As of: March 6, 2024, 7:00 a.m
By: Pauline Zapp
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Impressed by the students' performance: Diocesan museum director Christoph Shorter and school principal Dieter Link (r.).
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The place where Erdinger vocational students were able to demonstrate their skills couldn't have been more prominent.
Erding/Freising – Thanks to a food truck, people have been able to get food and drinks at Freisinger Domberg for a long time.
Thanks to a special project by the Erdinger Vocational School, visitors now have a covered seating area.
“As budding craftsmen, you are incredibly important, not just for us at Domberg, but for society as a whole”: With these words, the director of the Diocesan Museum, Christoph Shorter, introduced the opening of the new pavilion on Freising’s Domberg.
The construction is mainly thanks to the students of the vocational school in Erding, where aspiring craftsmen and carpenters from the Freising district are also trained.
Up to now there was no storage facility.
The food truck opened on Freising's Domberg in 2018 and has now established itself among locals and tourists as well as among Domberg employees.
The only thorn in the side: in bad weather and in the cool winter months there was no place for visitors to shelter.
However, the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising, in collaboration with the “Domberg Freising” company, urgently wanted to change that.
They brought the Erding vocational school on board.
And the young men and women there were full of enthusiasm, as student Manuel Drexler reports: “We have been working on the pavilion for about six months now, and it was just a lot of fun,” he enthuses and continues: “The most difficult thing was to align the roof so that there were no gaps left.
But now everything is in place and we are very happy with the result.”
A total of two cubic meters of timber and around 40 kilos of iron parts were used for the pavilion, which is made from natural spruce wood.
The interior design was advertised through an internal school competition.
For example, all the chairs were made according to the students' own designs, which gives them their own unique character.
The budding craftsmen had made the individual side walls in their school carpentry workshop.
The construction on site only took one morning and was completed in time for the topping-out ceremony.
The vocational students Benedikt Woitsch, Immanuel Bauer and Jonas Bathe took over.
Of course, throwing a glass was also a must, the shards of which are said to bring good luck to the new building.
The celebration was accompanied by songs from the Kohlstatt musicians.
Auxiliary Bishop Bernhard Haßlberger also didn't want to miss his good wishes.
After saying some prayers and blessing the pavilion, he praised the students for their perseverance.
“Your teachers can be really proud of you,” he stated and added with a smile: “You would definitely get your master’s certificate from me.”
PAULINE ZAPP