TITMONING: JULY 1929 - DECEMBER 1932
Beatrice took the picture of the house where the Ratzingers lived in Titmoning (it is
a bank now), and the marker which says "In this house lived - from July 1929 to
December 1932 - Joseph Ratzinger, since April 19, 2005, Pope Benedict XVI."
Right, the church in Titmoning.
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"
With an architecture heavily marked by the Salzburg style,
Tittmoning remains my childhood's land of dreams...
The police station - and hence our living quarters -
occupied the most beautiful house on the town square...
It is true that the beauty of the facades concealed
living spaces with little comfort to speak of... "
Joseph Ratzinger,
Milestones
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Left, Tittmoning today; right, a 1767 representation.
PEPPERL AT NURSERY SCHOOL
His nursery class picture in Titmoning.
Pepperl would have been 3 years old, going on 4.
These pictures came out in
Der Spiegel.
Another videocap from RAI by Benevolens.
Hard to know if it was later than the above
nursery school pix or around the same time,
so I will stick it here until we know better.
The photo below was labelled "The Ratzinger
siblings - Maria, Georg and Joseph - taken in
the year 1930", around the same time as the
picture above. One of the pictures exhibited
in Pentling's EINER VON UNS IST PAPST.
Incredibly, the larger version of the photo,
which RAI-1 used later, was taken on the same
occasion but is obviously a different snap!
Again, RAI obligingly gives us a Pepperl crop.
Joseph Alois Ratzinger, 1931. Maklara gave us the enlargement from the small clipping on the right which reads:
"Joseph Alois Ratzinger (in circle) was four years old in this 1931 family picture. His father (second from right)
was a police officer. His mother is standing next left to her husband. His sister, who was 9 at the time, also
named Maria like her grandmother and mother, is the girl in the light-colored dress, and the boy seated on the left
is brother Georg. The photo was first published in the book 'Poetisch und herzensgut' published by researcher
Johann Nussbaum." [who did the research cited in the earlier post about the house in Muehlbach].
And as luck would have it, Palma just found this enlargement of Mama and Papa Ratzinger
from the group picture, on the ZDF site.
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"
Father decided, toward the end of 1932, to change locations once more.
In Tittmoning, he had smiply said too much against the brownshirts..."
From
Milestones
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[Modificato da TERESA BENEDETTA 09/11/2007 06:40]