Status: 11.08.2023, 18:02 p.m.
By: Barbara Schlotterer-Fuchs
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They are the heroes who keep the Peitinger Wellenfreibad running this season: (from left) Andreas Heinrich, Max and Markus Häringer, Thomas Edinger, Tanja Borr and Tanja Haas (lying). © Hans-Helmut Herold
When others plunge into the floods, they make sure that nothing happens from the edge of the pool. They are the heroes of the Peitinger Badesommer: The team around lifeguard Markus Häringer.
Peiting – A total of seven people – another specialist for pool operations and six lifeguards – have painstakingly recruited two people to somehow be able to open the wave pool this season: Mayor Peter Ostenrieder and Markus Häringer, himself a specialist for pool operations and formerly employed in the outdoor pool.
Especially for the latter, it was not an easy decision to suddenly be head of the wave pool team this year. After all, by the way, he works full-time in another job. "But then I let myself be persuaded. There were only two options: Either I play along, or everything stays closed here." So Häringer was convinced. "I do it for the people. Otherwise, we'll be able to crush the bathroom altogether at some point."
Lifeguard's son completes the lifeguard for "Mission Wellenfreibad"
Of course, Häringer could not have guessed at that time that the sun would be shining for six weeks in a row and that the best outdoor pool weather would be offered right at his debut. His workload: "It's pretty intense," admits the Peitinger, who also persuaded his son Max to help out in the bathroom at the weekend when he is at home in Weiden from the Bundeswehr. While dad Markus is known to be a trained lifeguard, Max has completed the lifeguard especially for the "Mission Wellenfreibad Peiting".
The same goes for Tanja Borr: she still remembers the lifeguard exam well. Five kilograms coming up from a depth of 3.40 meters, "that seemed like eight meters deep to me," she admits. Then swim in linen clothes and pull another person. The lifeguard is not a gift.
Children have some catching up to do: "The swimming condition is bad"
"I had a lot of sore muscles," Borr says today. Nevertheless, she was happy to overcome this hurdle and is just as happy to help out in the bathroom this summer. "I have two children of my own. It would have been very bad for them if the bathroom had been closed this year."
Tanja Haas is a familiar face in the outdoor pool. This year, as an employee of the Peiting market, she is standing at the edge of the pool as a lifeguard. In previous years, they were known as volunteers of the water rescue service. It is also a matter close to the heart of Andreas Heinrich from Peitingen to help out in the outdoor wave pool as a lifeguard so that the operation keeps running. "I mainly do it for the kids," he says.
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Bathroom colleague Thomas Edinger sees it from the perspective of a sports teacher: For him, there was no question of helping out in the bathroom. It's about sport, about leisure – but also about children getting more routine when swimming again. "Our children's swimming condition is terrible," says Edinger. "Dramatic," Häringer agrees. Around 30 percent of swimming children could not swim technically well enough, both agree on a large estimate. This makes it all the more important that the children get to swim a lot in the outdoor pool - after all, practice makes perfect.