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By: Sabine Hermsdorf-Hiss
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Angela Steck, chairwoman of the “Schönes Schäftlarn” association, will present the work on the village pond and in the prelate garden.
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At this year's State Garden Show in Kirchheim, the community of Schäftlarn will also be represented and show off its most beautiful side.
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- “We district communities introduce ourselves here,” says Mayor Christian Fürst (CSU).
He himself and climate manager Stefanie Morgenstern will be there on Saturday, August 31st, representing the community, as well as the youth group from the Almrösl traditional costume club, who will show their dances a few times on the stage of the State Garden Show.
The plan is to present individual Schäftlar residents with their stories on so-called “citizen slats” in the district pavilion.
In addition to these portraits, which can be queried via QR code, a chat bot function with a kind of small interview was installed.
The “Schönes Schäftlarn” association shows work around the village pond and the prelate garden
The “Schönes Schäftlarn” association with chairman Angela Steck will present its work around the village pond on Hirtenweg and the prelate garden.
Steck's parents Maria and Martin Stangl once gave the prelate garden a new lease of life.
The association has been maintaining this beautiful gem, which is known far beyond Schäftlarn's borders, for a quarter of a century.
Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, the future Pope Benedict “.
And: “A little piece of paradise seems to be present here.”
Letter from the Pope: Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, Benedict XVI, visited the Prelate Garden in August 2002.
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Beekeeping has been one of the abbey's traditional businesses for around 100 years
The monastery itself will provide an insight into the convent, the Benedictine high school and the monastery operations.
“Special attention,” says Fürst, “will be on beekeeping.” Beekeeping has been one of the abbey’s traditional businesses for around 100 years.
The archive contains records dating back to the end of the Second World War.
Although, the monks were actually already working as beekeepers during the Premonstratensian era.
It is said that they set up their beehives near Beigarten back then and used the high mountain ridge as protection against the winter eastern storms.
Beekeeping in Schäftlarn Monastery has a long tradition.
Here you can see Prior Father Paulus Rieger extracting honey.
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The prior and archivist of the monastery, Father Norbert Piller, provides an insight into the more recent records.
He is leafing through an old photo album.
Flowering fruit trees right next to the bee house can be seen, first in black and white, then later, in the early 1970s, in color.
The best conditions for the hard-working animals.
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At times up to 22 colonies provided the honey
Over the years, Frater Rupert Koch, Frater Cölestin Jörg, Frater Konrad Elgaß, Father and Prior Paulus Rieger and the abbey's cook, Georg Aigner, were in charge of beekeeping.
Pictures from this time show the beekeepers at work, some of them heavily masked.
“Frater Konrad even had a beekeeper’s house brought here on a low-loader from his home in the Allgäu,” the prior remembers.
Today, however, the little house is a thing of the past.
At times up to 22 colonies provided the honey.
“But we also had to fight again and again with the Varroa mite, which greatly reduced our populations,” reports Father Norbert.
The monastery's apiary was renovated ten years ago.
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Since 2014, Brother Raphael Peuker has been taking care of the beekeeping, which today has an average of between 20 and 26 colonies.
The honey is produced partly for the convent's own use and partly for sale in the monastery shop.
To ensure that beekeeping can continue for decades to come, the apiary was renovated inside and out around ten years ago.
A “bee working group” has now even been founded, consisting of interested children and biology teachers from the Benedictine abbey high school.
At regular meetings, those interested are introduced to the fascinating insects.