It was set up in an hour.
In just a few days, the first children should be playing in the new forest kindergarten at the Mauerner location "Ameisenberg".
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- At the Ameisenberg in the municipality of Mauern, everything recently ran like clockwork: carpenter Karl Huber from Buch am Erlbach delivered the two box-shaped wooden modules, Hans Frey from Enghausen put them on the point foundations with his truck-mounted crane, and carpenter Jan Renken from Vilsheim screwed them in together.
The forest kindergarten was ready in a little over an hour.
“That was the best teamwork”, praised Mauern's mayor Georg Krojer, who as a construction specialist followed the work closely.
The day before, the building yard employees had laid the concrete foundations and fixed and leveled the subsoil and the outside area with Jura gravel.
They were supported by Markus Strasser, who leased the property to the community.
Georg Krojer was also very pleased with this collaboration.
The recreation room of the forest kindergarten is 36 square meters.
It consists of two modules (mini houses) made of local wood, each 18 square meters.
A wall is missing in the middle, and so it became a large room.
The modules are manufactured in teamwork: Huber designed them in Buch am Erlbach.
He cut the boards and beams for the walls, floor and ceiling and delivered them to Jan Renken's carpentry in Vilsheim.
There the parts were assembled and insulated with 20 centimeter thick insulation.
The outer cladding is made of larch.
The model was the forest kindergarten in Buch.
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On site: Mayor Georg Krojer (left) and master carpenter Karl Huber in front of one of the modules on the low-loader.
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The walled counterpart is set up on the Ameisenberg because this location turned out to be the best of five possible places.
It is located above the largest residential area of walls in an intact, spray-free nature and can be easily reached by car on the municipal road - a better forest and field path.
The location is on the edge of the forest of the Strasser eco-farm, which has leased the space for the forest kindergarten to the community.
The Strassers also provide a nearby parking lot with the possibility of turning.
The children are offered a lot to see and experience up close, as Mayor Georg Krojer explained: the varied forest with bird cherries, maples, oaks, beeches and spruces as well as a orchard.
You could watch the Strasser family's black Kelly turkeys in the run or the horses from two riding stables out in the pasture.
And the three hunters of the hunting community of the adjacent Revier 5 would certainly explain to them in the context of their public relations work, what is important in the protection of the game and the care of the forest.
The children at the facility can also learn a lot about the history of this landscape.
Shortly before the entrance to the Strasser-Hof there is a sign for the “Historic Walls Trail” from the Archaeological Association.
It is then explained that the name Ameisenberg has nothing to do with the hard-working crawling animals, but comes from the name "Am Eisenberg".
Because: In the past, lawn iron stones (lawn iron ore) were found here in the fields, which were heated and melted (smelted) in special blast furnaces - and thus wrought iron was extracted.
The formation of the ravines in this area is also explained.
One of them runs parallel to the municipal road on the Ameisenberg.
Walter Neugebauer
