As of: January 19, 2024, 1:00 p.m
By: Andreas Höger
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Everything is ready for the last Christmas lights: The team from the construction company (P)fabelhaft collected 200 disused Christmas trees from the towns of the market town, which were burned on the Sappl meadow in the evening.
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What to do with old Christmas trees?
A Holzkirchner building contractor (31) organized a collection tour.
In the end, 200 small spruce and fir trees went up in flames - and the Irschenberg Children's Village can look forward to a nice donation.
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- It crackled loudly, the flames shot up: 200 Christmas trees, which previously served as eye-catchers in the living rooms of the market town during the festive season, now had a final, spectacular appearance on the Sappl meadow in the East industrial area.
The Holzkirchen building contractor Christian Pfab (31) had organized a Christmas tree collection campaign.
Six employees collected the trees in three company cars last Friday.
In the evening, at the first Holzkirchner Christmas tree burning, the small spruces and firs attracted admiring glances for the last time - as the needle-like protagonists of the last Christmas glow.
Pfab and co-organizer Wolfgang Sappl (Sappl Bräu) were not only happy about 150 guests at the Christmas tree fire, but also about a total of 3,000 euros in donations that were raised through the campaign;
The money will go to the Irschenberg Children's Village.
“It’s a fantastic success that we didn’t expect,” enthuses the young entrepreneur. “It was really great for the first time.”
A similar campaign in the region served as inspiration, and Pfab also set up a delivery campaign for Christmas trees in Holzkirchen two years ago.
“Back then we brought the trees, this time we picked them up.” Last but not least, there was a desire in the company to support the Irschenberg Children's Village.
“Three years ago we remodeled the kitchens in all twelve houses there and saw how the children live,” reports the young entrepreneur. “We wanted to do something good for them.”
Citizens from the market town were able to buy tokens in advance for five euros.
The tree was “registered” via an email or WhatsApp contact and was then decorated and given a token and left on the side of the road.
“The citizens played really well,” says Pfab.
The collectors were not only in Holzkirchen, but also in Sufferloh, Marschall, Föching, Hartpenning and Roggersdorf.
According to Pfab, the Roggersdorf village community, organized as an association, was so impressed that they spontaneously contributed 1,500 euros.
The token sale raised 1,170 euros, and Sappl rounded up the sale of drinks during the fire to 1,500 euros.
This means that the Caritas Children's Village Irschenberg can look forward to 3,000 euros.
The success motivates Pfab and his team to repeat the collection campaign next year.
“Perhaps we can then offer more points of sale for the tokens,” hopes the 31-year-old.
The evening fire could then burn even brighter and longer - and thus give the Christmas season in Holzkirchen an even more fiery end.
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