Light in dark times: Illuminated market square in Advent

Created: 09/26/2022, 17:14

By: Christiane Breitenberger

Christmas spirit: the Christmas tree adorned the market square last year.

© Christian Fischer

The Indersdorfer market place should probably light up atmospherically in the Advent season.

The municipality has also switched to energy-saving lighting.

Indersdorf – While other places are discussing whether to do without the Christmas lights to save energy, there is good news from the Indersdorf town hall.

And that for environmentalists as well as for Christmas fans.

In a non-public meeting in June, the Indersdorf municipal councils decided to replace the old lighting for the Christmas tree on the market square with "super energy-saving LED lights", as Managing Director Klaus Mayershofer explained when asked by the Dachauer Nachrichten.

Christmas spirit despite the energy crisis: LED lighting on Indersdorf's market square

At the most recent municipal council meeting, Mayor Franz Obesser provided information about the Christmas lighting for the new market square.

There should be "no mast motif" for the street lamps, according to Obesser, but the municipality has purchased new lighting for the new trees.

Here, too, the community converted to LED technology and spent a lot of money on it.

The new lights cost 10,000 euros, as Mayershofer explains.

"All seven new trees on the market square will have this lighting." And as of today, it should actually shine during the Advent season this winter.

"The new lighting uses very, very little electricity and only a fraction of what the old candles on the Christmas tree used."

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"The lights really only need very, very little energy"

It is important to the community to create something beautiful, especially in the particularly gloomy time of the year.

"Such an illuminated square has an effect on the mood," says Mayershofer.

And: "The lights really only need very, very little energy."

However, should the situation in terms of energy supply deteriorate, “then the lights will just stay off.” The municipality wants to decide on this by the end of November at the latest.

By then it will also be clear whether a Christmas tree will be set up in front of the town hall again.

"Of course, that only makes sense if we also illuminate it," says Mayershofer.

The community already has a tree in view, a fir tree about eight meters high.

In the future, the new Christmas lights will remain permanently hanging in the seven trees on the market square.

"It would also be conceivable to use them in the summer," said Klaus Mayershofer.

And the new lights have another advantage, as the manager explains: "When the trees get bigger, you can simply expand the lighting."

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