On 5 May 1919 twelve workers (most of them members of the Social Democratic Party, SPD) were arrested and killed by members of Freikorps Lützow in Perlach near Munich, based on a tip from a local cleric saying they were communists.
Perlachturm, (English: Perlach Tower), a bell tower built in 1182 in Augsburg, Germany
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Andreas Perlach, court astrologer to Archduke Ferdinand of Habsburg
The borough's western border is the river Isar, in the south in borders on Grünwald and the Perlacher Forst (Perlach Forest), to the north-west on the Munich borough of Obergiesing and to the north on the borough of Au-Haidhausen.