New rifles are available for the historical konigsberg citizens’ guard. Two examples complete the arsenal and will probably be seen in the future at the parades of the burgerwehr at whitsun.
The whitsun festival in konigsberg is already a thing of the past for many citizens. But not for all the inhabitants of the district. So too not for alois voigt from bramberg. A report in the newspaper about the departure of the konigsberg citizen’s militia did not give him a moment’s peace. He was concerned about the background (that is the revolution in 1848) and the fact that flower bouquets decorate the weapons and walking sticks (if there are no weapons). The flowers express the peaceful character of the action.
"Rifles and walking sticks are shouldered", he was told during a visit to bramberg by his konigsberg friend gerold snater. "I can remedy that with a few walking sticks", was the reaction of alois voigt and he presented two historical rifles to gerold snater for handing over to the konigsberger burgerwehr.
One is a 300-year-old flintlock muzzleloader from his father-in-law’s collection, and the other is a carbine that construction workers found in a pretty rotten state in 1973 during the construction of the bypass around jesserndorf. This weapon probably dates from the end of the war in 1945, when fierce fighting was still going on in jesserndorf. The barrel was considerably corroded, the stock broken, because it was made of inferior laminated wood. Alois voigt put the barrel in rustless for days and bought in wurzburg the last stock of full walnut root wood. In addition, he procured a bayonet attachment, as the old one had rusted away.
Thus restored, the two historic "armories" should be from the property of alois voigt to be handed over to the konigsberger burgerwehr "in order to make their departure more historical", as alois voigt said with a smile.