"After sleepless nights": Butcher's shop has to close - children work in other sectors

Created: 12/30/2022, 10:42 am

By: Robert Langer

"We have craftsmanship": The team at the Steinhöringer butcher's shop Fischer (here on the occasion of the company's 60th anniversary).

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The traditional Fischer butchery in Steinhöring, which celebrated its 60th anniversary last year, is closing forever.

Another craft business less.

Steinhöring

- "Is it true?" asks a customer in the shop.

Many regular customers in the sales room in Steinhöring on the B304 could not believe it.

The last days of the Fischer butcher's shop were before Christmas.

Once again the popular white sausages, once again the coveted black smoked.

Then it's over.

Managing director Petra Fischer-Slowik with the last ham that went over the counter.

© Stefan Rossmann

"There were no economic reasons," emphasizes boss Petra Fischer-Slowik (61).

She took care of the business and the shop for decades, her brother Wolfgang (49) was the butcher.

His work has received multiple gold awards from independent reviewers.

But Wolfgang Fischer had an accident.

The health consequences were serious.

"He just doesn't have the strength," says the sister.

There was no replacement – ​​not even in the family.

After graduation, the daughter worked in social affairs, the older son in the real estate industry.

The youngest, however, is involved with food and keeps part of the family tradition alive.

Secret family recipes go to friendly butchers

The family's secret recipes are now going to a butcher friend.

However, the well-known Fischer specialties will continue to exist.

A sales vehicle, previously there were two, will be on the road in the district, with a stop in Steinhöring.

Quentin Slowik, the youngest son of boss Petra Fischer-Slowik, is now taking care of that.

He learned a lot in the company, he has an idea of ​​the industry, he could make white sausages and meat loaf, but he never became a butcher.

Instead, he runs a shop with baked goods and a café diagonally opposite on the other side of the B 304 in Steinhöring.

"He actually always wanted to be a salesman," says his mother.

At the age of twelve, he confidently declared that everything could be sold, “even women's lingerie”.

A year ago, the company's 60th anniversary was celebrated

With the butcher shop in Steinhöring, a craft business is closing again.

A year ago the company celebrated its 60th anniversary.

When Christian Fischer took over the butcher's shop in Steinhöring in 1961, he started very small.

As is often the case in rural areas, the butcher's shop was previously integrated into an inn.

But then both companies ran separately.

Christian Fischer, then 25 years old, was ambitious.

"My father was the youngest master butcher in Bavaria at the time," says Petra Fischer-Slowik today.

His wife Gertrud, a trained office worker, got in and stood behind the sales counter.

She was still in business at the age of 80 until Corona came.

The small shop of the Fischer butcher's shop on the B 304. © Stefan Rossmann

Success for the young couple came quickly in the 1960s.

Their products were soon in great demand.

Daughter Petra helped at a young age.

She was often up early in the day and worked in the company before she went to school in Grafing, to the local high school.

By the way, she was born in the same year as her father started in Steinhöring.

Assumed responsibility in the business at the age of 20

She had probably imagined her life differently at first.

But when her father had an accident in 1981, she took on responsibility in the business.

At that time she was 20 years old.

She has been running the business together with her brother Wolfgang since 2002.

Both rely on the virtues of craftsmanship, quality and regionality.

“Industrial goods are available in the supermarket.

We do handicrafts.” And it isn't actually more expensive in a down-to-earth butcher's shop.

"We were always able to keep up."

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Now the end.

The trained staff quickly found new assignments, says the boss.

"No one was unemployed." She had already shed tears when she gave up.

"There were a few sleepless nights before I finally made my decision." At least part of the family tradition is continued by the son, at least with the marketing of traditional Fischer products.

And maybe someone in the next generation will come along who is interested in the industry.

“I would be happy about that,” says Petra Fischer-Slowik.

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