Today in Rhein-Main: where the new is born and the old is giving way

Good evening,

when was the last time you were in a bank branch?

Not in a long time?

Would you like to know where the contact point responsible for you can be found?

No?

This development is just the visible sign of what is going on in the industry.

Consequently, two other Volksbanks in the region are merging.

It will not be the last merger of this kind.

Sometimes, however, beautiful new things emerge: Kronberg, for example, will be getting a fantastic concert hall next week.

We've been there for you.

And then there's a dispute over something that was once new and expensive.

Now it's gone.

The problem: It is a work of art from the Städelgarten.

Carsten Knop

Editor.

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Is less more?

With the merger of the Mainzer Volksbank and the Volksbank Darmstadt-Südhessen, a new major player emerged in the field of cooperative banks in the region, which is now on an equal footing with the Frankfurter Volksbank.

The merger was not born out of necessity, but is currently taking place out of a situation of strength.

However, the challenges in the industry are so great that they can be better met together.

The merger follows a dynamic in the market that can be seen across the country, where smaller cooperative banks merge into larger ones or large players join forces - which is also reflected in the number of institutes and bank offices.

Daniel Schleidt reports and comments.

Just more:

It's an uplifting feeling when you step into Kronberg Academy's new concert hall for the first time.

Even if the final work is still being carried out in it under high pressure, with the lightly paneled walls and the curved shape, with the surrounding gallery and the window fronts behind it, it still radiates something "incredibly harmonious and warm", writes my colleague Guido woods.

The hall will be officially opened on Friday next week.

One less thing:

a work of art has apparently fallen victim to the redesign of the garden around Frankfurt's Städel Museum.

The sculpture "First Chimney (II)" by Berlin-based Swedish artist Jan Svenungsson has been uninstalled, the museum said.

Svenungsson himself, however, speaks of a "destruction".

Eva-Maria Magel did some research: In April, museum director Philipp Demandt informed the artist in writing that his work would have to be "deinstalled promptly until further notice" as part of the redesign of the garden.

Upon request, the museum said "First Chimney (II)", a ten-metre-tall conical chimney made of brick, had been removed.

Nevertheless, the work can be rebuilt - a view contradicted by the artist.

"I think it's unfortunate not only for me personally, but in principle that a museum is willing to destroy works because of the taste of a director or because of other plans," says the artist.

Exciting reading material.

And

the refusal of the Documenta management and the Ruangrupa curator collective to no longer show pro-Palestinian propaganda films at the art show for the time being is causing criticism +++ motor vehicle insurance could become more expensive for around 900,000 Hessians.

The General Association of the Insurance Industry has identified higher risks for liability policies in eight registration districts.

+++ Frankfurt is trying to deal with the chaos with the wildly parked e-scooters, but the situation is hardly getting any better.

A software should now help.

Greetings from the editorial team

Yours, Carsten Knop

You can also read current reports from the region in Skyline-Blick, our live news blog for the Rhine-Main region, and on the Rhein-Main-Zeitung website at www.faz.net/rmz

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Gray cloud fields and again and again partly heavy downpours.

In the afternoon with a maximum of 22 degrees locally also thunderstorms.

have birthday

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Wednesday 14 September

Cathérine Miville

, from 2002 to July 2022 director of the Stadttheater Gießen (68);

, director of the Opel Zoo in Kronberg (64);

, President of the Hessian State Statistical Office, Wiesbaden (59);

, chairman of the Frankfurt Artist Aid Association (55);

, General Manager of the Rheinhessen Chamber of Crafts, Mainz (45).

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