Today in Rhein-Main: long-suffering taxi drivers and the crisis of luxury hotels

Good evening,

after the Hessischer Hof, another luxury hotel in Frankfurt is closing: The Villa Kennedy in Sachsenhausen is closing on April 1st.

The hotel operator announced on Tuesday that the lease agreement with the owner of the building had ended on that date.

So if you want to sleep there again, you have to hurry.

In mid-February, the cheapest room on Booking.com during the week costs 474 euros a night, without breakfast.

Manfred Koehler

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

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Corona continues to draw its destructive circles elsewhere too.

In Wiesbaden, so many bus drivers are now ill that four lines are only driven according to the thinned out timetable for the holidays.

It's not even a vacation.

The local transport company should not be the last company to announce a reduction in services.

The seven-day incidence in Hesse exceeded the 1,000 mark for the first time on Tuesday.

As you might guess, the leader is Wiesbaden with 1,808.

Taxi drivers demand higher rates

Besides hotels, who else is in bad shape?

The taxi drivers.

“Catastrophic” is how Hans-Peter Kratz, chairman of the Hessian Taxi Association, describes the current situation: “The airport still has two-thirds fewer passengers and the trade fairs have largely been cancelled.

For us taxi drivers, no trade fairs are like firecrackers are banned on New Year's Eve.” Then there are the increased fuel costs and the rising minimum wage – Kratz would like taxi prices to rise.

Then we remember that we haven't written anything about another scourge of humanity, inflation.

But about that another time.

Terror also wants to be portioned.

And the state government also wants to continue to support mobile phone operators in setting up more masts in Hesse +++ the culture page of the Rhein-Main-Zeitung reports on Wednesday about Heike Schuppelius, who is supposed to teach “stage design/scenic space” at the Hochschule für Gestaltung +++ in Wiesbaden the attractive “Mauritius-Höfe” will be made out of the dilapidated city passage.

I wish you a pleasant evening

Yours, Manfred Koehler

The

for Wednesday

Gray and cloudy, like every day, occasionally with snow grains.

And that's how it stays at night, when the temperature drops to around 0 degrees.

birthday

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Rainer Rahn

(AfD), member of the Hessian state parliament, from 2016 to April 2021 parliamentary group leader in the Frankfurt city council (70);

, President of FSV Frankfurt (61);

, CEO of Samson AG, Frankfurt (56);

, President of the Hessian Hospital Society, Eschborn (48);

, spokesman for the management of the Hessian Association of Towns and Municipalities, Mühlheim (45).