Dancing for all it’s worth in albertshofen

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Dancing for all it's worth in albertshofen

"The weather is brilliant", david notes with relief. The sun is shining, it's not too cold, and most importantly, it's not raining like it did during the church fair parade on sunday. Because who wants to pick up his dance partner for the wash dance soaked through? David and all the other wasenzieher in any case not. For him it is already the third time that he takes his girlfriend cordula to the wash dance. This is an old tradition at the albertshofer kirchweih.

For more than 125 years, the unmarried boys from albertshof have been picking up their girls and taking them to the "wasen" to waltz and dance a polonaise together. But before the boys could pick up their dance partners, they met yesterday at the fahre. Even the former, because married, boys could not be missing: the goikerer. They all have a peacock feather on their hats and follow the boys with their tractor, which has been converted into a goiker, or rooster.

In search of the brews
As soon as the brass band begins to play, the boys storm off to their wasenbrut. The goikerer and their tractor follow them easily. The boys hop through the village and meet their dance partner, then they also slowly move towards the wasen on the land of the gartenland hall.

There are already many other albertshofer waiting on the meadow – and already it starts: the music plays and the couples line up and waltz off . After a polonaise, the men are positioned on one side and the women on the other side. Each parchen stands against the other and waits for the turn to come at last. Then the lad and the wasenbraut approach each other and turn to the music to the other end of the row.

Here it is clear to see who has learned the waltz and who has not. "That sees freestyle waltz", comments one of the spectators. "No, it's just a modern variant", laughs the other. Once the waltz has been completed smoothly, most of the dance is over and it is time to wait until the last wasen couple has danced. Then the hoofs are swung again, this time waltzing again, but each pair for itself.

Goikerschlagen around a rooster
Then the goikerer goes into action. For another high point on kerwerdienstag, albertshofen's most important holiday, is the goikerschlagen (beating of the goikers). "There is also only, so that also the married albertshofer and not only the boys come", jokes mayor horst reuther. And the "goikerer" blindfolded. He stands in the middle of a cordoned off square. You give him a huge tree trunk in his hand and turn the goiker several times around the trunk.
The goiker is supposed to lose his orientation, which is important, because the difficulty in beating the goiker is to drop the trunk blindfolded so that it lands on a small flowerpot, only as a substitute for the goiker, a real rooster, and breaks it. Of course, the spectators are allowed to help the goiker, but it is not guaranteed that the shouts of the bystanders are correct. The first to enter is the pastor. First he pulls, the audience laughs and shouts "to the left! No to the right". Otto golkel does not let this unsettle him. Four times in a row he hits the flowerpot. The audience cheers. With this steeply sloping template is golkel rough favorite at the goikerschlagen. The prize is a live rooster, the consolation prize is wine. "Who has kerm?", golkel calls out to the crowd and loudly comes back: "mir ham kerm!"

The atmosphere is rough. All laugh, many mother of the dancers twitch the camera and try to push the best picture. All the others who have only watched are also enthusiastic. Especially cordula and david are happy about the wasentanz. "This is now our third wasentanz. It is again and again. And next time we will be there again", promises david and continues with cordula to the other wasenpaaren. Everyone poses for a group photo as a reminder of this beautiful afternoon.

Who uses the word "final exhortations"? Hort, probably first thinks of a classroom where stressed-out schoolchildren fill entire sheets of paper with their knowledge. However, the so-called project examination, which took place this week at the ritter-von spix secondary school in hochstadt, is completely different. "This is a relatively new, but very useful form of evaluation. The young people were able to demonstrate their practical skills", says michael ulbrich, principal of the spix school.

A week for the practice

On monday, the tenth graders received their assignment, for which they had four days: they had to create a market analysis for the school kiosk and design their own portfolio. The young people were able to use their knowledge and skills in the process. Wednesday was the practical part of the exam, where the students had to work in small groups to make something for the kiosk.
They had the choice of three areas: in the subject "home economics they had to cook different dishes. 16-year-old franziska klein took on the task because she wants to gain cooking and gastronomic experience for her future career. "As an event manager, you have to know a lot about food," he says, she explains. In the computer room, the school leavers should be trained in the subject "economics" design a flyer for the kiosk. Technology" as third subject for the election. The schoolchildren had to produce holders for ice cream cones and lollipops out of plastic. Although the tufting in the workroom is part of his final exam, it gives max nagler a lot of spab. "Technology has been my favorite subject since seventh grade", he says. That's why he also wants to take up a skilled trade after finishing school.

The first part is done

On friday the individual groups presented their results. This marked the end of the project week, which is the first part of the M-branch examinations, i.E. The middle maturity exam. It counts for a quarter of the overall grade of the final exam. In the next few weeks, the written exams in german, math and english will follow, and the students will really have to sweat at their desks.

The firefighters in the northern hochstadt district of zentbechhofen are already looking forward to their new vehicle. In a ring swap, they are to receive an HLF 20 from the hochstadter stutzpunktwehr, which will replace their old vehicle from 1989. But there is a new HLF 20 for the hochstadt fire department. A fierce dispute has now erupted between the city of hochstadt and the county over the financing of this vehicle.

Hochstadt’s mayor gerald brehm (JL) speaks of a "staircase joke" in response to a question from the FT. He is referring to the attitude of the district administration, which does not want to give a cent subsidy for the new car. "We have relied on the demand", the mayor grumbles and even sees "an attack on the honorary office" in the opinion of the district authority.

District council members decide

Whether or not hochstadt will receive a grant from the county for the new fire truck will be decided at the political level on friday, 14 friday. December, at 9 a.M. In the erlangen district administration office. Then the district committee meets.

If it is up to district fire chief matthias rocca, who advises the district on fire and disaster protection issues, hochstadt will not receive a grant from the district in this case. This is how the county administration recommends that the committee for tomorrow’s meeting reject the grant application from the city of hochstadt.

What sums are at stake? According to district fire chief rocca, an HLF 20 costs around 400,000 euros. Hochstadt has already a demand promise of the government of central franconia over 119 000 euro. According to its guidelines for the requirement of the fireplace system, the county was required to contribute 40 percent of the amount required by the government. For the HLF 20 in hochstadt, that was another 47,600 euros in subsidies.

This is the amount mayor brehm is now fighting for. He doesn’t understand "that all the vehicles of the other municipalities are required by the district, but not the one in hochstadt".

This statement is contradicted by district fire officer rocca. There have already been HLF 20 refusals in the district. He justifies his no to the current hochstadt application with the fact that the "supra-local necessity" was not met for such a vehicle for the hochstadter wehr is not given. This necessity would be the condition for the subsidy. The city of hochstadt already had two HLF 20, for which a supra-local necessity had been confirmed and also grants had been received.

Above 15 kilometers

Rocca does not deny that the hochstadt fire department needs the car, but in his opinion it is not necessary for supra-local operations. Rocca: "the supra-locality begins at 15 kilometers from the municipal boundary."

For mayor brehm, the proposed resolution "misses the point". Brehm argues with the planned new slip road onto the B 505 at high of zentbechhofen. This link enabled the centbechhofen fire department, with its future HLF 20, to reach accident scenes on the B 505 in this area much faster than the base fire department from hochstadt. Incidentally, the regional planning procedure for the new link is due to start next year.

Whether or not it’s a supra-local necessity, the state of bavaria is requesting 119,000 euros for the HLF 20 in hochstadt. According to the government of central franconia, the state subsidy is to be considered independent of a claim by the district.

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