The Goldachtaler Eicherloh local and folk costume association has shaped the Finsing district and the community for 75 years.
This is not just a reason to celebrate, as chairman Anton Kollmannsberger thinks.
The 75th anniversary of the association also offers the opportunity to look back at the beginnings.
Eicherloh
- Anton Kollmannsberger has been the first chairman of the traditional costume association since 2011. Before that, he had been Vice Chairman for ten years. A lot of knowledge and experience is accumulated there. In an interview with our newspaper, Kollmannsberger gives insights into the past, life in the club and its future plans.
The Goldachtaler Association originally emerged out of necessity.
“The time was marked by helplessness and confusion, because many values had lost their meaning,” says the club's chronicle, among other things.
But one value remained: home.
After the end of the war and the return of prisoners of war from many different countries, the idea arose to "start a new life without racial warfare and politics".
The result is the Heimat- und Volkstrachtenverein, which was founded in March 1946 under Leonhard Steinbeißer as the "Heimat- und Volkstrachtenverein D'Moosbuam Eicherloh".
At that time, Steinbeißer was supported as first chairman by Gottfried Hiltensperger, Lorenz Söhl, Fritz Sinner and Georg Steinhart.
In 1967 D'Moosbuam became the Goldachtaler
But the club was quickly faced with challenges.
As early as 1948, there was no longer any founding member.
It is all the more astonishing that it still exists - since 1967 under the name “Goldachtaler Eicherloh”.
There is no shortage of members today.
258 count the Trachtler, including many who do not come from Eicherloh.
One is particularly proud of the offspring.
“That's a lot of members for a place like Eicherloh.
Then there are the great successes with our youth, ”says Kollmannsberger.
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Honored were (front, from left) Antonia Janz, Katharina Hirner, Magdalena Kressirer, Max Kressirer, Brigitte Mair, Schorsch Petermann, Jacket Reiser, Gerlinde Kolbeck, chaplain Thomas Belitzer (new member), (middle, from left) Hans Reiss, Alfred Zeilhofer, Josef Fischer, Claudia Reiss, Renate Reiss, Sabrina Reiss, Max Lehmer jun., Josef Kolbeck Josef, (back, from left) Martin Schmid, Sebastian Staudt, Anton Schnalke, Florian Hermansdorfer, Manfred Weiss, Christian Albert and Thomas Suttner.
© Helmut Ernst
Often one was allowed to successfully represent the Gau at the price plateau, the so-called Bavarian Lion.
“We were there for the first time in 2007,” says the chairman.
The theater, which is played annually, is also popular.
It has been an important part of the club year for 70 years.
The theater had to be dispensed with for the past two years, and the curtain should be raised again next year.
"We want to catch up on the piece that we actually would have played when the lockdown intervened", Kollmannsberger announced, "Choose Franz Krakauer".
Traditionally, the dates are set so that the Palm Sunday weekend is the last weekend of the game.
Association wants to find back to "where we were before the pandemic"
“Our goal is to get everything up and running again in the next few years and to find our way back to where we were before the pandemic.
Not just in the theater, but in all of the club's life, ”explains the chairman, giving reasons:“ Everything has calmed down a bit.
We want to live again and get society up and running. ”The popular Jugendhoagarten should also take place again as soon as possible.
The 56-year-old does not doubt that the club will find its way back to its old form.
“It is the overall package of our club that defines us.
We have a name in the Gau that we have also earned.
We are set up in a diverse way and through the good solidarity in the club, but also in the local community, a lot can be achieved, ”he is sure.
A first step back into carefree club life was the 75th anniversary celebration with 130 people, including the partner club “Ellbachtaler München Solln”.
After a service at the Jagdhaus Maxlruh Eicherloh, which is now depicted on the braces of the male members, there was celebrations and dancing at the community center.
"And we got a new member straight away," reveals Kollmannsberger with a wink: The Trachtler impressed chaplain Thomas Belitzer, who held the service, so much that he declared his membership on the same day.
Kollmannsberger also used the ceremony to honor numerous long-term members.
The honored
20 years
: Caroline Altinger, Florian Körner, Peter Körner, Anton Schnalke jun., Andreas Söhl, Anton Schnalke sen., Manfred Weiss, Christian Albert, Josef Kolbeck, Gerlinde Kolbeck, Sebastian Staudt;
30 years
: Alexandra Reiss, Florian Hermansdorfer, Claudia Reiss, Sabrina Reiss, Martin Schmid, Barbara Mießlinger, Toni Beck;
40 years
: Maria Bader-Braun, Mathias Spies, Max Lehmer jun., Jacki Reiser, Thomas Suttner, Monika Käser, Josef Fischer sen., Johann Reiss, Renate Reiss, Alfred Zeilhofer;
50 years
: Brigitte Mair, Schorsch Petermann, Ernst Huber, Benno Spies jun., Katharina Hirner, Anonia Janz, Magdalena Kressirer, Max Kressirer jun.
Julia Adam