Feature photo: Haguenau station
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incident
The following administrative process is said to have occurred in one district. The reason for this was the necessary registration of vehicles in the district. You could have gone from one desk to another and dealt with the whole thing through the official channels, especially since the registration of vehicles is within the area of responsibility of this administration.
But this process was probably put out to tender and ultimately given to a highly qualified law firm that is already very successfully implementing other state tasks. And so it happened that a well-paid lawyer went to the district office to register the vehicles and, after successful registration, received a confirmation from the law firm along with the obligatory invoice.
I couldn't believe it myself, but a fellow citizen who was directly involved assured me that such activities are now part of everyday official life. And even if it isn't true - which I very much doubt from my own experience - such a story shows quite well what we still or - on the contrary - particularly believe in our administrations today.
educational trip
If you are not a municipal councillor, you still have to organize and finance your educational trips yourself, but this has the advantage that you can go where you want to go yourself. And so we didn't go to Amsterdam at the weekend or New York, Rio, Tokyo — allow me this little allusion — but a whole number smaller, to the former imperial city of Haguenau.
In contrast to Heilbronn is Haguenau a promising commuter town, which, however, has not experienced such a size development as Heilbronn due to a lack of newcomers in recent decades and is now being repositioned between Strasbourg, Karlsruhe and Mulhouse.
The new main station is helpful here, which not only connects a cycle path known in Baden-Württemberg as a cycle expressway to the station, but also has a correspondingly large multi-storey car park next to the station. The old station building was more than completed by a modern new one and the apron was designed very generously, which was also enough for more than enough parking spaces and a bus station. Next to the station, an attractive bridge, similar to that in Heilbronn, leads over the tracks, but this has the advantage that it is covered and also leads to the platforms. At the other end of the bridge, a very spacious multi-storey car park is being built so that all commuters can easily reach their trains.
This infrastructural conversion of Haguenau, which would certainly also have been possible in Heilbronn, is already showing initial success, because there are now many attractive residential buildings that will certainly attract residents from the larger cities.
For me, however, the parks and the pedestrian zone were of interest, which were very clean and could also be used very late in the evening. There, as in Heilbronn, there were people who were certainly less fortunate than others, but didn't behave the way we do - it may be that this was also due to the surveillance cameras that could be seen at central locations in the city.
I recommend the restaurant to anyone who would like to see Hagenau for themselves The Old Customs at the Place d'Armes. All of the dishes we chose were more than excellent and the service was excellent.
Thanks to our companions, we were able to climb a castle, understand European history at a border crossing and talk shop at the German Wine Gate about wine advertising.
Bureaucracy
While the AfD wants to take action against "unworthy" life, the CDU is at least hurrying to make life more difficult for the "social parasites". And so the actual governing party in Baden-Württemberg has to make a little mood. That's why the prime minister now wants Winfried Kretschmann also ensure a positive mood among the population and is now dedicating itself to a very special topic by calling for the reduction of bureaucracy.
It's just stupid that it's the Greens in particular who have expanded the government and administrations to the respective XXL version in recent years and in the future will also enlarge the state parliament to one of the largest parliaments in the world - which catapults the bureaucracy to previously unimagined heights. You don't even have to talk about the many new rules and laws that are already making our lives more difficult every day.
The really stupid thing is that the Greens will never reduce bureaucracy, the CDU with their current chatter does not really help the working population, but one has to assume that the AfD will not only question the existence of at least some fellow citizens at the first opportunity, but will actually destroy it.
