Baden-Wurttemberg

Consequences of Zurich Airport Runway Extension on Southwest Germany: Referendum Results and Potential Impacts Revealed

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Consequences of Zurich Airport Runway Extension on Southwest Germany: Referendum Results and Potential Impacts Revealed

The airport in Zurich (archive image). Photo: IMAGO/Steinsiek.ch/IMAGO What consequences will the extension of the airport runways in Zurich have for southwest Germany? There was a corresponding referendum in Switzerland. The runways at Zurich Airport can be extended northwards into Germany and westwards. In a referendum in Zurich, the majority of those eligible to vote … Read more

Cinema Employees Union Calls for Strike: Films in Jeopardy, Popcorn Supplies Low

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Cinema Employees Union Calls for Strike: Films in Jeopardy, Popcorn Supplies Low

Films could be canceled in several cinemas in the coming days and popcorn bags could remain empty. The reason? The ver.di union is calling for a strike. The service union ver.di has called on employees of the cinema companies CinemaxX and CineStar to go on strike from Thursday as part of the nationwide collective bargaining. … Read more

Truck Accident on Autobahn 6: Three Seriously Injured in Baden-Württemberg

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Truck Accident on Autobahn 6: Three Seriously Injured in Baden-Württemberg

Baden-Württemberg truck rolls over: three seriously injured February 10, 2024, 2:19 p.m A truck leaves the road on Autobahn 6 and rolls over several times. Three passengers are seriously injured. Waldenburg (dpa/lsw) – A truck driver and two other passengers were seriously injured in an accident on Autobahn 6 near Waldenburg (Hohenlohekreis). The 21-year-old drove … Read more

Wet Start to Fasnet as Rain Expected on Schmotziger Thursday – DWD Warns of Continuous Rain in Black Forest

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Wet Start to Fasnet as Rain Expected on Schmotziger Thursday – DWD Warns of Continuous Rain in Black Forest

Schmotziger Thursday, Gumpendonnerstag, Weiberfasnet: The start of the high phase of the Fasnet has very different names in Baden-Württemberg. But all fools have to expect rain tomorrow. kea/dpa/lsw 02/07/2024 – 06:43 am The early risers among the fools and parade visitors should pack an umbrella on Thursday just to be on the safe side. Because … Read more

Badische Winzer berichten über Weinjahrgang 2023 und Ex-Weinkönigin

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Badische Winzer berichten über Weinjahrgang 2023 und Ex-Weinkönigin

Badens Winzer ziehen⁣ Bilanz Am​ Montag um 10:00 Uhr werden die badischen Winzer in‍ Freiburg über den Weinjahrgang 2023 berichten. Der⁢ Weinbauverband hatte sich im Herbst mit der Qualität der Ernte zufrieden gezeigt. Das Weinland Baden⁢ erstreckt ​sich über 400​ Kilometer von Tauberfranken⁣ bis zum Bodensee. Das‌ Deutsche Weininstitut schätzte die Weinmosternte in Baden auf … Read more

Fire at Weinheim Adventure Pool Causes 100,000 Euros in Damage

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Fire at Weinheim Adventure Pool Causes 100,000 Euros in Damage

Baden-Württemberg Fire in swimming pool in Weinheim February 3, 2024, 3:14 p.m Weinheim (dpa/lsw) – According to the swimming pool, a fire in an adventure pool in Weinheim (Rhein-Neckar district) on Saturday morning caused damage worth around 100,000 euros. As a police spokesman said on Saturday, the fire broke out in the kitchen before the … Read more

Gang Problem in Baden-Württemberg: Escalating Violence and Attacks

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Gang Problem in Baden-Württemberg: Escalating Violence and Attacks

exclusive As of: January 30, 2024 2:28 p.m Exchanges of fire, attacks, martial demonstrations – according to investigators, there is a gang problem in the otherwise tranquil Baden-Württemberg. One possible explanation: the low police density. By By Oliver Mayer-Rüth ​​and Benedikt Nabben, BR and Lukas Föhr, SWR When the Iranian Kurd Shariar K. got into … Read more

GDL Train Drivers’ Strike Causes Disruption to Rail Traffic in Baden-Württemberg

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GDL Train Drivers’ Strike Causes Disruption to Rail Traffic in Baden-Württemberg

With its strike on Wednesday morning, the GDL train drivers’ union caused disruption to rail traffic in Baden-Württemberg. The emergency timetable started as planned, a spokeswoman for Deutsche Bahn said this morning. Accordingly, the railway only offers 20 percent of its usual range of long-distance services. The GDL expects strike participation to be at least … Read more

Baden-Württemberg’s Prime Minister Calls for Parental Responsibility in Education

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Baden-Württemberg’s Prime Minister Calls for Parental Responsibility in Education

Stuttgart (dpa/lsw) – In order to get the performance problems among primary school students under control, Baden-Württemberg’s Prime Minister Winfried Kretschmann sees parents as well as the state as having a duty. “It takes a general will to educate – across the entire educational biography, by the way,” said the Green politician to the German … Read more

Remembering Frieder Birzele: A Tribute to a Long-Time Committed Social Democrat and Politician

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Remembering Frieder Birzele: A Tribute to a Long-Time Committed Social Democrat and Politician

State Chairman Andreas Stoch and Secretary General Sascha Binder explain the death of Frieder Birzele: The death of Frieder Birzele fills us with deep sadness. We express our heartfelt condolences to his family and relatives and wish him a lot of strength for the coming time. We are losing a long-time companion, a convinced social … Read more