Farmer's wife prophesied misfortune: Iron Wedding proves the opposite
Created: 06/01/2023, 15:00
By: Sabine Hermsdorf-Hiss
65 years later: Mayor Klaus Heilinglechner congratulates the couple on their Iron Wedding.
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65 years ago, Maria and Rudolf Sappl got married on New Year's Eve.
That would bring bad luck, prophesied a superstitious farmer's wife.
But the opposite was the case.
Wolfratshausen – Fortunately, Maria and Rudolf Sappl are not superstitious.
When a farmer from Lenggries found out 65 years ago that the young couple wanted to get married on New Year's Eve, the woman was horrified.
She predicted great misfortune for the couple if they got married on the last day of the year.
The two Wolfratshausers can prove the opposite: they recently celebrated their iron wedding.
Wolfratshausen: Maria and Rudolf Sappl celebrate Iron Wedding
The two met in 1956 in Andernach am Rhein.
Rudolf Sappl, born in the district of Freising and raised in Holzkirchen, was one of the first Bundeswehr soldiers to be stationed in the old Roman town after the Second World War.
Maria Sappl worked in a bookshop there.
At some point, a handsome young man suddenly stood in front of her.
He asked her for a book on chess and bought the work.
"By the way, we still have the book at home today," says the 84-year-old.
When Rudolf Sappl was transferred, the couple kept in touch through letters.
The trained wholesale and retail merchant settled in Lenggries, opened a shop and asked his Maria to move in with him.
"However, my mother insisted that we get married right away," reports the jubilarian.
At the age of 19, she still needed a declaration of consent from her parents to take this big step.
The couple ran the disco "New Sound" in Wolfratshausen
Just married: Maria and Rudolf Sappl 1957. © sh/Repro
In 1970 the Sappls came to Wolfratshausen.
Together they ran the “New Sound” discotheque on Marktstrasse for ten years, where the innkeeper gained a reputation for being strict but sociable.
"I didn't tolerate ruffians," he says.
"I immediately put them in front of the door."
But there was something else that ran like a red thread through the life of the Sappls: sport.
Boxing, ice hockey, football, archery – there was hardly anything the 89-year-old didn't try his hand at.
However, his great love was Taekwondo.
Today, the eldest of her three sons, Franz, runs several Taekwondo schools of his own.
"And my husband is still there and helps out," says Maria Sappl proudly.
What is the secret of such a long marriage?
It wasn't always easy, both agree.
"We had quite a few fights," Rudolf Sappl looks back and adds with a wink: "But I always came second."
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