70 years of Narrhalla Nandlstadt: All the ups and downs of the foolish goings-on in one chronicle

Created: 01/07/2022, 9:00 PM

Anja Tafelmaier, Melanie Krojer, Franziska Maushammer, Melissa Puscher, Andrea Stiller, Daniela Stanglmair, Andreas Stanglmair and Lina Dallinger worked on the Narrhalla Chronicle (from left).

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Narrhalla Nandlstadt has created an extensive chronicle over the past few months.

Now the work entitled “70 Years of Narrhalla Nandlstadt” has been presented.

Nandlstadt

- Carnival and Nandlstadt simply belong together - and have been since the early 1950s.

With the ambitious project "70 years of Narrhalla Nandlstadt", the association has now presented an extensive chronicle that illuminates all the ups and downs of the foolish activities in the heart of the Hallertau.

Last Wednesday there was great interest and the Hopfenhalle was well filled - no wonder, as the Narrhalla club chronicle was freshly out of print for the first time.

From February to November of last year, numerous members of the association set about the laborious work to sift through archives and interview contemporary witnesses.

The result is impressive, because due to the many photographic documents it is also a charming extension of the market chronicle in the spectrum of club life.

A carnival picture from 1951: The first prince couple of Nandlstadt, Marianne Binkert and Alois Birkner, is published in the chronicle. repro: Lorenz © Repro: Lorenz

What Andreas Stanglmair from the team of authors is particularly proud of: "We have been able to find a photo of every prince couple since 1951." Early interviews and reports from various regional daily newspapers also made the change from the carnival run clear for the writers. Because back then, even before a club was founded, a lot would have been set up very spontaneously, as you learned. "The Seebacher (mayor of Nandlstadt from 1966 to 1984, editor's note) has often already known a prince," says Stanglmair, and continues: "Then only a princess had to be found." also made in home work, for example from old curtain fabric, as further research showed.

In the 1960s, loose regulars with a carnival affinity had emerged into a permanent troop, which then founded a foolish association in 1968 as the forerunner of the Narrhalla and thus laid the foundation for more structure, a permanent guard and a penalty council.

What started out very ambitiously came to a standstill as early as 1973 - and that for seven years, during which the carnival in Nandlstadt had to take a break.

By the way: Everything from the region is now also available in our regular Freising newsletter.

It was not until 1980 that the fools regrouped through the engagement of a more celebratory offspring - so ambitious that the Narrhalla Nandlstadt association was founded in the same year. At that time, according to Stanglmair, many of those traditions were introduced that are still cultivated at the Narrhalla today, such as the prince's funeral. What has changed since then: The Narrhalla has acted as its own organizer since the association was founded and has thus noticeably strengthened the carnival bustle in Nandlstadt. There was a clear turning point again from 1990, as Melanie Krojer from the team of authors explained. In 1991 the carnival was canceled due to the Gulf War - which reminds you very much of the present day, although there is no war, but a pandemic.

The early 1990s were by no means good times for the Narrhalla, because there were also problems with the then tenant of the "Schwemmwirt", the stronghold of the carnival friends at that time.

In addition, there were disagreements and disagreements in the board of the Narrhalla, which ultimately resigned as a whole - there was a clear "carnival fatigue".

In order to celebrate the nonsensical time at least a little in Nandlstadt, there was no prince couple during the founding phase of the association, but a “Miss Narrhalla” and the child prince couple.

Members of Narrhalla Nandlstadt worked on the chronicle for ten months.

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The upswing through committed fools came again in 1997, when the association was also officially registered.

Since then, says Krojer, there has been carnival in Nandlstadt as we know it.

A club that, according to Krojer, you have in your heart.

Once there, always with you, the co-author concluded.

Good to know

The Chronicle of the Narrhalla can be bought in the Nandlstädter Marktladerl or at the Narrhalla performances.

The price is 15 euros.

It is not yet clear whether there will be performances this carnival - Corona has slowed down the carnival.

The Narrhalla Nandlstadt hopes to be able to celebrate the enthronement on January 28th with a little delay.

Richard Lorenz