In the Frankfurt City Council, there is a majority in favor of building the Gymnasium-Ost on the Günthersburghöfe site in the north end.

Representatives of the coalition and the opposition spoke in the education committee unanimously in favor of examining the area of ​​a nursery for the construction of the secondary school.

The CDU parliamentary group had submitted a corresponding application.

There is a broad consensus in the city for this school from the parents to the students to the local advisory board, said the CDU city councilor Sara Steinhardt and called for a pragmatic solution.

Rainer Schulz

Editor in the Rhein-Main-Zeitung.

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Even the Green Party leader Julia Frank, who previously had doubts about the project, now said that the location had "never been given up".

However, at least a third of the area is unsealed.

How to deal with it has to be clarified as well as the fact that the property still belongs to the garden center.

The coalition had actually agreed that only the unsealed areas of the garden should be built on.

As a result, the Günthersburghöfe housing project failed in its previously planned form.

Even the leftists, who have always been against the development of unsealed areas in the north end, would "represent this location", as city councilor Dominike Pauli said: "We support it." Education department head Sylvia Weber (SPD) sees a "great agreement" and holds one Decision by the summer for feasible.

There is a great need for the school, which is also shown by the "educational tourism" from the east of the city to Frankfurt high schools.

City student spokesman Hannes Kaulfersch and the chairwoman of the city parents' council Rafaela Hartenstein also promoted the project: The area is suitable and the school is urgently needed.

Kaulfersch advocated including environmental protection in the educational concept of the school.

“The schools in the east are bursting at the seams.

We shouldn't reduce the already scarce supply any further."

As the voice of parenthood, Hartenstein said there was an urgent need to build new schools.

There is no comparable, alternative location for the Gymnasium-Ost.

"From the point of view of the parents, the Gymnasium-Ost urgently needs to be opened at this location."