The Taufkirchen trailer library

Created: 06/21/2022, 09:00

By: Birgit Lang

Thumbs up (standing, from left): Painter Rainer Karl, second headmistress Gabi Reiss, headmistress Ade Geier, chairwoman of the parents' council Eva Zsauscher, chairwoman of the development association Eva Obermaier and teachers Wolfgang Kraus and Robert Ackermann with students on the seat cushions, including the library team with Steffi Seidl, Diana Voichtleitner, Leonie Borchardt and Melanie Poplan (from left on the blue cushions).

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While the middle school in Taufkirchen is being built, you can now browse in a trailer.

Several members of the school family have created this mobile replacement for the library together.

Taufkirchen

– The “mobile library” is a unique project.

The Taufkirchen middle school students should be able to borrow books in the converted construction trailer while their school is being renovated.

With this you want to make a contribution to the nearly 40 million euro new building of the school and multi-purpose hall, explained Rector Ade Geier on Monday when the mini-library in the playground was put into operation.

"We didn't just want to challenge and whine, we wanted to show initiative and creativity," said Geier.

The library, managed by remedial teacher Robert Ackermann and his library team Steffi Seidl, Diana Voichtleitner, Leonie Borchardt and Melanie Poplan, plays a major role in the middle school, and during the time without a library one “felt quite a vacuum”, according to the headmaster.

The fact that the project took almost two years to complete was a new experience.

But Corona kept slowing down the initiators.

"It's a good thing that we finished before the new building was completed," joked Geier.

Almost two years ago he bought the trailer in its raw state.

He searched the internet for several weeks and then found it in the back of an allotment garden in Mainburg, the headmaster said.

The trailer cost 3,500 euros.

He was pulled to the Taufkirchen building yard with the Bulldog, for which a further 300 euros were incurred.

It would not have been possible without the support association and the parents' association.

They would have subsidized the total amount “in the form of a loan agreement”.

This means that the trailer will be sold again or auctioned off as soon as the new building with its "great, bright, large, well thought-out library" is finished.

Another 10,000 euros were due for the material costs, not including working hours.

A floor was laid in the construction trailer, insulation was installed and bookshelves were installed in such a way that they would not fall over during transport.

The interior work was carried out by craftsmen from the region and the technology teachers Jakob Eiglsperger and Wolfgang as well as ninth and tenth graders from the middle school.

And the fire brigade helped to bring the trailer to its current location in the playground.

The four ladies from the library arranged the books.

State subsidies were also used for the interior design within the framework of practice at secondary schools.

"An appeal for donations from the school's parents raised another 1,000 euros.

The development association also cobbled along and the VR-Bank helped a lot," Geier listed.

So it was still possible to buy beanbags from a discounter.

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Because it is a mobile library, it could be used in different places.

So she can also use the elementary school if she wants.

A box of books for elementary school students has already been received from the Dorfen bookstore.

And if the community needs them, for example for activities on the castle grounds, they can be set up there at any time, says Geier happily.