After a construction period of over two years, the small western town of Moosinninger Country Gringos will officially be opened with the 29th Country Festival on Saturday, July 17th.
Moosinning
- “We can finally open up,” says Manfred Böhm, smiling all over his face.
The chairman of the Moosinninger Country Gringos stands in the middle of Gringo City in Schnabelmoos and proudly says with a view of the western town: “Our members built everything themselves, summer and winter, every weekend if the weather permits - men, women and Children, we all got busy. "
After a construction period of over two years, the small western town will officially be opened with the 29th Countryfest on Saturday, July 17th.
"After a year and a half without an event, we're really looking forward to it," says Böhm.
And what he says with a smile: "Although we only had a carpenter and an electrician on the team and otherwise only hobby craftsmen, there were no injuries." However, there was a funny incident, "when a woman paints half a bucket spilled blue paint over his head, ”he says with a laugh.
The association was founded in 1989
The Country Gringos were founded in 1989, eight years later the club, which now has 136 members, was recognized as a non-profit organization. The clubhouse, an old, converted barn, stood and still stands on Fasanenweg. “The desire for our own site was there right from the start,” says Böhm. With the two mayors, Georg and Rudi Ways, they kept making appointments and looking at properties. The matter really got going under Mayor Pamela Kruppa. The municipality of Moosinning then bought a large area in Schnabelmoos and made it available to the gringos.
“We had actually planned to build a two-line western town,” the chairman recalls.
But then the Harley Club asked first, then the torpedoes, and the gringos ceded a piece of their property to both Moosinninger clubs.
Böhm praises the "great cooperation" between the clubs.
"The torpedoes even supplied us with electricity during the construction period because we didn't have a connection yet."
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In the respectable western town there is a church, which so far has only been a backdrop.
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Ultimately, Gringo City became a single line.
It starts in the west with a storage room and a church, "which is currently only a screen," says the chairman.
The largest building is the Horseshoe Bar, where the hard drinks are more popular, followed by the bodega, where pizza is sold, and the coffee shop.
“In the steakhouse next to it, there are classics such as burgers, grilled meats and French fries,” says Böhm.
The bar for non-alcoholic drinks and beers is located in the adjacent saloon.
A small cemetery and a prison with a gallows form the end.
"But that serves as a store for firewood," says Böhm and adds with a laugh - "as long as everyone is good".
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There is also a cemetery and prison with a gallows.
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The construction costs a total of 47,000 euros, including the connections for electricity, water, sewage and so on, reports the chairman.
There were no fixed plans.
“We basically built it all out of our heads, and we're very proud of how it turned out,” he emphasizes.
"There is a lot of passion in it." For example, two siblings, 10 and 16 years old, were on the construction site for 157 days, sanded wood and painted boards.
He, his wife and his deputy Stefan Lösel even worked 396 days on the construction site during the 26 months of construction, the chairman stated.
The next project is already in the starting blocks
The members are all the more pleased that after an internal helper party with suckling pig this weekend, which is practically the dress rehearsal for the big country festival, things will finally start again next Saturday, "because ultimately we are dependent on the income", knows Bohm. In recent years there have always been two highlights, the Country Festival and the two-day Hautnah Festival, at which several bands have played. For almost two years, nothing has happened because of Corona, and as a result, this income is missing. What the chairman thinks is great: "Our members have donated money in between." But now we can finally celebrate again, albeit with restrictions.
And what is the next Country Gringo project?
“We want to build a new clubhouse in the back of the site, but that won't work until there's money again,” says Manfred Böhm.
"But there is no hurry, and until then our old clubhouse on Fasanenweg will remain in place in any case."
Countryfest
Because of Corona, there will be
no children's program
at the 29th Countryfest on
Saturday, July 17
, so no face painting, no pony riding and no bouncy castle. "This time it will be a rather quiet family celebration," says Manfred Böhm, chairman of the Gringos. However, it is not going to be quite that quiet.
Admission is
from
12 noon
, from 1 pm there will be music by the "
Floyd Roses
", from 3:15 pm "
The Open Range
" will play. From 5.15pm to 7.30pm, the stage belongs to the local heroes, the "
Old Stable Gamblers
". The Munich “
Hee Haw Pickin 'Band
” will entertain the guests
from 8 pm
. The event ends at midnight. Since only
250 guests are allowed to be
on the facility
at the same time
, one
Reservation is
essential. To do this, an SMS must be sent to the telephone number (01 70) 2 95 57 04. The registration of the visitors takes place via the Corona-Warn-App and Luca-App.
