May dance: Egerländer back on Karl-Lederer-Platz
Created: 05/02/2022, 06:00
By: Susanne Weiss
Danced into May: The adults of the Egerländer Gmoi performed for the first time on the redesigned Karl-Lederer-Platz.
In addition, the Gartenberger bunker brass band played.
© Hans Lippert
If it hadn't been for Corona, the traditional May Day celebrations could have taken place earlier on Karl-Lederer-Platz.
But now she was particularly beautiful.
Geretsried – The Gartenberger bunker brass band intoned “Greetings from Egerland” and the sun shone through.
The beaming faces on Sunday afternoon on Karl-Lederer-Platz in Geretsried matched this.
For the first time since the redesign, there was a May Day celebration there again.
"I'm happy," said Mayor Michael Müller.
The day did not start optimally in terms of weather.
But that didn't stop the Egerländer Gmoi from cutting down the tree donated by the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising at 6 a.m., shaving it, decorating it and setting it up by hand in front of the town hall.
At 10 a.m. it snapped into place in the new maypole holder and, at 35 meters, towers over the highest building on the square, the PulsG.
Egerländer Gmoi sets up the 76th maypole in Geretsried
"So he doesn't have to hide in the Oberland," stated "Vüarstäiha" Helmut Hahn.
The Egerländer Gmoi is important not to lose the Maibaum tradition.
That's why there were two smaller copies in the inner courtyard of the town hall during the construction site period and two symbolic maypoles despite the corona lockdowns.
"Even if I don't know who put them up," says the board.
In the face of the 76th maypole, the dance groups of the Egerländer Gmoi, the Transylvanian Saxons and the Germans from Hungary presented themselves.
Many people came to watch with beer or coffee and to wear their traditional costumes again.
In addition to the bunker brass music, the Isartal adjuvants provided musical entertainment.
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