The level was extremely high. The english "r was rolled that it was a real joy, and even the darned "ti-aitsch" all the readers read fluently from their lips, or rather through their teeth. We’re talking about the exciting district english reading competition, which the eighth-grade winners of middle schools in the district faced on tuesday. The competition was held for the tenth time this year.
At the district competition in kronach, it was not only a question of correct pronunciation and intonation, but also of a flowing presentation. Whether the participants had pronounced and emphasized everything correctly was decided by a jury – consisting of teachers from the respective schools as well as deputy district administrator bernd steger. Although reading in front of an audience is no easy task, the bookworms showed little sign of excitement. In the first round, the five eighth graders and the one eighth grader read a text of their own choice. The eventual winner mergim alin chose "touring the everglades". The real challenge came in round two, when they had to read aloud a text selected by the organizer andrea karl-kremer – a specialist advisor at the gottfried-neukam middle school – in a lively, expressive and, if possible, error-free manner. This was the beginning of the english-reading "bat action time!" – an enchanting story about ben the bat and his best friends toby the pigeon and izzy the owl, who set off on a rude adventure. Only a few minutes were given to them to read the book. Nevertheless, all participants did their job very well. Congratulations!
To the "reading king mergim alin was deservedly chosen. It is no coincidence that the 14-year-old was able to communicate the text very clearly and confidently; after all, he is a native speaker (native speakers).

Off to the district competition!

The eighth-grader grew up in london and came to weibenbrunn with his albanian parents only a year and a half ago. English is then also the favorite subject of the lese-konig, who is now on 3. The contest was held for the tenth time this year, and the winners will represent the district at the county level in may in bayreuth. All participants (gottfried-neukam-MS kronach: leonard muller (m8a) and abdallateef al haj saleh (8c), MS pressig: gloria gotz (8a), MS kups: benjamin fischer (8b) and mergim alin (8a), MS windheim: dimitrios antonin) were rewarded with book gifts and a certificate that will surely look good on a job application. The district winner was also presented with a gift from the district, which was handed over by steger. "With english you can get around the world", he urged them to learn the world language comprehensively. He as well as karl-kramer and the new head of the school authority in kronach, gisela rohde, were very pleased with the excellent performance of the team. "This is my first official act in my new function and also for me an exciting thing", rohde, who has only been a visitor to the castle since the 15th century, said he had never seen anything like it. Marz is active at the kronach school board.

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The burggegfluster "lighthearted times" by romy denk (BR from 2. August) inspired the former pastor of mangersreuth, klaus kuhrau. He has written under the title "our way to school" the following is an article we are pleased to publish:

"Now, at the age of 77, I would love to walk once again in peace and quiet, just for myself, along our former school path, which I walked at the age of seven! That was in eppendorf in saxony from the last property in the freiberger strabe, the schneider-bayern, about two kilometers to the center of town. We had moved here from east prussia in 1944.

For more than ten years, from the first to the tenth grade, I walked along this path, which also varied through alleys and country lanes. Our road was neither asphalted nor paved, but full of potholes and dirt – peppered with cow patties and horse apples.

Milk on the cart

When I left after seven o’clock, the farmers brought their milk cans to the milk house in a handcart, or the farmhands brought potatoes and grain to the cooperative on horse-drawn carts. One after the other, the classmates joined in. The first was my friend peter, a bombed-out man from chemnitz. Then erich, cursed from pomerania.

Gerd and ulrike came from the village. Gisela’s family had a small factory, renate’s a greengrocer’s shop.

But boys and girls mostly went for themselves. On the way to school, we watched closely to see how far the cherries, apples and pears were behind the fences so that we could "mice" something in the evening. The trout in the village stream! What an experience, when i took out the first one by hand together with the coarser ones and fried it in the pan at home. She hooted again!

Interesting the content of our pockets: basically a pocket knife. There were also matches and combs, as well as barter items such as glass marbles, cartridge cases, tin soldiers and cigarette pictures. In the seventh grade, I had brought it to an impressive collection of 300 pieces in several cigar boxes!

The little joys

At the bohme-backer a cream roll for 30 pfennigs or at milch-hubner a sour cucumber for ten pfennigs or in consumption a stick candy, an hour lollipop. Those were the little joys on the way. It took us half an hour to get to school – and the farthest ones were the first ones there. Siegmund, from the butcher’s shop across the street from the school, was the last to arrive, or late.

The way home could take up to two hours. Damme building after a heavy rain! Watching the pottewitz blacksmith put the horseshoes on a horse. It may have smelled like a burnt hoof!

There were no cars. Even the doctor and the pastor made their visits by bicycle.

With mother or father to the school, if one had then still one?! Then you would have been a mother’s son, a mamabubi! But also snowball fights or class wedges, a kind of vigilante justice, were possible on the way home.

Today, once again, we will go to school in peace and quiet, just for me! What a lot of memories came back! Later the saying came up: the way is the goal."

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The summer concert of the dr.-ernst-schmitt-realschule ebern not only almost blew up the auditorium of the middle school because of the number of listeners – the performances also caught the attention of the audience
"summer hits" and inspired the 500 or so listeners. A musical journey through four continents and eight countries comprised the repertoire of the various choruses of the secondary school, which filled the auditorium with vocals, instrumental music with drum rolls, and dance.

Realschulkonrektor florian schraud had not promised too much when, after the song "ring of fire", he said that the band would be the first to perform, intoned by the school orchestra under the direction of bernd schmidt, announced to experience an international musical evening. "Enjoy the summer concert of our secondary school in a relaxed atmosphere", he said.

An international journey

Sabine heinrich, who led through the program with school teacher lucia ziegmann, pointed out that the musical journey through spain, england, france, sweden, germany, italy, and canada had. There will also be singing in german, english, french and italian. Among other things, the first part was the french song "andalouse" led by heidi hauguth to horen, whose lyrics were about dancing to guitar voices and a young lady whose black hair and red lips were fascinating.

The choir class of tanja lorenz shone with "spirits tip toe" and drum roll and "wannsee" by the toten hosen, which is about a girl in the capital who doesn't let you think straight anymore and with whom you would have loved to dive into wannsee. Hot rhythms were played by the zumba dancers. "Normally there are also boys here, but they are stage shy", said the presenter ziegmann and had the laughs on her side.

The teaching staff also scores points

Before the break the school band performed "grenade" and "good grief, sung by alina meyer, and "nobody like you" with leon busch as sanger on. This was certainly a farewell to the band, which will probably not be found in this line-up again, said moderator heinrich, who especially emphasized the performance of daniel palacios-rausch, who kept integrating new musicians into the band.

After the break it continued with the school band and "dance on my own", a song that is about an unhappy relationship. The orchestra and the middle school choir performed a medley of the group abba with "dancing queen. Eagerly awaited, probably mostly by the students themselves, the teachers' choir then followed with the song "the best from dirty dancing", with which the teachers scored points with the students and the listeners.

Farewell to the teacher

"No roots" was heard from the middle school choir, what u.A. About dancing in the grass to the favorite song barfub. A "thank you to bert kampfert" came from the orchestra to gehor. This song is about joy and pain, about confusion and with the songs "woves fix you", played by the school band and "thank you for the music", a song of the swedish group abba, the good two-hour concert came to an end.

There was some melancholy when the pupils of class 6c said goodbye to their teacher tanja lorenz. The summer concert of the dr.-ernst-schmitt-realschule ebern received a positive response throughout, for which florian schraud expressed his thanks, and principal hartmut weis was able to lean back and enjoy the concert of "his school" with the numerous visitors to listen.

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"Since chemnitz, the questions of german unity are more topical than ever", CSU member of the state parliament jurgen baumgartner emphasized at a ceremony at franz-josef straub's memorial stone in banz monastery. "We are proud of how courageously, wisely and peacefully the people of east germany have asserted their will for freedom and unity. And have the confidence that we are now building the common house more carefully and better than ever before", he said.

But there were still enormous tasks to be accomplished. The consequences of decades of planned economy lasted much longer than expected. Problems still persisted. "Our hopes and ambitions are often more than one step ahead of things, and occasionally they go far beyond what is objectively possible", stated the delegate. A harmful self-overload threatens from the impatience with economic reconstruction. This impatience is understandable, but it must not be exaggerated to the detached questioning of our unity. It is also true that germany has to face three challenges at the same time: the reconstruction of east germany, the enormous pressure of modernization caused by new technologies and globalization, and migration.

The new constitutional mandate "equal living standards has not only been developed as a guideline, but is being worked on successfully. "We are the future", said baumgartner in reference to the high economic performance and almost full employment in lichtenfels. With the baur campus and the medical school, the district of lichtenfels is developing into a university region. With the redevelopment of the town and city centers, we have made our homeland even more livable and lovable.

Baumgartner gave serious thought to the issue of flight and migration. Nowhere else do the camps of opinion oppose each other in such a hostile manner. "As long as the issue remains a moral battlefield between two poles, we will not do justice to the real task, namely to reconcile the reality of the world and the possibilities of our country", he was convinced.

Defending what has been achieved

CSU district chairman and county councilor christian meibner pointed out that democracy is not always easy. "The wind is coming from the front, he said, referring not only to the squalls that swept across the plateau. In the current political situation, it is not always easy to make decisions that are not always accepted. "Forces that question and even want to overturn our democratic order must be fought.", he demanded. The task now is to defend what has been achieved. 

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2013 will be a very expensive year for some of the citizens of the iphof district of hellmitzheim, because after the acceptance of the last tree removal in the context of the city construction requirement, the city will send out the contribution notices in the next few weeks. This was stated by mayor josef mend to the 60 or so people present at the town hall meeting.

For smaller properties, the amounts to be paid will be between 4,000 and 6,000 euros; for larger properties, the contributions will be two to three times as high, explained mend. He pointed out that the people of burgenland have known for many years what they were facing financially.

Other important topics at the town hall meeting were the life project, the kindergarten, the old school building, which is now empty, the burgerbus and the painting of the burgerhaus.

Mend gave a comprehensive presentation of the mabnahmen and calculations regarding the redevelopment of the town center before. The construction period for the various measures – town square design, sports field road and monchsondheim road – lasted from 2002 to 2011, whereby the monchsondheim road was only accepted at a late stage. This is why it is only now that the corresponding road expansion contributions can be demanded from the residents.

The total cost of renovating the town center is around 1.3 million euros; the grants have a volume of 504,100 euros. In contrast to the village renewal, however, these payments cannot be used to relieve the burden on the townspeople, mend emphasized. On the affected 56 properties with an area of 55 368 square meters must therefore be allocated 7.35 euros per square meter. Per plot this results in an amount of 7265 euros.

According to the mayor, one installment will be collected this year, the second installment will be collected next year. "When families have financial problems, you have to look for solutions in the city", stressed the head of the city council.

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The winter tour led from the katzbach valley, past the kreuzkirche church and the mangersreuth school, crisscrossing the settlement with its now mostly rebuilt settlement houses. One or the other memory about incidents and events was told, for the younger ones this was mostly new territory. Back we went over the eastern part of mangersreuth past the former youth hostel, which was once owned by the nature lovers. This information was also completely new for many participants.

Back at the starting point, chairman peter adamowski thanked all the helpers and gave a brief outlook on the coming events.

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It was the eighth time that the DLRG district association had organized its well-known 24-hour swimming event in cooperation with the city of kronach and the municipal utilities. A total of 341 water rats – 59 more than two years ago – covered a distance of exactly 1192,700 meters, another great achievement! However, the top result of the last event was not quite reached, as some strong performers were not at the start.

Shared seats

From saturday, 1 p.M., to sunday, 1 p.M., the participating water rats aged between five and 75 could do their laps to their heart’s content or according to their condition. Swimming breaks were possible at any time. Also the swimming style could be chosen freely. The hardest swimmers from the respective competition classes were honored with winner trophies. Since there were many close decisions and many a podium position had to be shared, it was sometimes very tight on the "podium".
With 32,050 m, xenia makeev (age group 2003) not only achieved first place in her age group of nine to 15 years, but also the best overall performance of all participants. Second place in this age group went to lara-marie hofmann (15 km), third place to sarah hofmann (12 km). With marius jagusch (age group 2002) and konstantin mesch (age group 2004) two young swimmers reached the top of the podium with a swimming performance of 22.5 km. Third place was awarded three times this year, as kilian wegner, bastian martin and felix kopp each covered 20.1 km.
The most vigorous swimmer of the competition was gerhard wich (born in 1964), who in his age group of 15 years struggled through the water for exactly 30 150 m, followed by bjorn dorsch with 17.9 km and ulrich beez with 17.1 km.
With a strong 30 km, svenja fischer (age group 1999) equaled her swimming performance from 2015 and was again able to secure first place among swimmers over 15 years of age. Karin dressel with 19 km and jessica dietz with 17.9 km followed with a clear distance on the second and third rank.
But not only the performances of the day’s best, but also of all other participants were more than respectable. 341 participants – 144 women and 197 men – took part in the one-day endurance swim. In the youngest age group (up to and including 8 years), florian fischer (age group 2010) and anika walter (age group 2009) won the boys’ race and the girls’ race, respectively. Florian managed 4750 m, anika 8400 m.
The oldest participants also presented themselves in top shape – horst werner in the men’s category with 75 years (2.1 km) and barbara neubauer in the women’s category with 62 years (1600 m). Youngest participants were six-year-old max neidhardt (50 m) and one-year-younger freya schuberth (1 km). The participating groups also ran smoothly. DLRG kronach was once again unbeatable in the club competition. This year it covered an incredible 498.55 km, and the school with the highest number of participants was frankenwaldgymnasium with 30 swimmers.

"For the preservation of the crana mare"

The starting signal was given punctually at 1 p.M. On saturday – by the patron of the event, kronach’s mayor wolfgang beiergroblein, in the presence of the BLSV district chairman karl H. Fuck. DLRG district chief thomas gehring thanked the city and the municipal utilities as cooperation partners.
Beiergroblein thanked – also in his function as deputy district administrator – the DLRG-kreisverband kronach for the organization of the top event as well as for their readiness for action during the whole year. Under rough applause he assured to continue to use all his power for the preservation of the crana mare.
Kilian wegner, renate knobloch, richard bar and barbara neubauer were the first swimmers to enter the water before the pool was opened to all other water rats.
After the successful premiere two years ago, the recording of the participant data and the swimming performance was again done electronically. Responsible for this was christian esser, who was happy about a "super great result" and a record number of participants, which was not expected due to the good weather.
The BLSV district chairman karl H. Fick was responsible for awarding the most active swimmers with their trophies and medals. Beforehand, gehring as well as his deputy klaus bacher wanted to thank all sponsors and the many helpers. "You have done a very good job", bacher especially praised the great support of the water sports clubs – gymnastics and the swimming club of kronach – as well as the members of the DLRG and their members. But the biggest thanks goes to the participating swimmers. The crana mare was provided free of charge by the municipal utility company.

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"40 years ago, I had to introduce myself to the burgermeisters, now the burgermeister even comes to see me," says, irmgard bauerfeind says with a laugh during her farewell speech. She likes to think back to the long years at the elementary school and the former main school rodachtal. First in zeyern and then in the new school building in marktrodach.

"I received the letter from the government on 6. August 1973 again found, although already somewhat yellowed, but clearly to read is that I must in the rodachtal and I have not regretted that until today", says the retiring teacher thoughtfully. And her private happiness also affected her fellow teachers, so that after her marriage to reinhard bauerfeind she never considered a transfer. "For me, for all of us, a dream came true when we moved into the new school building. Working with the three cs – church, community, kindergarten – has always been very enjoyable for me. But what I will miss most now is 'my children', their ignorance, open-mindedness and their joy", irmgard bauerfeind gets a little sentimental. But the look goes back in gratitude, even if the farewell hurts her a bit.

There are many students who are happy to finally be released from school after nine, ten or twelve years. Irmgard bauerfeind has spent 40 years at the school, not counting her active school years, which were another 13 years plus her studies. She was and is a strong pillar of the school in marktrodach.

8000 school days

Since she started at the school in zeyern in september 1973, at that time still unmarried and as "mrs. Burgis", a lot of time has passed. Principal annegret hummrich loved to review this time in her farewell speech. "You have been with us for 40 years. That's about 1600 school weeks and about 8000 school days, some of which must have been very strenuous, stressed annegret hummrich. Irmgard bauerfeind not only taught her students to read and write, but also to love nature and to marvel at god's creation.

Very much changed

A lot has changed in the school sector in the past 40 years. Irmgard bauerfeind always found the time to keep up with the latest developments through continuing education and to bring these new insights into the classroom. "We often found you here after you had finished your work, meticulously preparing for the next day's lessons. You are a teacher with body and soul and that for each and every one of your students", emphasized principal hummrich. Irmgard bauerfeind also invested a lot of time in the intensive discussions with parents and in the positions she still held in the school. She was the cooperation officer for the two kindergartens and the environmental officer. Under her leadership, the rodachtal elementary school has now been named an "environmental school in europe" for the second time.

The school's most important teacher

But now the term "time" is being used for the outgoing teacher, taking on a completely different meaning. Two years ago, her husband, reinhard, said goodbye to her at the primary and secondary school in oberes rodachtal. He, too, had been at the school for 40 years and now the two of them can enjoy their retirement together, they now have the time to pursue their hobbies or to go on spontaneous vacations without having to pay attention to vacation dates.

The deputy chairman of the staff council, jens schmidt, thanked irmgard bauerfeind for the many happy hours she gave to the children and the teachers. Mayor norbert grabner (SPD) also said goodbye to "his teacher". "A cornerstone of our school is leaving us and she can certainly tell us a lot about her 'school days'", said grabner.

On behalf of the parents' council, sandra peetz and carmen schnell thanked irmgard bauerfeind for always being there for the children and parents, not only during lessons, but also beyond. With a poem, in which each member of the second class contributed a line, the girls and boys also confirmed this.

This festive farewell was framed and accompanied by the students of the 2nd grade. Class "her class, as irmgard bauerfeind proudly says, who sang with flute accompaniment, the classes 3a and b, who had created their own lyrics for their song.

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The 1200 or so protestants in grafenberg can rejoice because they are getting a young and dynamic priest in the form of the 31-year-old nurnberg-born associate pastor johannes meisinger. This sunday at 14.30 a.M. Dean christine schurmann inaugurates him in his new church office in the church of trinity.
"Glorious sunshine, plus a wonderful view of french switzerland", this is how the father of a young daughter sums up his first impressions of grafenberg. Born and raised in nurnberg, meisinger completed an exchange year in the u.S. While attending the wilhelm lohe school there. This led him to the 14. Parliamentary sponsorship program (PPP) for twelve months to mount shasta high school in california, where he lived with a family. Its members are members of the free evangelical church.

16 months of parental leave

During this time, and encouraged by long conversations with his host father and close contacts with the american youth, johannes meisinger came to the realization that he wanted to build an ever closer relationship with god and to bring the message of god and jesus a little closer to other people.
Johannes meisinger, you don't have to shy away from these rough words, felt called to become a pastor. After graduating from high school and doing his civilian service in the protestant church community of st. Georg in nurnberg-kraftshof he started to study theology in erlangen and later in tubingen. At the beginning of 2008, he successfully passed the theological entrance examination. During his guest vicariate in the wurttemberg church community of kusterdingen, his ines was able to complete her specialist training as an internist.
As a result, meisinger, a young father and churchman, took a 16-month parental leave. During this time, he devoted himself entirely to raising his daughter lena. Today lena is two years old.

Sports hobbies

In his free time, the 31-year-old loves to play basketball. He is also a passionate snowboarder. Johannes meisinger also enjoys making music with his wife: she on the piano, he on the trumpet.
His parental leave was followed by a period of employment as a pastor in oberferrieden, before he finally received the call to grafenberg in upper franconia. There, meisinger succeeds pastor jochen muller, who moved to kunreuth last june after more than five years as pastor.
After the thoroughly positive experiences in "schwabenlandle and the lovely people there, johannes meisinger and his wife are now looking forward to getting to know grafenberg, which is known for its open-mindedness and cordiality. "I want to get acquainted with the parishioners and, above all, to exercise my ministry in the spirit of ecumenism", says meisinger.

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Writing a quick whatsapp message? A quick look at the cell phone to see who made the call? No problem within your own four walls. Neither in the office. Highly dangerous in the car. The police department in kitzingen is holding a day of action to draw attention to the dangers of distraction in traffic.

Harald hufnagel and his colleagues have had to record many accidents in which the drivers were simply distracted. Eating, drinking, a conversation with the passenger, crying children in the back seat: all this can lead to a moment of inattention while driving. And already it happened.

At the start of the school year, hufnagel was assigned to fischergasse in kitzingen to ensure the safety of the school’s freshmen. He observed a woman who, with a cup of coffee in her hand, was visibly having problems maneuvering her car. "There are many types of distraction," says the traffic officer at the kitzingen police station.

Cell phone is most dangerous

However, drivers are most often distracted by their cell phones – and that is almost always dangerous, as the statistics underline.

The probability of causing a traffic accident while reading or writing a message is twelve times higher than without any distraction.

14 meters covered by a driver traveling at 50 km/h in just one second. Anyone who uses the navigation system or writes a quick text message takes much longer than a second to do so. The distance he covers in the car is correspondingly long – without really paying attention.

The dangers of using a cell phone in traffic have been an issue for about five years now. "Since 2017, operating a cell phone while driving has been sanctioned," reports hufnagel. 100 euros plus 28.50 euros fee for a point in flensburg. This is the penalty. In expert circles, however, voices are already being raised that demand an additional driving ban of one month for a second death of this kind. "Some people only learn through severe punishment," says hufnagel. A study in the u.S. Showed that 68 percent of accidents are due to distraction. In germany, the figure is around 50 percent.

Insightful drivers

One out of two accidents could be avoided if drivers would focus on the essentials. "Just think of the rear-end collisions at traffic lights," says hufnagel. "They are almost always due to distraction."The amazing thing is that hardly any drivers who are stopped deny the danger posed by their misconduct. "People are usually reasonable," says hufnagel, reporting an astonishing phenomenon: people who drive with their cell phones in their ears usually slow down. "Many drivers instinctively let off the gas because they know their behavior is dangerous."However, very few people turn it off. The temptation is just too rough. Here, too, harald hufnagel has a tip. "I simply put my cell phone in my backpack when i drive."

And when the toddler cries on the back seat? "Look ahead, reassure the child and pull over at the next opportunity," the expert advises.

On thursday, 20. September, the police will carry out the "distraction" action day throughout the district of kitzingen. In concrete terms, this means that four stationary controls will be set up, and for a total of five hours, officials will focus more intensively on this problem. "Of course, the colleagues who are on patrol also look more intensely on that day at admirers who are distracted," says hufnagel. With this day of action, the civil servants want to draw attention to a form of misconduct that is becoming more and more widespread. Every driver must take the right consequences for himself or herself.

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