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Ludwig wachter from tuschnitz received many congratulations on his 85th birthday. Birthday rejoice. He enjoyed celebrating his birthday with his neighbors, colleagues and club members. Through his profession as a customs officer, the jubilarian has come around. He spent the quieter years together with his wife inge in his estate in tuschnitz.

Ludwig wachter was born and raised in lahm. He first worked on his parents’ farm and then successfully applied to the customs authorities. "In steinbach/haide i was deployed in the border service", he tells of his education and of meeting his present wife, inge, who comes from kleintettau. He even worked in kleintettau for a few years before his employer transferred him to sudbaden and later to nurnberg.

After more than a decade in the distance, both came back to the region. In the early 1980s, he and his wife bought a house in tuschnitz, which became their new home. He lovingly tended and cared for the rough garden as long as his strength allowed him to do so.

The most eager readers during the summer vacations were awarded a prize in the aubenstelle "silberfisch" the habfurt library and information center (biz) wins an award. As part of the bavaria-wide "summer vacation reading club children and young people from the first to the eighth grade were allowed to borrow books that had been specially purchased for club members.

255 registered readers borrowed more than 1900 books. Eight-year-old sina pieroth was crowned the winner because the schoolgirl actually read 74 titles during the vacation period.

168 other bookworms, who each read and rated at least three books, were also able to choose their personal prize from the rough gift table. The main prize was a free ticket to the dino park in the altmuhl valley, which was raffled off among all participants.

Muslims and jehovah’s witnesses also have to forego their joint rituals for the time being. "Everyone can say the five prayers every day for themselves, but everyone usually comes together for friday prayers", says adem elkol, spokesman for the mosque tettau ulu camii. Friday for muslims is the same as sunday for christians. The ditib central mosque in koln and the turkish consulate general in nurnberg have decided that friday prayers will not be held in the next few weeks.

There is also a restriction on funerals. "Normally the body was always flown to turkey with an escort, at the moment no escort is allowed."

All meetings of jehovah’s witnesses were canceled. "We can instead watch recordings of church services provided centrally", reports matthias kurfels, press spokesman and chairman of the jehovah’s witnesses assembly kronach. Church services are re-recorded every week and made available on the internet. "This possibility has existed for quite a long time and was aimed more at people who can not attend the services in person, for example, because of illness."

And the kurbis always beckons. At least that was the case for four years. On wednesday, however, the enjoyment hike of the spa and tourism service led to altenbanz for the last time for this program item. 13 kilometer stretch on a not so difficult run.

If there is to be a meeting at the banz monastery, then there should be a visit to the museum there as well. This marked the beginning of a high point of the 2019 enjoyment hikes for around 30 participants. Hiking guide hildegard wachter was to drive them through the wittelsbach forest and the maximilian path to altenbanz, where the kunzelmann house had been busy since the day before organizing a reception and hospitality.

Two pots of cucumber soup

At lunchtime, kathrin schmolz is standing at an electric hotplate underneath a terrace, stirring in two pots of cucurbit soup at once. She is a friend of the house, and the fact that she is here has to do with the fact that the appointment is a "jour fix once a year" is how she says. She was already involved several times, because a hiking group brings appetite with it.

"With the bus stop in coburger strabe and the 800-meter radius, the integrated situation is fulfilled from our point of view." Markus wotruba from BBE handelsberatung however, at the city council meeting, admitted: "it's not ideal." 2. Mayor norbert reiter (CSU) saw it differently. The integrated situation is currently not given, but could possibly be created.

A new insight
Markus wotruba presented the results of the alternative site assessment and the evidence of the integrated location for the specialist retail center to the city council members and guests. He also referred to the results of the gfk survey, which had concluded that this was not an integrated location in terms of urban development. This question plays an important role in the approvability of such a project. The opinion of the redevelopment officer dag schroder was also included.
Among other things, BBE handelsberatung had to examine whether the location met the criteria of an integrated location according to the 2013 state development plan (LEP) and whether (better) alternative locations were available. BBE was not entrusted with the assessment of the possible effects of the retail park on the businesses in the city center.

Purchasing power is fleeing
"After the closure of lidl, the positive retail centrality in the periodical sector (groceries) may also have fallen to a below-average level", said markus wotruba. In all other areas, it was already well below 100 percent anyway. 100 percent means that the purchasing power remains entirely in munnerstadt. If the percentage is higher, shoppers from other towns will also come, if it is lower, people from munnerstadt will go elsewhere. The main targets of the munnerstadt residents are bad neustadt, bad kissingen and schweinfurt.
According to wotruba, customers want small stores in the city center, as well as chain stores and specialist retailers. The minimum operating size for drugstores is 500 square meters, and such stores are only located directly next to food stores. For shoe and textile stores, the sales area is 400 square meters. In the search for alternative locations, BBE handelsberatung came to the conclusion that the schindberg commercial area was not an integrated location without potential for retail trade. In the commercial area "untere au" no free spaces can be activated in sufficient form and also at the railroad station there are not enough free spaces available.
In the commercial area meininger strabe, on the other hand, there are sufficient flat areas according to the LEP 2013, the location is integrated in terms of urban development. To underline this integration, markus wotruba placed a sheet with a map on it. He had drawn a circle with a radius of 800 meters around the possible shopping center. Within this circle lie the residential area zent and parts of the old town. In addition, the bus stop in coburger strabe provides a connection to the local public transport system.

Today's working day: answering the news while having breakfast, still having your cell phone on in the evening, and always being flexibly available on weekends. An eight-hour day is no longer appropriate in view of this practice – says the council of economic experts. The german council of economic experts calls for a change in the working hours act (arbeitszeitgesetz).

Until now, the law has stipulated that an employee may not normally work more than eight hours a day. In order to create more flexibility for the employer, these requirements are to be relaxed. "More flexible working hours are important for the competitiveness of german companies", christoph schmidt, chairman of the advisory board of the federal republic, tells "welt am sonntag" newspaper. "Companies that want to survive in our new digitalized world must be agile and able to assemble their teams quickly. The idea that you start your working day in the office in the morning and end it when you leave the company is outdated", according to schmidt.

The works of artists of erlanger lebenshilfe are often characterized by originality and special colorfulness. Her paintings were frequently shown in exhibitions. For the first time, the lebenshilfe artists are invited to show canvases in acrylic at eckental city hall. A premiere is also that they exhibit together with gerald leibl, whose creative work was particularly influenced by the artist oskar koller, it says in a press release of the lebenshilfe. Leibl, former rector of a forder center, has been leading the painting courses of the open work for the handicapped of the lebenshilfe erlangen since 2001.

Possibilities of development

"In my opinion, expressing oneself through painting has a high value for people with mental disabilities. It offers them opportunities for development", he emphasizes. All paintings are for sale – leibl donates the proceeds from the sale of his works completely to the open work with the handicapped. The exhibition "farb:erheiterung" (color:amusement) is from 8. January to 28. Marz on display in the town hall of eckental, rathausplatz 1 in eschenau. Opening hours: monday 8 to 12, tuesday 8 to 12 and 14 to 18, wednesday to friday 8 to 12. On 14. March there will be a finissage from 5 to 6 p.M

Breach of the peace – sounds like masked left-wing extremists, squatters, and RAF sympathizers. But that is not what happened in this case. Maybe the representative of the juvenile court was right, who had repeatedly described what had happened between the train stations of hirschaid and forchheim as "adventurousness and a desire to impress" designated.

In any case, the three accused young men from forchheim have one thing in common – they are adherents of the 1. FC nurnberg. That was, after all, also the reason why they have now landed in front of the forchheim district court judge philipp fortsch. Because the three had arranged together with at least 15 like-minded people to "beat up kleeblatter".

For this purpose, they boarded a train in hirschaid, which was mainly filled with supporters of the spvgg greuther furth. The meanwhile hooded club fans stormed the train, roamed the compartments, harassed and injured – as far as they were supporters of the "weib-grunen" were identifiable – some passengers.

The brose baskets have found a replacement for john goldsberry, who injured his knee again. Alex renfroe, a 26-year-old point guard, comes from spanish first division club valladolid, where he averaged 10.2 points, 4.1 rebounds and 4.5 assists in 22 games. Renfroe has gained further experience in europe in brindisi, zagreb and riga. For zagreb and riga he was also active in the eurochallenge. In the NCAA, the american college league, he played for belmont university.

"We owe it to john goldsberry to give him the time to get fit", coach chris fleming stressed yesterday. The end of the changeover period in the bundesliga on 28. February forced the bamberger to act quickly, however, because goldsberry is in severe pain after a fall on his already damaged knee and is in danger of being out for a long time. "After the situation around john, who is an important factor for us, became acute at short notice and we cannot foresee how long he will be missing, we have secured ourselves by signing renfroe in good time before the end of the transfer period for the play-offs", brose baskets manager wolfgang heyder explains the follow-up commitment.

"Renfroe can set the scene well for his teammates, rebounds, plays good defense and has the 1-on-1 quickness that we sometimes lack a bit", fleming characterizes the new addition. Renfroe to wear brose jersey for first time in munich on sunday.

Beiersdorf’s bottom line was 153 million euros, almost a quarter more than in the previous year. For the year as a whole, the company aims to grow faster than the highly competitive cosmetics market with its skin care products (nivea, eucerin, la prairie) and to gain market share.

In contrast to nivea growth markets such as brazil, china or india, where double-digit growth was recorded, overall quarterly sales in europe declined by 1.2 percent. The company attributed this to the general reluctance to buy. In germany, the decline was as much as 1.8 percent. Beiersdorf had a good start to fiscal year 2013 overall, announced stefan heidenreich, ceo of beiersdorf ag. "We expanded our position in the growth regions and gained market share".

At the annual general meeting in mid-april in hamburg, the group CEO had already pointed out that the company expected only slight overall economic growth in the industrialized countries in 2013, but that dynamic economic development was anticipated in the developing countries and emerging markets. This is now reflected in the quarterly figures.