90 years of Alois Zieringer: From rascals to world travelers

Created: 08/11/2022, 16:00

By: Fabian Holzner

Family celebration with guests of honor on her 90th birthday (from left): Viola Brand, Deputy Mayor Christoph Puschmann, grandson Andreas Brand, daughter Roswitha Brand, son-in-law Hans Brand, wife Theresia Zieringer, Chairman of the Senior Advisory Board Heinz Schreiner, Isolde Bahr, Alois Zieringer, District Administrator Martin Bayerstorfer, deputy chairmen of the senior advisory board Helga Mühlenbeck, Nina Schreiner and Gerhard Mühlenbeck.

© Fabian Holzner

On his 90th birthday, Alois Zieringer from Taufkirchen looks back on an active life.

First he was a merchant, then in retirement he became a nativity scene builder and hostel father.

Taufkirchen

– For several days, well-wishers from various clubs came to Taufkirchen's Veilchenstrasse to see Alois Zieringer, who was able to celebrate his 90th birthday.

To celebrate with the family, everyone met in the Kulinaria restaurant, where district administrator Martin Bayerstorfer, Taufkirchen's second mayor Christoph Puschmann and representatives of the senior citizens' advisory board toasted the jubilee.

Zieringer was born on July 24, 1932 in Taufkirchen, in the old "Spieß-Haus" on Landshuter Straße.

Today there is the new savings bank building, at that time a locksmith lived in it, later the Mautner bakery.

Alois' father was a sacristan in the parish church opposite, he had moved here from the Bavarian Forest to work as a postal worker.

Alois grew up in the country with his three brothers, the eldest of whom died in the war, because Taufkirchen was still a small village at the time.

After school, in the summer months, people bathed in the Stephansbrünnlbach and hatched many a rascally prank with the neighboring children, the jubilarian recalled at his party.

In the post-war period, a large number of refugees and displaced persons were accommodated, including in Aloi's parents' house.

Later, a refugee secretly taught him to play the piano, a hobby that Alois pursued for a long time.

Due to the hardship of the time, grain was still begged from the surrounding farmers at Christmas, which was then ground "black" into flour, the celebrant said.

But better times came, for Alois and all of Taufkirchen closely linked to the name Carl Hierl.

After attending secondary school in Erding, Alois apprenticed with Hierl, who was still selling flowers and mattresses at the time.

He sometimes even had to be available late in the evening, he thinks back to the training period.

As the company grew and became the Himolla furniture factory, the clever young man was put to good use, most recently as a clerk in the testing department.

In his private life, Zieringer found happiness at the Jakobmayer in Dorfen.

Theresia Eichner, then 20 years old, danced in the ranks of the Prince Guard.

The two fell in love and married in 1956, soon after their daughter Roswitha was born.

After building a house on Violet Street, the couple traveled the world.

The two have seen Siberia, Lake Baikal, China and taken part in four major voyages by ship.

At the end of the 1990s, Alois was a founding member of the Taufkirchen moated castle development association and traveled the USA with Mayor Franz Hofstetter to establish the twinning with West Chicago.

Before that he was also a member of the Kolping Family and active in the TSV.

After retirement, Alois and Theresia became artisans.

They sold cribs and painted glass balls at Christmas markets.

In the home of his parents, the Bavarian Forest, they bought an old school house and converted it into holiday apartments.

"We were very well received," Alois Zieringer thinks back to those ten years.

To this day, the celebrant remembers many images from a cosmopolitan, fulfilling life.

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