Post photo: Garbage monitoring six days later
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European flag
Since Germany is a member of the European Union, the European flag should also be displayed alongside the federal flag at the federal authorities as well as at other institutions, foundations and corporations. In Baden-Württemberg, first the European flag hangs, to the right of it the federal flag and to the right of it the state flag and last but not least to the right of it the municipal flag.
As you can clearly see, flagging with the European flag is also common practice in Baden-Württemberg, although Baden-Württemberg has regulated flagging in accordance with the federal government. Without special instructions, flags must be flown on the following days:
- on the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of National Socialism (January 27th)
- on Labor Day (May 1st)
- on Europe Day (May 9th
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- on the anniversary of the promulgation of the Basic Law (May 23rd)
- on the anniversary of June 17, 1953
- on the anniversary of July 20, 1944
- on German Unity Day (October 3rd)
- on Remembrance Day (2nd Sunday before the 1st Advent)
- on the day of the election to the German Bundestag as well
- on the day of the European Parliament elections.
In many EU member states it is customary to fly flags on public buildings all year round - but not in Germany. With us, only the more relevant authorities and departments are constantly flagged. But we citizens are free to decorate our private buildings with a European or federal flag. However, it is recommended not to hoist a federal service flag.
And so it wouldn't be a bad idea at all if the city of Heilbronn could also hoist a European flag in the town hall on the days mentioned above. I no longer dare to dream of marking Europaplatz in this way - the people in Heilbronn who are responsible for this simply lack the European spirit.
Incidentally, it would be mandatory all year round to provide an “EU notice” to all buildings in Heilbronn whose institutions, authorities or companies are co-financed by the European Union - there are very, very many of them! Unfortunately, so far I have only found one building in Heilbronn where this requirement is met - here the people responsible for it simply lack decency.
congratulations
If there's one thing I never believed in, it was that a German basketball team would win the world championship title. My joy yesterday was even greater! The national basketball team captained by Dennis Schroder won the final against Serbia in Manila with 83:77 (47:47) and thus celebrated her greatest success.
After the eighth victory out of a total of eight tournament games, the German basketball players were world champions for the first time, approximately 30 years after winning the European Championship in Munich. Just over a year ago they won the bronze medal at the last European Championships in Berlin, which I thought was excellent at the time.
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The last few days required some follow-up work and we managed to do this quite well over the weekend. First we sat together in a smaller circle and then we took a closer look at the waste problem and possible locations for wind turbines.
While avoiding the market square and its surroundings, we met many fellow citizens who were making a pilgrimage to the wine village from the many side streets or who were visiting the shops in and around the pedestrian zone that were open on Sundays. With the best weather, the streets were full, the last parking spaces outside the empty parking garages were taken and the general mood was very good overall.
Hardly anyone seemed to notice the mountains of rubbish that are once again forming around our collection points and this is no longer a one-off event, but an ongoing problem. And it doesn't help that the city administration tries again and much too late to do something. It recently became known that completely useless video surveillance is now being installed at some collection points for a lot of money.
The whole thing, as I have often suggested, with the appropriate staff (e.g. garbage sheriffs) to tackle it yourself and get money into the city coffers at the same time, people have vehemently ignored it and preferred to show solidarity with those people who are making Heilbronn a mess - for whatever reason, maybe even Johann Wolfgang von Goethe still pleasing today.
When we finally left the mountains of rubbish behind us and climbed the vineyards around Heilbronn, we were not only able to enjoy the view, but also take a closer look at how wind turbines would fit into the cityscape.
This will certainly bring about a change to the usual cityscape, but overall it will help ensure that future generations can still live in Heilbronn in a way that is reasonably worth living in. And when the energy problem is one day solved, our grandchildren will be able to dismantle the wind turbines again without any major problems - I am firmly convinced that we owe this to our grandchildren, and the Trollinger district near the wine village will not taste any worse because of it!
From the wine bar on the Wartberg, which had exactly the right number of visitors for my taste because of the wine village, we not only had a good view over Heilbronn, which was almost Goethe-like (“Everything you overlook is fruitful"), but in the distance you can already see the first windmill.
“The main streets are mostly clean, but the small ones, especially after the walls, are less so: serving as a manure yard for every small homeowner.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, diary (27. / 28.8.1797)
