Who does that?

Perchten association angry because poster was taken down

This should actually be advertising for the Perchtenkehraus

(Bild: Schleißheimer Perchten)

The Perchten in Schleißheim were furious after it was noticed on Friday, December 13 of all days that an advertising poster for the Perchtenkehraus had been removed and taken away. After an appeal on Facebook, however, the suspected thief probably got cold feet.

"This is theft! You have until noon on Monday, 16.12.24 to return the banner to the municipality in Holzhausen, otherwise we will press charges," reads the Facebook page of the Schleißheim Perchten.

Poster was suddenly gone
What had happened? "Since December 7, the banner had been mounted on a company site between Marchtrenk and Holzhausen in agreement with the landowner, but on December 13, one of our members noticed that it was gone as he drove past," explains Thomas Haunschmid, chairman of the traditional association.

Thief "armed" with a cordless screwdriver
The banner was fixed to a homemade wooden frame with ten screws and measured 1x4 meters. The suspected thief may therefore have been "armed" with a cordless screwdriver and used it to loosen the banner and take it away. The Perchtenverein demanded its return on Facebook and threatened to press charges.

The poster miraculously reappeared

(Bild: Schleißheimer Perchten)

What may have worked: "We wanted to put up a new poster on Sunday afternoon and suddenly I saw that someone had put the missing one, complete with screws, on a wall nearby. It was even weighted down with a stone," says Haunschmid.

Haunschmid, who has headed the association for 13 years, knows that not everyone can relate to the Perchten tradition. "Just recently, someone phoned to complain because the child was scared every time they drove past and once the Perchten's face was sprayed with green paint."