Baunatal says goodbye to VW prosperity | EUROtoday

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Without Volkswagen, Baunatal wouldn’t exist. When the automotive producer's manufacturing unit was established in Altenbauna, simply exterior Kassel, 50 years in the past, seven small cities merged to type a metropolis. Thanks to the excessive commerce tax funds made by the automotive firm, an infrastructure was created within the many years that adopted that many different municipalities with fewer than 30,000 inhabitants can be jealous of: two swimming swimming pools, certainly one of which is a big aqua park, and each district has a sports activities park. For some time, daycare was free. The cash was there. The metropolis was capable of construct up bigger reserves.

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