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For more variety in everyday life

Michl is delighted to uncover a picture of the bowling alley, while his older sister anni has discovered a cardboard box with musical instruments on it. Meanwhile, the youngest of the group, ida, is pensively looking at her cardboard box with dolls and teddies on it. The three siblings have made themselves comfortable with their mom katrin kolb in the playroom at home on this monday morning. The four sit at a table with a total of 32 pairs of cards from a memory game. For the parchen search, always turn over two cards in turn. With each new motif, the two girls and their brother gush: that's in the goldtaler group, that's in the garden, that's our gymnastics room.

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Hopes for flood protection were dashed

Hopes for flood protection were dashed

Julia ebenhoh and her husband michael ratz are burnt children when it comes to floods in mainstockheim. They are residents of the riedbach and have already been hit by flooding three times since 2013. For the current council meeting, they had hoped for progress in flood protection, but the meeting did not bring them any concrete results. "Nothing significant will change at the riedbach", mayor karl-dieter fuchs described the result of a brief discussion with authorities and experts.

As karl-dieter fuchs informed, there had recently been a meeting at the water management office (WWA). The authorities had let the community know that it would probably never reach the requirement of an HQ100 culvert. In addition, third parties had no claim against the municipality as obligors of water maintenance for the development of such waters. According to the minutes of the meeting, the municipality wants to provide for smaller sedimentation possibilities in the upper reaches of the riedbach and to create possibilities for the river to flow on municipal flats.

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How chic living space grows in barns

How chic living space grows in barns

Colorful pictures presented by city planner franz ullrich to the iphof building committee on monday evening under the rather dope title of "barn concept. They showed how new residential worlds could look in the hellmitzheim district if the "urban development guidelines" were right. The idea is to designate "building plots without building areas", namely on inner-city terrain that is no longer needed by agriculture. In this way, flat areas could be saved in the eaves area. The building committee was open to ullrich’s suggestions.

Hellmitzheim is the iphof district that is still most strongly influenced by agriculture. Some time ago, the city launched a demand program to encourage farmers to relocate barns and farms to the aube area. Conflicts with the residential population should thus be more or less ruled out. But it also poses a problem: what to do with the rough yards in the village, which are now empty and no longer used? The city planner’s concept was expected to give the responsible parties answers, and on monday they received them.

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Flood protection pursues two goals

Flood protection pursues two goals

Thanks to the generous space available in the oberaurach center in trossenfurt, it was no problem for the oberaurach community to hold its community council meeting on tuesday evening with sufficient safety margin.

A major item on the agenda was the planned flood protection in kirchaich. Jan-peter solveen and robert lutz from alka engineering presented the design and answered the committee’s questions. The purpose of the project is, on the one hand, to improve the flood situation in the center of the village of kirchaich and, on the other hand, to improve the appearance and thus the quality of life in the center of the village by means of suitable measures. The discharge capacity of the aurach is to be increased by suitable measures in order to reduce frequent flooding at the edge of the eastern part of the village. At the same time, the existing muhlbach is to be abandoned as such, since the kotzmuhle no longer uses the water of the muhlbach and no water rights exist any longer.

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Miniature golf: every stroke a new adventure

Miniature golf: every stroke a new adventure

Only a dark corridor leads between the wooden blocks to the hole. A young man tries the felt track. But he doesn't quite make it: the ball bounces off one of the obstacles. The player has to try again.

Pascal zeller is particularly skilled. He hits the hole with just one shot on many courses. The 18-year-old is currently the pride and joy of the MGC bamberg: he recently took part in the youth world championships in bad munder near hanover with the national youth team.

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Settlement collapses: church dispute back in court

Settlement collapses: church dispute back in court

This continues the bitter dispute that has been going on for ten years about the alleged responsibility of the bank and its former CEO rolf breuer for the collapse of the kirch group in 2002.

According to statements made on thursday, the bank’s board of management "after careful consideration" rejected an extrajudicial settlement to resolve the conflict. The payment of a good 800 million euros was in the offing. In return, the church side was to waive all claims for damages.

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Fools from the orient conquer hochstadt

Fools from the orient conquer hochstadt

The children ambitiously snatched the candy that flew from the cars. And even the policemen threw substitutes and got confetti in the face for it.

One of the central topics was the planned and much-discussed burgerwindpark. Both the SPD and the hochstadt automobile club decorated their cars with wind turbines. The AC drew thereby, with view of past experiences, a clear balance: "ADAC: done. Wind farm: work in progress".

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New supply truck for fire department lichtenfels

New supply truck for fire department lichtenfels

The year 2012 was the year of the missions in the county. The current year 2013 is the year of the acquisitions, of necessary acquisitions, with new approaches. The county and municipalities are currently investing over three million euros in the provision of vehicles and equipment. Four identical TLF 4000 coarse tank fire trucks were purchased for the municipalities of bad staffelstein, burgkunstadt, michelau and lichtenfels, a rust truck for the michelau fire department, and an HLF 20 emergency rescue vehicle for the altenkunstadt fire department, a respiratory protection/radiation protection truck for the altenkunstadt fire department, a third turntable ladder for the district, to be stationed in ebensfeld, and finally a supply truck with crane, winch and extensive special equipment for the lichtenfels fire department/main hazard protection train.

Replacement was necessary
Since the founding of the lichtenfels/main fire department from the former THW local association in 1995, several used vehicles formerly owned by the federal government have been stationed in oberwallenstadt. After these vehicles had become outdated in the meantime, the responsible persons began to consider the subject of replacement procurement. From three used, between 30 and 50 years old, formerly federally owned vehicles with extensive special loads and three trailers, the fire department of lichtenfels/main developed a unique and cost-effective universal vehicle concept.

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