Water - Power - Electricity

Water is the basis of all life on earth. Accordingly, humans have always used water to secure their existence and for their economic, social and cultural development. At the centre of human water use has always been the conflict between too much and too little of this existential resource, as well as the struggle to use this element that determines our existence as efficiently as possible and in a way that meets the most diverse demands.

It is therefore not surprising that the early settlers of the Grafingen area orientated their settlement activities to the local water conditions, constantly adapting to them and that the people who have lived here since then have made every conceivable effort throughout the centuries to the present day to make this valuable resource useful to them.

And so, in the course of the Middle Ages and the early modern period, numerous craft businesses were established along the three larger watercourses that run through the area of today's municipality of Grafing, namely the Urtelbach, the Wieshamer Bach and the Attel, which emerges from the confluence of these two, which knew how to utilise the water and its power as it flowed past or underneath them.

The new special exhibition at the Museum der Stadt Grafing (Museum of the city of Grafing) is dedicated to these trades that generated energy using engines, only some of which took the technical step of generating electricity in the 19th and 20th centuries, as traces of these businesses, many of which date back a long way in history, have now largely disappeared from the townscape.

Last edited on 18.10.2024