In the open-air museum Glentleiten you are entering new territory - or more appropriately: you are driving it.
The facility has received an extraordinary pre-Christmas gift that has never been seen in the collection before: a working gasoline truck from 1957. Behind it is an old promise - and a man who cared about the van.
Großweil
- The dromedary is considered to be the most important companion of the Bedouins, who travel as nomads through the Sahara and through Arabian desert areas: a pack and mount that supplies wool, milk and meat, is frugal and robust and gets along well in rough terrain.
A kind of counterpart to the egg-laying woolly milk sow.
Glentleiten: “Almocar Dromedary”, which is over 60 years old, is on duty at the Tegernsee cemetery
A dromedary has now also moved into the open-air museum Glentleiten near Großweil - however, not on four legs, but one on three wheels: an over 60-year-old "Almocar dromedary" that has largely been preserved in the original.
The sturdy petrol truck, once made in Dachau, has served Tegernsee for many years.
The “dromedary” was used in the cemetery for transports of all kinds, moving excavated material, wreaths, coffins and more.
"Due to its narrow design and extreme maneuverability, the vehicle was particularly suitable for this," explains Dr.
Melanie Bauer, press spokeswoman for Glentleiten.
The dromedary was no longer in use for well over 20 years.
But it was very important to Robert Huber, the depot fleet manager for the city of Tegernsee.
Huber will soon go into partial retirement and wanted the vehicle to be in good hands in order to keep an old promise.
A cemetery attendant of the Brandner Kaspar sort - "a quaint type of the kind there are very few left" - asked him about three decades ago when he was retiring: "Take care of my bockers." Huber agreed and has now technically restored it so that it can be operated "within a reasonable framework" again.
He raves about the extraordinary transporter and its English engine, "you can't get it anymore".
The dromedary is "an absolute rarity".
In addition, the vehicle accompanied countless Tegernsee lakes on their last journey.
“It was important to me that it didn't disappear somewhere.” Tegernsee's Mayor Johannes Hagn suggested that it be offered to the museum.
Museum is happy about the first historical small transport vehicle
On Monday, the 1957 petrol truck, which has a front foot brake and a rear hand brake, became part of the collection;
she rolled up on a small van.
This opens up new territory for the museum: It is “our first historic small transport vehicle”, says Bauer, who writes about a “remarkable newcomer” in a press release.
Hagn and Huber personally delivered the “Almocar Dromedary”, which drives an air-cooled four-stroke gasoline engine with a three-speed gearbox.
On the Glentleiten, the district council president Josef Mederer accepted it as host - together with the scientists responsible for the collection, Jan Borgmann and Simon Kotter.
Mederer emphasized that he was pleased that the museum was “firmly anchored in the awareness of Upper Bavaria as a place of remembrance and documentation for life and work in the country”.
In his eyes, this shows "the request from the city of Tegernsee very clearly".
New collector's item fits historic gas station
Everyone at Glentleiten was immediately very interested in the property.
Museum director Dr.
Monika Kania-Schütz can even imagine presenting it permanently in the future, for example in the context of the historic gas station that is to open in autumn 2021.
This is almost the same age as the small transporter, explains Bauer - and in the associated vehicle maintenance hall “comparable vehicles have certainly also been maintained”.
Retirement Bockerl finds the perfect place in the museum
In the eyes of collection manager Borgmann, the dromedary fits into the museum: “The vehicle is an Upper Bavarian make that was used in the rural area of Upper Bavaria.” Its usage history is also well documented.
“We can imagine viewing the petrol truck either as part of our collection in the field of 'mobile cultural assets', or - since it is operational and ready for use - also using it for didactic purposes in practical use.” For example in site maintenance.
Robert Huber is “incredibly” happy that this story has come to such a beautiful end.
He sees the retirement Bockerl in the "optimal place" and says: "We couldn't have asked for better."
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