Hünfeld: Corona-Aus for Martinsmarkt – City Marketing cancels major event

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What many had already feared is now official: The Martinsmarkt, scheduled for November 7th and 8th, will be canceled this year due to the spreading corona pandemic. The organizers and the city of Hünfeld announced this yesterday evening.

Hünfeld – The Hünfeld Martinsmarkt November 7th and 8th will not take place. “In view of the dramatically increasing number of infections, we had to deal with the Covid19-Virus decide to take this painful step ”, shares Gitta Grafe-Hodes in a joint press release with the City of Hünfeld With.

“After carefully weighing the risks, the decision was not an easy one for us,” says the chairwoman of the Huenfeld city marketing. “But in the end we had no other choice because of the drastically increasing number of infections.”

Hünfeld Martinsmarkt is canceled – Tschesnok “painful decision”

As an organizer, that City-Marketing intensive discussions beforehand with the City of Hünfeld guided. While a detailed hygiene concept at the land party in September was able to guarantee the safety of visitors and business people and to present the guests with attractive market events, this is also the case in view of the dramatically increasing number of infections District of Fulda The association is currently quite simply not representable City-Marketing for sure. Even if this was another serious setback after the store was closed in the spring, there was ultimately no other choice out of responsibility for market visitors.

From the perspective of Mayor Benjamin Tschesnok (CDU), this is a very painful, but ultimately sensible decision by the association, whose members would have to do without again and have to cope with a severe cut.

Is it also over for the Huenfeld Advent market?

Of the Martinsmarkt had developed into an important day in the past few years, which not only brought sales, but also demonstrated the efficiency of the local retail trade to a broad audience from all over the region. “All the more we are challenged to continue to support our local retail trade so that the city center stays lively,” advertises Mayor Tschesnok Finally, for understanding and taking into account local trade.

In the press release it goes city does not care whether the “off” for the Hünfeld Advent market applies, which is planned for the first weekend in Advent. One is still in discussion with those involved, said spokesman Helmut Käsmann on Monday upon request from our editorial team.

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