Unterbrunner history in words and video

Created: 06/20/2022, 11:20 am

Collector Hermann Geiger, district home caretaker Gerhard Schober, Andreas Heb and Tom Striedl initiated the “Living Village Memory” project.

© Andrea Jaksch

"Living village memory" - that's what four Unterbrunners call the project, which aims to preserve the history of the place and the places in it.

The goal is historical circular routes.

Unterbrunn

– At the Dult in the garden of the Unterbrunner vicarage, the wedding took place on Saturday, and at the same time district home caretaker Gerhard Schober and collector Hermann Geiger presented the “Living Village Memory” project developed jointly with firefighter Andreas Heb and advertising designer Tom Striedl on Saturday.

History is preserved for future generations at information steles.

The highlight: In the future, videos can be played via a QR code.

The first notices, for example at the school, also evoked memories in Brigitte Graf (left) and Ingrid Ruhdorfer, which they exchanged with Gerhard Schober.

© Photographer: Andrea Jaksch

Despite the blistering heat, there was a lot going on: At the entrance, collector Hermann Geiger presented a Sicilian cargo cart from the 18th/19th centuries.

Century with carvings and artistically painted battle scenes.

Little Dult was running on the orchard meadow.

Ingrid Ruhdorfer and Brigitte Graf exchanged memories on a large-format photo of the Buger-Hof, which was demolished in 1972: "I can still remember the Buger-Hof and my school days in Unterbrunn," said Brigitte Graf, born in 1959. "There were four classes together two rooms” – and were taught by Gerhard Schober.

The long-retired teacher, who lives on the ground floor of the listed school building, joined his "formers".

The district home caretaker, author of the illustrated "settlement history of Unterbrunn and Oberbrunn",

but we also have Hermann Geiger to thank for the project with the information boards.

"The village of Unterbrunn can look back on a long history and has preserved many traditions to this day," the four initiators explain their joint project.

The boys stealing the maypole are legendary, as are the carnival parades and the soap box races.

QR code will soon bring visitors to videos

The videos he shot for this purpose can soon be accessed on the Internet using the QR code on the steles, explained Geiger.

At the Dult, the information boards could be admired for the first time: at the entrance to the vicarage, one of the steles with a glass case, donated by the municipality of Gauting, has already been erected.

An information board is dedicated to the rectory, which the priest and musician Gottfried Resl had rebuilt in 1913/14.

With its well-balanced proportions, the hipped-roof building appears extremely representative and conveys the image of an upper-class villa, says Schober.

After the congregation had acquired the vicarage with the wedding room in 2014, the administrator Angelika Göschl brought the renovated monument back to life with wedding celebrations and Dulten.

Another information board tells the story of the Romanesque St. Laurentius parish church with the magnificent high altar with the late Gothic figures of Mary and Child.

"Since 1665 school lessons were given in Unterbrunn without interruption," Schober wrote under the photo of the school building, which was built in 1880, opposite the vicarage.

"The village school was only closed in the course of the land reform of 1979." Another stop is the listed toe barn, where the farmers had to pay their dues in kind, "the tithe", to the respective rulers such as the Counts of Andechs.

The initiators write that further information boards are planned at important locations, for example in front of the fire station, the two inns and the village pond: Two historical circular routes for adults and children through the village are to be created.

"We want to make the story tangible," says Heb, co-initiator of the soapbox race.

"It is very important to preserve the knowledge and memories that Gerhard Schober and I have collected over the decades," adds Geiger, because: "Time just flies by."