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By: Veronika Mahnkopf
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It was already a visitor magnet in 1976: the Rose Monday Ball in the Marnbach community center.
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Carnival?
Not an issue in Weilheim this year.
While the city sleeps through the hustle and bustle, the bear dances in the districts.
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Marnbach/Unterhausen
– Weilheim has never been a carnival stronghold.
But there were always downtown carnivals and larger balls and events at crazy times in the town hall.
By 2024 there will be almost nothing left of it.
Only a children's carnival in the Miteinander parish hall can be found online.
The Narhalla Weilheim homepage refers as if frozen to the 2019 carnival. After Corona, the colorful hustle and bustle in Weilheim no longer made it back on its feet - but things look completely different in the Unterhausen and Marnbach districts.
People are even trying out something new here this year.
Men are also welcome - from 11 p.m
For the first time there will be a women's carnival in Marnbach on Nonsense Thursday (February 8th).
Women can dance and have fun in the hall of the community center from 7 p.m.
A DJ will provide the atmosphere, cocktails and other drinks will be offered at the bar, and small snacks will also be available.
“We simply had an urgent need for a party,” says Susanne Kergl-Beck, who initiated the women’s carnival on behalf of the Marnbach-Deutenhausen sports and shooting club.
She has been planning and coordinating the big party with other women for weeks, has landed two men's guards - and of course is now hoping for many female visitors.
Men are also welcome after 11 p.m.
“I think the whole thing has great potential and will also appeal to many younger people,” says Kergl-Beck.
And they also want to make an offer to the Weilheim women.
They have been planning the Rose Monday Ball for weeks: SSV board member Thomas Kergl and his wife Susanne Kergl-Beck.
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There was something similar in Marnbach: the carnival ball on Nonsense Thursday.
Harald Forster still remembers exactly how the post went down in the village and that women in particular celebrated that evening.
The Deutenhausener was board member of the SSV from 1996 to 2014 and helped organize numerous carnival balls in town.
At some point the Thursday ball and the Rose Monday ball competed, so that the focus was only on the latter.
“That was the traditional ball,” remembers Forster.
There was no need to advertise it, it was often too full and admission had to be limited at some point.
“People sat on the window sills, there were sometimes around 250 guests there.” In its best times, the SSV even provided carnival enthusiasts with their own taxi to get home - because the people of Weilheim and the mayor liked to celebrate in Marnbach.
There was more going on behind the bar than in the hall
We want to build on that again.
In addition to the traditionally very well-attended children's carnival on Sunday, February 11th, the Rose Monday Ball that immediately follows is expected to be a complete success again.
After the corona pandemic, it took place again last year, but the number of visitors weakened somewhat.
This year the band “Kzwoa” should really be buzzing again in the community center.
SSV board member Thomas Kergl would like to continue the Rose Monday balls like the one in 2007.
“That’s when it took off,” he remembers.
There was often more going on behind the bar than in the hall, people crowded around and at some point danced on the tables.
Kergl and many other club members have been working hard for weeks to create such an atmosphere, planning, building and decorating.
People from Weilheim are allowed to come too
The volunteers in Unterhausen put in the same effort.
The Unterhauser village carnival will take place there on Sunday, February 11th, organized by the sports club, the “Wild Angels” guard and the boys’ club.
It starts at 1 p.m. at the village square.
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There is also a lot on offer for children, says SV board member Peter Fraunhofer.
For example, you can have your face painted at the village carnival or measure yourself while pushing the beer mug.
There will also be a large raffle, food and drink, and later you can party in the heated tent until 10 p.m.
Visitors from Weilheim are of course also very welcome in this district - so that the carnival is still a success for everyone despite the calm in the city center.