There are customers who have come here for more than 65 years.
A traditional butcher's shop is now closing, and Freising cannot be imagined without it.
Three generations have run the Dandl butcher's shop in Freising since 1936.
The butcher Dandl is the last one in the city of Freising to produce on site.
It closes on December 12th due to a lack of staff and health problems.
Freising
- A large piece of Freising tradition is dying.
The butcher's shop Dandl has existed since 1936.
But on December 12 of this year, Christine Dandl-Nett (57) and Robert Nett (56) are forced to close their family business.
The 85th anniversary, which would have been celebrated next year, will no longer come to the company.
This closes the last butcher's shop in the city of Freising that was still producing on site.
What will become of the premises has not yet been determined.
How emotionally difficult it must have been for the couple to force themselves to close their business becomes clear in an interview with the FT.
“That was a very, very tough decision for us,” says Christine Dandl-Nett, swallowing hard.
“The butcher shop was the life of my grandparents, my parents, and it was our life.
We all put so much heart and soul into this. "
The butcher's long history of success ends bitterly
Ultimately, however, health problems and staff shortages would not have allowed any other step.
“In the last six months alone we have been short of five employees,” reports Robert Nett.
Nobody reacted to tenders - despite Corona and the increased unemployment in the pandemic.
And so at the end of September the decision was made to close the company - around 85 years after the success story began.
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Already in the founding year of the Renner: in 1936 queues formed in front of the new butcher Dandl on the Freising Viehmarktplatz.
© Lehmann
In 1936 Josef and Therese Dandl founded the family business on the Viehmarktplatz in Freising.
The young couple manages to get the butcher shop going in record time.
Customers quickly queue up outside to buy meat and sausage at the Dandl.
And yet the business could have ended quickly.
In the Second World War, Josef Dandl had to go to the front.
But he returns and with his wife overcomes the difficult post-war years, although the strict rationing poses enormous problems for the couple.
Master butcher made headlines across the country in the 1980s
Things are looking up again in the 50s.
The butcher's shop has been rebuilt and rebuilt several times over the course of its long history.
The location remains.
The leadership changes.
With Hermann and Else Dandl, the next generation took over the business in 1973 and expanded it to its present size, making it known for the best quality.
From the 80s, daughter Christine also worked in the business.
Shortly before the butcher's 50-year-old, she made headlines across the country at the age of 21: as the youngest master butcher in Bavaria.
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Already in the founding year of the Renner: in 1936 queues formed in front of the new butcher Dandl on the Freising Viehmarktplatz.
© Lehmann
She and her husband Robert took over in 2005, modernizing where necessary and sensible - offering more and more semi-finished and finished products.
At the same time, however, they remain true to tradition.
Until recently, the couple produced on site - as the last butcher's shop in the city.
The employees at Dandl were more or less part of the family
Christine Dandl-Nett and Robert Nett have known for a long time that neither the son nor the daughter want to continue running the butcher's shop.
“There is no reproach from our side,” emphasizes Robert Nett.
“You shouldn't force someone to do something that they don't want.
It was clear to my wife and I that it would end at some point.
But we didn't think it would be that early. "
The family also includes the employees, almost all of whom have been with the company for years and decades.
“At least we don't have to worry about our employees,” says Robert Nett.
Specialist sales women are wanted.
Some have already found a new job, others will continue to be employed by the Dandls for a while - after the shop closes on December 12th.
“But of course we're very close to saying goodbye,” says Christine Dandl-Nett.
"Nothing is easy at the moment."
The dying of shops in Freising continues
The death of shops in Freising continues.
At the beginning of this week, the FT reported that with Sport Gerlspeck and the shoe store Deller, two shops in the city center that have decades of history under their belt, are closing.
It is always bitter when such traditional companies disappear.
But hardly any other business is as closely connected to the everyday life of the people as bakeries and butchers, which are visited weekly, sometimes daily.
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The early history of the butcher's shop is outlined in a letter of congratulations.
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"We have grown extremely fond of our customers";
Christine Dandl-Nett also emphasizes.
“Some Freising people have been visiting us for 65 years.
Today mothers come into the store with strollers and I gave them a wheel of sausage myself when they were little. ”Dandl also supplied a number of major customers - for example, old people's homes and the district hospital until the 1990s .
But nobody made the butcher's workforce work up a sweat like the former tractor manufacturer Schlueter.
"Whenever major screenings took place there, we would always go back and forth with the courier service," recalls Christine Dandl-Nett.
"That was hundreds of pounds of Leberkäs that we delivered."
The butcher couple is denied the farewell
The butcher family would have loved to say goodbye to their customers with meat loaf and white sausages, for which the dandl is famous.
“Sitting together in the courtyard” - this is how Robert Nett would have imagined the farewell.
But the Corona winter makes that impossible.
It will be a quiet farewell for a large company in Freising.
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