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Ready for the party (from left): D'Grießbergler Louis Mantel, Timo Neubauer, Florian Neubauer, Felix Lichtenberg and Lukas Frey.
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Get out the door and head to the ski lift in your ski gear.
What is probably the winter dream of many district citizens today was a reality in Oberalting around 60 years ago.
There was a T-bar lift there on Grießberg for 28 years.
In honor of this, the D'Griesbergler local history and customs association is now throwing an après-ski party.
Oberalting – “When it snows – not far.” This was one of the slogans that Sport-Scheck used to advertise the “Grießberg Ski Center” in the 1960s.
In fact, the Grießberg with its ski lift and floodlights was in great demand around 60 years ago.
The local history and customs association D'Griesbergler Oberalting now wants to remind people of this: on Saturday, March 2nd, they are inviting people to an après-ski party for the first time.
Some Oberaltingers may still remember this event: In 1963, the starting signal for the opening of the ski area was given right on their doorstep.
Twelve men from the community teamed up with the Espe company to operate a 270 meter long double bar lift on the Grießberg, which climbed 70 meters in altitude.
“I have never seen so many parked cars in Oberalting,” remembers Hans Michl of the opening.
At the time, the Oberaltinger was ten years old and from then on worked as a parking lot attendant at the foot of the 600 meter high mountain.
According to Michl, there were up to 500 cars all the way into the town.
“That was a really big event for Oberalting.
“It was sensational,” recalls the now 70-year-old.
When his wallet and time permitted, he also put himself on skis.
For him it was a “real adventure experience”.
Together with friends, he built small ski jumps and raced down the approximately 350-meter-long, “relatively steep” descent – like everyone else without a helmet at the time.
He learned to ski “intuitively”.
Because there were no ski courses or anything similar back then.
The ski poles were mostly made of wood – and “the skis suddenly had steel edges.”
28 years of fun on the slopes
60 years ago, a day ticket was available at Grießberg for a maximum of ten marks.
What sounds like little money today was a considerable sum back then.
Michl received around two marks for a day as a parking lot controller.
Of course, there was never any mention of child labor back then.
“I was keen to be able to do something like that,” he says looking back.
And he got a lot from the ski circus.
There were mainly families with children there, as well as winter sports enthusiasts from Gilching, Pasing, Germering and Aubing.
“I saw a lot of Munich license plates and Fürstenfeldbruckers,” remembers Michl.
Two years after opening, the piste was even equipped with floodlights for nighttime fun, and an après-ski hut wasn't long in coming.
From then on, the downhill skiers met for a drink in the Grießbergalm.
Today the Mexican restaurant “Hazienda” is located in the building on Moosdorfstrasse.
After 28 years, the fun on the slopes was over.
Over the years less and less snow fell.
“Sometimes the lift only ran for three days in a season,” says Michl.
Snow cannons were used to compensate for the lack of snow.
In the end, nothing helped.
In 1991 the T-bar lift stopped forever and the “Grießberg Ski Center” was history.
Party in honor of the time
A story that D'Grießbergler wants to continue telling with their après-ski party.
“We wanted to organize a different event, especially since the maypole won’t be back until next year,” explains the secretary of the local history and customs association, Felix Lichtenberg.
D'Griesbergler has been around since 2007, and just a year later the club organized a strong beer festival, but it couldn't become a regular event and it ended in 2016.
Now the club, which currently has 115 members, came to the ski fun on Grießberg.
Planning began last December.
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DJ Fossi will be in a machine hall at Sanktjohanser (Gewerbepark 9 in Oberalting) on Saturday, March 2nd, from 8 p.m.
The motto is of course “Après Ski”, but there is no cloakroom requirement.
“Everyone can come as they like, but it would of course be nice if someone had an old snowsuit on,” emphasizes Lichtenberg.
In order to conjure up the right “winter atmosphere” in the machine hall, the people of Griesberg want to hang up old skis and posters.
D'Grießbergler has also already constructed a full-size snow cannon that will cover the machine hall in fog.
The party for the T-bar lift should take place annually
And that's not all: “We're building a bar out of wood,” announces the 33-year-old secretary.
In addition to the classic types of beer and non-alcoholic offerings, spirits should also warm your heart.
There are sandwich rolls for your stomach for around three euros.
The whole party experience is available for five euros entry.
The up to 400 tickets are available directly on Saturday evening; there is no pre-sale.
All income flows into the club's treasury and is primarily intended to cover expenses.
The party starts at 8 p.m.
According to Lichtenberg, if you don't have time on March 2nd, you don't have to worry.
It doesn't necessarily have to be just one edition of the après-ski party.
“It would be great if we did it again,” says Felix Lichtenberg.
The aim of the association is to celebrate the memory of the project of the ancestors once a year: the T-bar lift on Grießberg.
BY PIA MAURER
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