"A village changes its face" "During the battle of the Somme he lay in a shell-hole." "In March." "It was full of water." "He lay at the edge." "Ducked." "To avoid the shrapnels." "During sleep you sometimes rolled down and the boots hit the water and they were frozen in the morning." "It was a bad time." "Since then he has felt something in his legs, not as bad as now, certainly." "The cane he only needs since 18 months." "The doctor says, it could also come from too much work." "They say:" "Work needs to be done." "People like us have to work." "Sometimes it seems that the farmer has enough money." "If you come here and see, you'd think:" "There's plenty of money." "But appearances are deceptive." "The machine... costs a lot of money." "For the machine the farmer has to... pay a high price." "The high wages... of the metal workers... the costs of material, iron and all..." "The farmer must pay high prices." "But for his product... he gets prices from 10 years ago." "That's no good relation..." "In addition... he must work bitterly for the money for the machines." "Sometimes you have to stint yourself for it." "Many really have to to stint themselves for it." "It went like this:" "My old house... it already was... not profitable anymore." "I had to choose:" "Either emigrants... or to work in a shop." "To do a different work." "But I succeeded to get emigrants." "And I'm satisfied." "I have a good place." "I'm very happy with the emigrants." "We're only two at work... and now, because of the emigrants, we need a field again." "And..." "The field pays the machine." "Then we have to get a machine." "And work the cattle..." "Work  is not  easy right now." "But I hope that... it gets better." "And I can buy... machines again." "And work would get better..." "In 1952 a new dairy-building brought into service." "It has been designed after the newest principles and was equipped with modern machines." "According to year's average the daily milk-delivery sums up to 2282 kilo." "In 1955 it has been 1489 kilo." "A sign of increased efficiency while the number of deliverers has fallen." "The farmer naturally holds on to his job." "The traditional farmer." "He doesn't give up easily." "One is his own master." "No one whistles." "It doesn't ring either." "That's the beauty of it!" "But is it going to be like this?" "Nobody knows!" "Black and grey clouds hang above the farmer." "Nobody knows what the future will bring." "That's a heavy burden." "Outgoing commuters: 55 Incoming commuters: 15" "Yesterday it was very hot." "You'd have liked to sit in the shade." "The neighbor said:" "Put yourself under the trees in the shade!" "But they replied:" "What would the others think?" "What the others think - it doesn't matter." "But it does!" "The old ones in the city could sit on benches." "In a village like this you know everyone, good or bad." "You see everything here." "Now a fire fighting water tank is built in the middle of the village." "Until 8 years ago the village pond was here, which was necessary as pond and livestock watering." "Everything will be rebuild to a pretty sight with a playground." "A trooper comes along to the green meadow wears a colorful skirt and bows before Liese." "'My pretty bridesmaid  let's dance a while.'" "'Thanks, but I don't like to dance I wait for a king!" "'" "Comes a merchant's son along to the green meadow  wears a silk waistcoat and bows before Liese." "'My pretty bridesmaid  let's dance a while.'" "'Thanks, but I don't like to dance  I wait for a king!" "'" "Our school building includes the class rooms and the teacher's... and the town hall, which is renovated now." "Ödenwald's evangelic elementary school has two classes" "The years 1 to 4 are primary, 5 to 8 are high school." "The teacher often has to deal with 2 or 3 departments at the same time" "Pupils have to work independently." "Which is a pedagogic advantage." "Achievements in a school with 8 classes can only be reached through significant extra work of pupils and teachers." "It's an advantage to teach the pupils for 4 years without changes of class." "The teacher gets to know his pupils very well." "While pupils leave or enter school... traditional classes with their pedagogic climates sustain." "Newcomers are integrated without special effort of the teacher." "The teacher knows every pupil and every parent personally." "I also have contacts through association with clubs." "I direct the mixed choir." "Such memberships, in a choir, a sports-club or as organist, are almost required to be a country teacher, even today." "Mixed activities not only heighten the work-load... but also lessens them." "That's one of my good experiences." "In terms of the pupils' origins we are a true country school." "Most of the children, right now 53%, come from farmers' families." "This will probably only change slowly." "In his spare time the rural pupil often has to work hard in farming." "Even in summer he sometimes has no vacation." "Our holiday-system gives vacation when the children are needed for harvesting." "They mostly enjoy school because work and play is more suitable for them here." "It must be mentioned that the stressfull rural strains afflict damage to their progress in school." "Parents, who usually look favorably at school, tend to ignore this fact." "It's sometimes hard to realize that even versatile children, who won't take over their parents' farm, are often not allowed to learn another profession because the family business needs their manpower." "Resources of talent are still available here." "They could only be developed, if rural schooling would be reformed and agriculture would be able to abandon child labor." "The school only has two class rooms, nothing more... not even a room for the teaching aids." "If we want to do gymnastics at bad weather a classroom has to be made ready fast." "The school is on Main Street, corresponding to former ideal concepts." "But meanwhile the famous country calm has vanished." "Now even on hot summer days no window can be opened during school." "Alhough we're are sufficiently equipped with teaching aids - because of the school-friendly attitude of the town - we yet have to consider a new build." "Together with our neighboring towns an enlarged central school is planned." "The first of its kind in the Muenzingen area." "A step forward for the benefit of the rural population." "The hosiery-factory has originally been built by the town." "Later Mr. Stotz bought and expanded it." "Today they produce wrappers for TV sets and radios." "Many girls work there to earn their dowry." "They can purchase quite something from that money." "If it gets hard - during the potatoe-harvest, for example - they stay home and help." "The hourly wage is 2.30 Mark." "Some get more than 3 Mark for piece wage." "Stotz has another factory and owns shares of a veneer plant." "He's got more than enough money." "Those, who make others work for them, have more money." "Her name is Irene Rauscher." "She's 24 years old." "She has worked at Stotz since 6 years." "In 1963 the brewery existed since 200 years." "Since then it is owned by the Speidel family." "1958 the brewhouse has been renovated." "1963 a new bottling machine was installed." "It has an output of 4 to 6 thousand bottles an hour." "His name is Alfred Rauscher, 38 years." "His hourly wage is 3.50 Mark." "He's single and lives with his brother, who is a farmer." "He sometimes helps him there, too." "Farmers nowadays sleep until 5 or 6." "In former times you went to the fields at 3." "Yet it was better then." "Everyone owned and worked the same" "Those, who always want more, aren't happier." "On July 8th I went to the diphteria vaccination in Oedenwaldstetten." "All children born in 1961 were vaccinated against dipheria and tetanus." "It will be repeated after 4 weeks." "Children born in 1958 only get a single vaccination against diphteria." "The diphteria vaccination is successfull so far." "Since its introduction no diphteria cases have been reported." "Since several years it has been combined with tetanus vaccination." "The town's bakehouse exists since ever." "The town wanted to hire a baker, but the broads didn't accede." "At 8 o'clock in the morning the ovens are drawn." "The neighbor town's bakehouse has been renovated with an electric oven." "But most say, the wood oven's bread tastes better." "The town's washhouse only exists since some years." "Many out of towners wash their stuff there." "I returned from confinement in Egypt in 1957." "I started with a pasta business then." "At night I produced pasta, by day I did farming." "In 1957 I decided to start a new business." "The terry toweling production." "In December of 1957 I started with the first weaving loom." "There are 14 looms today." "25 people work here today and 6 homeworker." "Among them are 4 Jugoslavian girls." "That's Mara Jakovlevich from Ossiek." "She's in Germany since last December." "She earns 2.50 Mark per hour." "We started poultry keeping in 1964." "Last year we built the big stable." "It was because... farming only isn't enough." "We wanted to specialize in chicken." "But egg prices are very bad - especially this year." "Production costs are hardly covered." "So we have our worries." "40 years ago the fruit was still cut with the scythe." "It went with a swing." "You neeeded much skill." "The young ones had to learn it." "Back then, without the fertilizer, the corn grew only half the size." "The output of corn is bigger today too." "You often joked: 'The fruit slips through the scythe.'" "After the war ended... some men came and set up the sports club again." "In 1952 the shooting department was integrated again." "We have some 70 members." "Among those 30 are youths." "Unluckily the youth today - you can't bring them to shoot anymore." "For reasons maybe... that the elders don't understand anymore." "Today's youth has an outward drive." "But..." "We experienced..." "When the older members lead... the youths are willing to participate." "Sometimes there's cattle market in Muenzingen." "But today it isn't good anymore." "In the past the jews from Butenhausen have been cattle dealers." "That was good trade." "There was buying and selling." "They brought cattle to the Rhineland, Frankfurt, Mannheim, everywhere..." "Often one bought 15, 20 pieces of cattle at the market." "Back then the cattle was herded to the station, without cars..." "Or it was sold to a farmer on the spot." "The jews had shops in Butenhausen, and a cigar plant." "There have been poor folks too, who had to be supported by their fellow believers." "Some who realized it early and had money or relatives abroad went to the USA." "None of them came back." "The synagogue has been burnt down in Kristallnacht." "All those who staid have been killed." "The Christians in Butenhausen got along well with the Jews." "Some say, they preferred the Jews over the Christians." "Back then nobody could have said anything." "They would have deported you to Dachau." "You only sweep on Saturday so that it looks clean on Sunday." "A French soldier, who was bunked in the village, saw the plaques with the names of the fallen." "There were so many from the village." "He said: 'Why so many youths?" "Why?" "'" "He wanted to say it was all in vain." "And he nearly cried." "They had a sergeant, he was an out-and-outer." "During retreat in 1945, when the Russians already were in Germany," "He said: 'Comrades, we just let the future come to us.'" "Then he cut and ran." "At Mr. Fritz Brunn's new build... who was the first to put up a house here" "I worked as the lokal master carpenter." "Here's the topping out song... which usually is proclaimed at the ceremony." "You see a pretty new build here." "It greets wide into the land." "Those who see it, feel delight." "The carpenter is filled with joy when he built a stately house which shelters people from rain and Northern winds." "Where men and women are secure and care for each other lovingly." "And nurture lucky blossoming children to be good humans." "Such quiet and peaceful fate we wish for the home-builder." "He shall live in the house cheerful and happy until he dies." "And to his glory it shall be owned by each of his descendants." "Those who own it afterwards shall have the same luck." "This is my happy wish at work's end." "I stand high on the roof truss full with confidence." "As it is craftsmen's custom I take the full glass and beg to all who gathered here to join my bright call:" "Long live the builder and his kin!" "Cheer!" "..." "The church looked decreasingly dilapidated." "It's already 700 years old." "Now it has been renovated." "One nearly forgot all those things from times past, and the war." "There has been something new all of the time." "What belongs to the past has been mowed." "A village changes its face" "subs by lohmann @ KG (2011)"