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Albert Bißle's last Christmas tree

2020-11-26T03:45:20.051Z


Exactly four weeks before Christmas, the Christmas tree was set up on Marienplatz in Schongau - but without the Christmas market, stalls, wind instruments and mulled wine magic. Despite everything, the old town should shine with Christmas fairy lights.


Exactly four weeks before Christmas, the Christmas tree was set up on Marienplatz in Schongau - but without the Christmas market, stalls, wind instruments and mulled wine magic.

Despite everything, the old town should shine with Christmas fairy lights.

  • This year's Schongau Christmas tree was cut in the Lechvorstadt

  • Police escort the transport to the pedestrian zone

  • For Albert Bißle it is the last official Christmas tree

Schongau

- Thick fog lay over the Lechvorstadt and the beautifully grown conifer on Gudrun Heiserer's property last Tuesday morning.

In a few hours, the tree will no longer adorn your property, but will be this year's Christmas tree on Marienplatz Schongau.

"It just got too big," says the owner.

That is why she made the tree available to the city.

Gudrun Heiserer stands in front of the tree with daughter-in-law Hildegard to take some photos with her cell phone.

This awakens memories that go through Gudrun's head.

She built and moved into the house with her husband Alois a good 36 years ago.

“Of course, we planted this tree immediately after moving in, according to old tradition,” says Heiserer.

Then things happen in quick succession

But the joy of the tree's growth only lasted a short year for the father of the family.

Alois had a fatal accident on the way to his job by bike.

Gudrun Heiserer is torn from her thoughts: The team of the Schongau city gardeners has arrived with vehicles including a carriage.

In tow like every year Konrad Gruber, who is irreplaceable with his truck crane.

It happens in quick succession, after all, the procedure of sawing off, transporting and setting up the Christmas tree has already been done umpteen times.

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The Christmas tree was brought to Marienplatz on a carriage, a mobile frame.

He had been beaten shortly before in Gudrun Heiserer's garden in the Lechvorstadt. 

© Herold

For someone who is really an old hand in this matter, it will be the last time: Albert Bißle, Holzer with body and soul, will retire next year.

Therefore this tree will be its last official one.

Bißle remembers his first commitment to chopping Christmas trees for Schongau: "It was 1978 when I was there for the first time," says Bißle.

And adds that at that time there was still no luxury in a crane like Konrad Gruber's.

“We set up the tree with swallows, that was a real show of strength.” It took a little longer, but the mulled wine afterwards tasted all the better.

Ask about the type of tree

On site in Rösenaustraße, things are going well: Bernd Pietruschka has to climb into the branch again, Markus Wörnzhofer drives the carriage into position.

Konrad Gruber pulls the tree tied to the crane under tension, and Bißle can let off steam: a few well-practiced cuts in the trunk and the tree is cut off.

A little discussion between Gudrun Heiserer and Bernd Pietruschka: The type of tree hovers in the air just like the tree itself. For years it was a silver fir, for the gardener with the green thumb a blue spruce.

In the end, the expert is right.

Action takes less than two hours

The police easily escorted the tree transport to Marienplatz.

The slender tree literally slides on the carriage between the parked cars.

At the installation site, Tobias Walters is allowed to open the pit for the first time.

After all, he should follow in Bißle's footsteps.

All of this under the eyes of Martin Erhard, who took over the management of the city gardening department this year.

Gudrun Heiserer has also come to Marienplatz and is documenting what is happening.

It took less than two hours from the section in your garden to the sinking and screwing on Marienplatz.

If the chain of lights is still attached to the tree, the first Advent can come.

Hans-Helmut Herold

Source: merkur

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