The hot Sunday of the Wartenberg folk festival was all about clubs and vintage cars.
We came across a very special Cadillac.
Wartenberg – If, at temperatures like on Sunday, guests try out the beach volleyball facility behind the tent of the Wartenberg folk festival on the shadeless meadow behind the marquee and children take advantage of the many games and sports on offer, then a lot has been achieved.
The sports officers Michael Gruber, Michael Pröbst and Isabell Haindl had done everything right with the organization.
Haindl found the visit very satisfying given the heat.
The TSV came to the premiere of the day of the clubs with all departments that made their own offers.
Dance United scored twice: information stand on the lawn, performances by youth groups in the marquee.
While the market band played, the hair was styled and rhinestones glued on.
The DLRG came with a fully equipped water rescue train and set up a fun course to try out.
Right in the middle was the beekeepers' association, where the smoking device smoked slightly to calm the animals and there was also a lot to see.
There was something to hear at the library: the "reading owl", the latest achievement, can read.
The shooters presented the rifle, but not as in “Prussia's Gloria”, but in the transport cases: these were state-of-the-art sporting weapons, and there was also a handgun.
The traditional costumes had felt their sewing chamber and the archive with you, there was that much to admire.
Haindl reported that the sports officers initially thought of a day of the sports clubs.
But then other clubs would have wanted to participate.
"So we opened it up and turned it into a club day." She described the combination with the classic car meeting as successful.
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In the costume of the mascot "Willi the fox", Niko Grund from the Ski-Club Auerbach was really hard or hot.
Accompanied by Moritz Zink, he completed the course of the DLRG.
© Klaus Kuhn
Over 150 vehicles turned up, including one that needed more than two spaces, back-to-back: the stretch version of the legendary Cadillac Fleetwood.
Driver Konrad Heindl from Lohkirchen spoke frankly of the surprise that this gave: "The picture in the oldtimer newspaper did not show that the thing is so long." The luxury part has been available since 2004, according to the 84-year-old Stars have driven in his possession.
The car is often booked as a wedding carriage, as he said.
The previous owners include the actor Martin Semmelrogge.
At the lower end of the size scale, as was to be expected, was the Trabi, of which there was also a specimen to be admired, which at least had a 12-volt on-board power system.
As always, the organizer was the fire department's classic car department, and it was satisfied with the encouragement.
Klaus Kuhn