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Sebastian Schaffer released another song today. I hope my readers enjoy listening. By the way, Sebastian recently has his own website: SebastianSchaffer.com
sontheim
The third oldest of the Heilbronn villages is to be slowly but surely developed into a metropolitan district, which can only be welcomed. And so I don't understand at all that the district advisory board there is against a planned new hotel building.
The building site is a fallow area that has been vacant for a long time, from which no park or even a sports field was previously wanted and whose use as field was also ruled out.
Now a 140-bed hotel with 100 parking spaces and even another 70 bicycle parking spaces is to be built there. I can't understand the latter at all, because who comes to Heilbronn by bike during the day and doesn't come back home in the evening?
It is probably just a concession by the future hotel operators to the local peculiarities and special sensitivities of our city administration. The Hampton hotel chain, which now belongs to Hilton, operates over 2 hotels worldwide and can therefore only be an asset for Heilbronn. The planned three-star plus hotel serves a market that is in demand in Heilbronn. This is shown, among other things, by the current “downgrading” of the Hotel am Stadtbad from four to three stars.
I wouldn't be surprised if the city leaders advertised the new hotel in Sontheim as the first German "radhotel". Even more so when whole groups of bikers are actually asking for accommodation there.
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My parents, both well into their 80s, like to use public transport. They recently arrived at the bus stop on the avenue opposite the post office after a somewhat lengthy walk through the city centre. Unfortunately, all the seats were occupied, but they speculated that much younger people from Heilbronn would offer them a seat.
When my father started to stagger, the walk had probably been a bit too long for him, a man with a migration background, who was enjoying his coffee just behind the bus stop, jumped up and brought him a chair from the kebab shop. A short time later, he gave each of my parents a bottle of water and finally put the chair back.
If I now hold my own nose, I can say that I would have made my seat available to an even older person at the bus stop. But whether I would have gone as far as the gentleman with a history of immigration, I have to doubt that.
My thanks go to the unknown gentlemen and to the service of the kebab shop, because their employees could certainly have intervened if their furniture was misused.
This little story proves once again that decency, good behavior and helpfulness have nothing to do with origin.
"There is no outward sign of courtesy that does not have a deep moral basis. The right education would be one that handed down this sign and the reason at the same time. Behavior is a mirror in which everyone shows his image.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Elective Affinities, From Ottilie's diaries (1809: Part 2, Chapter 5)
Dear Mr. Kummerle,
It's great that you described your parents' experience in the current summer heat at the Allee bus stop. An unknown man who came to Heilbronn from “outside” at some point gave the elderly Heinrich Kümmerle sen. and helped his wife. I think of the often quoted word of Max frisch "We called workers and people came." If you follow some of the contributions to the debate recently, you might think that the country is on the verge of collapse because of the migrants. In fact, history shows time and time again that immigration countries have benefited economically, culturally and humanly from all those who came.
Best regards and all the best to your parents
Hans Müller