Tatjana is the new rottenbacher beer queen

She is involved in dancing, gymnastics, brass band music, works as an industrial clerk, and now she is the beer queen in rottenbach: tatjana thonniben ascended the throne as the fourth representative of this office on friday for the official opening of the church fair. "I am very happy" she said in her short speech of thanks "and i hope that i will represent rottenbach well at the events in and outside our town".

However, she was not surprised with this honor. "A good part", she smiles and admits that "it was thanks to the mayor's stubbornness that I took on this task". Mayor ludwig wahl () had already set his sights on the new majesty during the kirchweih last year. At the then raustanzen, he launched the first advance inquiry. Tatjana gave a spontaneous answer – she says she is one of those people who first think things through carefully. In the course of the next months, however, came so many requests from the city hall that they decided to make a commitment.

Taken with the task

"Above all", she says "I'm also excited about the new task. Getting to know new people at the representation events outside the district, seeing how things are done there – that's quite something."
She was introduced into the tent for the crowning by the two oberortsburschen tobias sandel and markus warter in the circle of her musician colleagues of the rottenbacher blowing music. Their first task was to help pour the beer after it had been tapped by burgermeister wahl. She was lucky to be standing behind the fassla: despite much practice in the past years, wahl probably didn't hit it as accurately as he wanted: after the first blow, the tap flew and the valuable water made its way out into the open.

However, innkeeper herbert sauer, who has been assisting the community leaders with the tapping for many years, quickly closed the tap again, so that after a second tap it was time to say: "O'zapft is". There was still enough beer in the barrel, so that the numerous guests of honor from politics, economy and church as well as the local boys did not go empty-handed.

Wahl took his mishap with humor and assured me that this was certainly not the "little surprise" he had announced in advance had been. This turned out to be a congratulation for the chairman of the rottenbacher blasmusik, gunther sapper. Who celebrated his birthday on friday as well. The "rottenbacher carp song", that he in quiet hour "honestly, at night once at half past three it occurred to me" – at wahl's suggestion, came to the premiere and he was allowed to conduct it himself. The mayor and board member stefan engelhardt acted as sanger. Conclusion of the song: "a carp tastes particularly good when it is eaten in rottenbach"."

Spruce was 29 meters long

The evening was musically arranged by "appendix". A solemn procession of the flag delegations of the associations from the church to the marquee after a festive service had opened the evening. On saturday the boys put up the tree – 29 meters long and already grown. "At first, we were thinking about 45 meters," says – says tobias sandel happily." But one should not overdo it." The boys obviously enjoyed their work as much as the spectators did.

Kuchla z'ammspiln, gecher rausschlogn, betzn raustanzen follow then still on sunday, the monday applies to the pure celebration with fruhschoppen and tent operation. On tuesday the grumme is put up – the little brother of the kirchweih spruce, which is small and strangely hung to indicate the final end of the kirchweih.