Crib idyll in the conservatory

Created: 12/20/2022, 2:00 p.m

By: Hans Moritz

The nativity scene by Franz and Brigitte Limbrunner from Erding is impressively detailed.

A lot is handmade, the scenes change.

Our picture shows: The stable in Bethlehem is still empty – one more week.

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Brigitte Oswald-Limbrunner has a very special crib in her conservatory in Altenerding with her husband Franz Limbrunner.

The two built it up in more than 40 years.

Altenerding

– Now the time for the nativity scenes begins again.

Brigitte Oswald-Limbrunner has a particularly beautiful one in the winter garden of her house in Altenerding.

With her husband Franz Limbrunner, she built up and continued to develop the Kripperl in more than 40 years, first in Oberding and now in Altenerding.

"We have changing representations, the Holy Family always only moves in on Christmas Eve, and in January the Three Kings come," Oswald-Limbrunner tells our newspaper, but also admits with a wink: "It's so strictly biblical but not to this crib.”

Most of it is self-made, the Limbrunners bought some of the figures ready-made, "but I also dressed some of the figures myself," she reports.

The crib is always set up around December 8th, Franz Limbrunner's birthday.

The attention to detail is remarkable.

There's a mother sitting on the bench, holding a baby eating a banana.

In front of the house men in peasant clothes and aprons are roasting chestnuts.

Sheep and goats graze next to it, and a rooster comes out of a shed to strut down the chicken ladder.

The Limbrunners have even created an artificial lake, in front of which is a man who is leaning on a crutch and being "circled" by a dog.

There was no need for a backdrop, which is the Limbrunner's garden on Weidenstraße.