Bavaria's state directory for intangible cultural heritage has grown by three entries: the Evangelical Wedding Procession from the former County of Wertheim (Lower Franconia), the Kirwa in the Amberg-Sulzbacher Land (Upper Palatinate) and the Neustadt Children's Festival (Upper Franconia) were added to the now 69 entries on the recommendation of a panel of experts comprehensive national directory included. The new entries came from the deferral process of the fifth round of applications for 2021/2022, said Head of the State Chancellery...
Chocolate in bulk instead of in moderation: A 39-year-old man was picked up in the car with 170 stolen boxes of chocolates. Police investigators discovered the stolen sweets in the man's car on Monday in the Bamberg district. The man apparently stole these from various shops, a police spokesman said on Tuesday.According to initial investigations, the man was not accessing the candy aisle for the first time. He is said to have stolen several hundred packs of chocolate several times....
Almost 22 years after the disappearance of the girl Peggy, the mother is now demanding compensation for pain and suffering. She has filed a civil suit before the Hof District Court - against the man who admitted in 2018 that he had taken the girl's body to a wooded area in May 2001 and later retracted this confession. A corresponding procedure is pending before the regional court, said a spokesman for the court on Monday in Hof.It is not yet...
A pilot project in Upper Franconia is intended to show what recycling options there are for broken or discarded toys. Until now, toys have been disposed of with the residual waste, and only a few companies have offered to take their products back for recycling, says Cornelia Becker, sustainability expert at the German Association of the Toy Industry. "There is no industry-wide solution yet."In Neustadt near Coburg, people can currently dispose of unusable toys that would normally end up in...
The 17-year-old daughter of the dead man and her 19-year-old boyfriend have been sentenced to lengthy prison terms for murder. The abysmal and, according to the court, unfounded hatred that the young woman had for her parents became clear once again when the verdict was pronounced. from Benedikt Warmbrunn, BayreuthAntje Sch. wanted to be a good mother. After the birth of her fourth child, she stopped working as a doctor. She took care of the upbringing of her children, her...
The paths of the Internet are unfathomable and it is difficult to reconstruct exactly why a card game from Munich's Riva publishing house is making waves in two Franconian towns right now. The quartet takes care of the supposedly "ugliest cities in Germany", has a manageable depth of thought and has been on the market since 2018. research of Süddeutsche Zeitung lead to the city of Hof, maybe someone cleaned up the box with the most shallow gifts of the...
New bids are pouring in every second, two, sometimes even three bidders compete energetically - until finally the hammer falls. But it's not about a painting, not even about antiques. It's about wood. In Litzendorf near Bamberg, sawmill owners, veneer manufacturers, carpenters and timber dealers from all over Germany and Austria bid on particularly valuable softwood trunks."This wood deserves value-added processing," says Sebastian Klinghardt from the Bavarian State Forests before the auction begins. It is quite common in the forestry...
from Olaf Przybilla, ErmreuthRajaa Nadler has lived in Germany for 40 years, in the Forchheim district for 37 years. Anyone who asks people in the area about the Ermreuth synagogue, a well-attended meeting place, will hear that it is not least a "child of Rajaa Nadler". The orientalist, who has a doctorate, laughs when confronted with it, but she wouldn't contradict it; For 32 years she has made sure that the house shines again. She says that Ermreuth was well...
Rajaa Nadler has lived in Germany for 40 years, in the Forchheim district for 37 years. Anyone who asks people in the area about the Ermreuth synagogue, a well-attended meeting place, will hear that it is not least a "child of Rajaa Nadler". The orientalist, who has a doctorate, laughs when confronted with it, but she wouldn't contradict it; For 32 years she has made sure that the house shines again. She says that Ermreuth was well on the way...
In addition, the 24-year-old pushed other vehicles to the side with headlight flashers, flashing signals and driving up. After 46 kilometers, the traffic police in Hof can stop the speeder. source site
