When egloffstein ignited the turbo

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50 years ago there was a spirit of optimism in egloffstein. At that time, the municipality repaved numerous roads, plans were underway for a wildlife park in hundshaupten, and the castle concerts celebrated their 20th anniversary.

But before all this could happen, another social event was the center of interest: on 7. January 1970, mayor and county councilman hans daut celebrated his 50th birthday in the hall of the BDK house (sozialwerk bund deutscher kriegsopfer). Birthday. Daut, a member of the town council since 1952, demanded as mayor that egloffstein be qualified as a climatic health resort in 1958. In 1959 egloffstein was also awarded the pradikat "markt" (market) on its own initiative awarded". The road problems were largely solved. "The arlesbrunnenstrabe and the paradiesweg are still missing and will be paved in 1970", daut pledged at the castle meeting.

Building a "main school

In his younger days, he was mainly concerned with the establishment of a school association and the construction of a "hauptschule" (main school) with eight school classes. 1.7 million marks had already been invested, of which 540000 marks were the community’s own funds, and a further 90,000 marks for the construction of a gymnastics field.

Despite all the financial worries, daut even held out the prospect of building an indoor swimming pool to boost the flagging foreign traffic. This is very important, said daut, because "an industrial settlement for the market community due to lack of labor" was out of the question.

In 1970, the dilapidated water pipes dating back to 1912 were a cause for concern, which is why coarse water tanks were built on the mountain. In july 1970, the castle celebrated a milestone anniversary: 20 years of castle concerts, a series of events that had long since ceased to exist. In the summer of 1950, the first castle music festival was held at egloffstein castle. The occasion at that time was the 200th birthday of the. Birthday of the castle church, which was celebrated extensively and full of people. The von egloffstein family and fritz preis were the driving forces behind the event, which took place at the burghof.

Castle glory

Helmut goldmann drove the baton at the time, and actor helmut pfund loved to recite images of romantic castle glories. "The enterprise was undoubtedly a risk", said the reporter at the time, but the calculation worked out. With the support of the french-swiss association and the then district administrator otto ammon, this developed into a highly respected and professional annual series of events that set the trend for cultural work in the district. 1970 the jubilee castle music festival took place on 18. The concert took place in july with the music of ludwig van beethoven and the following performers: the orchester-gemeinschaft nurnberg under the conductor hans konrad, the mixed choir egloffstein and as soloists concertmaster arthur kulling (violin) from the wurttemberg state orchestra stuttgart, ilse kern (soprano) from nurnberg, erika dinnebier-gorke, reciter from nurnberg and studienrat hans ackermann from grafenberg. It was a complete success – at that time in the courtyard of the castle.

Also tending in the direction of tourism was gudila freifrau von polnitz, who put a spontaneous idea into action and established a 40-hectare wildlife park in the family’s extensive hundshaupten estate in 1970. The reason given for the construction of the park was the idea of creating "a major attraction in french-speaking switzerland", and rightly so, as it turns out today.

In addition one established a game gate with 3400 meters long, in which many native animals, which were partly even bought, found place. For the feeding in the first year 100 quintals of concentrated feed were purchased, which were stored in six houses and the castle barn. A major concern of the "baroness" was the following, as it was called in his lifetime, that especially the youth finds its way to the wild park. And the head forester and director of the park at the time, walter drosdziok, said "the park should not be an english garden, but a primeval nature with all its beauty".

Blaservereinigung and musikverein rock together

Two music clubs join forces, practice and then give a concert together. The blaservereinigung markt burkardroth and the musikverein schondra took a chance. Under the motto "pop and rock pieces by simon& garfunkel, elton john, michael jackson, adele, robbie williams and queen. 75 musicians were on stage. What they and their musical director, thomas reub, offered was inspiring and driving.

The idea for this concert came from the schondra music society, which for the fourth time organized a musical event around a specific theme and chose the concert literature accordingly. "The idea of giving a joint concert with the brass band association came to us because both bands have the same conductor, thomas reub", the chairman of the schondra music association, hubert schmitt, explained the project. "Also, because we wanted to try out, how it sounds, if one forms a rough klangkorper." besides, one could complement each other and compensate for possible weaknesses. "We are well staffed with the tenor horns, but we are missing the trumpets", added schmitt.

The chairman of the brass band of markt burkardroth, konrad straub, was also very positively impressed by the idea and its implementation. "I am thrilled, it was really fun", he said. A highlight would be the "bohemian rhapsody" had been. 1974 freddie mercury composed the song for queen. She begins with a melodious pop ballad about a young boy growing up in poor circumstances. The second part consists of an opera piece, which will also be sung by the band. Finally the song rises to a groovy rock'n'roll, to end at the end of its stately long again in the ballad.

Young talents presented themselves
With standing ovations and much applause the many listeners thanked the musicians and their conductor for the successful evening. But also the musical offspring of both orchestras, the "noterunners" were allowed under the direction of florian kirchner the melody "also spoke zarathustra" by richard straub and the rock song "we will rock you intonate. The evening was rounded off by the revival band schondra with conductor leander eismann. With "matrimony", one of gilbert o'sullivan's greatest hits, and "rock opening" by manfred schneider, the 17 musicians heated up the audience additionally.

All in all, a very exciting concert, which one could see the extensive rehearsal work, including rehearsal weekend on the wasserkuppe. The musicians presented themselves as a sovereign body of sound, which did honor to its conductor thomas reub. And the latter was also very satisfied with his musicians in the end. "It was a great concert", he said.

The last shave: jesus at the barber shop

The knife glides gently across the cheek. For the last time for one and a half years. Jesus – or rather his double double – has started his last shave: frederik mayet and rochus ruckel will take turns playing christus at the passion in oberammergau next year.

Hair and beard decree comes into effect on ash wednesday. The jesus performers like about 2400 other oberammergauer – almost half of the inhabitants – were then no longer allowed to cut their hair and beard. They all play along with passion.

With the hair, you slowly grow into the role, says mayet. "It’s something special. It’s a sign that the passion game is about to start. The whole village is getting ready now, everyone is going to the hairdresser again."

The play by amateurs goes back to a gelubde. In 1633, the people of oberammergau promised to perform the story of christ’s suffering, death and resurrection every ten years if no one else died of the plague – which, according to tradition, they did. As is the case every ten years, the picture will soon be dominated by flowing beards and long hair.

Kretschmar’s hair salon is very busy these days. The phone keeps ringing. "Our diary is well filled," says owner katharina daisenberger. She has just shortened ruckel, student of aerospace engineering and with 22 years the second youngest jesus, the dense black curls a bit. His image of jesus, however, looks different: "blond and rather straight hair."Like mayet (39), who already played jesus once in 2010. "But i hope i’ll go through too. Dark and curly already existed," says ruckel.

Now the beard: just trim it or remove it completely? 84-year-old barber adam fledrich puts the knife to work. He has already shaved generations of christ actors and stood himself with a thick female beard on the stage. Mayet’s beard is gone shortly thereafter – even if it doesn’t go down too well at home: "my wife hates it when i’m clean-shaven."Since the passion in 2010, he has only shaved off his beard four or five times, he says. With ruckel a moustache remains standing. "I think it’s pretty cool, a bit colombian," he comments on his new likeness in the spiegel magazine.

The hair and beard decree also gives the chance to try something new in fashion. Moreover, the carnival goes into the final spurt. On ash wednesday, the hairdressers sometimes had to do damage control, says daisenberger. A customer had gone as a clown before a passion, only at the ears stood a few hair tufts. Slogan afterwards: bald.

When in the almost 400-year history of the passion there was a hair and beard decree for the first time is not known. Even whether the historical jesus really wore long hair is not proven, as ansgar wucherpfennig, a new testament scholar at the philosophical-theological university of st. Georgen in frankfurt, says. "We know little about the hair and beard of jesus and his young ones."

In the next months many oberammergauer need first times no hairdresser. Doris renner of the bartl salon is preparing for a rather poor business year. But some of them did come in between to have the points cut. People did not have to walk around "like neanderthals". Employee miranda grotzinger-remmers also knows the note of some customers: "it’s not as if everyone is still a woodcarver who only works in the village. If someone goes to work elsewhere, he should already attach importance to the appearance."

Daisenberger is not worried about the business. "Many customers come from the surrounding towns and villages." moreover, long hair needed care. "The longer the hair, the more important it becomes."Special oils and soaps are in demand for the beards. And: washing, laying, fohnen and also colors remain allowed. Only extravagant like green or purple were taboo. The hair should look natural – even if that is not explicitly stated anywhere. If someone violates the hair rules, he has to pay a fine at the games – right at the checkroom. Height: still open.

The apostle john has no beard – too young. Also the roman soldiers are clean-shaven, like at the time of christi. Oberammergauer as soldiers in the federal armed forces, on the other hand, were allowed to show up with long hair, at least during earlier passions. "With long hair and a beard at the barras – many people have looked and shaken their heads," says mayet, who was doing his military service at the time of passion 2000.

Building a "main school

Castle glory

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