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Evelyn Mueller comes from Ries, but love ends up in Canada. Now she has even helped to build friendship between cities in the region.
OfViktor Turad
The tickets were bought and she was so excited to see her extended family again. To hug parents, grandparents and siblings, nieces and nephews. But
Corona has thrown a spanner in the works. Because Evelyn Mueller is in
The meeting was born, but has lived with her husband Mark and their four boys near Perth East, a city of 12,000 in the Canadian province of Ontario, for almost twelve years. With this is the Württemberg
Neresheim entered into a friendship that has since been sealed by both mayors. Evelyn Mueller and her sister Angela Pöhler were the obstetricians.
Angela was a singer with the Original Hartsfeld Musicians in Dorfmerkingen and Milverton, a district of Perth East, wanted one
Oktoberfest celebrate, looked for a German band and found it thanks to the two Möttingen-born women on the Härtsfeld. The guests from Germany, headed by Mayor Thomas Häfele, stayed with families, and so the idea arose to form friendship across the Atlantic. On Tuesday, Mayor Rhonda Ehgoetz signed the friendship certificate, finally sealing the connection.
The woman from Möttingen met her love at the Oktoberfest
She had never thought that Evelyn Mueller would one day become a farmer from “obstetrician”. And how does a real giant find the love of her life who comes from the farmland in the middle of Canada, an hour and a half away from the largest city in the country, Toronto? At the Munich Oktoberfest.
On the very same day, Evelyn Böllmann, as she was still called back then, and Mark Mueller were with friends in the Bavarian capital to celebrate. The group included a friend of Mark and a friend of Evelyn, who had stayed in
Australia knew. Mark’s parents were from 1978
Switzerland emigrated to Canada and bought a dairy farm in the province of Ontario. Their five children were born there. Mark completed an apprenticeship as a truck mechanic and then went to Switzerland for a year.
She let him fidget before saying “yes”
And so he met in
Munich the young woman from Möttingen. The two were sympathetic from the beginning, the contact kept, the affection grew and the young people finally agreed that Evelyn should come to Canada for half a year. To say goodbye, there was another big party in the Ries. The giant was welcomed by her parents-in-law in distant Canada and the relationship with her Mark deepened.
But at Christmas 2008 Evelyn Böllmann had to say goodbye. She returned to Möttingen. Days later there was a guest in his parents’ living room: Mark Mueller. Before he wanted to return to Canada at the turn of the year, he proposed marriage to his beloved. “I knew that I would say yes,” she says, “but I had to let him fidget for three days because I knew that ‘yes’ means giving up everything in Germany in order to find a new home in Canada. “Just before he had to get on the plane, Mark Mueller took a load off his heart: his Evelyn said yes.
At first Evelyn Mueller was homesick
Almost a year later, on November 16, 2009, the two of them in close family circle in Canada said yes at the registry office. After the wedding and before the party, however, Mark had to go to the stable. Feed pigs.
In August 2010 there was a big party in Ries. Evelyn and Mark Mueller were married in the church in Möttingen. And there were also many guests from Germany, Switzerland and the Netherlands – the bride’s mother is a native of the Netherlands – and of course from Canada. At the same time it was also important to celebrate the bride’s father’s 60th birthday.
Afterwards, everyday life in Canada began for the young couple. “The first seven years were tough,” says Evelyn Mueller. She felt homesick for the Ries. At the same time, the family grew: Evelyn and Mark Mueller had four boys. And that also helped the girl from Möttingen to overcome her homesickness. “The turning point came,” she says, “when I was in Germany with only one child and I was on the return flight. Then I knew I was going home to my family.
In Canada, the two take care of a farm
Now she is practically no longer homesick, although the relationships with parents and siblings – brother Timo Böllmann has been Möttingen’s mayor since last year – are of course very intense, not least thanks to the messenger services. Evelyn Mueller usually comes to Ries once a year. This year, however, it will be two years in May that she was no longer in Möttingen.
If the heart does get too heavy, she thinks of the sentence that her mother gave her on the way to Canada: “I’d rather see you happy 6500 kilometers away than unhappy in the next village!” In 2012, the Muellers took over Parents farm and since then have been managing a farm with 600 sows and numerous piglets, who then go to a fattener who brings them to slaughter weight.
Your training as a kindergarten teacher is not recognized
The farm also includes many acres of grassland, where corn, beans and wheat are grown, chickens and horses. Although there is currently a lockdown in Canada, it is less strict than in Germany, reports Evelyn Mueller. There are no exit restrictions and many shops are open. “Little has changed for us,” says the giant. “We live outside the city anyway and have a forest and garden where the children can let off steam.”
She herself is a trained educator. However, your German education is not recognized in Canada. In any case, they take full advantage of the family and children and keep them busy. In addition, she has dealt intensively with the topic of wild herbs and is now passing this knowledge on in courses. The bustling young woman is also often engaged in her new home and thus she has also become the midwife of a German-Canadian friendship between cities.
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