Feature photo: Heilbronn town hall in acrylic by Wolfgang Loesche
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Appointments
There are two dates that are particularly close to my heart. On Wednesday, September 6, 2023 at 19.00:XNUMX p.m. in the Heilbronn Ratskeller there will be an evening of lectures and discussions on the future wind energy use in the city of Heilbronn. The Freie Wahler Altstadtrat, wind energy expert and lecturer at the University of Stuttgart Heiner Dorner presents in his lecture the possibilities of using wind energy. Afterwards he will be available for questions and a discussion.
A topic that could certainly be of interest to many people in Heilbronn. coming soon Herbert Burkhardt and I put up a few more posters in order to be able to address as many people in Heilbronn as possible.
The other date is the 7th Hertensteiner Talks, which will take place all day on Saturday, September 23, 2023 in the Parkhotel. We federalists have been promoting these talks for a year now, so people from Heilbronn who are politically interested or even interested in Europe should already know the date. The topics there should actually be of interest to all people in Heilbronn, whether young or old.
Boards and members of other associations will probably feel the same way, that you have to advertise yourself for things that you want to give to your fellow citizens. In any case, both events are worthwhile for as many people in Heilbronn to make use of them.
Now I'm very excited to see how many people from Heilbronn will come to the two dates.
summer zone
I was very pleased to receive a letter from the editor Franz Wagner in the Heilbronnerstimme (August 9.8.2023, 24: XNUMX), which again takes up the topic of the summer zone. He gets straight to the point:
"Cars don't buy
To the summer zone in Heilbronn, "Dealers send fire letter".
The AfD-controlled "petition" against the summer zones is characterized by short-sightedness and the old mustiness. In the usual situation without a summer zone, Turmstraße and Lohtorstraße in particular are extremely repulsive places: senseless traffic looking for a parking space, maneuvering SUV tanks, the smell of diesel. You don't want to stop there or shop there. What a pleasing difference the temporary summer zone installations already make. Heilbronn needs more of it.”
Franz Wagner, Heilbronn
Unfortunately and less happily, such "petitions" against a positive development of our city are often used by the city administration so that we don't have to do anything to improve our city center that has been necessary for a very long time. As I feared recently, Turmstraße, like Saarlandstraße, will have to wait well over seven decades - generations of local councilors still have an issue to be able to distinguish themselves throughout their lives without making any major efforts.
A city center that is as attractive as possible would be more than necessary for the survival of not only our shopkeepers and business owners. It's nice that Heilbronn Marketing GmbH brings events of all kinds to the city center and it's also good that there are still festivals and markets in the city. But all of this only has an effect if the rest of the environment is also right. And that's why the pedestrian zone urgently needs to be expanded and integrated into an overall urban concept. If order and cleanliness also return to Heilbronn, customers will come again, stroll through the streets and discover more and more new and old shops. And the entire environment also benefits from this.
I am firmly convinced that there would still be many long-established companies and shops in Heilbronn today if we had a coherent overall concept. But that's how we keep sleeping through our future, telling everyone that we're actually a world-class space and research city.
Gemeinderat
The SPD faction leader recently remarked in the Heilbronner Voice that other groups or even factions that have less say than the SPD in Heilbronn only make suggestions because they don't have to implement them. This, of course, if that is the case, would not be a good thing.
But it is worse when, as a parliamentary group that is at least co-governing in Heilbronn and leader of the "Heilbronn Unity Party", you only ever promise things, such as a social quota in housing construction, and then do not realize them.
As I have already mentioned, a majority for a social quota would be possible, at least in the current Heilbronn municipal council. Nevertheless, the SPD is going into the coming election campaign with a social quota in its luggage - with eight municipal councils who have either not gotten a social quota for years or are only abusing it for election campaign purposes. And so one has to fear again that even those of Rainer Hinderer ten SPD municipal councils hoped that no social quota would be implemented.
It would be better if the SPD decided on a social quota with this municipal council, because then smaller factions or groups would no longer have to demand such a quota. With the free voters, a social quota of up to 30% would definitely be feasible.
