Strong parade in Waakirchen - encouragement for the well-fortified customs
Created: 12/26/2022, 3:12 p.m
Strong march: The memory of the murderous Christmas of 1705 is maintained with the commemoration in Waakirchen.
After a two-year Corona break, the event took place again in the usual style.
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The traditional commemoration of the Sendlinger Murder Christmas at the Waakirchner Löwen has survived the Corona years.
After a two-year break, it took place again with the usual opulence.
600 mountain riflemen marched on, and politics were also strongly represented.
Waakirchen –
For two years, the traditional commemoration of the mountain riflemen of the Sendlinger Murder Christmas of 1705 was a rather modest event – due to Corona, there were hardly any participants, no politicians of any standing and only a few spectators.
But this year the event in Waakirchen could again be celebrated on a large scale.
And so, on Saturday morning, 600 mountain riflemen from the 47 Bavarian companies gathered between Chiemgau and Werdenfelser Land to commemorate the devastating bloodshed of Christmas Eve 1705 outside the gates of Munich.
More than 1000 shooters lost their lives at that time.
Meet again in the usual size
Captain Martin Beilhack from the organizing local company, recently also district captain, was happy to see that the meeting could take place with the usual opulence.
Only the weather didn't want to play along - no sign of winter on Christmas Eve, rather a mild breeze blew, the sun remained hidden under clouds.
At least the rain held back.
The commemoration began at 9 a.m. with the formation of the companies at the Christlwirt, which then moved to the Catholic Church, where Pastor Stephan Fischbacher celebrated the service.
The Waakirchner singers provided the melodious musical framework for the celebration of the Mass.
The riflemen then marched in their colorful outfits, as the uniforms are called, to the Oberland monument with the striking lion on the stone plinth, which proudly looks towards Sendling.
A large crowd watched the spectacle.
The Waakirchen company commander Martin Beilhack (center), at the same time Gauhauptmann.
practiced clear criticism of politics in his speech.
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Numerous prominent guests
After a few prayers, Mayor Norbert Kerkel (FWG) welcomed the invited guests, including Helene Duchess in Bavaria, the district administrators of Miesbach and Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen, Olaf von Löwis (CSU) and Josef Niedermaier (free voters), as well as the member of the Bundestag Alexander Radwan ( CSU) and Karl Baer (Greens).
Ex-Prime Minister Edmund Stoiber (CSU), honorary member of the mountain riflemen, came to Waakirchen in the outfit of the Wolfratshausen company.
One of the most loyal participants in the commemoration of the peasant uprising, Ilse Aigner, member of the CSU constituency and President of the Landtag, had to cancel at short notice due to illness.
Herrmann appreciates the well-fortified customs
In his welcome remarks, Kerkel addressed the pointlessness of the war in Ukraine, which has now been going on for ten months.
It is unbelievable that such a brutal war is raging in Europe again.
In his speech, Head of State Florian Herrmann, who represented Prime Minister Markus Söder (both CSU), acknowledged the commitment of the mountain riflemen to the well-fortified customs, especially today.
He thanked those people who take refugees from Ukraine into their homes or provide them with housing.
Laying of a wreath at the monument
The higher-ranking representative of the Bavarian state government was actually Minister of Economic Affairs and Deputy Prime Minister Hubert Aiwanger (Free Voters).
However, the direction in the background wanted Herrmann and not Aiwanger to speak the greeting.
After the soldiers' song of good comrades was sung together, a wreath was laid at the foot of the monument before the salute procession fired a deafening triple salute.
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High-ranking politicians were present, here (front from left) District Administrator Olaf von Löwis, Mayor Norbert Kerkel and ex-Prime Minister Edmund Stoiber.
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Harsh words about politics
In his speech, company commander Beilhack took the politicians to task.
He criticized the fact that the inheritance of a property can hardly be managed financially under the changed framework conditions.
Children often have to sell the house because they cannot pay the high inheritance taxes.
Even with the damage that wolves are increasingly causing in agriculture, the district captain - he himself is a farmer - feels let down by politics.
It can't be that it's just "that's just what nature says" when a wolf kills sheep.
A few years ago, Beilhack got caught up in the judiciary after the district office in Miesbach had cashed in on his gun licenses.
The authority found that the reason for this was “typical Reich citizen” statements by the local politician.
Beilhack defends himself in court against the allegations.
The actual ceremony in front of the lion monument ended with the singing of the Bavarian anthem, before the riflemen marched to the Christlwirt inn in front of the celebrities.
The meeting broke up there, and the mountain riflemen who had traveled from the Upper Bavarian edge of the Alps drove back to their home towns.
Finally, the Christ Child was waiting at home.
BY PAUL WINTERER
