Feature photo: View from the forecourt of the BUGA bridge
When I stroll through Heilbronn, my thoughts also take a walk and so this is more of a post about a mental walk. First of all, you can quickly see when you stroll along Kaiserstrasse that you can't complain about the variety of activities in Heilbronn. Not only the HMG organizes a lot, but other Heilbronn clubs, companies and institutions also have no shortage of events.
At most you could complain that it doesn't include what you would like. But here too you can get help very quickly, namely by simply adding what is supposedly missing yourself. I can no longer complain about the lack of regular meetings and there is now a platform for more in-depth conversations at least once a year with the Hertensteiner Talks. And from next year there will also be a ball again where you can really stretch as a dancing couple.
Unfortunately, there are projects that you simply cannot manage yourself, such as: B. a real swimming pool, a fully-fledged city library in today's understanding or even a university. Really sad, because these are all infrastructure projects that should exist in every big city, including here in Heilbronn, since you can hardly drive to Stuttgart or Karlsruhe every day for them. And simply putting up a few signs doesn't really help those who would like to use these institutions regularly.
Like the wheel house in front of our train station. The bicycles continue to be stacked unprotected in front of it. You could quickly provide at least a small amount of relief here by extending the canopy of the side entrance to our train station along the wall and installing a few sturdy bicycle racks underneath. This doesn't replace the parking garages that are common in other big cities, but it's definitely better than what we currently have.
When I reached the Neckarbogen, I was able to marvel at the newly emerging reinforced concrete structures and wondered what this had to do with hybrid wood or rammed earth. You can probably google it and you will probably find that the word hybrid is very flexible. Now I don't hope that it's already a wooden hybrid house when real parquet floors are installed.
And I was also reminded of the harbor railway, because today's walk also took me over its sad relics. I have been wanting to find out more about this for a while and have been planning a corresponding event for weeks. Completely inexperienced, I contacted the Heilbronn port about this and was immediately told that they had nothing to do with the railway and that my request had been appropriately forwarded to colleagues at the Heilbronn municipal utilities. A few weeks later I'm now feeling completely confident Herbert Burkhardt and ask him to arrange a meeting for us Free Voters.
If you no longer want to use the port and the port railway in Heilbronn because you believe that you no longer need it as a “world AI center”, you could simply integrate the rails into local public transport and do so create completely new routes. Ideas and questions that citizens should be able to talk about with the responsible city employees.
When a completely new district was developed in Ulm a few years ago next to my former district, a new tram line was added, the streets were also reinforced and the adjacent school center was enlarged. Once the infrastructure was up and running, the buildings came and with them the new residents.
Here in Heilbronn I have the impression that you first build the buildings, whether new or densified, at the same time dismantle the necessary infrastructure and then later think about how you can bring the whole thing together. This approach will be really exciting in the Neckarbogen and Hochgelegen will generate a lot of letters to the editor in the future. Even with the IPAI Park, if it is ever actually realized, it will only be a few years after completion that people will think about how this district could be connected infrastructurally; The idea with the cable car from Heilbronn to Neckargartach is similar to the idea with the wheel house - well-meaning, but not well thought out.
