“Boulder from the heart”: ski jumping mixed conquers gold

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The german ski jumping mixed team around katharina althaus and karl geiger from oberstdorf has caused a huge surprise with gold at the home world championships in allgau, leaving even the favorites norway and austria behind. "That is extremely surprising. We have hoped to be able to jump for a medal. That we win gold is fantastic," said manner national coach stefan horngacher. Women’s coach andreas bauer said on ARD: "I am very proud of the girls. A boulder has fallen from my heart."

Geiger, althaus, markus eisenbichler and anna rupprecht were all smiling at each other at the end of the schattenberg ski jump after the triumph that no one had expected to happen. "For us there was only something to win, that’s what we did," said horngacher. The completely happy althaus hopped like a bouncy ball through the run-out in her hometown, for silver winner geiger it was the next huge triumph in his home stadium, which was empty due to corona crowds. "Simply fantastic" is what althaus called the coup.

Geiger and eisenbichler, who have already experienced a number of successes in their careers, were also pleased with themselves. "It’s really indescribable. We all really pulled together, it was incredible," said geiger. The entire quartet did a "brutal job". Eisenbichler, who even saw germany as a "brutal aubenseiter", told of a little motivational speech he had given before the competition to the two teammates althaus and rupprecht, who had previously been weak at the world championships.

At the end of the first week of the world championships, fur germany continued its remarkable winning streak in the mixed team, in which two women and two men each jump off the hill. In 2015 in falun, sweden, in 2017 in lahti, finland, and in 2019 in seefeld, austria, there had also been the world championship title in each case. Eisenbichler (2017 and 2019) as well as althaus (2015 and 2019) were each at the title twice before, geiger two years ago in tirol. For rupprecht it is the first world championship title. "The medal feels extremely good," said eisenbichler, who has nothing planned for the rest day on monday: "relax. Sleep in."

Like his colleague geiger, althaus also fulfilled a dream in his own town with just 10 points.000 residents. "No one had expected us. We had such an outsider role. I can’t believe that things are going this way. To win a medal at home beats so many things," said the 24-year-old. Althaus held out the prospect of a "glass of champagne or beer

She had suddenly found her top form again in time for the mixed competition after poor performances this week and gave the german quartet plenty of confidence with jumps of 104 and 99.5 meters. Eisenbichler (100 and 98.5 meters) and rupprecht (92.5 and 98.5 meters) also improved after poor performances on the normal hill. "There’s something in there today. I don’t know what to say or what to think right now. I’m grateful to the coaches for giving me the confidence," said "eisei.

Geiger kept his high level from the day before, when he won silver in the individual with 103,5 and 102 meters. This time the allgauer jumped twice 99.5 meters and secured the gold medal in the last of eight rounds. Norway was only second despite dominator halvor egner granerud and olympic champion maren lundby. In austria, the two mannerists in particular were unable to keep up with the german duo. When geiger brought the victory over the finish line, there was pure joy even without an audience.

Forchheimer stadtfest: satisfied organizers, delighted landlords and blocked streets

"The courage to redesign the forchheimer stadtfest has been rewarded", innkeeper christoph kauer is pleased. After four sunny days in forchheim, the organizers draw a thoroughly positive conclusion. From ascension day to sunday, a wide range of music and events with eight stages and eleven food and attraction stands attracted numerous guests to the city center. "The party was glorious. The concept, which was aimed at everyone, has worked", stresses manfred schade of the "heimforteil" association of handlers. "The many visitors who strolled through the city center on thursday show that it was a very popular festival."

Peaceful festival in forchheim

The city festival has established forchheim as a "brand" made better known and the whole city benefits from it. Schade has many "unknown faces" the czech people presented a folk tale called "the coarse rube". This speaks for the fact that the festival has gained supra-regional fame. The varied program in particular sets the new town festival apart from other "overcrowded beer festivals" from.

New forchheim town festival concept: a colorful mix for big and small

The forchheim police are also very satisfied with the course of the city festival. The officers were hardly called into action and the festival was peaceful, explains robert schaffranietz of the forchheim police department. "The planning was a complete success. The family-run festival had a calmer pace – which is one of the reasons why there were hardly any disputes," emphasizes, confirms head of the public order department klaus backer.

Every day, employees of a security company were on duty to monitor the access roads and patrol the festival grounds. A small incident could not spoil the mood: on sunday smallest chunks fell from the historic town hall onto some benches at the town hall square. "But that hardly caused us any concern. We reacted very quickly in terms of security, dismantled the bank and cordoned off the area," says a pleased, explains backer.

Good mood and full streets for father's day

The bottom line is that the targeted programming had a positive impact on the atmosphere at the festival. "For us it was the first time that we have equalized a city center festival in such a way", said backer. In contrast to the former old town festival, the guests had already come to the festival grounds at noon on christmas eve. "It was really great", the head of the public order department is pleased.

"I have not seen the city so full for a long time", adds christoph kauer. He and his host colleagues are very satisfied, he says. "The innkeepers in the main street were rather busy at lunchtime and others were in a good mood in the evening, for example in the pharmacy street. Everyone has benefited from his concept, the landlord of the town pub finds.

Also the "flanierkrugla" were well received. "Many not only accepted the concept, but also took the krugla home with them." out of almost 2000 sold tickets, only about 600 came back. Speak: three quarters of the "flanierkrugla" the visitors took it home with them as a souvenir. "There are also many foreigners from the area nurnberg come. We received feedback from the guests that the many different types of music were particularly well received."

Street blocking criticized

Criticism brought however the road blockage around the market place with itself. Christian frank, owner of a butcher shop in hornschuchallee, denounced via facebook: "i'm thinking about how i'm supposed to drive through the marketplace and back and deliver to a confirmation for 50 people on sunday afternoon. Every entrance and exit is blocked or private land", writes frank and complains that he was not informed sufficiently.

Head of the public order office, mr. Backer, points out that the closed roads were advertised in the city gazette, among other things. On thursday, the closure of hornschuchallee was absolutely justified. "We reacted directly on friday and the street was open until the end of the festival", so backer. Security service employees had even stood in hornschuchallee to warn drivers to drive slowly past the venue. "Maybe next year we'll write again directly to all the tradesmen in the city center", rooms kauer.

Festival committee discusses suggestions for improvement

Already next week the festival committee will meet to discuss suggestions for improvement. One example: the midsummer temperatures had made life difficult for many visitors to the city festival, which is why shady spots were especially popular. An idea of kauer: possibly to install a sun sail at the market place, if such hot weather is to be expected again.

"On the part of the restaurateurs, we must also praise the good cooperation with the public order office, the food inspectorate and the city manager elena buttner", emphasizes kauer. The city manager of forchheim played a key role in organizing the city festival. Since buttner had a day off on monday, she could not be reached for a statement. "Elena buttner has always tried to find a solution and we have always found an open ear with her. It really is a jewel for the city", praises host christoph kauer.

The organizers would be pleased if in the future other tradesmen from the city center would participate in the forchheim city festival. Klaus backer emphasizes: "such a new city festival naturally only really grows with time."

The fact that the sermon on the mountain became a topic of the council meeting, even if only in passing, was due to michael neubert, the founder of the initiative "schutzt das lillachtal" (protect the lillach valley). He liked that the municipality builds a mary chapel. But not in miniature, as stated on the agenda and criticized by him, but in smaller replica of the weibenoher monastery.

Weibenohe attracts with the lillachtal annually more and more hikers to hike to the lillinger fountain. The location for the chapel – the newly designated building area weber – let due to the mountain slope with protected flora and fauna the schopfung celebrate and bring abruptly the mountain sermon in mind.

Motion against the building area

The council members, on the other hand, had a different idea, since the motion also stated that the municipality should repeal all other existing statutes on urban land use planning for the construction of the chapel directly at the spring that rises there. "Now you see what it’s really about – against the construction area", said mayor rudolf braun (WGA).

He sees the motion with its appeal to christian conscience as the last chance of the petitioner to prevent the construction site from going ahead. One must have a lot of imagination to erect a smaller replica of the monastery only four hundred meters as the crow flies from the original one. To reach the requested chapel, the hikers had to walk up the mountain. There is a hiking trail there anyway, which only a few hikers use each year. "Hardly anyone goes that way", said mayor braun, who also found it strange that the municipality should build the chapel. "Especially if there is no funding proposal.", said braun.

Missing information

How rough the smaller image of the monastery should be was also a missing detail. "If it’s ten centimeters high, I’m for it", heinrich muller (UWG) said. The christian concern buried the municipal council. However, since the existing development plan and the other plans for the building area have already incurred considerable costs and dispositions have been made, the community council unanimously rejected.

Work crew should help again

Ash tree shoot death does not stop. Broken ashes were cut out every year. A conversation with the forster revealed that replanting should now begin. The municipality therefore wants to bring back the nature park work group of the association naturpark frankische schweiz-veldensteiner forst for other upcoming measures.

A day’s work costs between 700 and 750 euros. "This year they have de-bushed and built a new gelander, but it is not quite finished yet", rudolf braun explained the work that the team had only just completed. It was unanimously decided to bring the work team back to support them again next year.

Money for broadband expansion

As far as broadband expansion is concerned, weibenohe still has a lot of resources left to use. 1.1 million euros could still spend the community. "We will never need this", said the community leader. Grafenberg already. The neighboring town has only been challenged with ten percent, while weibenohe has been challenged with 90 percent in the internet expansion project.

From the first process, there were still two house connections on the weinberg, which now get faster internet. But at the sports center, at the waterworks and at the dog pound there is still no faster internet, said mayor rudolf braun. And the sports home in grafenberg also had to be supplied from the city. The idea was now to carry out the broadband expansion together, under the leadership of the municipality of weibenohe. Second mayor raimund schwarz (WGA) wanted to know what the timeline was like. "You can’t say that. At the moment three years are waiting", braun explained the order situation before the municipal councils approved the joint expansion of the grafenberg sports center.

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