Christmas Hill shines again

Created: 11/26/2022, 11:00 am

By: Daniela Oldach

Luminous winter wonderland: When there is snow, Christmas Hill is particularly atmospheric.

This year's season starts on November 26th - again with mulled wine and music.

© Daniela Oldach

This year there will be mulled wine for a good cause and a varied music program on Ottenhofen's Christmas Hill.

In total, the Hubders have already collected a good 176,000 euros in donations.

Ottenhofen

– Anni and Peter Huber live the American Christmas magic again this year with their Christmas Hill.

The energy crisis and rising prices didn't stop the couple from decorating the house and garden on Eichenweg in Ottenhofen with fairy lights, reindeer or wishing Santa Claus and hoping for many visitors.

From tomorrow, Saturday to Tuesday, December 27th, the property will be ablaze with lights.

(By the way: everything from the region is now also available in our regular Erding newsletter.)

Christmas Hill is framed by a musical program.

On Sunday, November 27, at 5 p.m., the Ottenhofen brass band will get you in the mood for Advent.

Shepherd's Delight from Erding celebrates a premiere on Christmas Hill: On Saturday, December 3rd, from 6 p.m., world-famous Christmas carols will be played in big band sound.

Regular guests are the musicians of the Finsing brass band.

They play Bavarian and international Christmas carols on Sunday, December 11th, from 5.30 p.m.

The music group of the Freie Evangelische Gemeinde Markt Schwaben will be entertaining on Saturday, December 17th, from 6 p.m.

Also coming from Markt Schwaben on Friday 23 December will be the 10 000 choir, who will be singing Christmas carols from all over the world at 5.30 p.m.

At the end of the Christmas Hill season on December 27, the Ottenhofen singers invite you to sing Christmas carols together with Brandl Wast and Gerhard Nußrainer at 6 p.m.

Mulled wine and children's punch are always available from Friday to Sunday from 5 p.m.

The hot refreshments are free.

The Hubers pay for it out of their own pockets, but are again collecting donations for the cancer ward of the Haunerische Kinderklinik (Intern 3) – and this is the 19th time.

The impressive sum of 176,651 euros has already come together over the past 18 years.

Peter Huber keeps a precise record of this.

A new record is set almost every year.

Will the 200,000 euro mark be broken this year?

Anni Huber, otherwise pure optimist, is a little skeptical.

“People have to save.

But every euro donated is all the more valuable," she says and is happy, "if it just starts now".

Since the beginning of October, work has been going on almost every day.

“We were lucky with the weather,” she says.

The public response to letting Christmas Hill shine again this year is consistently positive in and around Ottenhofen.

New this year is a shelf that is stocked with handicrafts.

The members of the Freie Evangelische Gemeinde let their creativity run wild and created Christmas things.

The work can be handed in for a donation.