Dachau until 1939.

*" Dachau Blues ", a 1969 song from one of John Lydon's favourite albums

From the 12th century, Dachau was a summer residence for several Bavarian princes.

** Battle of the Bavarian governments at Dachau.

* Apr 16, 1919 " Battle " of the Bavarian government troops at Dachau.