Handicraft master describes private crossing for chickens

Blue and white signs with a stylized chicken family stand on a side street in the southern Baden Kirchzarten. At first glance, the homemade traffic signs may irritate, but the puzzle is quickly solved: the local master carpenter Wolfgang Rombach uses the mobile tables so that his hen crowd can get to the other side of the street undamaged.

« So far there have been only positive reactions, » sums up the head of a craft business. Drivers drive slower in front of the house, as Rombach notes.

He picks up a sack cart and puts up the two signs when three roosters and twelve chickens cross the street and want to get fresh food on the opposite meadow. A representative of the authorities came over to inspect the improvised chicken crossing, reports Rombach. The Südwestrundfunk (SWR) previously reported.

City hall boss has no objection

There are no objections to the municipality of a good ten kilometers east of Freiburg, as Mayor Darius Reutter (SPD) assures, because the signs are on private ground. « However, this does not work that street signs that are privately made are placed in public space, » says the town hall manager. This is not the case with Rombach’s chicken passage. The municipality in the district of Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald has a good 10,000 inhabitants.

Rombach’s silk chickens find fresh grass and worms on the meadow. In the evening it goes back in the stable. « They find their way back alone, » reports the master craftsman. After work, he likes to relax in the circle of sociable animals, the space at the house also has a sign: « chicken yoga ».