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After 33 years: Werner Gschwendtner is closing his kiosk on the lake promenade

2023-01-04T17:05:06.418Z


After 33 years: Werner Gschwendtner is closing his kiosk on the lake promenade Created: 01/04/2023, 18:00 By: Volker Ufertinger Everything has to go: Anna, Sonja and Werner Gschwendtner (from left) empty their kiosk on the lake promenade. They closed it on January 1st. This is a hard blow for many Starnbergers. © Dagmar Rutt Werner Gschwendtner's (69) kiosk on the lake promenade was one of the


After 33 years: Werner Gschwendtner is closing his kiosk on the lake promenade

Created: 01/04/2023, 18:00

By: Volker Ufertinger

Everything has to go: Anna, Sonja and Werner Gschwendtner (from left) empty their kiosk on the lake promenade.

They closed it on January 1st.

This is a hard blow for many Starnbergers.

© Dagmar Rutt

Werner Gschwendtner's (69) kiosk on the lake promenade was one of the most important contact points in Starnberg.

He closed on January 1st.

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– Excuse me?

Werner is closing?

The news that Werner Gschwendtner was retiring hit many people in Starnberg to the core.

The kiosk on the lake promenade, right by the S-Bahn underpass, was an integral part of everyday life in the city.

"In the last few days there must have been ten regular customers who cried," he says.

Still others brought flowers.

And a Whatsapp group was also started, with lots of videos and memories.

"It's difficult for me, too," says the businessman.

"But old age is slowly getting to me."

The secret of his success was undoubtedly the warmth with which the trained typesetter treated his customers.

"It never happened to me: just ask for money and that's it," he says.

"A kind word, humanity, that's what counts." The people of Starnberg appreciated that and flocked to him and his wife Anna (68).

"We've always been a family business," he says.

At first, Gschwendtner's mother helped, and finally his sister Sonja (52) lent a hand.

Opening was on January 1, 1989

The Peißenberger still remembers exactly how he came to Starnberg.

He had already gained kiosk experience at the Eitzenberger Weiher pond in Penzberg, at the recreation area in Ambach and at the seaside resort in Uffing when he saw the Deutsche Bahn advertisement on whose property the kiosk is located.

He applied and was accepted.

Apparently his concept - a kiosk in the Bavarian style and with a big heart - had convinced those responsible.

It opened on January 1, 1989.

The Gschwendtners quickly gained a foothold.

That was also because they were always present.

"In the 33 years we have not been closed a day," says the Peißenberger with pride.

The weekends included, mind you.

Always from 8 a.m., in summer sometimes until 9 p.m.

"Only once could we not open because of a storm," recalls his wife Anna.

"And because of Corona, nothing worked for a few days." But the government had hardly allowed the take-away before the Gschwendtners got back to work and provided the city with meat loaf rolls, coffee and sweets for the children.

They're clearing out the store this week

The family is currently clearing the shop, they have a week to do it.

"It's crazy what has piled up in 33 years," says Werner Gschwendtner.

Everything has to go: the drinks, the cigarettes, the ice cream, the souvenirs, the badges for the hiking sticks, the König Ludwig beer mugs, the postcards (which we designed ourselves, by the way), everything.

Sometimes he realizes that something very special is coming to an end here.

"It was just a kiosk like before." As you can hear, an ice cream parlor should come in afterwards.

Apparently an ice cream parlor is coming in

Saying goodbye is terribly difficult for his customers.

On the Facebook page "Starnberger Gschichtn", for example, it says: "A sad transition into the new year.

The lakeside institution, home to countless people and the warmest businessman of all time, is closing its doors after 33 years.

Thank you, thank you, thank you!” Another comment is simply: “Legend.” And a mother asks, half seriously and half jokingly: “And where should my daughter buy a sweet bag now?” You can see the importance of that kiosk in the life of many Starnbergers.

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Now Anna and Werner Gschwendtner have earned a vacation.

Her daughter, a doctor in Berlin, invited her to cross the Atlantic by ship.

The Queen Mary takes you from America to England for ten days.

"We're really looking forward to it," says Anna Gschwendtner.

The Peissenbergers are far from out of the world, they will keep in touch with their many regular customers on all channels.

"You were always the most important thing to us."

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Source: merkur

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