Down the street from the New Gallery, on the opposite side, is
the Stadtkeller Restaurant, located at Brunngartenstrasse 7. The
street dead ends near the restaurant which is near the bank of
the Amper River. The Mühlbach stream parallels the river and a
footpath runs along beside it. The escaped prisoners from the
Dachau concentration camp used this path when they fled after
the Dachau Uprising failed. From the footpath, a steep stairway
climbs up to the Schloss where one can enter the grounds through
a gate into the Hofgarten behind the castle. The castle and
garden are shown on the next page. The building shown in the
photograph above has been called the Stadtkeller since July 1936
when an SA Stormtrooper named Paul Taut, who was also on the
town council of Dachau, leased the building to open a
restaurant. Before that, it was a restaurant and movie theater
called the Dachau Public Recreation Center; at that time the
building was owned by the Dachau Association of Free Trade
Unions. This was where the Social