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By: Veronika Macht
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The “Young Man with a Spear” (right) now stands in the inner courtyard of the government building on Prinzregentenstrasse in Munich.
He should return to Eicherloh.
The “Centaur with Eros” is in the Borstei in Munich.
He was also in Eicherloh in the 1950s (l.) © Kulturverein
The Jagdhaus Maxlruh Eicherloh cultural association would like to put the sculpture “Young Man with a Spear” back in the park.
The prospects for this are not bad at all.
Eicherloh – In the 1950s there were sculptures in Eicherloh Park.
The Jagdhaus Maxlruh cultural association has always tried to bring these works of art back there and put them up.
While the prospects for the “Youth with a Spear” are not bad at all, the “Centaur with Eros” will probably not return.
At the general meeting of the cultural association in the Faltermaier inn, the installation of the “Youth” was the topic.
The bronze figure depicts a young man mourning the loss of a friend.
When asked, chairman Max Kressirer reported that the spear in the young man's hand was three meters long.
According to him, the costs for this project are up to 12,000 euros.
But how did these works of art actually come to Eicherloh?
The association's archivists investigated this question.
As they wrote in the yearbook, the painter Walter Schachinger acquired the “Young Man with a Spear” in the last years of the war and installed it in his studio in Munich.
Even before the bombing, the family was given the opportunity to rent the apartment in the Eicherloher hunting lodge by the Eicherloher hunting tenant Walther Sedlmayr, with whom they had very good private contact.
The Schachinger family lived there from 1944 to 1958; the young man stood in a spruce grove in front of the hunting lodge and also partly in the small hunting hall.
In 1958 the Schachingers moved back to Munich to the studio apartment on Mauerkircherstrasse - and the “young man”, which was owned by their daughter Rosemarie Schachinger, also came back to Munich.
It was later donated to her daughter Sabine Corso, who in turn left the statue on permanent loan to the government of Upper Bavaria.
In 1998 she had the “young man” installed in the inner courtyard of the government building on Prinzregentenstrasse.
The association's archive group viewed the sculpture in Munich last summer.
According to the archivists, the “Centaur with Eros” – a figure from Greek mythology – was owned by the hunting tenant Sedlmayr.
He took over the Eicherloher hunting lease on January 1, 1927 and also bought the hunting lodge in 1926 for a price of 54,000 marks.
It is not known when the statue came to Eicherloh.
But when Sedlmayr didn't get his hunting lease extended and set up shop in Eicherloh in 1954, the bronze figure also went to Munich.
There she ended up in the Borstei Museum on Löfftzstrasse.
Also last summer, the archive group contacted the museum to express the association's interest in this figure.
However, the museum does not want to sell the figure under any circumstances, and it is not available to move to Eicherloh.
The archive group visited the centaur in the Borstei in August.
Chairmen Kressirer and Otto Isemann reported to the around 40 members who came to the meeting what the association had done over the past year.
According to her, there were many activities on the program.
“There was another campfire singing on the winter and summer solstices,” reports Kressirer.
There was also a reading with author Robert Königshausen, whose novel is set in the Finsinger Moos.
Christmas at the hunting lodge and putting up the Christmas tree are also part of the cultural association's annual tradition.
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In addition to a weekly archive meeting, a children's program was also offered.
The little culture fans could look forward to crafting together before holidays such as Christmas, Mother's Day and Father's Day.
A highlight was the four-day trip to the Lake Constance region in October. “We had a whole bus full and saw a lot,” says Kressirer.
This year, the cultural association is planning a city tour to Ingolstadt in October.
The cabaret evening with Werner Meier from Ottenhofen on April 20th in the community center should be a highlight.
There are also activities for the children again, and in just over five weeks the club will be inviting you to make garlands and decorate Easter fountains.
Another item on the meeting's agenda was the financial contribution to renewing the trees at the hunting lodge.
The cultural association will support the planting of a chestnut tree with 3,000 euros.
In addition, the original hunting book from 1898 is to be duplicated.
However, this process will be very time-consuming, says Kressirer: The old book must first be dismantled and re-bound so that the pages can be professionally photographed.
“The costs for this will be around 7,000 euros.
“But without the leather binding,” explains the chairman.
Vroni Macht & Magdalena Fellermair