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Sebastian Beck, Neunburg in front of the forest
When Theo Mann takes his guest through the old town of Neunburg vorm Wald, he usually speaks in the past tense. “It used to be an inn and a butcher’s shop,” says Mann. A shoe shop, a textile shop, a general store, a drugstore, a stonemason, a baker, a hairdresser – everything was once. It stretches all the way down the main street to where the cinema used to be and where the Raiffeisenbank has now been built. Men is a district home caretaker, born in 1940. He was there when traffic squeezed through the main street, when up to 15 inns competed for guests and cattle were kept in the middle of the city. There was once.