Burgermeister Jens Korn: “we have the trend on our side”

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"Quo vadis upper rodach valley?" this question was posed by the steering group of the municipal alliance at a recent strategy meeting in wallenfels town hall. The members took an afternoon to define together which projects the urban redevelopment management should focus on in the future. A team of three, alexander eberl (DSK), gunter schramm (planwerk) and ann-sofie beuerle (planwerk), is responsible for the urban redevelopment management of wallenfels and steinwiesen.
In addition to the members of the committee, the meeting was attended by the spokespersons of the parliamentary groups from wallenfels and steinwiesen, rainer kober from steinwiesen aktiv, sandra heinz from the tourism association and margarita volk-lovrinovic from kronach creativ.
The expectations of the meeting participants were clear: "we want to successfully complete projects that have already been started and present presentable results. That's why we should concentrate on just a few projects in the future, but work on them all the more intensively", said mayor gerhard wunder (steinwiesen) at the beginning of the meeting. During the joint work phase, it became clear that the future focus will be on vacancy management and especially on the topics of public relations and approaching owners and investors. "We must convince the owners that it is worthwhile to create attractive living space because there is a concrete need for it. And we must show that we can offer excellent support for this in the rodachtal", emphasized entrepreneur rainer kober. For example, burghers are to be given more information about how the existing intermunicipal demand program can help with the renovation of their own property. In the redevelopment areas, up to 20,000 euros in subsidies are possible for each project.
Cooperation with the tourism association is another important topic. The urban redevelopment management team is to identify vacant properties that are suitable for conversion into vacation homes. The decisive factor, however, will be whether the owners can be convinced of the merits of such an investment. City redevelopment management and tourism manager sandra heinz want to work closely together here.
"We have the trend on our side, declared the mayor of wallenfels korn. "More and more people are recognizing the high quality of life in our region. However, we have the paradoxical situation that, despite the many vacancies, there is hardly any acceptable living space to be found in the upper rodach valley. Some companies therefore have problems bringing employees to the region. We must therefore try everything to bring demand and supply together."

Burial forest: initiative group sees place of remembrance endangered

The initiative group for culture, history and archaeology in the kitzinger land sees the plans for a burial forest in the area of the constitutional sow near gaibach as a threat to the constitutional monument. In a statement, the initiative group demands that the constitutional pillar must not become a "cemetery of democracy" become. "This would currently be a devastating signal", writes monika conrad from kleinlangheim as spokeswoman of the initiative group with regard to the observed strengthening of anti-democratic forces in the country.

In the statement, the gaibach castle with the constitution hall and the adjacent landscape park with the constitution hall on a height are described as a "unique work of art" describes. It remember the one in 19. The long and bloody road from the feudal state to the free state that began in the nineteenth century. The initiativkreis hopes that in the coming years gaibach will succeed in becoming a recognized "place of remembrance of democacy history" upgrade. Conrad and her comrades-in-arms are also counting on a promise from minister-president markus soder. Last year, on the occasion of his visit to the 200th anniversary of the burghers' festival, he. On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the bavarian constitution, the state of bavaria said it would provide money for an annual commemorative festival at the only monument in bavaria to the 1818 constitution.

Initiative circle: objections were "completely ineffective"

The initiative group is disappointed that its warnings and objections to a burial forest have apparently been "completely ineffective" so far with the landowner and potential cemetery operator, paul graf von schonborn, and the city of volkach, which has applied for approval of a cemetery. "How can it be explained that the city of volkach unanimously submits and agrees to plans for the construction of a natural cemetery at the constitutional sow without knowing about these plans??", states the opinion.

"We as a city are dispassionate about the matter", explains volkach's mayor peter kornell in response to a question from this editor. Volkach has enough cemeteries. The city has made the request only because this is not possible from the private side. They just wanted to support the possible operator here, says kornell.

Mayor: plan for burial forest as good as buried

According to the mayor, the city has not yet received any feedback from the potential operator of the cemetery on how to proceed now that the nature conservation authority in the district office has rejected the submitted cemetery plans. It is planned to present revised plans to the town council. However, according to kornell, "I see little chance of realization".

Traditionally, the museum segeum in the old school in segnitz started the new museum season with a special exhibition. The theme this time is the reformation and evidence of evangelical piety.

Mayor marlene bauer reminded the numerous guests at the funeral that segnitz did not become protestant until 84 years after luther's theses were published. For this reason, this topic can also be taken up here somewhat late.

After the funeral, margarete klein-pfeuffer, who conceived the exhibition, introduced the topic. She explained that the focus was first on the reformation in segnitz and then on piety in the personal and family spheres.

Thus, on the basis of numerous exhibits of religious folk culture, the customs and practices of protestant life are traced and assigned to the various religious stages of life, such as baptism, confirmation, marriage, the last supper and death.

Numerous historical bibles, hymnbooks, pictures and objects from everyday evangelical life fill the display cases and walls. The topics of advent, christmas and pietism are also dealt with.

In a dialogue, segnitz pastor matthias wagner and hildegard mark of the kolping family marktbreit exchanged memories and experiences with faith from the perspective of the protestant and catholic confessions. The deputy district administrator robert finster and father franziskus bull of the munsterschwarzach monastery praised in their speeches the work on this topic by the segnitz museum and emphasized the open-minded cooperation between the two confessions.

The reformation and counter-reformation put many people in need of decisions and consciences, to change their denomination, to change their previous life or to adapt to local conditions.

The exhibition "freedom in faith" first shows the difficult way to achieve and maintain freedom in faith, using the example of segnitz.

It was here that, since the end of the 16th century. Special and lasting events of the twentieth century with exciting occurrences in the introduction and in the preservation of the evangelical faith. Segnitz became protestant in 1601. The new doctrine then had to assert itself for centuries between two different-denominational village lords, the catholic barons zobel and the protestant margraves of ansbach.

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