Beekeeping association inaugurates extended teaching apiary - everyone celebrates with them

Created: 06/23/2022, 06:00

By: Susanne Weiss

Many members of the beekeeping association volunteered to help with the conversion work on the teaching apiary.

Photo: Thomas Kruse © Thomas Kruse

The Geretsried beekeeping association has expanded its teaching apiary.

It will be inaugurated on Saturday.

Everyone is invited to the open day.

Geretsried – In the past few months, things have been going on at the training apiary of the Geretsried beekeepers’ association like in a beehive.

But there were no honey collectors scurrying around, but craftsmen were busy.

They have built a new training room that can accommodate up to 80 people.

Before club life starts again, the members invite all interested parties to the open day.

On Saturday, June 25, the chairman Frank Meinert welcomes all guests at 9.30 a.m. at the teaching apiary in Buchberg on the B11.

The church blessing is carried out by the Catholic pastor Andreas Vogelmeier from Geretsried and the Protestant pastor Elke Soellner from Ebenhausen.

Afterwards, visitors can get to know the beekeeping association and its new building all day long with a morning pint, lunch, coffee and cake.

Music is playing and a short film informs children and adults.

The members have also prepared a slide show about the structural development of the teaching apiary and a showcase about the world of bees.

There is also a bee quiz and puppet theater for the little ones.

And of course there is also freshly extracted honey to buy.

The proceeds benefit the club fund.

The beekeeping association puts 1600 hours of personal effort into the cultivation

In recent years, the beekeeping association has grown considerably.

"We currently have 212 members in the association," reports Secretary Thomas Kruse.

At the monthly meetings before the corona pandemic, the more than 30-year-old club headquarters was bursting at the seams.

So the members decided to rebuild (we reported).

Hans Huber, a trained carpenter and beekeeper, took over the voluntary site management and many other members pitched in wherever they could.

1600 hours of personal work added up.

The association invested 100,000 euros for the construction costs.

Around 50,000 euros in donations were received for the project.

"Further donations are welcome," says Huber.

At the end of May, the club members were already able to take a look at their new home.

"Everyone was enthusiastic," says the site manager happily.

The building is now barrier-free accessible via a ramp.

The renovated toilets can also be reached via this.

Huber hopes that many people will visit the new teaching apiary on Saturday and that normal operations will then pick up speed again.

In 1988 the original teaching apiary was inaugurated

The beekeeping association was founded on October 25, 1953 by ten beekeepers who had lost their home and their bee colonies.

According to the chronicle, the "refugee beekeepers", as they were called at the time, worked with a "diligence on building up their association, which was usually only said of the bees".

At the Sprengplatz near Königsdorf, a club-owned mating station with pure breeding was set up.

Smaller neighboring clubs joined the Geretsrieders.

In 1986, after detailed planning, the construction of a teaching apiary began on the B11 near Buchberg, and it was inaugurated in 1988.

In the years that followed, the building and grounds were enlarged and improved again and again.

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The inauguration and open day of the teaching apiary on the B11 near Buchberg begins this Saturday, June 25, at 9:30 a.m.

Everyone is welcome.

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