“The bakery in a Bavarian village was supposed to close. But the residents found a solution - because everyone acted together, from babies to old people. (…)
A bakery closes every day in Germany. A shortage of skilled workers, inflation, and increased energy and raw material costs are putting a strain on the trades. Last year, wheat was at times 50 percent more expensive than usual, and oil was even three times more expensive. Once the bakery closes, things start to go wrong in many villages:
The residents shop in the next town, and due to lack of customers the butcher shop and then the inn soon close. What remains is a gutted village. This often happens in Germany. (…)
In Wombach they wanted to avert this fate with a unique joint effort. And now, a year and a half later, it looks like they've actually done it. (…)
The rescue mission began on a wooden corner bench. The master baker Endres was sitting in the kitchen of the bakery at the time. He was seriously ill and working was no longer an option. Shortly after the closure was announced, the first large bakeries made him offers to take over his business in Wombach and open a bakery shop there.
The simple solution would have been to sell industrially manufactured baked goods - but it would have been the end of a hundred-year-old family and craft tradition. “We can preserve this,” Ullrich said at the time. (…)
Before the cooperative took over the bakery, four people worked in the bakery; today there are three of them. “Nobody can get sick,” says Riethmann. (…)
Nevertheless, the Wombicher Beck bakery was opened just five weeks after the cooperative was founded. Wombich, that's what they call their place in the local dialect. The priest, the village band and master baker Endres came to the opening. People in Wombach like to remember this day. (…)
A total of six people are employed at the bakery, three in the bakery and three in sales. What they can't do, around 40 volunteers take on: They sell bread at the weekly market, decorate the sales room or deliver orders. “Without them it wouldn’t work,” says Riethmann.
If you ask the Bavarian cooperative association about the Wombacher concept, Max Riedl says, “It’s probably the fastest founding in our association’s history.” There are 1200 cooperatives in Bavaria, including inns, community centers and 35 village shops, “but such a strong community for a single craft business is the exception”. “
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