A building in Obermaxkron is illuminated with countless lights and decorated with a wide variety of Christmas decorations.
A real Christmas house.
Penzberg
- Snow White and Rose Red could live here.
Or Frau Holle.
The little wooden house, right behind the dark forest between Penzberg and the Obermaxkron district, fits best, but for St. Nicholas.
And the Christ Child could sublet upstairs - where countless lights illuminate the small balcony.
“It just looks magical,” enthuses a woman from Penzberg.
Now, in the run-up to Christmas, she says, she likes to walk past the house with her dog - especially after dark.
Then Hedwig Ertl literally flips the switch every evening in the run-up to Christmas - and there is light in the house and in the garden.
She put around 20 fairy lights - at least - on her home this year, says the woman from Penzberg, who lives in the house with her husband Peter and their grown-up daughter Stefanie.
“We always do the lighting together,” explains the 64-year-old.
And this year for the seventh year in a row.
Joint decorating with the family
Only the fairy lights on the roof of their house let them hang all year round.
The family hangs up all other light sources anew every year - always just before the first Advent.
The many lovingly arranged decorative items such as candles, self-carved wooden animals and pine greens are constantly being rebuilt.
Why?
Hedwig Ertl emphasizes that she basically likes all seasons and festivals.
"But I especially love Christmas."
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The Christmas lights are expanded every year, says Hedwig Ertl, who also arranged various Christmas decorations in front of her house.
© Franziska Seliger
This year the Ertl family hung up their fairy lights around the flower boxes on the house.
Draped on the trellis tree on the facade or wound around the handrails of the outside stairs, they send their warm light from countless small lamps out into the cold night from the early evening hours.
How many lamps exactly?
Hedwig Ertl doesn't know what to say.
Even the deer antlers under the roof wears a glowing headdress.
A power line was laid especially in the summer
Every year, says Hedwig Ertl, the sea of lights on her property grows larger.
This year she also wrapped the crowns and trunks of the fruit trees in her garden with fairy lights.
To do this, she had a power line dug specially in the summer.
And the shrubs, packed to protect against frost, wear red Santa Claus hats and thus look like little Christmas elves.
But isn't that a lot of work?
Hedwig Ertl waves it away.
“I enjoy it so much.
It's not work for me. ”Instead, she is happy when the strollers stop in front of the house.
When children's eyes shine.
She is happy to accept that such a magic light is expensive in view of rising energy prices, she says.
But she has never thought about her electricity bill because: “I'll save that elsewhere - and if I eat potato soup three days in a row.” Or, for example, by rarely turning on her dishwasher during the Christmas season.
“All fairy lights are equipped with rechargeable batteries,” she emphasizes.
And the electricity used is at least partially green electricity.
