The advance of the mountain rifle company Gotzinger drum and the community of Weyarn did not go unnoticed.
In Bad Tölz, the topic is already being dealt with at various points - albeit in a more relaxed manner.
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As reported, Weyarn's mayor Leonhard Wöhr in Miesbach is to investigate the possibilities of making the relic from the Sendlinger Murder Christmas of 1705, the Gotzinger drum, accessible to the public again after the realization of a museum in the district town - where the original drum is properly stored - is currently a long way off.
In the letter from Wöhr to the city of Miesbach, the mountain rifle company (GSK) is quoted as saying that Mayor Wöhr, whose municipality the exhibit belongs to as the legal successor to the municipality of Gotzing, should check whether the original of the drum could not be recalled from Miesbach and “as Loan is made available to an active local museum in the region ”.
"The local museums Bad Tölz, Schliersee or Tegernsee" are suggested.
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It is even older than the drum: the country flag of the mountain riflemen, which was created in 1616/17 and was probably carried in Sendling in 1705.
Today the valuable piece is kept in the Tölzer City Museum.
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The Gotzinger advance was a surprise in Bad Tölz.
Second Mayor Christof Botzenhart, historian and cultural advisor, wants to avoid the impression that the city of Tölz is imposing and by no means actively advertise the valuable piece.
But, he says: "If you offer it to us, we would take it."
Governor: Just keeping safe is not enough
Martin Haberfellner from Kochel, governor of the Bavarian mountain rifles, is initially quite neutral: "For diplomatic reasons, I stay out of it." In the further conversation, however, he emphasizes the symbolic power of the historical object.
It is not for nothing that the drum is shown again and again at exhibitions.
He doesn't think it's right to just keep them in a depot.
The idea of exhibiting the drum in an existing museum (Tölz, Tegernsee, Schliersee) is "interesting".
After all, they would also see people there who have nothing to do with archery.
Museum director: loan to Tölz "imaginable"
And what does the Tölz museum director say about the proposal by GSK Gotzing?
Elisabeth Hinterstocker herself lives in Valley, an important center of the uprising movement at the time.
And, yes, she can personally imagine such a loan to Tölz.
After the redesign of the Tölzer Stadtmuseum, there is even a separate room for the time of the wars of succession and their consequences in this country.
Historic country flag is already there
The second "relic" of the popular uprising of 1705 can also be seen there: the restored white and blue country flag with Patrona Bavariae of the mountain riflemen from 1616/17.
It was probably supported by Tölzer riflemen in the Bavarian uprising against the Austrian occupiers, which ended in a bloodbath.
In Tölz, memories of Sendling's murderous Christmas are still alive in many ways, says Hinterstocker, referring to the frescoes on the Marienstift (blacksmith von Kochel) and the Leonhardi Chapel, which was donated by survivors of the uprising.
FWG application for depot and exhibition not a city council issue in October
The public discussion about the Gotzinger drum has meanwhile reached politics, which was probably also in the interests of the mountain riflemen.
She had provided her suggestion to loan it to a museum in Tölz, Tegernsee and Schliersee with the addition that the drum could be ordered back if the city of Miesbach opened a local museum again.
How the chances are, you will find out in one of the next city council meetings in Miesbach.
The FWG parliamentary group had previously submitted an application for the realization of a depot and exhibition facilities.
For the October meeting on Thursday, October 21st, the topic did not make it onto the - official - agenda.
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