The historical Geretsried working group and the photo club made a very special film.
It shows how Geretsried has developed.
Geretsried
- A "world premiere", as announced by Mayor Michael Müller, saw around 90 registered viewers in the council chambers on Friday evening.
The Geretsried Historical Working Group and the Geretsried Photo Club have created a 60-minute video entitled “Geretsried - our city” from existing photo and film material from the city archive and from private loans.
It was actually supposed to be shown in the anniversary year 2020 - 70 years of church planting and 50 years of city elevation - but Corona prevented a public performance. The two main responsible persons Gerhard Aumüller and Dr. Gerrit Waßmann have divided the relatively short history of the city into decades. They remind you, partly in black and white, partly in color, of the most important political, economic, cultural, social and sporting events.
One of the highlights was certainly the Olympic torch relay through Geretsried in 1972. The then 21-year-old Gerrit Waßmann was allowed to carry the torch a short distance from the Högl-Kreuzung to the Petruskirche on August 25th. He “felt a permanent cold shiver in his back,” he says in the film. After only about 500 meters, he handed the relay over to discus thrower Brigitte Daub from TuS Geretsried.
Sport plays a major role in the documentary - it's not for nothing that Geretsried is “the sports town” in the district. This is remembered with excerpts from the inauguration of the Isarau Stadium in 1966 with a soccer game between FC Bayern and TuS, from a major Bavarian bike race through the streets of the center in 1969, from legendary ice hockey matches by the River Rats to the famous Oberland company run . Even Mayor Michael Müller can be admired in a short sequence as a skilful, around 15-year-old: in a kayak on the Isar as part of a secondary school project.
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The old pictures naturally aroused the greatest enthusiasm among the 90 spectators, especially those from the pageants and celebrations with the various country teams in their splendid costumes. There has been a lot of celebrations in the past 70 years: the partnership with the French Chamalières, initiated by Mayor Heinz Schneider, the awarding of the European flag in 1995, the inauguration of the first redesigned Karl-Lederer-Platz in 2007 under Mayor Cornelia Irmer, the redesign of the New Square 2015. Insights into the numerous companies that settled in the displaced city from the 1960s onwards bear witness to the variety of products that were and are manufactured here. Many an older visitor surely remembered the time with nostalgiawhen the Bayer couple baked and sold their original Karlovy Vary wafers on Sudetenstrasse, or when Kneisl sold delicious chocolate straight from the factory.
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The film begins with very recent photos of Karl-Lederer-Platz, an inviting rest area for cyclists at the “Zehnerhütte”, modern residential areas such as the cherry orchard in Stein and the hustle and bustle at the fountain on Neuer Platz.
It ends with a view in which the renovated ice rink, the almost completed intercommunal indoor swimming pool and the large construction site for 770 apartments on Banater Straße, filmed by a drone, can be seen.
Because there are “always new details to discover”, Mayor Müller recommended that the audience and anyone else interested in Geretsried's history buy a DVD or a USB stick for 20 euros, available in the city's museum and in the city's cultural office.
Tanja Lühr
