Treading water and doing something for your health – this option has been available for 32 years at the dr.-walter-langer-strabe between ketschendorf and seidmannsdorf. In 1988, the kneipp basin was put into operation on the walking and biking path between the two parts of the city, but from the beginning, it became apparent that the location was not ideal. During heavy rains, soil is regularly spooled onto the facility and into the pool from a high, sloping field. Only in 2019 did a huge load of sludge have to be removed again.

The kneipp- und naturheilverein coburg is responsible for keeping the pool clean. This has been contractually agreed with the city. But the association is not in a position to do this, says its chairwoman dorothea schaal. That’s why there has long been a desire for a better location.

Those who are asked to pass on millions to those in need quickly come under suspicion of doing so improperly. This is also the opinion of the advisory committee that was supposed to distribute five million euros in immediate aid from michael stoschek and his sister christine volkmann as well as 44,677 euros from burgers for the fire victims as fairly as possible. In order to dispel suspicion and speculation, the committee had invited the press to an interview. "For us, only the need is decisive. And there are gross differences", says second mayor norbert tessmer (SPD). Because he wanted to spread the responsibility for the allocation of the donation money over several shoulders, he had brought independent partners into the advisory group. In addition to norbert tessmer, its members include manfred seemann from brose, frank jakobs from the chamber of commerce and industry, norbert hartz from the coburg charity association, city manager annette kolb and head of the social welfare office peter schubert.
They are all faced with the task of distributing the donated money from a social perspective. 40 tenants and 15 tradesmen are on the list of fire victims. Guidelines and criteria for direct aid were developed together with the main donors. "No two cases are alike. That's why we can't give everyone the same amount of X", explains norbert tessmer. A family with an apartment was entitled to a higher amount than the tenants who occupied only one room.
Financial aid was available to the victims as early as the week after the fire. And not only them. "If necessary, we also provided spiritual support", stresses the second mayor.

Support continues

But the future viability of bitcoin continues to divide opinion. What more can be said about the idea of free money that functions independently of governments, central banks and credit institutions??

Warnings of a speculative bubble do not rub off. "You might as well bet on any pennystock, because even bitcoins have no chance of ever becoming an extensively used currency," commerzbank writes to its customers.

Veronika schadeck steinbach am wald- with the burgerliste steinbach am wald "wir fur euch" (we stand for you) steinbacher citizens aim to vote in upcoming local elections on 15. Marz mandates in the municipal council. The burger list is headed by frank hirschbock. To be eligible for the municipal elections, the citizens' list needs 80 signatures from steinbach residents. Therefore, a list is available in the town hall, on which all citizens of the municipality can sign up. The burger list is headed by frank hirschbock.

More transparency

"We want to bring a breath of fresh air to the municipal council", according to hirschbock at a meeting on wednesday evening. The burgerlist "we for you is intended to offer the people of steinbach an alternative to the CSU, SPD and freie wahler. Many citizens could no longer identify with the established parties, says hirschbock. He and his team also wanted to create more transparency. They felt that too many issues were being discussed and decided behind closed doors. Burgers also to be brought on board with greater vigor. In order to sound out their concerns, the burgerliste intends to call meetings in which the people of steinbach can raise their concerns and ask questions. Other goals, he said, include expanding medical care, accessibility within the rough community, a requirement for social structures. This includes youth work, playgrounds, etc. As well as an erosion of the community image.

According to its insolvency administrator, air berlin is owed money by more than one million customers and companies. Among them are hundreds of thousands of passengers who are stuck with tickets.

"We expect creditors of well over a million," said insolvency administrator lucas flother on RBB inforadio. "We have not yet managed to capture all believers."

Many coburg residents will be shocked and perhaps even roll their eyes: at otto gourmet, an online mail order company for high-quality meat products, there is now, among other things, a vietnamese bratwurst and also a pink bratwurst – created by TV chef felicitas then.

Wait a minute: at the name "then many coburgers will also take notice. Whether this chef, bubbling over with crazy ideas, has something to do with the airline "then air" once stationed on the coburg brandenburg plain? Yes, it has. "That was my grandfather, tells felicitas then. She herself was born in coburg, but left the town as a small child. But there are still many connections to the old home – but more on that later.

The sound of whistles could be heard even before the verdi protest train turned onto the home straight. About 300 public sector workers joined the demonstration, which began with rallies in front of the social foundation and the municipal utilities and then proceeded as a protest march from margarethendamm to the promenade. Doris stadelmeyer, district manager of the union for upper franconia-west, was very pleased with the response: "people are angry."

Verdi demands six percent more pay, or at least 200 euros, for public sector employees. For the trainees it should be at least 100 euros more. In the first two rounds of negotiations, however, this was firmly rejected by the employer representatives. Before the next round it came therefore now to the strike. "The public service deserves to be valued", says stadelmeyer. Unrelated fixed-term employment contracts are also to be abolished.

The organization in regensburg announced that this was the second highest number of donations after the tsunami catastrophe in 2004. The task now is to distribute the money quickly and fairly, said dirk biereige of the workers’ samaritan association, which is a partner in the alliance. The guidelines are clear: "first the insurance pays, then the state, and only then come the donations."

In cooperation with the municipal donation commissions, the money is to be distributed in the coming weeks to those affected, primarily in bavaria, saxony, saxony-anhalt, lower saxony and schleswig-holstein. "We know that the flood victims are eagerly awaiting the donations. But the whole thing has to be handled properly so that no one gets rich," stressed martin steinkirchen of the johanniter unfall hilfe, another partner of aktion deutschland hilft.

A spectacular coup has succeeded gangsters in berlin. Just like in the movies, they entered a bank branch through a 30-meter tunnel and robbed numerous safe deposit boxes there. According to initial findings, the unknown perpetrators dug the tunnel themselves, as the police announced on monday. The tunnel began with a break-through in an underground garage behind the bank, a police spokeswoman confirmed to the dpa news agency. "It was professionally set up," she said.

Police are certain that a tunnel like this cannot be dug in one night. Presumably the crime was planned for a long time. The construction could have taken days or weeks. In the night to monday, the burglars apparently managed to break through into the bank’s premises. There, the perpetrators robbed private schliebfachers, as the spokeswoman said. They were able to flee undetected with the loot – how much money the gang took was initially unclear.