Traditional costume association "D'Hachingertaler" celebrates 50 years of harvest festival

Created: 08/08/2022, 12:20 p.m

With the traditional crown dance, "D'Hachingertaler" want to thank the Sisters of Mercy and Anton Trost, the last living founder of the harvest festival.

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The harvest festival of the "D'Hachingertaler" heritage and traditional costume association has been firmly anchored in the community's cultural calendar for 50 years.

The people in Unterhaching owe this to two young and committed boys at the time.

Unterhaching

– As early as the 1950s and early 1960s, the parish of St. Alto in Unterhaching held an annual harvest festival at the Hirschbrunnen in the Perlacher Forest.

For unknown reasons, this celebration was eventually discontinued.

Two people wearing traditional costumes bring the festival back to life

In 1971, two young Trachtlers from Unterhaching, Alfons Griesberger and Anton Trost, had the idea of ​​reviving this festival as a forest festival, but the strict requirements of the forestry office failed.

A request for the use of the convent garden of the Sisters of Mercy from the then superior, Sister Amaranda, was successful and made it possible a year later, on September 17, 1972, for the first time to hold the festival, which was then called "Harvest Festival".

Due to the often bad weather in September, the festival was moved to the second half of August a little later and the name was changed to "Harvest Festival".

The basic idea of ​​"Thanksgiving" and the awareness that field and garden crops need God's blessing still stand for the purpose of the festival of the "D'Hachingertaler" folklore and costume association.

The citizens gladly took part in this event and over time it has become an integral part of the municipality's cultural calendar.

The concept designed in 1972 has remained true to this day, and large parts of the stalls made by Anton Trost and a few helpers at the time, as well as the coffee house, are still in use today.

Tanzbühne is a community effort

In 1973 the association's own dance stage was built.

This project was financed with forest work.

Unterhachinger and Taufkirchner farmers donated wood from their forests, which was processed and sold together with the Griesberger company.

With the proceeds, Anton Stumpf in Taufkirchen cut the timber.

Under the expert guidance and with the help of Pauli Hart, the stage and railings were put together.

This stage was replaced by today's stage in 2007 after 34 years.

For the festival, around 20 to 25 Deandl and Buam together with other helpers set up sales stands, stage, drinks bar, grill as well as tables and benches over two weekends.

On the actual Sunday of the festival, up to 50 people wearing traditional costumes and other helpers are on duty to run the stands and give the visitors a nice day.  

The program for the anniversary celebration

For the 50th time, "D'Hachingertaler" invite you to the harvest festival in the monastery garden of the Sisters of Mercy in the Marxhof on Sunday, August 21st.

The festival will begin at 9:30 a.m. with an open-air festival service.

The “Dietramszell brass band” will play for the subsequent morning pint with white sausage, Wiener, Brezn and Reutberger beer, which will also entertain guests during the day and invite them to dance.

Visitors can look forward to delicacies from Bavarian cuisine, including fish on a plug, grilled meat and sausage and fish rolls.

In the coffee house there are homemade cakes and lard pastries.

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In addition, during a demonstration with a historic threshing machine, visitors will learn how grain was harvested in the past.

In addition to the music, the Unterhachinger Trachtler themselves will provide entertainment with dance and plattler interludes.

With the traditional crown dance at 2 p.m., the costumers would like to thank the Sisters of Mercy for making the monastery garden available as an event location for 50 years.

The club members would also like to pay tribute to Anton Trost, the last living founder of the festival, for the idea and his courage at the time.

The end of the festival is at 7 p.m.

If the weather is bad, the festival will take place a week later, on August 28th.

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