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The participating groups offered a colorful spectacle to the numerous visitors at the traditional carnival in the carnival stronghold of stadtsteinach on sunday (we reported). The forces of the local police department, the fire department and the bavarian red cross were primarily occupied with some excessively intoxicated carnival friends at the event, which was largely peaceful.

A 14-year-old boy from the district had to be taken to the children’s hospital in bayreuth by the emergency services. Since he did not want to calm down or be treated due to his high level of alcohol, officers from the stadtsteinach police department had to accompany him. Where the teenager got the alcohol will be the central question of the stadtsteinach police investigation.

Waves are currently running high in bamberg and schweinfurt over the imminent withdrawal of the u.S. Army. 7500 u.S. Soldiers are still stationed there, wildflecken once housed 8000 soldiers, until 1994 came what bamberg and schweinfurt still have to face: the final capture of the star-spangled banner. Heinz leitsch from modlos can sympathize with the 600 or so civilian employees who are worried about losing their jobs in schweinfurt alone: he experienced the same thing in mannheim nine months ago.
"We are still trying to solve the problems by withdrawal", says wildflecken mayor alfred schrenk (SPD). The conditions, however, were completely different: there were more than twice as many soldiers stationed in wildflecken as there are inhabitants in the community. Wildflecken was one of the first U.S. Bases to be notified for closure after the end of the cold war, in 1993. Only bremerhaven had been abandoned before, schrenk recalls.
"There were no concepts for conversion back then", the community was left to its own devices, according to schrenk. On the other hand, there have been one-off measures to mitigate the loss. The most important was that the federal army took over the former u.S. Barracks and training area in 1995. On the other hand, the clothing center sud at arnsberg was built for a two-digit million sum.
"Everything has its advantages and disadvantages, schrenk looks back on decades of working with u.S. Forces outside the city. It was a stroke of luck for the local economy, but the security situation in the town was very bad. Schrenk wavers between for and against, but says clearly: "if the news came that the americans wanted to come back to wildflecken, we would take them."
The memories of U.S. Troops are much fresher for heinz leitsch. On 31. May 2011 the lights went out for him at work in mannheim. Until 2005, he was a self-employed construction technician. "I was fed up with construction," he says, he reports on the downturn in 2004. Because he has always been "weak for all things american" he initially moved to the U.S. Housing office in schweinfurt. "The most important tool was the command of the english language, the rest will be learned."
A foretaste of the possibilities was already given by the return of the bad kissingen housing area. "I did a rough part of the evacuation of the last american families from daley village at that time. It was spooky when the houses in the cordoned-off area became emptier and emptier."
In mid-2005, leitsch moved to a permanent position in mannheim, but hoped to return: "a hope that was dashed at the latest with the closure of the u.S. Site in wurzburg: many wurzburgers were offered positions in schweinfurt. And in some cases, positions were even filled twice, just to avoid having to lay people off."
In mannheim the modloser worked in the contracts department of the u.S. Housing office. "Unfortunately, the extra income compared to the schweinfurt job went to the cost of the apartment in mannheim and the commute to modlos on the weekends. But that didn’t matter to me at all. What mattered to me was that I had a job and could take care of my family," says, says leitsch.
"You have the feeling of working in another country, even if you are only separated from the rest of germany by a fence", describes the modloser the work with the US army. This already starts with the security check by armed soldiers. And: cars, office furniture and even pens in the barracks are "made in USA".
Leitsch worked in the "benjamin franklin village" with over 2000 housing units. "The site had roughly the same population as bad bruckenau", heinz leitsch reports. This included three schools, kindergarten with preschool, shopping center, hotel, hospital, sports facilities and much more.
The then 41-year-old continued his education and became head of the contracts department and housing engineering technician in 2009 was responsible for all construction and maintenance work, invitations to tender and complaints. "The organizational structure of the U.S. Military services is strictly hierarchical," says leitsch, reports leitsch. German employees can only rise to certain positions in this hierarchy; everything else is reserved for US burghers. "Even when there were twenty german employees and only one american in a conference, english was the only language spoken. The working environment was also exclusively american."
Leitsch remembers the day-to-day work very well: "our american departments were all overstaffed by german standards. Therefore, one could certainly take one’s time with the completion of one’s tasks." The shock was all the greater when the approximately 700 civilian employees were informed in the fall of 2010 that the site was to be closed down on december 31, 2010. May 2011 was announced. "The fear of relegation to the social nothingness was going around", leitsch sums up the mood. Since his superior found a job in grafenwohr, leitsch was responsible for the multi-million dollar maintenance budget as technical director for a short time after march 2011. His main task: to prepare all the buildings, including a small village with detached and semi-detached houses for senior officers, for handover to the superior office in heidelberg and to the federal real estate agency.
"There was so much to organize that it was hard to think about. Only when on 31. May 2011 the flag of the site was rolled down in front of our eyes, i really realized that my american adventure was now probably over," he says, says leitsch.
Although the modloser had offers from grafenwohr and stuttgart. But for family reasons a move was out of the question and he did not want to commute again. "At the beginning I thought I would get used to a weekend marriage and the constant back and forth, but it doesn’t work in the long run", he explains the return to rhon clearly. The notice was not given until 30. September 2011 effective. "Time enough to look around on the regional job market." Today, heinz leitsch at the beck car dealership in wildflecken is in charge of importing vehicles from the united states, among other things.

In addition to other novels that have not yet been published, he has put his literary work to paper in his spare time over the past few years. Manuel schedel is currently completing a dual study program in business informatics in ingolstadt and is working as a software developer for mobile end devices.
His 617-page novel "the gate of the full moon" is a great success is the prelude to a trilogy about valthenmbaril, the legendary world of the elves.
Even as a child, schedel says, he enjoyed playing role-playing games and reading fantasy stories in his free time. "With increasing age I found more and more like it." In the meantime, writing is an excellent balance to everyday life for the young man. In addition, "i can immerse myself in a world of my own making. There I can freely develop my creativity and give free rein to my imagination".
Manuel schedel is currently working on the final volume of the trilogy. The second volume, with the working title "the dragon hunt is almost finished.
The thoughts, according to the author, come to him while writing. At the beginning, he had a rough concept in his head. "But with every capital that comes out of my virtual pen, the following actions become clearer before my inner eyes!"
His goal is to complete the trilogy by july 2012. From july onwards, he plans to spend a six-month study semester in new zealand to gain professional experience. The author is sure that during this time he will often let his thoughts wander into the world of fantasy and then put them down on paper.
"The full moon gate" can be obtained directly from noel verlag or online booksellers. Of course, it can also be ordered in normal bookstores.

Major events cast their shadows ahead in kunreuth. The fire department celebrates from 17. Until 20. May their 150. Jubilee and pays with it to the oldest fire departments in bavaria. At the same time it hosts the district fire brigade day.

The kunreuth district administrator hermann ulm became the patron of the group. It is a home game for him. As chairman hans-jurgen held explains, the fire department began preparations as early as january 2016.

Inge ubelhack from sonnefeld received the medal of merit of the order of merit of the federal republic of germany from the hands of the district administrator sebastian straubel (CSU/LV) in the presence of mdl martin mittag (CSU) and mayor michael keilich (CSU).

A serious accident

The laudatory speech by the district administrator revealed that this was due to many years of tireless and devoted care for his son stefan, who was so severely injured in a traffic accident in 1996 that he has been paraplegic from the head down ever since.