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Marcel Dvorak stands high on the easel, threading the eggs' threads over the branches.
With him below is his son Kevin, his wife Nancy is in the branches on the right.
On the left, neighbor Michaela is busy working.
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Peitinger family celebrates an old tradition from Thuringia in an allotment garden
Peiting
– An old custom from Thuringia for Easter comes to life in the “Tiefenlachen” allotment garden in Peiting: Marcel Dvorak decorated an apple tree in his plot with lots of colorful eggs.
He was supported by his family and a neighbor who also sought relaxation in the complex.
And Dvorak kept his promise to hang 300 more eggs than last year.
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Many years ago, at Easter in Saalfeld in Thuringia, Dvorak couldn't get enough of a tree decorated with colorful eggs.
“Over 10,000 eggs adorned the tree there, an old tradition,” he still enthuses today.
Wife sorts by color and painting
An initial spark must have taken place in him, who himself comes from Thuringia.
He wanted to bring something like this to Peiting, where he lives with his family.
The following year he implemented his idea on an apple tree in his plot in the “Tiefenlachen” allotment.
“We started from scratch and improved year after year,” can be heard from a corner of the garden.
It is wife Nancy, the “mistress” of the cartons full of egg cartons.
She sorts them by color and painting and then hands the eggs to Marcel.
Daughter Pia presents some of the newly acquired duck eggs.
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As she goes on to say, she mainly bought the eggs in the supermarket when they had packs of 15 or 18 on offer.
This was also noticeable in the family's menu.
“There was a lot of scrambled eggs for breakfast, spinach was served with the eggs at lunch, and there was a lot of cake on the menu,” Nancy continues.
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The egg blowing technique
Of course, she took on blowing out the eggs herself in order to keep the damage from broken eggs as low as possible.
The technique was the same as it had been for generations: small holes were pierced on the bottom and top of the eggs with a sharp needle, then a shish kebab skewer was used to pound the yolk into a liquid state.
“The blowing out then happened automatically,” explains Nancy Dvorak.
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Meanwhile, her husband stands high up on the easel.
An arm outstretched with lots of colorful eggs hanging from his hand.
With his other hand he carefully hangs the egg strings over the thin branches.
He has a medium feat ahead of him.
He wants to hang up the 1,300 Easter eggs in the next three to four hours.
This year with duck eggs
As he reveals, new eggs were added this year.
“We ordered duck eggs, which are a size larger,” he says.
He stayed away from ostrich eggs, which he also had his eye on.
“They were simply too expensive,” was his verdict.
Marcel Dvorak not only receives support from his wife Nancy and their children Kevin and Pia, his neighbor Michaela has also offered to help.
She combines the many differently processed eggs so that each branch has its own unique touch.
Of course, daughter Pia wants to get involved in the whole event.
Always takes a cardboard box of eggs from one of the large storage boxes and hands them to her mother.
Started after the birth of my daughter
Pia was also, perhaps indirectly, the reason for the tree decoration campaign.
“In 2019, when Pia was born, we decorated the tree for Easter with just a few eggs,” Marcel calls down from the ladder.
And he doesn’t forget to mention why he chose this particular tree: “This tree is grafted with three different apple varieties,” he says.
Some of the eggs are small works of art that have been painstakingly decorated.
To do this, Nancy Dvorak threaded small glass beads onto normal twine and then attached them to the eggs using a hot glue gun.
This takes time, but is of course an eye-catcher afterwards when the sun creates reflections.
When one of these eggs breaks, Nancy isn't exactly happy.
Of course Thuringian Rostbratwurst
A light wind comes up: the eggs on the branches gently bump against each other.
Everything sounds like a very special Easter symphony.
The festival can come.
And when asked what there is to eat at Easter, Marcel Dvorak again uses the word tradition.
“There’s Thuringian Rostbratwurst, what else?”
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