As of: March 9, 2024, 7:07 a.m
By: Stephanie Hartl
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At work: (from left) Sofie Wörle, her daughter Birgit Wörle and Suse Venus attached egg garlands to the frame, which was already tied with branches.
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Things will soon be colorful again in front of the town hall in Althegnenberg: an Easter crown will soon be placed on the brick fountain.
Althegnenberg – Around 350 colorfully painted and decorated eggs are attached to a frame.
A visit to the hard-working helpers.
For the sixth time, the Fruit and Horticultural Association (OGV) is taking care of the Easter crown - a relatively young tradition in Althegnenberg.
This custom originally comes from Franconian Switzerland, and from the 1980s onwards there were Easter crowns on village fountains in more and more places.
There is further decoration in front of the mountain chapel
The idea first came up in Althegnenberg in 2018.
The first sketches were created, there were discussions with the local blacksmith Ludwig Ostermeier - and a request to the then town hall boss Paul Dosch as to whether the brick fountain in front of the town hall could be used.
Dosch agreed.
Then the kindergarten was brought on board.
The girls and boys were allowed to paint and decorate the plastic eggs.
Finally, books were collected.
A lot of it was needed to wrap the tubular frame made of round steel that Ludwig Ostermeier had made.
At times there was even talk of setting up a second Easter crown: setting up an Easter crown in front of the mountain chapel.
But the OGV quickly agreed that there should only be one in town.
For this purpose, it was decided to build an Easter statue, i.e. a column, at the mountain chapel.
This should also be decorated with Easter eggs.
In addition, the old church bell from the parish garden was attached to this structure.
Since then, both have become eye-catchers and popular photo motifs: the Easter crown on the fountain in front of the town hall directly on the B2 and the Easter steal in front of the mountain chapel.
The Easter crown in front of the town hall.
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Work on the Easter crown begins shortly after Ash Wednesday.
Since the first Easter crown - it was created in 2019 - Sofie Wörle has been making sure that the frame is covered with green waste - similar to when making Advent wreaths.
“In the beginning we had boxwood, but that is becoming more and more difficult because there are fewer and fewer,” regrets the 85-year-old.
That's why she and her daughter Birgit spent three hours in the forest with Gerald Honig this year to cut branches off the fallen conifers.
It takes another 40 hours of work to tie the fir branches around the steel frame.
The ring at the bottom, which is attached to the fountain - storm-proof, of course - has a circumference of 4.40 meters, the side bars are 1.50 meters long and the ring has a circumference of 2.40 meters.
You need a lot of greenery to tie everything together nice and tightly.
“That’s a large amount that you need to create a uniform picture,” explains Suse Venus.
She also works with wire on branches and frames - and Sofie Wörle always keeps a close eye on making sure everything is perfect.
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650 painted and decorated plastic eggs
Finally, the colorful Easter eggs go to the crown and of course to the steel.
Gerald Honig briefly estimated how many eggs that might be: “350 eggs for the crown and another 300 eggs for the steal.”
You have to expect that a few will break every year.
They will then of course be replaced.
“Last year we re-threaded three of the garlands,” remembers Suse Venus.
The colorful eggs are threaded onto a string, the garland, and then attached to the crown.
Female figure from the 50 pfennig piece
When everything is finished, including the figure enthroned on top, which is based on the female figure on the 50-pfennig coin, the Easter crown is hoisted onto a hanger, driven to the town hall a few 100 meters away and attached to the fountain - usually a few days before Palm Sunday.
The Easter crown can remain there in all its splendor and be admired - until a maximum of two weeks after Easter.
The individual parts then disappear back into a barn for 48 weeks.
You can find even more current news from the Fürstenfeldbruck district at Merkur.de/Fürstenfeldbruck.