Today in Rhein-Main: A fair like in the past

Good evening,

Manfred Koehler

Head of department of the Rhein-Main editorial team of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

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That's good news:

The trade fair year has started in Frankfurt, as it has for many years - with the Heimtextil trade fair, at which the latest creations for bed linen and tablecloths can be seen.

2400 exhibitors from 120 countries - from the new FAZ building in Frankfurt's Europaviertel you could see for days how the trucks drove to the neighboring exhibition center.

It's pure happiness to watch, at least if you have a heart for the trade fair as the origin of Frankfurt's entire economic life.

But not everything about Corona was bad,

even this plague surprisingly had something good:

But that pandemic effect has since fizzled, according to a study published Wednesday.

After all, young people start drinking later than they did two decades ago.

Back then, alcohol consumption started at an average age of 13, now it's a year later.

And that's not bad news either:

Not only are rents in Frankfurt not continuing to rise, they're falling for the first time in years.

That, too, emerges from a new study.

Well, the drop is only one percent, one percent.

, because Offenbach continued to rise in 2022, by three percent, as did Darmstadt, where the increase was even four percent.

Don't invest the money you've saved in alcohol or cigarettes right away!

Better into a new tablecloth.

And also

the well-known butcher shop Haxen-Reichert in Frankfurt-Höchst will be closed, the business was recently

in the headlines

there is

to hear about the former GDR spy chief Markus Wolf

the energy suppliers in the Frankfurt metropolitan area are selling significantly less gas.

a peaceful evening

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.

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for

It will rain, the sun can only be seen for a short time.

Up to ten degrees.

birthday

on

Gerald Kink

, President of the Hotel and Gastronomy Association Dehoga Hessen, Wiesbaden (61);

, General Manager of the Association of German Mechanical and Plant Engineering, Frankfurt (59);

, editor-in-chief of the Frankfurter Rundschau (55);

(CDU), Mayor of the City of Rödermark (48);

, Managing Director of the Frankfurt games developer Deck 13 Interactive (46);

, founder and board member of Innoplexus AG, Eschborn (40);

, Executive Chef at Restaurant Seven Swans, Frankfurt (34).

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