Festures: Bad Vilbel prepared for Hessentag – criticism of excessive prices | EUROtoday

A number of days earlier than the beginning of the Hessentag in Bad Vilbel this Friday (June 13), the town within the Wetteraukreis sees itself properly geared up for the state pageant. “We are in the last trains of the preparations and are pleased that it will start soon,” stated a metropolis spokesman for the German Press Agency. “A little stage fright is also there, but that’s always a good sign, because then it succeeds.” Under the motto «we carry Hesse On the stage »Visitors can anticipate a various program with over 1,600 occasions in Bad Vilbel till June twenty second.

Taxpayer Association criticizes “Pomp and Gigantism”

Criticism of the excessive prices of the state pageant comes from Federation of taxpayers Hesse. At the earlier Hessentag final 12 months, the host metropolis of Fritzlar on the time had allotted with a Hessentagenarena for value causes. The undeniable fact that Fritzlar was performed new and extra economical methods had given hope that “realism and modesty,” stated a spokesman. But with the Bad Vilbeler version, “Pomp and Gigantism” can be used once more. “There is again a million deficit and the associated hangover mood according to the festival,” stated the spokesman.

Thow with the thumb for “successful and peaceful festival”

From David Rauber’s perspective, managing director of the Hessian Association of Cities and Municipalities, each procedures have their justification. «Fritzlar has proven {that a} smaller Hessentag can be engaging and succeed. Bad Vilbel is just the considerably bigger metropolis, financially robust and is totally different from Fritzlar in the midst of the Rhein-Main-Bollungsraum, »defined Rauber. This implies that there are numerous extra potential guests to Bad Vilbel than for Fritzlar – “simply because of the location in the country,” stated Rauber. The metropolis awaits round 750,000 guests for this 12 months’s Hessentag, in Fritzlar there have been round 519,000 guests final 12 months.

In normal, the Hessentag cities in the long term would have one thing of the massive occasion – an improved infrastructure, but additionally extra consciousness within the area, defined Rauber. “All of this has its lasting value even in financially difficult situations.” The entire municipal household retains your fingers crossed for Bad Vilbel that it will likely be a profitable and peaceable pageant – “precisely because we know about the current problems related to such events”, Rauber additionally says with a view to monetary issues and partly cancellations in different Hessian cities.

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