Where exactly the real battle took place near Ampfing or near Mühldorf or near Erharting has actually been clarified, to the detriment of Ampfing and Mühldorf. Irrespective of this, the historically last professional knight’s battle without firearms was exactly 700 years ago this year, and the amateur knight spectacle “1322 – The Battle of Ampfing” that is reminiscent of it is now over for a few weeks. The thing was a great success both times – once for Ludwig the Bavarian, who then won against Friedrich the Handsome, and now for the Ampfinger, who have performed the play for the third time after 1922 and 1988. The community still has one problem in the wake of the spectacle: where to put the hemp?
In purely medieval terms, hemp is quite authentic. At that time, not only textiles and oil were made from the mass-cultivated crop. The stuff is said to have even been put on wounds, although with countless slaughtered participants in the original battle, unfortunately, that shouldn’t really have been worth it anymore. The medieval great mystic Hildegard von Bingen, who today is considered a kind of naturopathic saint, also knew a lot about hemp. And towards the end of the Middle Ages, a certain Gutenberg printed his Bible on hemp paper.
The modern Ampfinger used the fast-growing hemp plants to conceal the also fairly modern site fence around their festival grounds. The plantation is around 100 meters long and two to three meters wide, according to a report by the Mühldorfer Gazette. But the farmers from the area do not want to harvest the hemp and throw it into their biogas plants. Apparently the crowd is too small for them and the terrain is still a bit too bazig for the use of larger machines.
Now the people from the building yard have to get the stuff to the green waste collection point. Because the municipality of Ampfing made a mistake there. After all, their hemp could not only be processed into fabric, but also smoked well as a joint or in a pipe. If she hadn’t said so loudly that the low content of the active ingredient was useless, the harvest would have been over long ago.