Felix Schwenke wins, participation at 26.5 percent

Even before Sunday, it was considered likely that Felix Schwenke would again emerge as the winner of the mayoral election in Offenbach. The main question was whether there would be a runoff election or whether the Social Democrats could win the required majority at the first attempt this time. The fact that Schwenke managed to […]

Worship service in winter at 15 degrees

The city synod recommends that in the particularly cold weeks from January to Easter, church services should be celebrated in community halls if possible because they can be warmed more easily. Image: dpa The churches in Frankfurt and Offenbach remained cold last winter. Now it can be 15 degrees again on Sundays. The regulation is […]

Referee Felix Zwayer Receives Rare Praise from Coaches

Rare praise: After the zero score between Eintracht Frankfurt and SC Freiburg, the coaches of the two rivals unanimously praised referee Felix Zwayer’s confident management of the game. The 42-year-old Berliner got it right in two key moments in the Bundesliga game on Sunday evening, which did not have a decisive influence on the game. […]

Football – Frankfurt am Main – Rosen appeals for support for Nagelsmann – Sport

Berlin (dpa) – Manager Alexander Rosen from Julian Nagelsmann’s former club TSG 1899 Hoffenheim is promoting broad support for the new national coach. “We have to support the team and the coach and show what we’re really capable of. Then we as a society will also benefit from it,” he said on ZDF’s “Aktuelle Sportstudio” […]

Frankfurt is again doing poorly as a smart city

Illuminated, yes, but not smart: The city of Frankfurt Image: Reuters Munich beats Hamburg, Heidelberg catches up, Darmstadt and Bad Nauheim are Hesse’s pioneers. Only Frankfurt does not play a role in the new Smart City ranking. When it comes to smart cities, the “capital of the Internet” cannot achieve a good reputation. In the […]

Accident with minibuses – two dead

Two minibuses collided in Hesse on Sunday night: two people died, two are in mortal danger. Two people died in a head-on collision between two minibuses in Bürstadt. Two other people were critically injured, police said early Sunday morning. For reasons that are not yet known, the two vehicles collided head-on on the federal highway […]