Suitable for “Landerlebnisreisen in Bayern”

As “Maria vom Oberschaffler”, Maria Hager has been guiding groups of visitors through the historic polling for several weeks.

The 52-year-old has now proven that the “Pollinger woman” understands her “leadership craft” with body and soul in the practical test for training for “Land adventure trips in Bavaria”.

Polling

- In “Minis Raritätenstadl” in Hofmarkstraße there is actually nothing that does not exist.

The depot of historical exhibits, distributed over two barns, ranges from the operating table, where Ferdinand Sauerbruch surgically treated his patients, to historical cow and wheel bells, to carriages and old signs, on which, for example, a mayor is casually known as part of an order gives "that beer will be brewed from Wednesday and therefore it is no longer allowed to shit in the stream from Tuesday".

For Maria Hager, the daughter of the collector and former mayor Dominikus Weiß, who died in 2016, the Raritätenstadl was definitely the right place for her “examination tour”.

Networking regional offers

Hager has completed a qualification as a certified adventure guide at the Agriculture Office under the label "Landerlebnisreisen in Bayern".

The training program is intended to help ensure that the diverse range of activities on Bavarian farms is professionally presented.

The tours should create additional sources of income and contribute to the networking of regional offers.

“The adventure guides are a group that does exemplary educational work.

Consumer communication has become very important, ”says Sabine Biberger.

Concept worked out two years ago

The employee of the Agricultural Office in Ingolstadt came to Polling especially to take Hager's exam. Evaluation criteria included personal appearance, rhetoric, professional competence, time management as well as the program and the thematic content of the tours. So much can be revealed in advance: Hager passed - and with kudos. The candidate was not nervous: “No, I'm well prepared”, Hager assured before the tour, to which she had invited friends and acquaintances, Vice District Administrator Wolfgang Taffertshofer and Mayor Martin Pape. Hager had already worked out the concept for the one-hour tour two years ago. The theory test had to be postponed due to Corona.

Under the motto “From ox to ox gurgel”, Hager took her group of visitors on a journey through time through the historical development of agriculture - with a culinary finale: the tour participants were able to observe up close how Hager prepared lard biscuits in hot fat.

Biberger also liked the “ox gargles”.

The examiner was not only impressed by the cuisine: “Clear stations during the tour, clear announcements and“ always a common thread ”, was her test result.

“She really knows what she's talking about,” said Biberger, praising her examinee.

Hager is now one of around 200 certified adventure guides in Bavaria.