{"id":43172,"date":"2013-11-11T20:41:43","date_gmt":"2013-11-11T19:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test.steinmuehle.de\/blog\/2013\/11\/11\/rowing-takes-center-stage-at-the-steinmuehle-fall-festival\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T15:19:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T13:19:15","slug":"rowing-takes-center-stage-at-the-steinmuehle-fall-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/blog\/2013\/11\/11\/rowing-takes-center-stage-at-the-steinmuehle-fall-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Rowing Takes Center Stage at the Steinm\u00fchle Fall Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<h5 dir=\"ltr\" data-angle=\"0\" data-font-name=\"g_font_8_0\" data-canvas-width=\"223.89694418334963\">The christening of the new GIG eight was one of the highlights of the annual festival<\/h5>\n<p>About 900 visitors celebrated the Steinm\u00fchle Boarding School\u2019s Fall Festival. Alongside the students, the school and boarding school administration, the teaching staff, and members of the school\u2019s support association\u2014as well as the newly founded Friends of the School Association\u2014made for an eventful day under bright sunshine. Through this annual festival, the active school and boarding school community introduced itself and extended a special invitation to former Steinm\u00fchle students to visit the boarding school. According to boarding school director Stefan Lange, the Fall Festival is an event for the whole family. Visitors were treated to many culinary delights, a colorful stage program featuring numerous musical performances, and a wide variety of hands-on activities, such as rowing sessions, sports games, painting workshops, and pony rides. \u201cFor the boarding students, the festival means work first and foremost,\u201d Lange noted. They serve as hosts and take on various responsibilities before, during, and after the event.      <\/p>\n<p>The highlight of the school festival was the christening of the new GIG eight by Filip Adamski, the 2012 Olympic champion in the German men\u2019s eight. The newly acquired rowing boat is the result of a joint project between the Steinm\u00fchle Boarding School and the Institute for the Blind (Blista), supported by the city government and Sparkasse Marburg-Biedenkopf, with the purchase costs shared by both schools. Rowing is firmly established in the curriculum at both Steinm\u00fchle and the Blindenstudienanstalt. According to the school association\u2019s president, Dr. Gerhard P\u00e4tzold, the new boat is intended to expand the range of activities offered by both schools. Apart from the athletic aspect, the sense of community among peers and the goal of inclusion play a major role. \u201cThe inclusion eight will ensure long-term cooperation between the two schools,\u201d said P\u00e4tzold. The boat allows four Steinm\u00fchle students to row alongside four students from Blista. The new eight gives the students involved in the project the opportunity to participate in competitions and regattas under the guidance of their coach, Martin Strohmenger.       <\/p>\n<p>In the presence of numerous representatives from the worlds of business, politics, and sports, the guest of honor from the Rudern und Sport Steinm\u00fchle (RuS) club christened the boat \u201cBlind Date,\u201d a name intended to highlight the successful partnership between the two schools.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The christening of the new GIG eight was one of the highlights of the annual festival About 900 visitors celebrated the Steinm\u00fchle Boarding School\u2019s Fall Festival. Alongside the students, the school and boarding school administration, the teaching staff, and members of the school\u2019s support association\u2014as well as the newly founded Friends of the School Association\u2014made [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[86,85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43172"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48585,"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43172\/revisions\/48585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}