History 

 

 

Chronicle of the Catholic Church Choir of  St.Andreas Klein-Winternheim

 

The church choir  of St. Andreas is with the age of 35 years a young choir. He counted 26  members in the foundation year 1963. During the first 20 years, the choirleader  Mr. Michael Schreiber experienced with his organization the good things  and the bad things.

After that, Mrs.  Kremer took over the choir as choirleader for three years. Since 1987,  Mr Juergen Heber accompanies the choir as choirmaster.

Chairman of the  31 active singers of the churchchoir is Mr Herbert Eckert, since  February 2008. He is the "good soul", and acts behind the scene.

The active choir  members consists of: 10 alto parts, 11 Sopran and 9 tenors. The repertory  of the church choir is not only spiritual songs, fhurthermore modern and  populare songs are most favourable.

Every Thursday at  8:00 pm, the choir meets in the little Klein-Winternheimer-Radsport hall,  for exercise.

There are special  highlights every year, where the church choir is part of the whole village  activities - like in this year on the people art days. The church choir  looks after the physical welfare of the guests, both, at the annual Carneval-Sunday  and on the Christmas fair. The income of these two events covers the expenses  of the church choir.

The choirs highlight  are following days: Eastern, Whitsuntide, Corpus Christi, Lady Day, Grosses  Gebet, Day of national mourning and Christmas.

 Annually, there  is a halfday and a daytime excursion, which is appreciated by all.

It should't remain  unmentioned, that there is also an impressiv Advent celebration, where  some choir members are part of the celebration. At this celebration, the  members with a membership between 25 and 30 years become honored too.

Friendly connections  with the choirs of Gutenberg and and Daxweiler are granted by the choirleader  Mr. Herber. Regular meetings and concerts are in place on a rotationary  base.

Due to the 35 anniversary,  the church choir took a ride to the Fichtelgebirge at the beginning of  April 1998. Impressiv highlights were the visits of Alexanderbad, Karlsbad  and Bayreuth.

Finaly should be  mentioned, that there is a lack of young members in all church choirs  since many years. This can be seen by the high average age of the members  in our choir.

Therefore new  members are welcome and gladly invited.