Today in Rhein-Main: The 300 blue whale heavy bad conscience

Good evening,

at 12 o'clock sharp on Saturday afternoon, we too held our breath and pricked up our ears in Frankfurt.

But

- unsurprisingly - nothing was heard

of the

in the Main metropolis.

But to see it.

Because if you wanted, you could watch the blast in the live stream on FAZ.NET.

You can also find

.

Marie Lisa Kehler

Deputy head of the regional section of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

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The plan for the demolition worked perfectly.

First the south bridge collapsed, then the northern part of the bridge collapsed on the rubble.

Our authors Alexander Jürgs and Robert Maus were there to watch the spectacle from a safe distance and yet up close.

There

is still a lot to do to

, which connects Wiesbaden and the Rheingau with Frankfurt, can flow again. The demolition is the first of many steps to cure the Wiesbaden traffic blackout, writes Robert Maus in his comment. “The state and federal governments are called upon to massively accelerate the renovation and renewals, because a functioning infrastructure is also part of the provision of general interest.”

2023, and

rail traffic is to begin as early as the end of this year.

On Friday, two met on stage who are working on a joint project, but still rarely meet in person: Christian Drosten, head of virology at the Berlin Charité, and

at the University Hospital in Frankfurt. Drosten called his Frankfurt colleague Ciesek, with whom he alternately explains the current situation in the NDR podcast “Coronavirus Update”, in a short speech as a virologist, who makes

and be able to get to the heart of the constantly changing situation with care and empathy. Ciesek was awarded the culture prize together with the science journalist Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim for her Corona education. The pandemic is the greatest challenge that humanity has had to face in the past 100 years, said Drosten. This is one of the reasons why it is so important that experts like Sandra Ciesek and Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim take on the role of mediators in order to explain the complex issues to a broad audience in an understandable way.

This Sunday was and is so beautifully hazy that all the unpopular housework that was left behind in the past few days could be tackled. Fold laundry, for example.

were waiting to disappear into the closet. But the guilty conscience doesn't really want to fit in there. It wants to be seen. As our trainee Othmara Glas worked out in an interview with a representative from the Hessen consumer center, many of our clothes contain plastic. If you don't consistently wear clothes made of pure silk or wool, this should come as no surprise.

and get into the groundwater is not something many are aware of. The sewage treatment plants cannot completely filter out these fine fibers. According to the consumer advice center, 30,000 kilograms of synthetic fibers end up in the wastewater from Europe's washing machines every year. That corresponds to the weight of 300 blue whales.

So in the future simply pay more attention

to buying products made from natural fibers? If it just could be that easy. We explain why a cotton shirt can have a bad ecological balance and why the merino wool sweater is not automatically the better alternative. And we are looking into the question of

to protect the environment. Why not start small and borrow outdoor clothes from friends for the only hiking holiday of the year? Or mending clothes that may have been broken instead of replacing them with new ones.

And

we

go on a search for clues: Is the Nordend something like the Prenzlauer Berg of Frankfurt?

the next mayor is elected in Sulzbach

the Austrian writer Clemens J. Setz has been awarded the Georg Büchner Prize in Darmstadt.

Stay healthy,

Your Marie Lisa Kehler

The

for

Cloudy but dry.

The temperatures reach maximum values ​​of up to nine degrees.

traffic

Richard-Strauss-Allee is getting a new road surface.

The Office for Road Construction and Development (ASE) is renovating the approximately 300-meter-long section from house number 11 to Mörfelder Landstrasse.

The upper section up to the confluence with Kennedyallee has already been renewed.

The measure starts on Monday, November 8th.

During the construction work, the ASE keeps road traffic going - at least as long as the old road surface is being milled off and work is being carried out on the edge area.

The office asks road users to strictly observe the signposted no-stopping restrictions so as not to cause backlogs.

Finally, there is a short full closure to pave the new asphalt surface course in one pour.

According to current planning, Richard-Strauss-Allee will be closed from Tuesday, November 16, 4 p.m. to Thursday, November 18, 7 a.m.

Due to assembly work by Hessen Mobil, the bridge on the L3003 on Frankfurter Berg is not passable for pedestrians from Monday, November 8th to Tuesday, November 9th.

Pedestrians can avoid the bridge structure of the Deutsche Bahn.

Birthday is

on

Martin Richard

(CDU), former mayor of Limburg (70);

, Germany boss of the major French bank BNP Paribas SA, Frankfurt (59);

, owner of the Frankfurt jewelry store Friedrich (57);

, Frankfurt gallery owner (56).