Centenary of Herzogsägmühle (Society for the Domestic Missions welfare village)

Number by catalogue:  Michel: 1740   Yvert: 1569   Scott: 1834   Gibbons: 2579  

Perforation: Comb   Perforation type: 13x12 ½

Subject:

100 pfenning.

Rural road sign with the emblem of society*

Additional:

Herzogsägmühle is the name of a workers' colony founded in 1894, which is now a social institution of the Diakonia. This facility is also part of the Peiting market, Weilheim-Schongau district, in Pfaffenwinkel. It is located about 80 km southwest of Munich. The institution is sponsored by the Inner Mission Munich - Diakonie association in Munich and Upper Bavaria.

In 1935, responsibility for the operational management in Herzogsägmühle (and in the Simonshof) was transferred to the National Association for Hiking and Homeland Service (LVW) as part of the National Socialist compulsory care. Herzogsägmühle is run as the "Zentralwanderhof HSM".

The Herzogsägmühle has been run by the Inner Mission Munich - Diakonie association in Munich and Upper Bavaria since 1946.

Between 1951 and 1984, nine major fires occurred in Herzogsägmühle. 

In 2009 an exhibition "The dark side of Herzogsägmühle 1936 to 1945" was initiated by Rainer Endisch, deputy director. 

In 2010, Herzogsägmühle was recognized by the University of St. Gallen among the top 75 medium-sized employers in Germany. 

In 2019, the Herzogsägmühle division was spun off from the Inner Mission Munich association into the "Diakonie Herzogsägmühle gGmbH" as a 100% subsidiary of the supporting association.