Bread at its best – just like before!

Bread at its best - just like before!

There, bread was baked again on the weekend in the specially built wood-burning oven, and 23-year-old benedikt seiler from weilersbach had his premiere as a baker. Together with his wife heike, who is two years older, he is continuing the long family tradition of baking farmhouse bread in the wood-burning oven.
"Even as a child, I was always there when my grandmother baked bread once a month", says benedikt seiler, who took over the tradition two years ago together with his wife heike. Until four years ago, the seilers still kneaded the dough by hand, but then they bought a kneading machine, which now makes the work much easier.
The seilers bake exclusively rye bread according to old tradition. "The back", this is the name given to the dough used to fill a wood-burning oven. It consists of exactly 37.5 kilograms of dough and the ingredients are only rye flour, sourdough, yeast, salt and some kummel. This dough then has to rise in the baking trough for about one and a half hours before it is formed into three-pound loaves or croissants. "It’s a bit like rolling klobe, only rougher", says benedikt seiler.
The dough is blessed with a few sprinkles of holy water and seiler also makes a cross with three bars on the raw dough according to old custom. The first loaf, which was then "shot" in the oven, he provides with a cross. This so-called "kreuzlaib is unsaleable and eaten only by his own family. Seiler does not know whether this is superstition. "It has always been done in this way, so that the bread becomes something", he says. For his baking premiere in tuchersfeld, he and his wife heike shaped 28 loaves and nine kips.
Bread is made with five well-seasoned and dry bundles of rice, a bucket of straw and two sheets of newsprint. Later, another three or four such "bundala" were appointed, of branches from beech trees, fruit trees or willow wood. This shearing process takes about three hours. After that, the ashes are completely removed from the oven with the broom and the bread loaves can be "shot in" one by one become.
The first ten minutes are crucial for the color of the crust. "After that, you have to decide whether to close the oven door or leave it open", says seiler. The baking process itself then takes about another hour and a half. In between and afterwards, seiler sprinkles the bread with a little water. So the crust doesn’t crack and the bread is shiny when it’s done.

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Three girls make top music

Three girls make top music

Twelve-year-old leonie czech is already a real pro among the students of the city’s singing and music school. Three years ago, the young girl from herzogenaurach won first place in the "jugend musiziert" competition and the guitarist has now achieved the same feat again. She was very relaxed about it, because she wasn’t very excited, she said at the internal ceremony yesterday afternoon. "Stage fright? Nah – not really", she said.

But leonie was not the only schoolgirl from herzogenaurach who was successful in the regional competition in 2012. Three girls returned with a first-place finish. In addition to leonie (age group 3), these were seven-year-old johanna koppel and eight-year-old aileen liao in age group 1b. Both performed as a duo with violin and piano.

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The kitzingen town hall is full of history(s)

The kitzingen town hall is full of history(s)

He knows the town hall like no other. That is not surprising. Fritz lenhart can be found there almost every day. And has been for 25 years. Fritz lenhart is the janitor. And you can see the joy of his work in every step he takes through kitzingen’s jewel.

The city celebrates 450 years of the town hall this weekend. On friday evening with a festive event, on sunday with an open door day. Visitors can then, for example, take a look at the freshly waxed and polished historic wedding hall or walk up the spiral staircase in the old building. The latter had proved difficult and unpleasant a few days ago. "It looked wild here", says lenhart and has to smile himself.

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120,000 Cardiac deaths a year: the defibrillator can help

120,000 cardiac deaths a year: the defibrillator can help

For years, the annual christmas donation of the rehaklinik am kurpark in bad kissingen has gone to an institution, a needy individual or a project in the region. This time the clinic presented all guests and burgers of the spa town with a defibrilator, which has already been installed for a week in the passage between the fountain and walking hall. "We want to improve the medical infrastructure in bad kissingen", holger metz, commercial manager of the rehabilitation clinic, named the donation, which cost a total of 2033 euros and was realized by the bad kissingen center for telemedicine (ZTM) and the local forderverein health center.

"Four years ago, the ZTM launched its "AED offensive", project manager thomas schreiner said on friday at the official commissioning of the tenth automatic external defibrillator (AED) in the city center. The goal of the offensive is to have at least one such device in every town or village. "A defibrilator helps save lives, because sudden cardiac death can happen anywhere and at any time." The center for telemedicine has already installed more than 30 defibrilators in the county and neighboring areas – some with, but also without a direct telephone connection to the rescue control center in schweinfurt. While the device, which has long been installed on the outer wall of the arcade building, is connected to schweinfurt by telephone, this has not been done for the new device in the walking hall, which is only open during the day.

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Corona charges life insurance companies

Corona charges life insurance companies

The corona crisis is having an impact on private retirement provision: the major european insurer allianz on friday reported a sharp drop in its life insurance sales this year, as competitors of the munich-based dax group had previously done.

In germany, the industry leader sold new life insurance policies worth 117 million euros in the third quarter, down almost 39 percent on the previous year. In the U.S. And also in italy, the decline was similar; the only increase was in the asia-pacific region.

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Sulzfeld is a matter of the heart for submeier

Sulzfeld is a matter of the heart for submeier

For andreas submeier, fubball is not just a game. For him, soccer is both a passion and a science. He bleeds, is absorbed in this sport, on the other hand he presents himself as a cool analyst, as someone who studies the game like a chess position, who can read it. At the moment, for andreas submeier, soccer is a little bit more: emotion, emotion, emotion, a little bit of everything. "An affair of the heart," he says himself.

At TSV sulzfeld, which submeier has been coaching for a short time, he has experienced his best and most intensive time. He has roamed the heights of the national league with this club – and in 2007 had to abruptly give up as an active soccer player: at 26, when many people are just starting out in their sporting careers. Health came first.

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Slight recovery in the labor market in the usa

Slight recovery in the labor market in the usa

After the dramatic collapse of the U.S. Economy due to the coronavirus pandemic, there is a glimmer of hope for the first time again.

The unemployment rate fell from 14.7 percent the previous month to 13.3 percent in may, the u.S. Government announced friday. The number of people employed outside agriculture has increased by 2.5 million. The drop in unemployment came as a surprise: most analysts had expected it to rise to around 20 percent. The new york leading index dow jones rose in the morning (local time) at times by more than three percent to a good 27.000 points.

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Kronenfest: siebenburgers uphold tradition

Kronenfest: siebenburgers uphold tradition

The worried looks of the guests of the crown festival of the "siebenburg saxons in the herzogenaurach ponds brooks proved to be ungrounded. It remained dry from above, only at the end it rained candy from the top of the crown tree. Its trunk climbs as a high point of the festival every year the altknecht, this year the 18-year-old sebastian fleischer.

This siebenburg tradition has become an integral part of the town's cultural calendar. In addition to the rough crown, there was also a children's crown, which was presented for the first time on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the founding of the company. The crown was tied on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the nurnberg district association. The saxons of siebenburg wanted to introduce the children and young people to the tying of the crown. The regular meetings within the framework of the neighborhood give some people the strength to overcome homesickness and strengthen the cohesion of the compatriots in herzogenaurach and the surrounding area. For the children and young people, they are a framework in which the siebenburg community can be cultivated and passed on.

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Worries about young talent? Missing!

Worries about young talent? Missing!

In the past years, the sweat often flowed from the forehead of the lonnerstadter kerwasburschen. Not only because they had to lift a tree into the air, but also because the sun was burning down on them in the process. This year, on the other hand, the temperatures at the lonnerstadter kerwa were autumnally cool. But even that didn’t stop the kerwas boys from getting their kerwas tree out of the woods early in the morning on saturday. After a stopover for a sausage breakfast at the gasthaus popp in fetzelhofen, we continued towards lonnerstadt, where some visitors were already waiting for the boys.

"There are a lot of young boys with us", frank hablauer explained. There were 45 of them this year – compared to last year there were many new faces among them. While boys are sought elsewhere, there can be no complaints about a lack of new blood in lonnerstadt. Jan kropf led the kerwasburschen for years, but in a few weeks he will be getting married. And that means in lonnerstadt: officially he can’t be a lad anymore. True to an old kerwas song by the lads: "oh du verreck, verreck. Heiroodn you i ned." But with jan kropf it is now: "but when a scheena kummd, heirood at any hour!" So now jan kaiser and benjamin bar organize the young people.

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Despite nuclear turnaround: germany increases electricity exports

Despite nuclear turnaround: germany increases electricity exports

The net surplus of 22.8 terawatt hours (twh) was almost four times as high as in 2011, the federal statistical office in wiesbaden announced on tuesday.

In 2012, germany imported 43.8 terawatt hours (twh) via the european electricity grids. Foreign electricity suppliers – mainly from the netherlands, austria and switzerland – purchased 66.6 twh from germany. The value of electricity exports was 3.7 billion euros, and imports 2.3 billion euros. The bottom line was a generated electricity trading surplus of 1.4 billion euros.

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