We live in the Rhine-Main area: not only in Frankfurt or in Mainz, in Darmstadt or in Hanau, in Offenbach or in Wiesbaden.
The people who live and work in the towns and communities between the Main and the Rhine draw their strength from what the entire region has to offer.
Politics for these people can only be successful here if it always keeps an eye on the entire metropolitan area, be it in terms of the climate, housing or transport.
The airport and its effects affect almost everyone anyway.
Decisions for the whole country are made in Wiesbaden.
But what is decided, for example, in the Hochtaunus or Main-Taunus districts is also relevant for the townspeople in the area: When can you still drive up the Feldberg in winter?
What's going on in the Main-Taunus-Zentrum?
Thoughts wander in all directions:
Why is Offenbach suddenly so interesting for companies?
And have you ever experienced Carnival in Mainz?
Explore the Rheingau for yourself?
The editorial staff of the Rhein-Main-Zeitung of the Frankfurter Allgemeine has been reporting passionately about life in Frankfurt and the region for decades.
In the north, east, south and west, correspondents who know their way around work for you.
The result is not just a Frankfurt newspaper, but an entire newspaper book for the metropolitan area, namely the Rhein-Main-Zeitung, which is why it has been called that since 1988.
Since then, the offer has changed again and again, adapted to the needs of the readers, two-thirds of whom live outside of Frankfurt.
From today on, the integration of town and country will be completed in the Rhein-Main-Zeitung.
Showcase for the entire region
Behind our first page, which always contains the most important information from the entire reporting area and thus also from Frankfurt, you will now find a central start page for reporting from all cities and communities - outside of Frankfurt.
And our third page becomes a real "Page Three", a journalistic project that puts the best texts from town and country, from business and culture, in an attractive place in the shop window for you.
Until now, almost exclusively texts from the city of Frankfurt could be read here;
now we create added value for all readers from the region.
On the following pages you will find everything worth knowing in the usual order and to the same extent as before, first from the city of Frankfurt, then from the surrounding area.
So you don't have to do without anything.
From now on, however, we will be working in an even more integrated way when it comes to selecting and describing topics: This way we can make better use of the advantages for you that only an editorial team can leverage that, in addition to a city editorial office for Frankfurt, has almost a dozen correspondents and freelancers who regularly come from the entire region to report.
In addition, we have significantly increased our Internet editorial team for Rhein-Main in the past few months.
If you want to know what's going on in your neighborhood around the clock in addition to reading the newspaper, please make www.faz.net/rmz your online portal.
The "Skyline" live blog that you will find there even informs you in almost real time.
Nice that you live here.
We are there for you, throughout the region.