3 attractions in Dachau, including Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site, Scheyern Abbey and Dachau Palace.
Historic sites & memorials
Dachau
The Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site (KZ-Gedenkstätte Dachau), just northwest of Munich, preserves the grounds of the first long-running concentration camp set up by the Nazis. Between 1933 and 1945, more than 160,000 people were im…
Churches & monasteries
Dachau
Where Benedictine monks pray today once stood the ancestral castle of one of Europe's most powerful families: the Counts of Scheyern later called themselves the Wittelsbachs and ruled Bavaria until 1918. When they moved to their new castle…
Palaces
Dachau
Dachau Palace sits on a ridge above the old town of Dachau, just northwest of Munich, and was once a summer residence of the Wittelsbach dukes of Bavaria. Only one of its four wings survives, but it holds a magnificent banquet hall with on…