Feature photo: Recycling point in the southern inner city | © Bettina Kümmerle
Already declared in 2017 Tobias Wieland in the voice of Heilbronn, why people write Heilbronn more and more often with an x.
“Sometimes ironic, sometimes pejorative, sometimes affectionately, a term used by young people in particular for Heilbronn, based on the (dangerous) Bronx in New York. Accordingly, it is often used in conversations about crime.”
Tobias Wieland, Sometimes Heilbronn, sometimes Heilbronx (1.7.2017)
We now definitely know that Heilbronn is one of the safest cities in Germany. Unfortunately, Heilbronn is also one of the dirtiest cities in Europe.
I can now look back on sixty years in Heilbronn and I have to admit that our city has gotten a little dirtier every year. I maintain that this has nothing to do with the influx of new citizens - at most indirectly - but solely with the fact that in our city anti-social people are getting more and more rights and support and thus the level of education of the population is constantly lower - by the way, just school or other Awarding degrees has absolutely nothing to do with education or good training (!) and it has been proven that they do not lead to better citizens.
Admittedly, this means that there is less robbing, stealing and looting, but unfortunately also that these asocial (not poor!) people just leave their dirt lying around — meanwhile they are too lazy to flush the toilet or even for easy cleaning of their legacies (the main reason why we hardly have any public toilets are). But we buy this security very dearly and it is history again very quickly as soon as you can no longer keep the asocial happy with gifts of money.
If we want to continue to live in a reasonably clean and also safe city, then we all have to sue for changes as soon as possible!
It would be best if we made education a civic duty and not only stigmatized those who refused education as such, but also took action from our state. In addition, we have to impose minimum requirements on all citizens, which includes not only the basics and rudimentary spoken and written language skills, but also the ability to flush the toilet and the use of garbage cans, brooms and cutter blades. Unfortunately, after several generations of antisocial behavior, this will be a lengthy and very rocky process.
That's why we have to come up with draconian penalties at the same time, because smaller fines are no longer enough. Below 100 euros per cigarette butt or chewing gum plus the processing and cleaning fees, there should no longer be any fines - from my point of view you can also increase these upwards depending on income. And if you are caught dumping rubbish, you should have the city, fields, forests and fields cleaned for weeks, depending on the amount - the usual 30 days of annual leave are ideal for this.
Some of my readers will once again be incensed that I not only find drastic words, but also demand drastic measures.
Please bear in mind that I don't have the company car chauffeur me from A to B in Heilbronn or drive me around the city in an SUV. I still like to walk through our city, especially through those parts of the city that are have grown dear to my heart over the decades and I have not been satisfied with the state of their cleaning for a long time — I no longer speak of the city forest at all.
And if I then have to see, e.g. B. in Stuttgart or other cities - even in the middle of the night - then I ask myself why we don't get more and better around here in Heilbronn work clean, Silence and order takes care?
In Heilbronn we need many more municipal employees (in this regard!) and we would also be happy to have additional assistants who check the entire city area around the clock and also ensure that sinners are called to account very promptly. And these measures must be implemented for as long as is necessary.
This will not only make our city more attractive, but also a lot more efficient overall! In addition, we all live much healthier and happier with it!
"If you don't get the dead dog out of the well, you'll never get the well clean."
Pakistani proverb, Süddeutsche Zeitung (19.08.2008: 4)
The defect reporter from the city of Heilbronn turns out to be a laughing stock again and again: https://heilbronn.mängelmelder.de/#pageid=1
I had repeatedly reported bulky waste or abandoned shopping trolleys (which were not picked up despite repeated calls to the supermarkets ...) on the side of the road. You often get an email with the status "solved", where nothing has changed.
I also noticed this as a "defect reporter". My inquiries revealed that the deficiencies are not reported to the responsible office, which can then remedy the situation, but that the deficiencies first go to a very special — an additional — position in the city administration that only works part-time. That's where the shortcomings remain for the time being. When this office has found the right contact person in the city administration, the whole thing is checked again in order to finally commission the responsible administrative department to remedy the defect.
Heilbronn doesn't get much cleaner as a result, we citizens are "involved" and a few "cousins" have jobs in the city administration - a typical Heilbronn win-win situation.
This approach reminds me of "Central Services" in Terry Gilliams stroke of genius BRAZIL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRfoIyx8KfU
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