Today in Rhein-Main: A king, but where is the mayor?

Good evening,

everyone is watching Frankfurt on Tuesday.

Because the book fair is opening, the Spanish royal couple is coming.

The day after tomorrow this will be shown in our paper larger than the start of the trial against the mayor of Frankfurt.

Promised.

Because, embarrassingly, he is in court on his own behalf instead of visiting the royal couple.

Something like that only exists in Frankfurt.

But there is also something going on in Wiesbaden.

Because Interior Minister Peter Beuth (CDU) will no longer run for the state parliament after the end of the legislative period.

Carsten Knop

Editor.

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Surprise I:

The Hessian Interior Minister Peter Beuth (CDU) will not return to the state parliament in autumn 2023.

He decided to do this "after careful consideration and consultation with my family," according to a letter to the district executive and to the delegates of the constituency assembly, who wanted to put Beuth on Friday in Idstein for the seventh time as an applicant for the direct mandate in the Lower Taunus.

As interior minister, Beuth drew attention for his initiative to equip police uniforms with bodycams.

He was criticized for various police affairs, the clarification of the complex of threatening letters signed with "NSU 2.0", the dissolution of the special task force SEK and the information policy and educational work in the wake of the Hanau attack and the assassination of the Kassel district president.

Surprise II:

The vote on the future of Frankfurt Mayor Peter Feldmann (SPD) is underway.

In the case of postal voting, November 6th is halftime before the actual election date.

Intermediate results on the participation of the voters are not published, since the number actually matters.

An additional mobilization through such water level reports for election turnout would also have an influence, since this is exactly what matters in the referendum: 30 percent of those eligible to vote must vote yes for the deselection, otherwise the necessary quorum will not be reached.

If you look at the turnout in elections at the municipal level, this seems like a high hurdle that many observers believe is insurmountable.

But the impression could be deceptive.

The topic is being discussed more than the racetrack was.

And even for the referendum on their future, 21 percent of those entitled to vote cast their votes at the time.

We report on the election campaign and comment.

Surprise III:

The new Ländcheshalle in Hofheim seemed to be growing into a kind of Berlin airport project.

The renovation of the old hall with its exposed aggregate concrete slabs on the facade was debated for a long, very long time, until it was realized that it was hardly worth it.

The ground-breaking ceremony for the new hall took place in 2018.

But everything took longer than expected.

In the end, four years were built instead of two, a contract partner was changed, a manufacturer went bankrupt, politicians argued, then Corona came and it got more and more expensive.

The hall, sports field, driveways and parking spaces have now cost 14 million euros, almost twice as much as originally estimated.

Now the day of the opening has come.

And in addition

, hotels, guesthouses and inns accommodated significantly more guests in September than in the same month a year earlier

Raunheim's mayor Thomas Jühe (SPD) applied for disability a year before the end of his fourth term due to a serious illness and will no longer be return to the town hall

the tree for the Frankfurt Christmas market comes from the Spessart.

It is smaller than in previous years and uses fewer lamps.

Have a nice evening and greetings from the editorial team

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.

The

for Tuesday

Initially some showers, rarely thunderstorms.

Later the sun shines from time to time.

Maximum temperatures between 19 and 21 degrees.

Traffic

Due to private crane lifting work, the side lane of Theodor-Heuss-Allee between Kreuznacher Straße and Kuhwaldstraße will be completely closed to motor vehicles on the way out of town from Monday, October 17th to Tuesday, November 8th.

In addition, Kuhwaldstraße on Theodor-Heuss-Allee will be completely closed.

birthday

on

Michael Weber

, Frankfurt actor and set designer (60);

, from 2000 to July 2022 head chef at the Restaurant Français in the Steigenberger Hotel Frankfurter Hof (51);

(CDU), Member of the German Bundestag, Gießen (50).

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