An S-Bahn tore a young person from the middle of his life, from now on.
This is shocking the communities of Hohenbrunn and Höhenkirchen.
The beginning of a work-up.
The crisis intervention team looks after family, train drivers and friends on the night of the accident.
In order to make the incomprehensible a bit more understandable, friends say goodbye to the dead.
Classmates do not even think about lessons.
The school sets up a mourning room.
Hohenbrunn / Höhenkirchen
- It's moments like this that make a whole place hold its breath.
That set a turning point, a cruel, detestable and yet noticeable turning point.
On Friday evening, an S-Bahn tore a 15-year-old student in Hohenbrunn from his young life (we reported).
In addition to the family, friends, classmates and first aiders are also in shock.
"You just can't believe what just happened."
The young Höhenkirchner had a name.
His name was Robin.
Shortly before the accident, friends celebrated a birthday with him a few meters away.
Then they involuntarily witnessed the tragic accident.
Anyone who experiences something like this “falls into a state of shock simply cannot believe what just happened,” says Martin Irlinger.
The Hohenbrunner is with the crisis intervention team and was on site with colleagues in Riemerling on Friday evening.
The team looked after the shocked young people, the train driver and the fire fighters.
The friends of the casualty would have felt themselves in an unreal event, a nightmare from which they would wake up again.
“In a situation like this, we almost all react in the same way,” says Irlinger, who in 25 years with the fire service knows these moments only too well.
In the acute situation, he and his colleagues tried to "make the incomprehensible understandable".
The young people were allowed to say goodbye to their boyfriend at the scene of the accident, says Irlinger.
Many accepted the offer, held Robin's hand again, stroked him, lay down next to him, cried for him.
"That doesn't change the sadness and shock, but it makes what happened a tad more comprehensible."
Everyone knows each other, the structures are rural.
There is no such thing as total anonymity.
Many active members of the local defense forces are also emotionally troubled by the accident.
In any case, it is difficult when working with young people, says the father of three.
In addition, in this case it was no longer an operation “in total anonymity”, as Irlinger puts it.
You know each other.
The structures are rural, in Hohenbrunn as well as in Höhenkirchen.
Robin, his family, his neighbors, classmates and friends - "in the broadest sense, it belongs to your own biography," says Irlinger.
It's gotten more dangerous on the line.
Accordingly, days after the accident, the mood in the communities is “marked by great sadness,” as Hohenbrunn's Mayor Stefan Straßmair says.
He remembers a young person who was run over by a S-Bahn in the area exactly five years ago.
His name was Thomas, 17 years old.
It has become more dangerous on the route, says Straßmair.
“The S-Bahn used to jerk loudly at 80 kilometers per hour.
Now the modern railways glide almost silently at 110 kilometers per hour. ”Two other young people have lost their lives on the tracks of the S 7 in the past five years.
The local people have to cope with these tragedies.
It is bad, says Mayor Straßmair, “that nothing can be done”.
The only thing is to be as good as possible for everyone involved.
The family, of course.
But also to friends and classmates.
In Robin's class at the Erich-Kästner-Mittelschule in Höhenkirchen yesterday there was no thought of lessons.
Lessons are out of the question.
The classmates talked, cried, mourned.
The 17 classmates of the ninth grade on the M-Zug talked, cried and mourned for a morning.
As early as Friday and Saturday, the young people learned of the cruel death of their classmate via social networks, via WhatsApp and Instagram, says a mother.
And yet the first day of school without Robin was a very difficult one for the young people.
"Some were still in a real state of shock," says Deputy Principal Tanja Sommerfeld.
Some of them hadn't even come and stayed home apologized.
The school has set up a mourning room with photos and candles, with a condolence book, in which pupils from the neighboring schools can give Robin their last words with him on his last journey.
The work-up will probably take a long time.
Together with social pedagogues, psychologists, pastors and teachers, the students began to come to terms with the work, both in groups and individually, in conversations and on walks.
A work-up that will probably continue.
“14 days of very strong feelings” are completely normal, says Irlinger.
After that it will slowly get better.
In a few days, the friends who partied with Robin on Friday evening want to meet again with the psychological helpers.
To remember.
To say goodbye.
