Königsdorf's local farmer Roswitha Mayer dies at the age of 65

Created: 05/25/2022, 09:00

By: Peter Borchers

Roswitha MayerThe local farmer in Königsdorf died at the age of 65.

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She was open, hardworking and helpful: Königsdorf's local farmer Roswitha Mayer died after a short, serious illness at the age of 65.

A village mourns.

Königsdorf

– Almost everyone in town knew her.

Roswitha Mayer was a local farmer for 25 years, made it to the German championship in Berlin in 47 years as a member of the judo department of TV Lenggries, and was involved in the district association of rural women.

And anyone who bought their bread or rolls in the Königsdorf bakery in the morning was greeted with a smile by her, who worked there part-time.

The grief in the village is all the greater: Roswitha Mayer died on May 6th after a short, serious illness at the age of 65.

She left her husband Klaus and the eldest son Klaus jun.

(32) and the twins Rosina and Kaspar (30).

Roswitha Anastasia Mayer, Gistl farmer from Kreut near Königsdorf, was born on March 15, 1957 in Bad Tölz.

As the second of five children, she grew up on a small farm in the Lenggrieser district of Wegscheid, trained as a bakery saleswoman and met her future husband in 1988.

“That was at a fire brigade festival,” Klaus Mayer recalls.

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Six months later, after the wedding, the young woman moved to the Gistl farm, a dairy farm.

Klaus junior was born, and the twins almost two years later.

In 1996 Mayer was elected local farmer in Königsdorf.

At the same time, she returned to her learned profession – in addition to her work in agriculture, house and family.

"Roswitha, open and outgoing, was a passionate saleswoman," says Ursula Fiechtner, her long-time companion, district farmer.

She greeted every visitor with a smile.

She knew every regular customer's favorite pastries and was helpful "when elderly husbands were sent to shop," says Fiechtner, smiling.

Mayer didn't care about her fellow human beings.

"She always asked how it was going.

And when someone was feeling down, she cheered them up.”

Her love was the theatre

Roswitha Mayer worked actively in the district association of rural women, did patent public relations work with her farmers at district and farm festivals, says the district farmer.

Her diligence and love of the stage helped her: Mayer liked to act in the theater in her hometown of Lenggries.

She also wrote and showed small skits at campaigns by rural women for social purposes.

You could always count on Roswitha

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In 2011, Roswitha Mayer was honored with the Silver Ear for 15 years as a local farmer.

According to Fiechtner, this year she would have "received another award for 25 years".

The cancer, which had only been diagnosed in January, prevented this.

Despite the illness, the Königsdorf farmers once again chose the Kreuterin as their boss at the end of April.

According to Fiechtner, this should “give her energy in the fight against the insidious cancer.

It was shocking for us rural women that she lost the fight on the evening of May 6th.” Roswitha Mayer died at home, surrounded by her family.

Her husband Klaus says: "It came as a surprise to all of us that it happened so quickly."

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