Haimhausen is a municipality located on the Amper River in the district of Dachau in Bavaria, Germany, about 20 kilometres north of Munich.

The landscape around Haimhausen has springs, oxbow lakes, mossy fields, forests, bogs, swamps, and wild grass meadows.

The following villages belong to the Haimhausen community: Amperpettenbach, Hörgenbach, Inhausen, Inhausermoos, Maisteig, Oberndorf, Ottershausen and Westerndorf.

During the Thirty Years War, Haimhausen was severely damage by the invading Swedes in 1632 during their march to Munich, followed by a plague in 1633/1634.

[9] Near the end of the Second World War, units of the U.S. Army passed through Haimhausen and the surrounding areas in late April 1945, shortly before the liberation of Dachau and Munich.

Not to mention the Rathaus (City Hall), a bank, a sportsclub (SV Haimhausen),[13] driving school, elementary and middle-school, pharmacy and several medical/dental clinics.

[14] A small hydropower facility on the Amper, between Haimhausen and Ottershausen, has been in operation since 1902 and sells renewable electricity to local customers.