Gadener Krämerin reaches old age: The "Res" is 100

Created: 05/19/2022, 7:00 p.m

The former Kramerin von Gaden, Therese Schindlbeck (center), celebrated her 100th birthday with (from left) Stefan Schindlbeck (grandson), Martin Schindlbeck (son), daughter-in-law Annemarie, daughter Sofie Zängl and grandson Martin Schindlbeck.

© Raimund Lex

Therese Schindlbeck is celebrating a milestone birthday in old age.

She is well known in the village: she ran the Gaden general store until 1975.

Gaden

– Therese Schindlbeck celebrated her 100th birthday on Tuesday with her family in Gaden.

Cared for by her daughter Sofie, the jubilee still lives in her own house and is in good health. She now only needs a walker to walk.

Son Martin came to Gaden with his wife Annemarie for the day of honor to congratulate the elderly woman, as did the two grandsons Stefan and Martin.

The "Res", as she is called in the village and beyond by all acquaintances, did not want high visitors.

The mentally very vigorous senior citizen was born on May 17, 1922 in Dettendorf, where she also spent her childhood - surrounded by the six children of the Heinzl family.

In 1945 she married Martin Schindlbeck.

The marriage produced a daughter and two sons.

The family ran a farm as a part-time job. Therese's husband Martin Schindlbeck last worked at the Isar-Amper-Werke.

After a few years, the farm was finally sold.

In 1959, Therese Schindlbeck opened a general store in Gaden, which from then on supplied the villagers with everyday necessities.

The "Res" had almost everything in their little shop.

It went without saying that he was always on duty outside of the official opening hours. On some Sundays, day trippers who wanted to go to the Isar to camp there practically stormed the business, the group at the recalled small birthday party for the 100th cradle festival.

However, increasing mobility brought the end to Therese Schindlbeck's small corner shop.

More and more people stopped shopping in the village and went to the large supermarkets in the surrounding area.

As a result, sales in the Gadener Kramerladen dropped noticeably.

Only what one had forgotten when shopping in the city in bulk was usually quickly fetched from the “Res” outside the opening hours.

In 1975 Therese Schindlbeck closed her shop forever.

In the years that followed she did smaller jobs, her husband continued to work until he died after a long illness.

The celebrant is a happy person.

She doesn't struggle with her fate, even if it hasn't always meant well for her.

“You have to take it as it comes” is her motto, she reveals.

And it has done well for 100 years.

By Raimund Lex

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