update     01.02.2012

Culm on the Weichsel

Hairdresser Epding on the market (1913-1945)

1912 champion earned the hairdresser Alwin Epding Culm market at the house No. 20, which today bears the number 15, and opened there a hairdresser, after his death in 1943 by his daughter Irma rider, born Epding, and transferred to flee the family before the Red Army in January 1945 was continued. The following picture shows Irma riders in the circles of their employees before the showcase of the hairdressing salons. A comparison with a recent photo shows that the building visible in the area has hardly changed.

Two years ago undertook Alwin Epdings granddaughter, Mrs. Gudrun Poncet, born rider, a journey from West Germany in their birthplace Culm, today Chełlmno order in the streets of the Old City, where they still than five-year-old girl had played a very personal Spurensuche action

Poncet woman has given us next to the photo from the year 1943 a series of claims about their family, which more than three decades in Culm resident war.The first holder of hairdressing salons Alwin Epding was 1885 in small Trebis (Polish Trzebczyk) was born. This place is situated approximately 13 km south of Culm. 1912, he married three years older Piepke from Martha Klein Czyste (from 1908 official designation Reinau, Polish Czyste Malle),

Village 8 km southeast of Culm, whose parents owned a farm and the products generated, inter alia, on the weekly market in the town offered. In the same year acquired the freshly vermählte couple already mentioned the house on the market, which has a championship operative Alwin Epding 1913 opened a hairdresser. At that time has probably also in the building found a restaurant, because in a blueprint from the year 1912 are right on the ground floor of the entrance to a barroom, a club room and other facilities included, on the left side of the ground floor were, however, the entrance to Corridor and the Barber Shop as well as for the 1st and 2 Floor apartment situated. The Barber Shop and was later expanded into a men's and ladies' parlor umgewandelt.1913 was the first child of the couple Born Epding, namely Irma. Her brother Ernst Heinz also came in 1925 Culm to the world. He fell as a 20-year-old soldier in the last months of the Second Weltkriegs.Irma Epding married from 1936 to roughly 70 miles west of Culm location Mrotschen (Polish Mrocza) in the district Wirsitz (Wyrzysk) coming Herbert Reiter (born in 22.03. 1911), the Culm worked as a bank officer, at least since 1943 as navy officer made military service and 1945 died. Irma and Herbert Reiter lived in the Bishop Street 7 II (Biskupia ul), not far away from hairdressing salon, the Irma after the death of her father trained as a hair over 1943. Besides the 1939 Gudrun was born rider nor the couple's daughter Gisela, and the son of Klaus Dieter, both at a young age died.