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At 100 years old, Anna Redl is currently the oldest resident of the Tölzer Josefistift.
The four Tölzerinnen and one Tölzer are 100 and older “Old age brings all kinds of difficulties” © was created on her birthday last year.
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It used to be a real rarity.
But now there are more and more people in Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen who are turning 100 years old.
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– Anna Redl was born on April 13, 1923.
“I certainly wouldn't have thought that I would live to be 100 years old,” she says, “older than Sepp!” Who exactly she means by “Sepp” remains unclear in the brief chat with the Kurier editor.
On this day, about two months before her 101st birthday, Anna Redl isn't exactly in the mood to chat.
She says she has a headache today.
Instead, home manager Bettina Emmrich tells us a little about the oldest and “longest-serving” resident in the Tölzer Josefistift, where she has lived for over 20 years.
Ms. Redl used to be a regular at the “Eichmühle”, she was a Kneipp supporter and loves wild garlic, chives and oranges.
Anna Redl herself only says that she is satisfied with her life.
In the Josefistift she has “everything you need”.
But she never wanted to live to be 100.
"For God's sake!"
More and more people over 100 years old in Germany
At 100 years old, Anna Redl has reached an unusual age.
But people over 100 are no longer such an exceptional case as they once were.
According to the statistics platform Statista, 24,848 people in Germany reached the age of 100 or more in 2022.
This number increases every year.
In 2011, according to the Federal Statistical Office, there were only 14,436.
The proportion of women over 100 is around 80 percent.
Random inquiries in the district show that the larger registration offices all register at least a few citizens who have lived for a century or more.
After Hilde Wohlfahrt, the oldest Tölzer woman, recently died at the age of 103, four women and one man from the “100 plus” generation remained in the city.
The now oldest citizen of Bad Tölz is also 103 years old, as town hall spokeswoman Birte Stahl reports.
With Katharina Burkart celebrating her 100th birthday on Saturday (February 10), the exclusive club grew again.
The oldest Geretsried woman is 102 years old
Three citizens live in Geretsried who have made the century complete, explains city spokesman Thomas Loibl when asked.
The oldest Geretsried woman is therefore 102.
The picture is similar in Lenggries.
According to Regina Grasberger from the residents' registration office, three people aged 100 or more are registered there.
The oldest woman in Lenggries is celebrating her 103rd birthday these days.
A few weeks ago, a funeral notice from Bichl revealed that a villager had died at the age of 109.
The age cohort between 90 and 100 years old is much broader.
291 Geretsrieders are in this range.
In Tölz, this age group includes 225 people, 162 of whom are women, as Birte Stahl explains.
And 100 Lenggriesers are 90 to 100 years old.
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A generation that doesn't complain
How you experience life in old age varies greatly from person to person and depends heavily on your state of health.
Ursula Hueber (“Mesner-Usch”) from Wackersberg found touching words about age when the Tölzer Kurier interviewed her last year on the occasion of her 100th birthday.
When asked whether it was a blessing or a burden to live to 100 years old, she said: “That is not so easy to answer, considering that the old person no longer has a future.
I find it a mercy.
Of course it's not nice when you get old: the frailty, the many goodbyes to friends and relatives - that's a difficult process.
Everyone wants to grow old, but not be old.
It's an art of living and a bit of happiness when you come to terms with these compromises and then accept them." Six months later, on August 11, 2023, the "Mesner-Usch" fell asleep peacefully at home.
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Josefistift director Bettina Emmrich has a lot of experience in dealing with people over 100 years old.
“There are many who are very satisfied,” she observed.
One reason for this, in Emmrich's opinion, is: “This generation doesn't complain.
They accept life as it comes.”
Thinking about life
The next candidate for the 100 mark in the Tölz nursing home is Gisela Schmid.
At 98 years old, she is the third oldest resident.
“That’s how old I am – and in good condition in places,” she says with a bit of self-irony.
And she continues to joke: “I cost the pension fund a lot of money.” Then she adds: “It’s very nice that I’m getting so old without a lot of pain.” But it also has “side effects,” says Gisela Schmid.
“Old age brings with it all sorts of difficulties.
But I’ve mastered it well so far.”
And how does an almost 100-year-old spend her day?
“I think about what I did right in life and what I could have done better,” says Gisela Schmid.
She comes to the conclusion: “On the whole, it was good.” She was a teacher and always praised her students a lot, she reports.
“I have achieved a lot with praise.”