Luise and Erhard Pittrich from Kottgeisering have now celebrated their diamond wedding.
Kottgeisering - Dutiful, even on the day of the diamond wedding. Not least because corona caused a major celebration, Luise and Erhard Pittrich did on their jubilee day what they have been doing for almost 35 years: delivering newspapers. To be more precise, drive out - not by car, but by bike despite their age (Erhard Pittrich is 83, Luise Pittrich 79).
"We never owned a car in our entire life," says the 83-year-old. At the beginning of their marriage, the Pittrichs could not afford it, and in the recent past they have found that it can be done without. This did not restrict her freedom of movement.
Marital happiness thanks to car waiver
Luise Pittrich worked as a retail clerk at Tengelmann in Munich, her husband initially as a driver at the Brucker air base, later at a specialist company for building drying, also in Munich.
Basically, they owe their marital happiness to not having their own car. “We met each other on the morning train journey to work,” says Luise Pittrich. While she boarded the train, which was still covered with the steam locomotive, in her home town of Türkenfeld, her later husband only came to Grafrath. The wedding took place 60 years ago in the St. Ottilien chapel, afterwards we went to the Drexl in Türkenfeld to celebrate. Instead of large gifts, useful household items were requested; Luise still cooks regularly on the wood-fired stove with a roasting pan.
They made their first trip to the Silver Wedding
Six years later, they built a house in Erhard's home village of Kottgeisering, where they have lived since. Back then there was no honeymoon, the Pittrichs only made their first trip to the Silver Wedding at the North Sea, where a daughter lives today. While Luise Pittrich travels with her grandson Matthias once a year, her husband prefers to stay at home. Making firewood and a very well-heated tiled stove are still his passions.
To celebrate the diamonds, their four children, seven grandchildren and two great-grandchildren could not or could not all come with their families, so the phone did not stand still. Mayor Andreas Folger, on the other hand, made his visit on time and delivered - in front of the house - congratulations from the community with an illustrated book and a bouquet of flowers.
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