Young people at Offenbacher Hafenplatz
Image: Carlos Bafile
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Young people with a migration background and better earners meet at Offenbacher Hafenplatz. They negotiate who owns the city. Our author Mona Jaeger visited her in March 2019.
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MOffenbach, the little sister of Frankfurt, can call dirty, run down, over-indebted and impoverished. But cowardly, that’s really not Offenbach. Something is happening in Offenbach, and if you are lying on the floor, you can only go up. Offenbach still has a high unemployment rate of ten percent for the Rhine-Main region. The economic power is significantly weaker than in the rest of Hesse.
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Purchasing power is below the average for all of Germany. But slowly, the creative potential in the diversity of the city is being created: The University of Design attracts students and artists, on the meadows on the Main in summer beer drunk and grilled. And also because Frankfurt is becoming more and more popular and can no longer handle the influx alone, expensive apartments have been built in Offenbach for some time now – the exclusive Frankfurt harbor district has grown to Offenbach. It almost feels like you’re still in the financial metropolis. But you are not. And this is the problem.
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