Last weekend I went to the first Christoph Street Day event to be held in Hochtaunuskreis to report on it for the Bad Homburger Woche. My article is on the front page today. Click here to read it (in German).
Donation Centre in Bad Homburg
January 25, 2023 By Leave a Comment
The new “Spendenzentrum” – donation point – in Bad Homburg was introduced to the press last week.
People from Ukraine who are staying in the Hochtaunuskreis area can go there for things that they need, but the centre also collects items that are to be transported to the country itself, eg. medical supplies for use near the conflict zone.
The Vaccination Centre in Bad Homburg
December 18, 2020 By 1 Comment
Last week I was given the chance to take a look around the new vaccination centre, that has been set up in Bad Homburg in an office building once used by Hewlett-Packard.
Located next to a busy by-pass, the building is actually only 200m from the nearest bus stop with buses every 15 minutes at peak times, and 300m from the nearest U-Bahn station. Looking at the aerial photograph, it appears to have round 260 car parking spaces, and the car park will also be home to an area for dogs to stay whilst their owners are having their vaccinations.
Inside the building, we were shown around by the deputy district administrator Thorsten Schorr, the head of the local disaster control agency Carsten Lauer, and Dr. med. Dipl.-Jur. Nikolaos Sapoutzis from the local public health authority.
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