70 years of blossom festival: This year there is a surprise for guests
Created: 05/13/2022, 08:09
The first date didn't work out, but on Sunday, May 15th, we're supposed to celebrate in Biburg.
Country youth leader Lena Schwojer adjusts the posters.
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The first blossom festival took place in Biburg 70 years ago.
Since then, local associations have been organizing the event, above all the Catholic rural youth.
After the Corona break, it's that time again this year.
Biburg – There is a surprise for the guests on the milestone birthday, which will be celebrated next Sunday weather permitting.
It is still the same sign as 70 years ago that welcomes visitors when they enter the Schwojer family's flower garden in the Biburg district of Allingen and thus immerse themselves in the flower festival.
There is a celebration under the trees as soon as each guest has received a stamp with the inscription "Blossom Festival".
After the Corona break
The festival had to be canceled in 2020 and 2021 - Corona.
"This year, too, we have considered whether we can celebrate," reports rural youth chairwoman Lena Schwojer.
"But then we thought: Let's do it." Lena Schwojer has been chairwoman since 2018 and is now at the head of the organization team for the second time.
The flower festival had been missed in the past two years, she says: by regular customers, day trippers, clubs from the surrounding area.
But most of all from the village itself. "Something is simply missing if we don't have a flower festival," says the 24-year-old.
Biburger are now all the more looking forward to next Sunday.
(By the way: Everything from the region is now also available in our regular FFB newsletter.)
But how did it all actually start?
"My grandmother's generation had organized a garden party back then," says Lena Schwojer.
That was in 1951. The following year, 1952, the festival was renamed the Biburg Blossom Festival - the starting signal for a tradition that has lasted for 70 years.
Lena Schwojer is a regular at the event herself: “I've been going all my life.
I was probably there in my mum's womb," she says, laughing.
The crown dance in the 1960s - even then, the people of Biburg celebrated this tradition.
© Reproduction: Strobl
The Crown Dance
For the 70th birthday, a detail of the festival is brought back to life: the so-called crown dance.
"When it was founded 70 years ago, my grandmother performed it," says the 24-year-old.
Now it's her turn.
Dancing is expected to take place between 3 p.m. and 4 p.m.
In this old Bavarian tradition, girls and boys dance together with a bow made of plants and flowers to brass band music.
"We even dance to the original choreography from back then," reveals the chairwoman.
For this she had studied her grandmother's notes, who had taken a lot of trouble to write everything down exactly.
"It's even typed", not something to be taken for granted in the post-war period.
Something for everyone
Physical well-being will also be taken care of on Sunday.
“There is fish, meat, fries, coffee and cake, beer and wine.
And an ice cream and candy stand for the children,” lists Lena Schwojer.
The “menu” has hardly changed over the years.
It started with meat, beer and water.
In the meantime, however, there is “really something for everyone”.
For fun for the little ones on a bouncy castle and for the grown-ups on the dance floor, there is brass band music during the day and a DJ in the evening.
The local rifle club and the Allinger sports club organize food and drink.
The fire brigade takes over the coffee and cake counter, the rural youth organization, set-up and dismantling as well as the flower bar.
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Christina Strobel
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meeting
It starts on May 15 at 12 noon.
It starts at 6 p.m. at the bar to DJ music.
Only in the event of very bad weather will the festival be postponed to Thursday, May 26th.
Information at www.landjugend-biburg.de.
You can find more current news from the district of Fürstenfeldbruck at Merkur.de/Fürstenfeldbruck.