Penzberg

Penzberg is a city within the Weilheim-Schongau district, in Bavaria, Germany. It is located approximately 50 km south of Munich, and had a population of 16,262 in 2010. A ancient coal mining city, Penzberg nowadays is known for its pharmaceutical industries. The agreement was first referred to as Poennesperch in a 1275 contract, while it changed into offered to the Benediktbeuern Abbey. Surface coal mining had already started out within the 16th century, although it became ended via the Thirty Years' War and the commercial exploitation of coal did now not begin till 1800. In 1919 Penzberg obtained metropolis privileges.

An allied air raid on sixteen November 1944 significantly broken the city, inclusive of the parish church, however did now not affect the local coal mine, the coronary heart of the metropolis`s financial existence. In order to observe Hitler`s "scorched earth" policy, the neighborhood Nazi leaders desired to blow up the coal mine which become the monetary life blood of the city, so, on 28 April 1945 Hans Rummer and others deposed the Nazi mayor. However, it changed into no longer long earlier than the officer commanding a neighborhood Wehrmacht unit had the leaders of the rebellion arrested. When, at the evening of the identical day, Gauleiter Paul Giesler heard about the incident, he gave orders that the leaders were to be shot at once without trial.