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In July 2021, Helga and Kurt Kappelmaier (Wed.) were awarded the “Tölzer Löwen”.
The photo shows the couple with Mayor Ingo Mehner and cultural officer Christof Botzenhart, who gave the laudatory speech.
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Helga Kappelmaier died at the age of 88.
The city of Bad Tölz owes a lot to her and her husband Kurt.
Bad Tölz/Munich – Helga Kappelmaier died at the age of 88.
Numerous people from Tölz knew her and her husband Kurt well.
The Munich couple spent their weekends in the spa town for years.
This owes a lot to the passionate monument conservationists.
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The State Ministry for Science and Art honored the Kappelmaier couple in 2022 for their outstanding commitment to monument preservation “by financing several conservation and restoration projects in Bavaria under the umbrella of the Messerschmitt Foundation Munich”.
Helga Kappelmaier accepted the award alone at the time; her husband had recently died.
Foundation supported renovation of the Winzerer chapel and the Tölzer sedan chair
In Bad Tölz, both supported important renovations through their foundation, such as that of the Winzerer Chapel in the town parish church.
The most popular work was the Tölzer Toerring'sche Senfte, a historically significant example (we reported).
“When renovating, the Kappelmaiers decided on the better method, costs were of secondary importance,” reports the city’s cultural officer, Christof Botzenhart. “What was important for both of them was that it had to be done carefully.” The head of the city museum, Elisabeth Hinterstocker adds: “It was also important to them that the renovated objects did not disappear into the depot.”
Elisabeth Hinterstocker and Walter Frei remember the renovation of the Mörlbach Chapel near Berg on Lake Starnberg.
A celebratory May Day service took place there every year, called by the Kappelmaiers.
Hinterstocker also knows that the Kappelmaier Christmas tree was always decorated in the old Bavarian style, for example with wax models instead of baubles.
“They were very artistic people,” says Hinterstocker.
Bad Tölz was the couple's second home
The actor Klaus Wittmann knew Helga Kappelmaier personally very well.
Their families were linked by a friendship that lasted for years.
The Kappelmaiers have always been connected to Bad Tölz, he says.
They used to look after three aunts who owned a house on Heißstrasse.
The couple later moved into an apartment in Am Schuß.
By this time they had long since learned to love Bad Tölz.
They gave a lot back to their “second home” through their generous patronage.
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Helga Kappelmaier was a very fine lady, says Botzenhart, “but as a doctor she was also hands-on.” Wittmann reports that the doctor first worked at the Starnberg Hospital before running her own practice as an internist on Maximilianstrasse in Munich.
“But they were also at home in Bad Tölz,” says Wittmann.
Here they appreciated the conviviality, especially as regular guests at the Zantl Inn.
Music also played a role for Helga Kappelmaier.
“She learned to play the dulcimer herself late in life in Munich,” says Walter Frei.
The Tölz music school and the marionette theater also enjoyed their support.
“It is probably thanks to this help that Brandner Kasper can be performed at the puppet theater,” says Wittmann.
“You could always rely on her.
She was a loyal soul"
Karl-Heinz Bille, Tölzer Marionette Theater
Karl-Heinz Bille reports that the theater was able to advertise itself free of charge with its own showcase with two figures and posters in the heart of Munich, in an inner courtyard on Maximilianstrasse.
“She was a very lovely woman who took great care of her husband,” says Bille.
Towards the end of his life, Kurt Kappelmaier was dependent on a wheelchair.
Wittmann mourns that he will miss her as a friend, “he could always rely on her.
She was a loyal soul."
The requiem
will take place on Monday, February 14th, at 11 a.m. in the monastery church of St. Anna in Munich's Lehel.
The funeral will be at 2:15 p.m. in the Waldfriedhof at Fürstenrieder Straße 288 in Munich.
(bib)