{"id":47386,"date":"2019-10-22T11:45:23","date_gmt":"2019-10-22T09:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test.steinmuehle.de\/blog\/2019\/10\/22\/record-attendance-at-the-steinmuehle-fall-festival\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T15:47:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T13:47:00","slug":"record-attendance-at-the-steinmuehle-fall-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/blog\/2019\/10\/22\/record-attendance-at-the-steinmuehle-fall-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Record Attendance at the Steinm\u00fchle Fall Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"

The school and boarding school celebrated their 70th anniversary and introduced numerous new initiatives<\/strong><\/p>\n

During the weekend of its annual fall festival, Steinm\u00fchle had a second reason to celebrate: the 70th anniversary of the institution. Over the years, the family that owns the boarding school and the school association have transformed a site with old, dilapidated buildings surrounded by mud around a mill into a campus with new and completely renovated buildings, where students from the boarding school, high school, and the bilingual elementary school feel equally at home. <\/p>\n

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Numerous construction projects<\/strong><\/p>\n

Never before had so many visitors come to the Fall Festival on Steinm\u00fchlenweg. Never before had there been so many new things to marvel at. Following the completion of the new Forum and Learning Center 5\/6 buildings, the Atrium\u2014a new building for the middle school\u2014was inaugurated earlier this year. Once that was finished, renovation of the main building began and was completed just in time for the start of the school year. The renovation of the cafeteria took place at the same time. This was accompanied by the redesign of the schoolyard, the completion of the parking lot, and the relocation of the bus turnaround loop in front of the school. A second, smaller schoolyard is now located in front of the Atrium. <\/p>\n

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Congratulations from the County Administrator<\/strong><\/p>\n

“These are the final projects for this year,” says Dirk Konnertz, executive director of the school association, with satisfaction and full of praise for the contractors. The collaboration between the school association, principals Bj\u00f6rn Gemmer and Bernd Holly, and the boarding school\u2019s governing body worked brilliantly and made these results possible in the first place. On Friday evening, Steinm\u00fchle celebrated its 70th anniversary with a small gathering featuring speeches and a festive dinner prepared by the boarding school kitchen. Guests of honor from the business and political worlds, including District Administrator Kirsten Fr\u00fcndt, congratulated the key players and the entire school community not only on what was on display but also on the ongoing successes evident in all areas of the school. <\/p>\n

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A Look Back at the Decades<\/strong><\/p>\n

In his speech, Egon Vaupel, chairman of the school association, highlighted the school\u2019s tremendous progress since the association\u2019s founding and emphasized the currently excellent collaboration between the school and the boarding school. Johanna Buurman-Rogalla, a witness to history who has lived in Steinm\u00fchle since the very beginning\u2014for 70 years now\u2014 gave a detailed and vivid presentation, accompanied by many photographs, describing how Steinm\u00fchle has flourished and grown over the years, even though it was not spared the consequences of a fire and a flood. <\/p>\n

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Preserving Our Connection to Nature<\/strong><\/p>\n

Despite the absence of these hardships, and despite new construction and renovations, the Steinm\u00fchle campus today still bears many similarities to that era. Thanks in particular to its unspoiled, natural surroundings, the trees, and its location as a \u201csmall village on the outskirts of town,\u201d the school and boarding school have been able to preserve their character. \u201cThat\u2019s exactly what makes Steinm\u00fchle so unique\u2014you won\u2019t find anything like it anywhere else,\u201d gushed a visitor to the Fall Festival. Adults and children alike took full advantage of the opportunity to stroll across the grounds at the Fall Festival on that sunny, warm Saturday before the start of fall, explore the buildings from the inside, visit the diverse booths set up by the Steinm\u00fchle students, and marvel at the experiments in the chemistry lab. \u201cWe\u2019re overwhelmed by this atmosphere and the positive response,\u201d summed up school principals Bj\u00f6rn Gemmer and Bernd Holly at the alumni\u2019s evening get-together, which didn\u2019t end until late at night. <\/p>\n

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