“I don’t understand why nothing has been brought together in Linz,” says FP City Councilor Michael Raml and is disappointed. He means the Advent markets in Linz, which have been canceled without replacement and for which a funding of 56,000 euros is to be decided in today’s city senate. Specifically, the Arge Christmas Market Volksgarten is to be granted a subsidy of 46,000 euros and the Arge Christkindlmarkt Hauptplatz 10,000 euros. “That is for common, already incurred costs”, explain the responsible for the markets VP city councilor Doris Lang-Mayerhofer and SP mayor Klaus Luger.
As an example, they cite expenses for marketing, the costs for the fairy tale huts, infrastructure costs for the handicraft demonstrations or the costs for insurance and security services. “As in the previous year, the city bears all of the costs. The Christmas market feeders are among the entrepreneurs hardest hit by the corona pandemic,” they both know.
Nativity path instead of a path of lights
Which is basically okay for FP City Councilor Michael Raml, which is why he will agree to the proposal today. But: “I would have liked to have come up with something as a city. Regardless of whether in Salzburg or Vienna, you can see everywhere that Advent markets can work this year too. Wels has also shown Linz how an Advent market is possible.” By this Raml means the (smaller) Wels Christmas world, which opened last Friday, and the 1.7 kilometer long path of lights that illuminates Wels with around 70 kilometers of fairy lights. “When I think of the Volksgarten, something like that would have been possible,” says Raml.
Lang-Mayerhofer doesn’t want to leave it that way: “In Linz we made the Krippenweg, where five nativity scenes with partly life-size figures can be seen from Schillerpark via Martin-Luther-Platz, Domplatz, Landhaus to the promenade. And on the main square we have the fairytale huts. ” There is also a punch hut on Domplatz this week, “but from a private operator,” says Lang-Mayerhofer support private interested parties as far as we can. “
Raml doesn’t want to accept it like that: “I don’t understand why they didn’t hold a pop-up Christmas market or why they didn’t give permission to market deliverers who wanted to hold a market at short notice. Anything would be better than canceling and doing nothing. ” (fawn)
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