Experience the Mainfest: Frankfurt’s Oldest and Most Popular Folk Festival Returns!

Experience the Mainfest: Frankfurt’s Oldest and Most Popular Folk Festival Returns!

From Friday to Monday there will be celebrations again at the Mainkai, Fahrtor and Römerberg: Here you can find out more about the Mainfest and its special significance for Frankfurt. The Mainfest is one of the oldest and most popular folk festivals in Frankfurt. It takes place every year on the first weekend in August … Read more

Discover the Industrial Heritage of the Rhine-Main Region: Days of Industrial Culture 2021 – Focus on Water

Discover the Industrial Heritage of the Rhine-Main Region: Days of Industrial Culture 2021 – Focus on Water

Focus topic “Water”: The Mainspitze in Ginsheim-Gustavsburg Photo: Jochen Frickel From August 29, the “Days of Industrial Culture Rhein-Main” invite you to look behind doors that are otherwise closed to the public. The format is popular, you have to be fast for cards. There is a lot to discover in the region between Rüdesheim am … Read more

The Decline of the German Commercial Real Estate Market: Banks Brace for Default Risks

The Decline of the German Commercial Real Estate Market: Banks Brace for Default Risks

Clearance sale on Frankfurt’s Zeil: Retail properties are being valued with increasing caution. Image: Anton Vester Since business with office real estate has declined significantly. Interested parties are waiting for price corrections that sellers do not yet want to accept. Dhat the German real estate market is in the doldrums may have been known for … Read more

Fridays for Future Activists Occupy Frankfurt Parking Garage in Call for Traffic Turnaround

Fridays for Future Activists Occupy Frankfurt Parking Garage in Call for Traffic Turnaround

Frankfurt/Main (dpa/lhe) – Climate activists from the Fridays for Future movement occupied a Frankfurt parking garage on Friday on the sidelines of a demonstration. After negotiations with the operator and the owner, a maximum of 150 of them are allowed to stay on the top parking deck until 12 noon on Sunday, the police said … Read more

Lufthansa and Pilots Union Continue Collective Bargaining, No Threat of New Strike at Present

Lufthansa and Pilots Union Continue Collective Bargaining, No Threat of New Strike at Present

Frankfurt / Main (dpa) – At Lufthansa, there is no threat of a new pilot strike for the time being. Despite the end of the peace obligation last Friday, companies and the Vereinigung Cockpit pilots’ union (VC) continued their collective bargaining on Monday. Both sides confirmed this in Frankfurt. However, they did not provide any … Read more

DFB Cup First Round Matches: 1. FC Nürnberg vs. FC Oberneuland, SpVgg Greuther Fürth vs. Hallesches FC, and more

DFB Cup First Round Matches: 1. FC Nürnberg vs. FC Oberneuland, SpVgg Greuther Fürth vs. Hallesches FC, and more

Frankfurt / Main (dpa) – The second division soccer team 1. FC Nürnberg opens the first round of the DFB Cup from a Bavarian point of view. The Middle Franconians are visiting FC Oberneuland in Bremen on Saturday, August 12 (3:30 p.m.). A few hours later, SpVgg Greuther Fürth meets Hallesches FC (6 p.m.). This … Read more

ECB Council Increases Interest Rates for Eighth Consecutive Meeting; Inflation Expected to Remain High

ECB Council Increases Interest Rates for Eighth Consecutive Meeting; Inflation Expected to Remain High

Title: ECB Raises Interest Rates for Eighth Consecutive Meeting Date: June 21, 2023 The European Central Bank (ECB) has announced an increase in interest rates for the eighth consecutive meeting, with all three rates rising by 0.25 percentage points. This decision comes as the ECB aims to address concerns over inflation and maintain price stability … Read more

Germany Plays Special 1000th International Match against Ukraine for a Good Cause

Germany Plays Special 1000th International Match against Ukraine for a Good Cause

Frankfurt/Main (dpa) – The German national soccer team is playing its 1000th international match this Monday in Bremen – and it is a very special one. Opponents in the Weser Stadium will be Ukraine from 6:00 p.m. (ZDF), the German Football Association will use the proceeds from the game to make donations to the country … Read more

“Frankfurt Stripper Triggers Police Operation with Toy Gun at Bachelor Party”

“Frankfurt Stripper Triggers Police Operation with Toy Gun at Bachelor Party”

Frankfurt / Main (dpa) – A stripper ordered for a bachelor party triggered a police operation in Frankfurt. The man “underestimated the martial effect of his performance,” the police said on Monday. Accordingly, the 31-year-old was in the city center on Friday evening in an American police uniform with a helmet and was carrying an … Read more

“Eintracht Frankfurt Sees Financial Benefit in Participation in Conference League”

“Eintracht Frankfurt Sees Financial Benefit in Participation in Conference League”

Frankfurt/Main (dpa/lhe) – Participation in the Conference League is also financially interesting for Eintracht Frankfurt. “The Conference League would be an economically attractive competition if it reached the group stage. It would be worth it,” said Oliver Fahrenbach, CFO of the Bundesliga soccer team, in an interview published on the club’s website on Sunday. “The … Read more