For particularly economic behavior have been awarded in Frankfurt on Monday that several of the Hessian municipalities. The symbolic “saving the Euro” went to the North Hessian town of Bad Zwesten, the South the cities Raunheim and Taunusstein, as well as the district of Hersfeld-Rotenburg. The award was from the Federal government, the taxpayer and the Hessian cities and municipalities to 16. Times awarded.

The 4000 inhabitants of the village of Bad Zwesten in Schwalm-Eder-Kreis has passed two of your four highly loss-making and are rarely used by the village community houses of citizens associations. This would have made the facilities, to living centers, the tax number Federal praise. The municipality have also saved around 15,000 euros per year.

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Hersfeld-Rotenburg has founded together with the Schwalm-Eder-Kreis and vogelsbergkreis for historically important documents, the “inter-municipal district archives Northern Hesse”. This had led to considerable synergy effects, praised the Jury.

Raunheim has taken for ten kreisangehorige cities in the Kreis Groß-Gerau centre, the joint procurement serviced centrally. The annual savings of the tax-paying Federal estimated at 500,000 euros.

Taunusstein and seven other Rheingau-Taunus-local authorities were given the of saving the Euro for the project, funded by the “network Places”. It fit the elderly take care of elderly people, so that they can live as long as possible in their own apartment.