The Thalhausen fire brigade is planning a big festival week at the end of May.
The reason is their 150th anniversary.
Planning for this has been going on since 2019.
Thalhausen
- For a long time you couldn't celebrate big festivals due to Corona.
But just in time for the 150th anniversary of the voluntary fire brigade in Thalhausen, that seems to be changing: the Floriansjünger have put together a big festival week.
"We already founded our festival committee in 2019," says committee chairman Erwin Kahlert, "so the first meetings took place shortly before Corona." When it became clear at the beginning of 2020 that the pandemic would have a strong impact on social life in the coming time, that was a challenge some courage from the festival committee: "It was important to us that we still plan thoroughly," remembers Kahlert.
In addition, care was taken to ensure that the committee was "a colorful mix of young people and long-time residents".
In the beginning we met once a month.
"Towards the end we sat together every week and fine-tuned our rough plans," reports festival committee member Thomas Manske.
In addition to the colorful program for young and old, the fire brigade also had 10,000 bottles of festival beer made with their own logo.
100 citizens once came to the foundation
Of course, such an anniversary does not only mean celebrations.
"Of course, we also look back on our long history," emphasizes Erwin Kahlert.
The foundation is dated May 12, 1872.
"Around 100 citizens from Wippenhausen, Tünzhausen and Thalhausen got together to set up a volunteer fire brigade," he quotes from old records.
“The equipment probably only consisted of a couple of buckets of water.” When the Florian disciples noticed that the attempts to extinguish the fire with this “equipment” were not exactly successful, they bought a small pressure sprayer in the year they were founded.
Also shortly after it was founded, the fire brigade, which arose from the three different locations, decided to split up.
The roads back then were too bad to cover them on foot or in a horse-drawn carriage.
So it made more sense for each village to set up its own fire brigade.
At that time, the Thalhausen Wehr kept the recently purchased pressure pump for themselves and upgraded it with its own standard.
"We still have them in the fire station to this day," says Erwin Kahlert proudly.
Club flag dates from 1912
Around 1910, the first pressure sprayer was replaced by a more modern model.
With the muscle power of eight men and a hundred meter long hose, the device formed the complete equipment of the fire brigade at that time.
In 1912 the symbol of the fire brigade was acquired: the club flag, which still exists today.
In 1938, the military afforded a new motorized sprayer, which was temporarily confiscated by the Americans in the post-war turmoil.
The first pendant was commissioned from the village blacksmith Georg Großkopf in 1951.
This trailer accompanied the fire brigade for many years.
It was first pulled by horses, later by a tractor.
A property for the 100th anniversary
The joy of big festivals, however, has always been in the blood of the Thalhausen firefighters: A parade with more than 50 clubs crowned the festival week for the 100th anniversary in 1972. Stimulated by the founding party, the first thoughts about a new tool house were loud: “Back then there were we are housed in an old barn on the former castle estate,” says Erwin Kahlert.
For the purpose of a new meeting place, the Countess of Holstein gave the fire brigade a piece of land on Wippenhauser Straße to mark its 100th anniversary, and the municipality of Kranzberg provided materials.
That's all it took for the hard-working firefighters: the tool shed was built entirely by themselves, and the old barn was sensibly said goodbye: it burned down (controlled and intentionally) as part of a large-scale exercise.
First vehicle was a “Blitz”
Just six years later, the Thalhausen Weir celebrated another milestone: it was motorized for the first time.
The municipality of Kranzberg bought a used fire engine.
In the years that followed, the vehicle was affectionately called “our lightning bolt”.
In 1991, "Blitz" had to give way to a newer vehicle.
Women have been at the start since 1994
In 1994 there was official women's power among the people of Thalhausen for the first time: the women's group went into active service.
The tool shed was getting on in years and the hard-working team started building a new one in 1995.
In the end, 2500 hours of personal work went into this magnificent piece.
Two years later, the 125th anniversary followed, which was properly celebrated with a three-day founding party.
In 1999 there was again a lot of work in the tool shed: the attic was expanded on our own initiative - a storage room, toilets and the so-called "Stüberl" were created.
Youth fire brigade was founded in 2006
In the early 2000s, things happened one after the other for the fire service: in 2005, the first team bus was purchased, in 2006 the youth fire brigade was established, and in 2008 the appropriate garage for the team vehicle was approved and completed.
Today, the fire brigade, including youth and women, has almost 80 members.
Under the direction of chairman Lorenz Gremminger and commander Florian Jositz, as well as the support of district fire chief Erich Frank and district fire inspector Josef Maier, Thalhausen is “well prepared”.
Chairman Lorenz Gremminger sums up the motto of his fire brigade as follows: "One for all, all for one." Festival committee boss Erwin Kahlert wishes his firefighters "a great festival week" and the Florian disciples in the distant future an "equally great 300-year -Celebration".
The festival program
Wednesday, May 25: from 8 p.m. Red Stadl Night.
Saturday, May 28th: from 11.30 a.m. Citizens’ festival of the community of Kranzberg with senior citizens’ afternoon and “game without borders” for the youth fire brigades
Sunday, May 29th: wake-up call at 6.30 a.m., reception of the clubs from 8 a.m., church service at 10 a.m. followed by a procession, at 12 noon lunch in the Feststadl followed by handing over of the festival gifts
Pascale Fuchs
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