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Munich (dpa / lby) - 33 centimeters high, with the original guild signs and the local coat of arms at the top: the association “Guichinger Customs” has launched the mini version of the local maypole as a handicraft package for a May celebration “at home”.
Because the May 1st celebrations and the erection of a new maypole with a village festival and dance will also be canceled this year in the Upper Bavarian town of Gilching in the Starnberg district due to the Corona crisis.
"At a May celebration, 1000 people easily come together - there is no way there," says the club's chairman René Weber, who came up with the idea for the alternative home maypole.
Bayerischer Rundfunk and other media reported on it.
The demand for the May tree is enormous.
The association therefore automatically sends a standard response to inquiries by email: Pre-orders can no longer be accepted.
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The association had completed the first 100 mini maypoles in-house from hardware store material before Easter; they were sold out within four days.
Now another 150 pieces are in the works, which will then possibly be sold in a drive-in - for 15 euros.
"One and five, May 1st - they go well together," says Weber.
The price does not represent the effort. Weber and other club members sawed, drilled, sanded and pre-painted the parts by hand in the basement at home.
The maypole bonsai is almost exactly on a scale of 1: 100 - the real Gilching maypole is 30 meters high.
In addition to a pot of blue paint and the true-to-original base for cutting - created using an aerial photograph - the kit also includes the so-called swallows.
These are poles that the local boys traditionally use to push the trees up.
“It was important to me to get an insight into how it works,” says Weber.
The building instructions also contain links to online videos with simple folk dances - for practicing at home.
"My goal is also to have more people dance along if we really put up the new maypole next year."
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