05. 04. 2001
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The plan has been announced to repair and upgrade the runway at Baden-Söllingen airfield (now Baden Air Park) by August 2001. The costs are estimated at about four and a half million German marks. The business concept is to increase its passenger capacity to 50 000 per year by the year 2006. (It is now a sub-section of Stuttgart Airport: see our previous news reports).
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08. 04. 2001
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The British Wiggins Group transferred 5 million marks to raise the capital of the Lahr Airport Company, thus paving the way for its takeover of the running of the airport.
The bed of the Schutter River is to be returned to a more natural state (see photos).
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10. 04. 2001
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Wiggins is trying to reach a consensus, as far as the problems of passenger and night flights are concerned, because of opposition from local communities, declared the group’s vice-president Tony Freudmann during a press conference at Lahr’s city hall. After the transfer of 5 million marks, Wiggins Group now holds the majority of shares in the Lahr Airport Company. The press conference was really only an introduction first visit as the firm remained silent on its future plans.
The likelihood of finding unexploded bombs from the Second World War from a 1944 Allied air attack on the Kaserne is now holding up a sales contract between the German Federal Government and the city of Lahr, due to the extra costs for cleaning up that would entail in the Lahr Kaserne area (see photos). |
12. 04. 2001
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A fire caused damages estimated at 1.5 million German marks. There were caused by a fire at the Nestler Wellpappe company that manufactures corrugated cardboard in Lahr. It started in an air conditioner in the storage building, but the actual cause is not yet known; (photos of the firm, taken last month).
Last year, for the first time, the annual number of tourist overnights in the "Health Resort" of Seelbach was recorded at over 100 000.
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17. 04. 2001
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Great success for the Lahr City Brass Band at the 6th International Brass Band Competition named "Flicorno d'Oro". The band took 4th place among 47 participants from ten different countries in five standard categories, at the second highest level. |
19. 04. 2001
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The road along the Kingzig Valley (B-33) from Offenburg to Haussach was where 26 people lost their lives in fatal accidents in 7 years (1. 1. 1994 - 17. April 2001). Unfortunately, drivers still often underestimate the danger of this ordinary road that carries so much transit traffic. (photos)
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21. 04. 2001
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The price of gas in Germany reached a record high of DM 2.14
(1.52 Can $) for a litre of regular unleaded at the filling stations (photos). |
23. 04. 2001
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Lahr Stadtpark’s "Tulip Fest" attracted many visitors again this spring when more than 25000 tulips were in bloom for the occasion which was also accompanied by an entertainment and activity program organized by the "Association of the Friends of Lahr Stadtpark (photos). |
24. 04. 2001
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A special "European" log raft is being built in the port of Rheinau on the Rhine River. It will be constructed of 2001 individual logs and measure 160 m x 23 m. All the trees were felled during the terrible wind storm named "Lothar" on 26 December 1999. The plan is to float this raft down the Rhine this summer for concert presentations, at over 50 places downstream towards the Netherlands (photos).
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26. 04. 2001
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Helmut Rau , Lahr's CDU member of the provincial parliament, has been appointed political secretary in the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Culture and Education.
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28. 04.2001
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The distance-learning universiy college AKAD,located in the former Canadian Black Forest Officers' Mess, in Lahr, has established itself well on the (new for Germany) market for studying beside one's normal job. Since its official opening in 1999 it has 206 students registered (photos).
Schwanau: the romantic trail beside the River Elz, leading from Wittenweier to Nonnenweier. (photo), was completely cut off by fallen trees caused by hurricane "Lothar" but is now accessible to walkers again. (photos)
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