Small, non-representative survey among long-established Nurembergers from the past few days: whether they the racecourse in Nuremberg-Reichelsdorf say something The same reaction was always observed. So please, almost everyone knows this historic railway. One put it this way: "It's part of the city's identity."Of course, none of the interviewees had it in mind that the city planning committee met shortly before Christmas to decide on the fate of precisely this identity feature. Especially not how the vote turned out. For...
The minister is satisfied with his Bavarians, even "proud". In the past few months, almost 6,000 people have taken part in a Bavarian-wide survey on the attitude towards life in the Free State. And what must say? The Bavarians love their federal state - a politician who is responsible for homeland can feel warm at heart. And so Home and Finance Minister Albert Füracker (CSU) makes a blissful impression this Thursday when he presents the results of the “Heimatspiegel 2022”.For...
Homeland Minister Albert Füracker honors 14 organizations for their efforts to preserve the dialects. Does that still help? Everything is changing, and even language keepers get lost quickly. People from more than 200 nations live in today's Bavaria. You can imagine how many languages are spoken here in everyday life. Of course, linguistic diversity has shaped Bavaria since ancient times. The Latin of the Romans, the Italian of the Baroque period, the French of the Napoleonic era and the Silesian...
Josef Fendl wrote more than 60 books and thousands of articles, he was a polymath and humanist in the best sense. From the farmer's dung heap to atomic physics, nothing was alien to him. Now he has died, he was 93 years old."Anyone who makes another person laugh saves a poor soul from purgatory" is an old popular belief, which is why it is quite logical that in old Benedictine monasteries separate joke chairs were reserved for the abbots. Josef...
Max Bauer died 30 years ago, he came from the Passau region, and died at the age of 86. He was of a tough nature, born of a lack of luxury and pampering. Even as a child he hired himself out as a farm hand, then he went to war, and then he slaved away as a stone-breaker.We know quite a lot about Bauer's life because in his old age he wrote down his memories in ruled exercise books. Anyone...
"This is the story of the in-between, the half-half, the quarter-quarter-quarter-quarter, the everything and the nothing." It is the story of rooting, "of becoming, of metamorphosis, of death and rebirth, loss and gain". It is the story of a world tree that grows on the border between the Indian and Eurasian plates. And at the same time the story of a boy who grows up between languages and cultures that seem very distant. "I, child of midnight and twilight, between...
Back there in Valepp, the days at the end of March can still be considered winter. The fact that the valley in the Schliersee mountains between the Spitzingsee and the Tyrolean Inn Valley can easily be reached by car at this time is certainly not a sure thing. The road from Spitzing has been closed to private traffic for nearly 40 years, and the narrow toll road leading up from Lake Tegernsee can be blocked by avalanches well into spring....
Back there in Valepp, the days at the end of March can still be considered winter. The fact that the valley in the Schliersee mountains between the Spitzingsee and the Tyrolean Inn Valley can easily be reached by car at this time is certainly not a sure thing. The road from Spitzing has been closed to private traffic for nearly 40 years, and the narrow toll road leading up from Lake Tegernsee can be blocked by avalanches well into spring....
"Heimatgold" is the name of a novel by Andreas Lechner, in which he describes the life of his grandfather; his name was Josef Straßberger and he had a big goal as a weightlifter: to become the strongest man in the world. "Heimatgold" could also be used as the subliminal motto of the "Bavarian Book Days", which take place for the first time in Berlin from the end of March to the end of May - on the initiative of Lechner,...
The hiker's car park below the Söllbach valley has been overcrowded for some time now, maneuvering is wild, and the residents of the narrow access road are at least annoyed. The same could be said of many parking lots here at Tegernsee, but in the case of the Söllbach valley, the interpretations differ particularly widely. Two months ago, about three quarters of an hour's walk further in the valley, the once lonely Söllbachaualm, which was used purely for agriculture, finally...
