The new Roman alliance in Frankfurt keeps its word: As announced in the coalition agreement, the search for a new location for the European school has priority.

It is already running at full speed.

That's a good thing, because the unworthy political bickering about the new school building has dragged on for years.

And the conditions for the students of the two educational institutions concerned are not getting any better.

The European School and the neighboring Ernst Reuter School are both bursting at the seams.

Hardly any responsibility, the education department head Sylvia Weber (SPD) does not hesitate long.

According to reports, a few weeks before she was formally responsible for the building and the municipal land, she instructed the administration to examine the fairground.

It is well located, easy to reach and is only used as a parking lot for most of the year.

A swimming pool is also being built next door, in which school classes could train in the mornings.

Dip measurement at the car-free Mainkai

But for a few weeks a year the fairground hosts the Dippemess.

What would a city be without a fairground?

When the carousel spins and the music plays, this dusty place is enchanted.

Probably every adult remembers the wild rides of their youth in bumper cars and breakdancers, smooching in the ferris wheel and the smell of cotton candy.

Visiting the circus is also a part of childhood.

Memories and emotions are associated with such a place.

But even discos like Batschkapp have already been relocated - even if older generations still cry after the old house in Eschersheim.

A fair can move, it is mobile per se.

This also applies to circus tents.

A city needs a fairground.

But it doesn't necessarily have to be at this point.

If the city approached the showmen with a convincing offer where they could instead set up their rides, the Dippemess would also be conceivable elsewhere.

Perhaps even in front of a more beautiful backdrop on the north bank of the Main, if the Mainkai actually became car-free - that is also part of the coalition agreement.

Traditionally, the fair was on the Römerberg anyway.

A city needs a fairground.

But it doesn't necessarily have to be on the Bornheim slope.