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Jacqueline Vogt

Head of the Rhein-Main editorial department of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

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people want to celebrate: around 35,000 visitors were counted at the last night of museums before the pandemic; At the weekend now, after a three-year break, there were even more, the organizers speak of 40,000 people. Impressions of the night have been collected by Nicole Seliger. Other topics in our evening overview with news and news from the region: Ideas that arose at a festival that deals with the future of the city center, the festive days for the St. Paul's Church anniversary, the Messel pit, a danger to bee colonies.

Can everything be different: A debate about how to reinvent the city was the aim of the SOUP festival, which ended in Frankfurt at the weekend. For three days, around 1500 participants discussed concepts for changing city centres, adapting architecture to changing living and consumption habits, for example, which are visible in the dying retail trade, among other things. Particularly interesting: How and in which areas artificial intelligence can help to generate and implement ideas. Günter Murr reports.

Must be celebrated: The new week will be a week of celebration, for democracy, but also for Frankfurt. The meeting of the first all-German parliament, the National Assembly, in St. Paul's Church and thus 175 years of German democratic history will be honored and illuminated with many events. The program is dense. Anyone who takes advantage of even some of the offers made in it can learn a lot; if you just want to have fun, you also have the opportunity to do so: the civic festival that the city organizes also includes pop concerts. When the celebrations are over, things get serious again, for the city and for the local politicians; There are difficult debates about the future of St. Paul's Church. Alexander Jürgs sums up.

Petrified: Many have already seen the Messel pit. According to Philipe Havlik, the new managing director of the World Heritage Site in the Darmstadt-Dieburg district, there will soon be even more – and those who know the mine but haven't visited it for a long time will soon come back. For example, to see the only fossil that has ever left the planet, on a space mission. Who Havlik is, what he plans to do with the pit, you can read here.

And in addition, a 16-year-old boy was seriously injured on Sunday night when he ran a red light drunk with an e-scooter and was hit head-on by a taxi +++ warns the Mainz-based Foundation Read More commitment and reliability in primary schools in the promotion of reading +++ beekeepers in Hesse are worried about the spread of the Asian hornet, hunts honey bees for their bee colonies and calls on the Hessian State Agency for Nature Conservation, Environment and Geology to report sightings of the animal, which in contrast to the native hornet, is almost completely black and therefore easy to recognize.

Greetings from the editors
Jacqueline Vogt

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The weather for Monday

Variable, partly cloudy. During the day, local showers and isolated thunderstorms are possible. Highs up to 22 degrees.

Traffic

Frankfurt: Ernst-Heinkel-Straße to be redeveloped

In the interests of road safety, the City of Frankfurt is having the carriageway of the two lanes of Ernst-Heinkel-Straße on the west side – coming from Hanauer Landstraße in the direction of Adam-Opel-Straße – repaired from Monday, 15 May, to Friday, 16 June.
The Office for Road Construction and Development (ASE) is responsible for the construction project. The construction company commissioned by the office has the old asphalt milled off on a 400-metre-long and 3500-square-metre area, installed a binder layer and finally the new asphalt surface course. The City of Frankfurt is investing around 270,000 euros in the renovation project.

Impact on traffic
During the entire duration of the work, Ernst-Heinkel-Straße in the direction of Adam-Opel-Straße will become a single lane. Initially, it is not possible to drive from the east in the direction of Osthafen 2 and Offenbach. Turning from Ernst-Heinkel-Straße into Adam-Opel-Straße is only possible in the direction of Fechenheim, the direction of Osthafen 2 and Offenbach is fully closed. A bypass recommendation is made via Hanauer Landstraße, Daimlerstraße, Felix-Wankel-Straße, Dieselstraße, Carl-Benz-Straße and Adam-Opel-Straße.

Coming from the west in the direction of the city center, it is initially not possible to turn right from Hanauer Landstraße into Ernst-Heinkel-Straße. A diversion will take place from Hugo-Junkers-Straße.

Cyclists and pedestrians can pass through the construction site.

Bus line 41 runs through Hugo-Junkers-Straße
Due to the construction work, the municipal transport company traffiQ is diverting bus line 41. On the way to Carl-Benz-Straße and Offenbach, it does not pass through Ernst-Heinkel-Straße, but through Hugo-Junkers-Straße, which runs parallel to it. The stop of the same name will be relocated to Hanauer Landstraße, in front of the hardware store.

Birthday on

Monday, May 15

Volker Remmele, Chairman of the Board of the Kerckhoff Foundation, Bad Nauheim (73); Stefan Jökel, Managing Director of the construction company Jökel, Schlüchtern (48);

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