Less than 80 years have passed since the end of the Second World War – and Coburg tourists are already being informed that it is there between the key urban dates “1929: opening of the rose garden” and “1954: Carl Eduard, Coburg’s last reigning duke, dies “There were all sorts of other things.
In the previous issue of the brochure “Coburg – Discover and Experience”, published in May 2022, that was, oops, completely forgotten. Neither were city guests bothered by the fact that the NSDAP won an absolute majority in a German city council in Coburg for the first time in 1929. Still with the date 1931, when the swastika flag was already waving at the town hall in Coburg. Tourists were also spared from 1932, when Coburg was the first German city to bestow honorary citizenship on a certain Hitler. And from 1939 – Coburg was allowed to call itself “Germany’s first National Socialist city” – the guest remained just as unmolested.
In return, he was able to find out when the first street lighting (1806) and the “Zinkenwehr multi-storey car park” were inaugurated (1992) – which is worth knowing, but let’s say Reluctance in media brochure reception encountered. Apparently with the result that the tourist no longer reads anything about Coburg’s lighting and parking garage history in the new brochure. But now it is being informed that the city did not only become conspicuous about 100 years ago with the opening of a rose garden.
How to bring about such – based on an embarrassment – u-turn among the people? “Coburg Marketing” has opted for the most squashed version: the city’s history has been “revised and supplemented” in the new brochure, they say meekly. You have to think about clearing your throat.
The city of Würzburg is showing how to change course more aggressively. She met one ideological major battle for a sausage stand that was not granted at the local cultural festival even according to the local ones Main post nationwide “made into fruit” – but then made a shapely 180-degree turn. The city now announces that during the “Port Summer”, “the captain” and his “helmsman” (the mayor and the cultural officer who has come under criticism) were happy that “the urgent wish of some passengers” was now being met – with “regional organic bratwurst”. Grill on, battle over, it works.