Translations:Die Familie Eckart in Poing/3/en
That summer, in 1910, Anita and Otto Eckart rented the house as summer residence for a monthly rent of ten Deutsche Mark; on October 3, 1910, the couple bought the house. The money for buying and then renovating the house came from Adolf Hoppe, Anita Eckart’s father. Considerable work had to be done before the young family was able to move in: walls were replaced, a room with balcony and veranda was added, a cellar was dug out, a new front door with porch was built, damaged brickwork was repaired and the whole house was thoroughly renovated. The next challenge was the garden: the grapevine had died during the reconstruction, so two apple trees and a cherry tree were planted at the south-facing side to replace it. Otto had a small hill constructed close to the fence of the property, using building rubble and excavated earth from the cellar; an alpine garden and a small log cabin were soon erected on this hill, the so-called “coffee hill”. The reconstruction measures took some time, but the family was able to move into the house on April 1, 1911.
