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Deutsche Bahn is renovating the route between Hamm and Hanover. Travelers from the Ruhr area towards Hanover and Berlin will have to prepare for restrictions and longer travel times in the coming weeks.
At the end of next week, Deutsche Bahn will start extensive work on the ICE route between Hamm and Hanover. Long-distance trains will be rerouted for seven weeks. Especially in the first week from October 11th (9 p.m.) to October 18th, travelers have to allow significantly more time on the route from the Ruhr area to Hanover and Berlin.
The long-distance trains will not stop in Bielefeld and several other cities during this time. The railway said there will still be minor restrictions until November 29th. In local transport, commuters have to use replacement buses.
Up to 75 minutes longer from the Ruhr area to Hanover
The costs of the modernization project amount to around 90 million euros, as the DB Group also announced. Rails would be renewed over 35 kilometers between Hamm and Ahlen. A 650-tonne track reconstruction train is used, which can replace rails, sleepers and ballast in one operation. The railway also wants to renew two bridges.
The construction work has noticeable consequences on the busy route. From the evening of October 11th, ICEs will be redirected via other routes between Hamm and Hanover without stopping until October 18th. The journey will take around 60 to 75 minutes longer than usual, the railway said. Bielefeld, Gütersloh, Herford and Minden will not be served by long-distance trains during this construction phase.
There will then be a smaller diversion until November 29th. Long-distance trains then do not stop in Herford and take five to 30 minutes longer due to the detour. ICs from Leipzig end in Hanover throughout the construction project and do not continue to Cologne and Frankfurt as usual.
Redevelopment program is intended to make rail more reliable
It is best for travelers to find out about the effects online, the railway advised. The timetable changes have been entered into the online information systems. The years-long renovation backlog in the rail network is considered to be a main reason for the lack of reliability on the railway. Large renovation projects are therefore planned in numerous regions in the coming years. According to its own information, the group wants to close and fundamentally renew 40 important sections of the rail network by 2030.
In mid-September, following demands from politicians, the railway board presented the supervisory board with an overall program for the structural restructuring of the group within the next three years. The focus of “S3” is on the renovation of the infrastructure, railway operations and economic efficiency. The aim is to restore rail performance by 2027, achieve more punctuality and fewer disruptions, and also secure financial viability.
In the first half of the year, Deutsche Bahn generated a loss of 1.2 billion euros after interest and income taxes. In addition, in August only 60.6 percent of long-distance trains reached their destination on time. Railway boss Richard Lutz cites the broken infrastructure as the main cause.
School assistants in Lower Saxony are demanding higher pay. The wages are still based on a decree on the use of school assistants from 1994 – this must change, said the Education and Science Union (GEW) in Lower Saxony and the Lower Saxony-Bremen regional branch of the Verdi union. The unions want to draw attention to this today (8:30 a.m.) at a rally in front of the state parliament in Hanover. The Ministry of Education wants to address the issue.
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Among other things, school assistants support teachers in preparing lessons or school events. At the time of the original decree, they mainly made copies or procured and repaired overhead projectors, said a Verdi spokesman. Nowadays, the assistants set up digital boards, among other things, or take care of the students’ tablets and school administration systems. “Those who carry out such demanding tasks must also be paid better,” said the deputy state chairwoman of the GEW Lower Saxony, Isabel Rojas.
Ministry of Culture is working on a solution
Teaching or looking after technical equipment should “of course not be part of the range of tasks” of the assistants, said a spokeswoman for the Ministry of Education. The institution is currently working on a new definition of the field of work. It is being examined which tasks school assistants could take on in the future, also with a view to digitization. The remuneration should also be examined “with a view to possible new areas of activity”. The aim is to adapt the tasks to the current requirements of the schools and “to create a practical framework for both the employees and the schools”.
According to the Ministry of Education, there are currently around 660 school assistants employed at public general education schools in Lower Saxony. According to a survey recently conducted by the GEW and Verdi, they are highly valued in schools. According to the survey, 92 percent of the teachers surveyed in Lower Saxony said that it would be an additional burden if the school assistants only took on the tasks that were originally intended for them. 84 percent said that the students would then hardly be able to learn with modern work equipment.
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Rieka Pfitzner from the Gymnasium im Schloss in Wolfenbüttel achieved the best results in her Abitur, the Ministry of Education announced. With 895 out of 900 possible points, she achieved an average of 1.0. She is now doing a voluntary ecological year and is considering studying to become a teacher. “I want to use the year to look around a bit,” said the former student.
More than 1,800 fail their Abitur
The top group also includes Clara Sophie Brosig from the Adolfinum Gymnasium in Bückeburg (Schaumburg district), Nora Borowski from the Gymnasium in Bleckede (Lüneburg district) and Janneke Lobeck from the Neues Gymnasium in Wilhelmshaven with a score of 894 each.
Two of them will be studying medicine starting in October. In addition to a certificate of award, the young women received educational vouchers: 500 euros for the best, 250 euros each for the others.
A total of 28,795 students in Lower Saxony passed their Abitur exams this year. Of these, one in 50 students achieved a final grade of 1.0.
The overall grade point average of 2.45 was only slightly worse than in the previous school year (2.43). This means that the average was better than in the pre-Corona year of 2019 with 2.59. Six percent of all candidates (1,841) did not pass the Abitur.
Rieka Pfitzner from the Gymnasium im Schloss in Wolfenbüttel achieved the best results in her Abitur, the Ministry of Education announced. With 895 out of 900 possible points, she achieved an average of 1.0. She is now doing a voluntary ecological year and is considering studying to become a teacher. “I want to use the year to look around a bit,” said the former student.
Aurich (Lower Saxony) – He stabbed his mother more than 30 times with a knife and killed her. The court had to acquit the man. However, that does not mean he is free.
A spokeswoman for the Aurich Regional Court in East Frisia said the 38-year-old was not criminally responsible after the verdict was announced. However, the man must remain in a psychiatric clinic for an indefinite period of time.
Looking back: According to the prosecution, the argument escalated in mid-February in the house they shared in the town of Norden (Lower Saxony). The German attacked his mother (62) with a kitchen knife and inflicted numerous stab wounds and cuts on her head, shoulder and arms. The woman was so badly injured that she bled to death.
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The district court had no doubts about the crime, said the spokeswoman: “It was manslaughter.” The son reported the crime to the authorities himself. He also admitted the attack in court, said the court spokeswoman.
However, he stated that he could no longer remember what triggered the conflict. The verdict is not yet final.
Hanover (dpa/lni) – The number of corporate bankruptcies in the Lower Saxony economy has risen significantly. In 2023 there were 202 more applications to open insolvency proceedings than in the previous year. This corresponds to an increase of 17.4 percent, the State Office for Statistics in Lower Saxony (LSN) announced on Monday. 1,366 companies submitted a corresponding application to the local courts. The bankruptcies threatened the jobs of around 14,000 employees.
The increase in the number of employees affected shows that larger companies in particular will run into financial difficulties in 2023, the statistics authority said. Compared to the previous year, almost twice as many jobs (plus 93.7 percent) were threatened by insolvency in 2023.
There was also an increase in consumer bankruptcies. According to the information, around 10,000 private individuals submitted a corresponding application in 2023, which corresponds to an increase of 5.2 percent. The average debt burden per insolvent private person was around 37,000 euros in 2023.
According to the Federal Statistical Office, in the event of insolvency, a debtor is unable to pay off his debts or liabilities to creditors. Companies, freelancers or private individuals are therefore insolvent if they can no longer meet their obligations due to current or impending insolvency or excessive indebtedness.
According to the statisticians, there were around 2,400 more insolvency proceedings in Lower Saxony in 2023. Around 2,100 insolvency applications were filed by formerly self-employed people (minus 1.5 percent), around 230 proceedings were estate or joint estate insolvency proceedings (minus 10.9 percent) and around 50 applications were made by people who worked as partners or similar (minus 2.0 percent).
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