Greta (August 31, 1906 in Benzweiler, † January 24, 1994 on the forge) was the Simmerner original.

At 7:00 pm on October 7, 1951, the brakes on a truck loaded with cement failed and he raced unrestrained into the Hotel Hirsch. Margarete Scherschlicht was spilled by the cement cargo. She received a small accident pension and has become increasingly whimsical since that day.

Therefore, she was also called Zementgretchen or Gretchen.

On 26 August 1994, the Birk family had the bronze statue of cement grating erected in front of their optics shop in Simmern.

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Original and was called cement gretchen. Margarete Scherschlicht had bad luck in her life. She came to the Rheinböllen orphanage at the age of three, which goes back to the Puricelli Foundation. She later became a domestic help. In 1951, the brakes on a cement truck failed. The truck crashed into Hotel Hirsch and Greta was buried under the cement. After the accident, Gretchen became more and more whimsical, wore garish clothes, and carried a red umbrella or stick with which she threatened children who were teasing her. Greta was 87 years old and died on the Schmiedel.
Source: ich-geh-wandern.de/simmern-hunsr%C3%BCck

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Location: Simmern/Hunsrück, Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

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