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2021-08-04T07:10:26.707Z


Twice a week helpers from the “Fresh on the table” campaign deliver a warm lunch in Holzland. The new neighborhood help offer has been well received. Service means much more than a meal.


Twice a week helpers from the “Fresh on the table” campaign deliver a warm lunch in Holzland.

The new neighborhood help offer has been well received.

Service means much more than a meal.

Holzland

- mask on, plastic gloves on, then the clock starts running. Schorsch Höllinger enters the "Rauschhuber" in Hohenpolding via the side entrance, in the kitchen the landlords Rosi and Ernst Rauschhuber scurry back and forth between the sideboards and prepare the last thermo boxes for delivery. Shish kebab with french fries is being delivered to 24 people in all four communities this Thursday by the Holzland neighborhood aid in the “Fresh on the table” campaign. The new offer is well received.

Ernst Rauschhuber measures exactly 78.7 degrees with his thermometer before he closes the lid, while he also talks to Höllinger, who drives one of the two cars. During the lockdown, “Fresh on the table” was an important support for the owners of the Gasthaus zur Linde. In the meantime there is the normal lunch menu again. For “fresh on the table”, Rauschhuber cooks dishes for seven euros per serving. The cooking is almost always home-style, Rauschhuber discusses the menu with his Niederstraubinger colleague Michael Brenninger, who reaches for pots and pans on Mondays. “It works and it's a good story,” says the Hohenpolding restaurateur when Höllinger says goodbye with a fully loaded trunk.

He stops at the first front door just a few hundred meters outside Hohenpolding. A farmer in his mid-60s is already expecting Höllinger, and a quick chat ensues in the sunny courtyard. You know each other or you find mutual acquaintances in conversation.

But that is precisely what can be difficult. Namely, when the question arises of the need that the neighborhood aid would like to remedy through its offer. Does the customer not have assets or reason? And what about the relatives, couldn't they arrange a warm meal? A deeper insight into the living conditions is often missing, however, the need today no longer depends only on the wallet, health in every respect and the social network play a major role. When it comes to neighborhood help, we know that a lot of shy people keep seniors, single people or single parents away from their offer.

From the beginning it was a balancing act for the neighborhood help, which can neither examine in detail why the offer should be used, nor want to be a pure delivery service.

For Georg Höllinger that doesn't matter at this moment, he has to master the balance between punctual delivery and the often just as important brief advice at the front door.

After six months, however, he knows where to plan a few minutes and with whom he is only exchanging empty for full thermoboxes on the landing.

You can rely on the styrofoam containers with special warming utensils for 140 euros per set, they are "foolishly long", so that even the last food in the delivery round still arrives at a temperature of at least 65 degrees.

A grateful joy can be felt in many of those who have been delivered.

The pensioner from Baustarring is even given a bucket of self-picked apples from an 84-year-old: “I'm glad that there is, I can't do it myself anymore.

And the meat is always so good and mild that you can bite it, ”she says.

Jokes are exchanged in another village, and Höllinger gets back into the car with a laugh.

He is supposed to drive 41 kilometers that day, for which he receives a small allowance and fuel money, after all he uses his private vehicle.

Getting back among the people was what drove him to help with “Fresh on the table”.

To help, he likes to do that at all.

He tells of his helicopter flight to Dresden, where he was needed as a stem cell donor.

Then a spontaneous change of route takes him up, a combine harvester shears from a meadow onto the road shortly before him, and he turns around in one go.

He has lived in Baustarring for 35 years, so he knows his way around Holzland.

The last stop before going back to his wife Anneliese, who drives every other Monday, is Niederstraubing.

There Höllinger hands over the collected empty boxes to landlord Michael Brenninger.

“From our point of view, there could be a lot more food, everything is perfectly organized,” he said to Schorsch, who referred him to the coordinator Brigitte Ehrl and the board of directors of Neighborhood Aid with praise.

By Fabian Holzner

Source: merkur

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