Friday, August 31, 2007

Under sun even nectarines grow

Already from a distance one sees it shining, the sweet fruits of Werner Schöttlers nectarine tree. In the middle in Kirchhundem and not in Spain or Greece this splendour copy stands. Before two and a half years Schöttler pulled “from a nectarine core” a seedling. The developed itself owing to good care protruding. In the past year the tree carried three fruits - in this year there is no less than 220 leckere nectarines.
Tree carries 220 leckere fruits
How it came to such a large harvest, the hobby gardner can only suspect. “Beside the Nektarinenbäumchen a plum stands. Both rank among the stone fruit kind. In the previous year the plum tree had each quantity of fruits, now at all none”, and it assumed: “Perhaps the two always alternate.”

In Balingen the sun stands to the sales

In coming June the lease with” sun “- the landlord Martin sailor runs out. The future of the restaurant and the sun cellar are uncertain. The owner wants to sell. On an on-line platform the restaurant at the Balinger cattle market place stands to the sales. As” cult object “it is applied there. The restaurant with a surface of 220 square meters and the sun cellar with approximately 200 square meters are to be had for 465,000 euro. For the Strassencafé range annually 700 euro are to be paid to the city.

It is likewise noted on the Internet side that the lease with” sun “- operator only by 30 June 2008 runs. Martin sailor did not want to express itself yesterday whether he considers a purchase of the restaurant. At present everything is open, said it. The Frommerner Immobilienmaklerin Dagmar Jetter confirmed however on our request that the owner, a capital investor from Böblingen, which wants to sell” sun “. It gives already some prospective customers.

The sun spoils air Berlin the business

Sunny April and the aggressive price competition in the aviation industry spoiled the second quarter for the airline air Berlin. Under the line the airline earned 12.1 million euro, in the same previous year quarter was it still 30.1 million. At the stock exchange noted thereupon the share quotation of air Berlin yesterday scarcely over the level of the issue price of twelve euro occasionally noted the paper more than sieve per cent in the minus with 10,81 euro.

Sunshine lasting for weeks in Germany and continuous rains around the Mediterranean would have led at the beginning of the second quarter to proceeds decreases particularly for the airlines, which are active like air Berlin also in the routistic business, were called approximately it from the enterprise. Although the charter portion of air Berlin amounts to only 37 per cent of the conversion, the reservation decreases would have pierced with the tour operators fully on the enterprise. In addition, many of the otherwise usual spontaneous reservations were missing in April.

No sun, no floats

The swimming pool Uettingen was because of a reorganization in the last year closed, but from the year 2005 the summer does not withstand a comparison with the numbers 2007. Thus the swimming master estimates that in this year 60 to 70 per cent fewer water rats found their way in the Uettinger swimming pool. For patronages provided only owners of season ticket, who fell themselves also in less good weather into the tides.

The forest bath Lengfurt has to report similarly ernüchternde numbers. On average approximately two thirds of fewer visitors than still were noted in the previous year, say the Lengfurter swimming master. Drastically the numbers clarify the weather-conditioned calm air in the forest bath. If still full 21,926 bathers flowed after Lengfurt in July 2006, were in this year straight once 5993. Also in the holidays month August came with 5420 clearly less visitor than in the previous year, than full 11,080 guests were welcomed. Only in the Wonnemonat May approximately 30 guests came more than 2006 to swimming into the forest bath.

Sun comes up over the city hall

Even if it becomes grey in three months from the weather, still the sun over the city hall is to come up in this year: The Photovoltaikanlage planned there by the city enterprise EUV should be at the end of November as posed as possible.

For Wednesday past week runs the advertisement for 580,000 euro the expensive project, for which a sechswöchige construction period is intended. Michael Vorkötter of abacuses of energy systems GmbH the assigned planning designated Tuesday evening in the environmental committee the local conditions as conceivablly good. Vorkötter, whose enterprise is specialized in building integrated test specification plants, explained: “That is already a file T-fitting in the country to be able to build on so a plant Photovoltaik.”

The modules are aufgeständert on the city hall roof, cover for instance a surface of 750 square meters, to have a rated output of 100 kwp and supply in the year approximately 83,000 kilowatt-hours of electrical achievement. Which in the balance a saving of 54,000 kg CO2 means.

Background: Sunning and rain hit list

Rain summer 2007: Most precipitation fell in the south. However there also longest the sun shone to reconciliation. That shows the following statistics of the weather service Meteomedia from 1 June to 28 August.

· The “hit list” of the heaviest-rainfall places in Germany (data in litres per square meter):

1. Mindelheimer hut (Bavaria): 801 2. Balderschwang (Bavaria): 795 3. Upper peat (Bavaria): 741 4. Mummelsee (Ortenaukreis): 667 5. Looking in country (with Freiburg): 659

· The “hit list” of the sun-richest places:

1. Uhldingen Mühlhofen (Bodensee circle): 727 hours, 2. Mühldorf (Bavaria): 723 hours, 3. Memmingen (Bavaria) and Straubing (Bavaria): ever 722 hours, 5. Landsberg/Lech (Bavaria) and Munich airport: in each case 721 hours.

Sun desired

The supervisors of the Beach tournament at the school center let themselves not be frightened also by unfavorable Wetter-Prognosen “the prognoses to repeat”, say themselves Thomas Alexander of the cooperative bank Sprockhövel and mean with it the forecast regarding the weather, which is modest for the weekend rather: But the supervisors of the “cooperative bank Beach open” assume nevertheless on tomorrow's Saturday on the Volleyball plant at the school center already a little beach Feeling will arise.

“In the past years war´s also so”, Alexander says. “The weather forecast promised nothing property, but on the meeting day the conditions were always good. Only that is called correctly summer weather, which I would wish myself for a Beach tournament, had we not yet.”

The organizers are thus optimistic - and if it should rain nevertheless, tents are available.