Fencers meet requirements – but not in all areas

Fencers meet requirements - but not in all areas

The very best came at the end. Benedikt wagner led the sabel with his trembling little hand to the decisive goal in the 45:43 against defending champion hungary and to the crowning team gold at the european fencing championships.

But that's enough to declare the sporting crisis over? In any case, the head of the association, claudia bokel, did not know the exact answer to the question of how many percent of her vision had already been achieved with the events in dusseldorf.

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Behringer now honorary member

This year again, the hallstadt masons' and builders' guild celebrated its traditional michaeli festival in coordination with the harvest festival of the hallstadt farmers' association. The secular celebration in the parish youth center was preceded by a festive service in the parish church. Kilian ahead. The place of worship was decorated with flowers next to the statue of st. John the baptist. St. St. Michael, the patron saint of the masons' and builders' guilds, with the harvest crown and above all the altar area, lovingly decorated with countless fruits of the field, a real "eye-catcher. All this gave the whole eucharistic celebration a dignified and at the same time grateful ambience.

The following secular celebration was opened by the town band of hallstadt with a march and wolfgang hofmann, chairman of the farmers association, addressed the visitors with greetings and informative words about agriculture.

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Emmi zeulner: straub was a convinced european

Emmi zeulner: straub was a convinced european

The 25. The anniversary of franz josef straub's death was the focus of the district CSU's celebration of german unity on thursday.

At the memorial stone at the banz monastery, the CSU district chairman, district administrator christian meibner, the designated members of the federal parliament, emmi zeulner, and of the state parliament, jurgen baumgartner, as well as the district chairman of the women's union, melita braun, the head of the banz monastery education center, michael moslein, and CSU district executive officer edith guthlein laid a wreath. The hochstadt brass band framed the celebration.

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Klaas heufer-umlauf climbs 160-meter skyscraper

Klaas heufer-umlauf climbs 160-meter skyscraper

That the hosts klaas heufer-umlauf (30) and joko winterscheidt (34) in the prosieben show "joko vs. Klaas – the duel for the world" like to take risks is truly no longer a secret. Nevertheless, the latest show will be particularly thrilling: the duo will have to climb to the top of the 160-meter-high kudrinskaya building, a moscow landmark – via a sewage system! "I’m curious to see what happens first – whether we get arrested or die?!", klaas’ comment.

The second season of "joko vs. Klaas – the duel for the world" is from 5. January 2014 available in stores. Pre-order DVD here

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Bells of the herzogenaurach church in st. Magdalena are dismantled

The towering crane jib naturally attracted a number of observers to the church square and the process was captured on numerous cameras. Among them, of course, the city pastor helmut hetzel, who also took a picture with the camera, until the battery went on strike.

When the crane was in place, lifting another stone from the top of the structure and setting down a toolbox at the top of the tower, everything went pretty quickly. The employees of the "bayreuther turmuhren" company pushed the coarse bell onto the scaffolding and a short time later it was already standing on the trailer of the bayreuth company. Also with the second and somewhat smaller bell, it carries the year 1651, there were no problems and it joins the coarse bell a few minutes later.

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Vehicle inspection in upper franconia: seven charges – against one person

A check by the federal police on monday evening in the area of the car station thiersheim (district of wunsiedel) was the trigger for the clearing up of several criminal offences.

The police reported the following facts: first, almost 5 grams of marijuana were found on the accused, a 29-year-old man from the spree forest. Furthermore, it was found that he was driving his vehicle under the influence of drugs. He was also no longer in possession of the required driver's license. The car was also found to have false license plates. Investigations revealed that they had not been issued for his vehicle, but an audi in poland.

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From poxdorf for poxdorf

From poxdorf for poxdorf

Some poxdorfers from upper franconia went to poxdorf near jena in thuringia (saale-holzland-kreis) recently. There has been friendly contact between the two communities since 2014.

In the preparation of the 700. In 2015, on the occasion of the jubilee of the upper franconian poxdorf, alfons bischof, the chairman of the local fruit and horticulture association (OGV), had the idea of linking the residents of the four villages throughout germany that bore the name poxdorf with each other in a friendly manner by means of an apple tree sponsorship and inviting them to franconia on the occasion of the jubilee of the village.

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Former academy chairwoman danius dies

former academy chairwoman danius dies

She was the first woman to announce the winner of the nobel prize for literature: at the age of 57, literary scholar sara danius, former president of the swedish academy, has died. This was announced by the academy on saturday.

In 2015, danius was appointed head of the academy that awards the nobel prize for literature. In the wake of the academy’s sexual harassment scandal, she resigned from her post in april 2018, and in february 2019 she left the academy.

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In frensdorf, traditional costumes are to be digitally recorded

In frensdorf, traditional costumes are to be digitally recorded

Birgit jauernig has the most difficult hurdles for the "digital costume recording and research" project probably already taken. What lies ahead now should be manageable. At least that is what district administrator gunther denzler signaled to the upper franconia foundation. Of these, the head of the upper franconian costume advisory service (based in frensdorf) still needs just under 100.000 euro.

Around 200.000 has already been granted by the VW foundation. As the first institution in upper franconia, by the way, and because a great deal is to be achieved with the project: the still existing stock of the old costumes of upper franconia is to be digitally recorded and researched in order to then be available via a special portal to all interested parties and thus also to the lay public.

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The open-air pool makers are facing a mountain of problems

Like yves kull-porisch, a frenchman who has lived here for 16 years and met his egloffstein wife jutta porisch in greece. He works as a cook in nurnberg and is one of only three water watchmen left at the egloffstein open-air pool. This was once all planned. In 2010, when the open-air swimming pool celebrated its 75th anniversary, the. When he celebrated his 100th birthday, a local water patrol group of ten people was euphorically formed. Today there are only three of them left. Because one water patroller is pregnant, the work in the practice is divided between two shoulders. "Most of them soon quit again", kull-porisch remembers. Especially because they had estimated the amount of work wrongly: "who likes to work eight hours for nothing on a sunday??", asks kull-porisch and points out a fundamental problem in this context: "people only want to take, but no longer want to give."

Anger at the district association

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