Today in Rhein-Main: A fascinating skyscraper

Good evening,

you don't have to move to Manhattan to experience the fascination of high-rise construction.

This is also the case in Frankfurt.

International prizes, on the other hand, are certainly awarded even more in New York, but another important award is to be added in Frankfurt.

Far from all high-flying dreams, there is one certainty: heating will be much more expensive next winter.

Carsten Knop

Editor.

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High up:

For decades, the area between Roßmarkt, Junghofstraße and Großer Gallusstraße was closely associated with Deutsche Bank.

The high-rise built in 1971 on Grosse Gallusstrasse used to be the head office, and the 19th-century building on Junghofstrasse was best known for the Hermann-Josef-Abs Hall.

Two office towers with a height of 100 and 228 meters and two residential and hotel towers with a height of 120 and 173 meters are currently being built on a fascinating construction site.

Günter Murr looked around there - and is particularly fascinated by the sophisticated logistics.

The T1 office tower set a record long before it was completed: it was sold for 1.4 billion euros – the highest sum ever paid for a high-rise building in Germany.

Around 1,000 people will live and 4,000 will work in the quarter.

There are great photos by Lucas Bäuml.

Highest Rank:

It should be an award of international standing: important in terms of content, reputation and the honored people.

And he should be accordingly highly endowed.

The aim is an award that shines far beyond Frankfurt and yet is deeply rooted in the city and its history.

All these high standards are reflected in the occasion on which the "German Prize for Democracy" is to be awarded for the first time: the 175th anniversary of the first German National Assembly, which will be celebrated next year.

And where should the award ceremony take place if not in the oval plenary hall of the Paulskirche?

The idea for the prize came from civil society, but the two initiators are still a long way from reaching their goal, as Matthias Trautsch reports.

Higher price:

Thousands of tenants of the Nassauische Heimstätte/Wohnstadt housing association will have to pay an average of 60 percent higher discounts for their gas consumption over the course of the year.

Actually, the contracts negotiated with the energy companies guarantee price certainty for natural gas at a “very low level” until the end of 2023.

However, this security is obsolete as soon as the federal government declares emergency level 3.

Then the higher purchase prices should be passed on to the customers.

In order to reduce heating costs, the room temperature in the centrally heated apartments was already lowered to 20 degrees Celsius in April.

The reduced temperature at night is 18 degrees Celsius.

Perhaps homeowners should also start thinking about their heating behavior in winter.

And in addition

, the grade point average for the Abitur this year in Hesse was particularly good.

As reported by the Ministry of Culture, the average grade is 2.23 and thus slightly better than in the previous year (2.25) +++ is determined after a corpse was found in Darmstadt for a homicide.

The suspicion of the 40-year-old man who was arrested at the scene of the crime has been confirmed +++ a 250-kilogram bomb that was found in the Gonsenheim district of Mainz was defused as planned by experts from the explosive ordnance clearance service on Wednesday around noon been.

Best regards and have a nice evening

Yours, Carsten Knop

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The

for Thursday

Sometimes sunshine for a long time, sometimes dense clouds and dry.

In the afternoon 29 to 31 degrees.

Light to moderate northeast wind.

have birthday

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Thursday 28 July

Andreas Horn

, managing director of Westend-Verlag, Frankfurt (61);

, CEO of Deutsche Vermögensberatung AG, Frankfurt (58);

, President of the State Office for the Preservation of Monuments in Hesse, Wiesbaden (57);

, Germany boss of the financial investor Bridgepoint, Frankfurt (55);

, CEO of Energieversorgung Offenbach AG (51);

(CDU), parliamentary group leader in the Hessian state parliament, Groß-Gerau, member of the Federal Presidium (45);

, Managing Director of the Noell wine press, Frankfurt (40).