The people of Hesse celebrated the new year mostly peacefully.
"Nothing major happened," said the police situation center in Wiesbaden on Sunday.
A spokesman for the Frankfurt police said: "There was nothing special."
A spokesman for the police headquarters in Kassel also described a “quiet course” for northern Hesse.
"It was a normal New Year's Eve like three years ago," he said.
Because of the corona pandemic, there were significant restrictions on New Year's Eve in 2020 and 2021.
In the balance sheet of the police headquarters in Offenbach on Sunday there was talk of an “overall relatively peaceful and largely unspectacular turn of the year”.
"There were a lot of firecrackers, but basically it actually stayed quite relaxed," said a spokesman.
"It was quiet.
The temperatures were good, so people went out more," said the police headquarters in Darmstadt.
In southern Hesse, the most spectacular events of the night were garbage cans and hedge fires.
The New Year's Eve celebrations came to an end without any special incidents.
Many operations for the fire brigades
As expected, the year 2023 started with a large number of operations, the Frankfurt fire brigade announced.
The workload on what is usually the busiest night of the year has reached a high level again after two quiet years of the pandemic: between 8 p.m. on Saturday evening and 5 a.m. on Sunday morning there were around 230 rescue service and almost 150 fire brigade operations, a spokesman said.
The ambulances would have had to take care of surgical injuries and medical emergencies due to alcohol.
The fires were mostly smaller operations, such as fires in garbage cans.
However, among other things, a supermarket in the Ben-Gurion-Ring in the Nieder-Eschbach district, a balcony in the Gallusviertel and several garden sheds were on fire.
According to a spokesman, no one was injured, and a bedridden woman in the apartment above the supermarket had to be looked after.
According to the fire brigade, the supermarket burned down, but it was possible to prevent it from spreading to the building.
There was no information on the extent of the damage.
A police spokesman in Wiesbaden said: "It was normal madness, but not a huge highlight." As the fire brigade announced, there were more than 40 fire brigade operations between 8 p.m. on Saturday and 8 a.m. on Sunday, for example because of burning garbage cans or as a New Year's Eve rocket flew through an open window into a hotel room.
The rescue service had to be called out in the state capital around 110 times, mostly because of hand injuries from firecrackers or alcohol poisoning.
In Frankfurt, among other places, the new year for city cleaning started with a big sweep.
"We expect an additional 20 tons of garbage: the remains of the firecrackers, but above all bottles and large fireworks," said Rosemarie Heilig, head of the environmental department.
About 70 employees have been on the road since early morning cleaning up the city.
After a two-year Corona break, the Ahmadiyya youth in Frankfurt and other cities were again active in their traditional New Year's cleaning.
In Frankfurt, the community cleared away the rubbish on the Römerberg.