Locksmith in Germantown, WI

Locksmith in Germantown, seven hamlets in one village

A locksmith in Germantown works in a village of about 34 square miles in the southeast corner of Washington County. New subdivisions, older farmhouses, businesses, and historic crossroads hamlets all share the same village limits. We come to each of them as a mobile locksmith. A rekey, a keypad lock, or a car key takes 15 to 60 minutes, and a lockout usually takes a few minutes once we arrive. Germantown is about 16 miles northwest of downtown Milwaukee, and US 41/45 connects it to the city.

Town Nine and its hamlets

Germantown began in 1836 as Town Nine of Washington County in the Wisconsin Territory, the oldest settlement in the county. The Town of Germantown was organized on January 21, 1846, and German immigrants settled it with farms and small crossroads hamlets: Dheinsville, South Germantown, Rockfield, Goldenthal, Willow Creek, Kuhberg, and Meeker Hill. In 1927, South Germantown incorporated as a small Village of Germantown. In 1963, Milwaukee County annexed a piece of Washington County land for a landfill, and fear of more annexation pushed the village to take in most of the surrounding town in 1964. That is how seven hamlets became one village. In 2020 Germantown had 20,917 residents.

Dheinsville and Christ Church

The best-preserved hamlet is Dheinsville, at the six-way crossroads of Fond du Lac Avenue, Holy Hill Road, and Maple Road. Its landmark is Christ Evangelical Church, a limestone church completed in 1862 on land donated by Phillip Dhein, which has served as a museum of local history since 1976. The surrounding Dheinsville Historic Park covers about 9.5 acres, with the Bast Bell Museum, the Wolf Haus, and other buildings from the 1800s. The Germantown Historical Society holds an Oktoberfest there on the last weekend of September, and a full festival lot is an easy place to lock keys in a car. A car lockout starts at $69 (car lockout).

Closing day in a new subdivision

Germantown keeps adding homes, and closing day in a new subdivision usually ends with a small envelope of keys. Ask how many copies were made during construction, and the builder may not know. Instead of guessing, re-pin the locks. We set the front entry, the door from the garage, and the back slider to a single new key in one visit, without swapping any hardware: $59 covers the first cylinder and $20 each one after that (rekeying).

Plenty of Germantown owners skip keys at the main door altogether and choose a code lock. Family members get their own codes, a contractor's code can be switched off when the job is done, and auto-lock closes the door behind the kids. Expect installation from $99 (smart locks); we still leave a mechanical key for the day the batteries give out.

Farmhouses, garages, and outbuildings

Outside the subdivisions, Germantown still has farmhouses and large lots with detached garages, barns, and sheds. Old locks on these buildings rust, stick, or have keys that disappeared decades ago. We replace a service door lock from $99 (lock change), add a deadbolt from $119, and key the outbuildings to the same key as the house. A house lockout starts at $69 (house lockout). Give us the address and a landmark near the driveway, so we can find the house at night.

Businesses and commuters

Germantown is connected to Milwaukee and the rest of the region by US 41/45 and by Highway 167, the main routes in and out of the village. For shops, offices, and other businesses in the village, we open a locked business from $89 (business lockout), rekey after a staff change from $79 for the first lock, repair panic bars from $129, and repair door closers from $99. For a commuter whose only car key is gone, we cut and program a new one at the car from $119.

Driving to Germantown

Germantown borders Menomonee Falls on the south, across the Waukesha County line, and Mequon on the east, in Ozaukee County. Cedarburg is to the northeast, and Richfield is to the north. We cover all of them at the same prices.