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By: Theresa Kuchler
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Pankratia Holl has given a lot to others in her life.
Always full of heart and soul.
© Theresa Kuchler
All her life, Pankratia Holl has worked for coexistence in the market town of Peiting.
On Tuesday she will be awarded the Citizen's Medal.
Peiting – Pankratia Holl's eyes light up when she talks about all the tasks she has mastered in her life.
In local politics, in which she was active for decades, at the Peiting farmers market, which she helped organize for over 30 years, on the trips to Calvi.
“I always enjoyed doing everything,” says the Peiting native.
She will be awarded the Citizen's Medal on Tuesday, one day before her 80th birthday.
She shakes her head in disbelief at the thought.
“I don’t even know what it’s for.”
Pankratia Holl has sat down on the corner bench in the kitchen of her old farmhouse.
It's her favorite place, she says, and she likes to drink a glass of wine here in the evenings.
Just like she often did in the past with her husband, to whom she was married for over 50 years and has five children.
Even when he was already confined to a wheelchair and could no longer speak.
Hans Holl suffered several strokes.
Today he smiles at his wife from a photo on the table.
Pankratia Holl receives a citizen's medal from the market town of Peiting
“My husband was in a wheelchair for five years, and for the last year and three months he was dependent on full care,” says the 79-year-old.
She took over the care herself. “He always had my back.
This was a way for me to give something back.” A nurse only came to the house for a few days a year, when the Peitinger went with her to Calvi.
Holl didn't miss the trip to the Italian partner community, also because she knew that Hans wouldn't have wanted her to.
“He never went with me, but he always let me,” she says.
To this day, the long-time local farmer is full of anticipation when she gets on the bus that takes the members of the Peiting-Calvi circle of friends to Umbria every summer.
In 1988, Pankratia Holl went to the small Italian town for the first time.
Overwhelmed by the warmth of the people, she quickly invited the Calvese people to the Lechgautrachtenfest in Peiting.
A year later the friendship treaty was concluded.
“Calvi has enriched my life,” says Holl.
36 years in the market town council, 24 years in the district council
Just like working as a local politician.
She sat for the CSU parliamentary group on the Peitinger market town council for 36 years and on the district council for 24 years.
“I liked doing it, it was a balance to the physical work on the farm.” It wasn’t easy, even from a financial perspective.
The Holls had between 35 and 40 dairy cows, with around 80 animals in the stable including young cattle.
“Too little for the main job, too much for the side job” is how Holl sums it up.
She has therefore always used her voice in politics to stand up for farmers.
For example, by campaigning against the increase in property tax for agricultural and forestry properties in Peiting under the then mayor Michael Asam.
Although Asam belongs to the SPD, he responded to their arguments and was convinced by them.
“Back then it was even more important,” says the 79-year-old.
“I’ll do the farmer’s market as long as God wants”
Almost four years ago, Holl quit as a local politician.
But today she doesn't sit down as a listener in the public meetings; she finds that strange.
“I would feel like a watchdog,” she says and laughs.
Everything has its time, and the time in the local council is now over.
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The ones at the farmers market are far from that, if she has her way.
“I’ll do this as long as God wants,” says Holl.
It started with the market, where local products are sold every first Friday of the month and which has become an important meeting point, over 30 years ago with the former CSU local councilor Herwig Skalitza.
He takes care of a lot of organizational matters; she is mainly involved in sales.
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When there is a farmers market, Pankratia Holl gets up at 2 a.m. at the latest.
The farmer's wife doesn't want to have to rush when she prepares her dough pieces, she says.
The Kiachal, which the Peitinger woman always bakes fresh on site, are among the visitors' favorites at the market.
Holl's heart lies in the farmers' market.
She hopes that she will find a successor when she can no longer bake lard noodles herself.