Today in Rhein-Main: when the Christmas season begins

Good evening,

but do the Christmas markets have to open in mid-November?

If this country is still a little bit about traditions, and if the church traditions still play a little bit of a role, then Offenbachers should also wait until the Sunday of the Dead is over before opening their Christmas market.

But they can't or don't want to, and so since Monday you can pretend in this city with mustard smeared mouth and mulled wine stain on your jacket that the Christmas season has long since begun.

The neighboring city of Frankfurt also shows style and will not be opening its market on the Römerberg until next Monday.

The showmen in Frankfurt even calculated with courage for the steep thesis,

that it is ecologically and energy-politically necessary to visit the Christmas markets, because during that time you do not use any electricity at home, for example for lighting.

Which brings us now, for our part, in a steep flight from seasonal cinnabar to housing policy.

The bad news: Housing construction is collapsing.

From January to September 2022, ten percent fewer building permits were issued in Hesse than in the same period of 2021. The fact that the decline was 30 percent in September alone gives little hope for good.

For years, the conditions for housing were excellent - but the politicians released too little building land.

Now, in times of material shortages and rising interest rates in times of inflation, things are getting difficult.

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On Thursday evening you can follow a discussion online in the "Wissenschaft im Dialog" series, in which colleague Sascha Zoske talks to Giessen philosophy professor Elif Özmen about the exciting topic of whether scientific research in Germany is still free is after the political influence on it increases.

Neither participation in Frankfurt nor via the Internet costs anything, apart from one minute for registration at meinabo.faz.net/aktionen.

And

the Sportfreunde Stiller also performed in Frankfurt, and to the horror of the FAZ reviewer, there was a lot of cheering along +++ the bank bosses warned of the mood of doom at the opening of the Euro Finance Week in Frankfurt +++ the German Weather Service in Offenbach announced the 70th anniversary of its founding celebrated.

I wish you a pleasant evening

Yours, Manfred Koehler

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

Often very cloudy, rain or drizzle in places, only some sunshine.

Maximum temperatures around 13 degrees.

birthday

on

Michael Bußer

(CDU), from 2010 to May 2022 State Secretary and Spokesman for the Hessian State Government, Wiesbaden (62);

, Frankfurt radio presenter and writer (60);

, Managing Director of Messe Offenbach GmbH (56);

, President of the Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences (56).

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