In the morning the deserted lake in front of you, the sunrise behind you. For a team at the Göring carpentry, the exit restrictions due to Corona had a nice side effect.
Starnberg - When he started his carpentry apprenticeship, Sebastian Steinbeck would never have dreamed that one day he would have to dive for professional reasons. Recently, however, the 20-year-old Starnberger was under water. Because the carpentry Leopold Göring had received a special order: the renovation of the roof of one of the almost 100-year-old bathing huts near Percha. And she would hardly have been able to do that without her apprentice in the third year of her apprenticeship.
"Of course that helps us a lot when you have such a great employee," says his boss Leopold Göring. Because Steinbeck was not afraid of the water, which was only about seven degrees cold. On the contrary: The young man has been a passionate Eisbach surfer for five years and also drives to the state capital several times a week in winter to face the now world-famous wave. What he does so well now is that he won first place at the German Rapid Surfing Championship, which was officially held for the first time almost a year ago, where you surf like the Eisbach wave against the current instead of the wave.
Wetsuit becomes workwear for scaffolding
The wetsuit, which the 20-year-old otherwise needs for his hobby, has now become work clothes for him. Because he had the suit, "we could already work this time of year," says the 20-year-old. To set up the scaffolding for the hut, Steinbeck stood - with breaks - in the waist-high water for almost two hours. And the set-up itself presented him and his colleagues with a whole new challenge.
The team renovated this almost 100-year-old bathing hut.
© Leopold Goering
"Working over the lake is something that you don't do every day," Steinbeck reports in an interview with Starnberg Mercury. Simply placing the scaffold on sandy seabed was not an option. It would have sunk. So he and his colleagues came up with something: They assembled the scaffolding on the shore as far as possible and put it on plates on the lake floor, diving for the scaffolding was done by young carpenter Steinbeck.
During the work, they had to be very careful not to let anything fall into the water. Because a cordless screwdriver that goes swimming only does this once. Nails and the old shingles were not allowed to end up in the lake for environmental reasons, the team carefully removed them with tubs and buckets. The roof itself had to be covered with bitumen shingles, particularly windproof. The trainee knows “against the wind direction” so that they are not blown away.
The deserted lake as a great memory
Steinbeck was there every day of the almost two weeks they were accessing the lakeshore. He particularly remembered the emptiness at the lake at the beginning of the Corona crisis, when all the piers were closed. "There were no people, nothing," he says. For example, in the mornings, when he and his colleagues came to the construction site, they almost had the sunrise over the still lake, the play of colors and the mountains beyond. No ship and no water sportsman were on the move. "It was a very special mood," says Leopold Göring. Who knows, maybe trainee Steinbeck will still remember this extraordinary maritime construction site in a few decades - it is one of his favorite so far.