From series: Homeland reporter Flixbus: WLAN extends to Nuremberg from Wolpertshausen with its 1,200 inhabitants, y barely came away for a long time. Now, from here, a Flixbus goes to capital city. Who needs this connection? A coach trip by Hannes Leitlein October 17, 2017, 15:16 Uhr54 comments On bus from Wolpertshausen to Berlin © Jacobia Dahm for time online Content
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It’s a summer day, at eleven o’clock in morning. Ines Wuttke stands at station and looks at her smartphone. According to app, bus should be punctual. But he’s not. At 10.55 o’clock, he should have left in Wolpertshausen. “Determines jam on A6,” says 33-year-old and updates ad on your phone. The bus, letting app know, has ten minutes of delay. He is probably driving over Kocher Viaduct, highest viaduct in Germany, from which young people in Wolpertshausen tell mselves that workers have crashed during ir construction and have been concretized to this day in 185 metre high pillars.
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Wolpertshausen is at first sight a place far away from everything. It is located in norast of Baden-Württemberg, 1,200 people live here. In village re are pig stables, manure is in air. Without a car, it was hard to get away, and n only to nearest larger towns, to Crailsheim or Schwäbisch Hall. For several months, however, Wolpertshausen regularly holds a bus from company Flixbus. He goes directly to Berlin. Half hours will take trip according to timetable. How did that change place?
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To 11.06 UHRNIMMT The green coach exit 44 Ilshofen/Wolpertshausen The A6, Fährtein short piece on main road up mountain, turn right, turns to anor petrol station and comes to stand in front of regional market. The driver Überprüftdie tickets for passengers and stows ir luggage. Three guys use kurzePause for a joint.
Ines Wuttkesetzt in third last row, a place in hallway. It grew up in PrenzlauerBerg in east of city. Eight years ago she and her Mannfür a job at building Savings Bank Schwäbisch Hall to Schwäbisch Hall, to big city – at least from Wolpertshausen seen. After some visits, region also enjoyed its Berlin parents so much that y followed ir daughter to Hohenlohe, to region between Swabia and Franconia, to which also Wolpertshausen belongs.
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Ines Wuttke Willseir no longer away from Hohenlohe. She has a Häuslegebaut with her husband, in Waldenburg, on or side of boiler valley. Those who begin with “Bauschbarkass”, as y say in Hohenlohe, usually remain a life. She likes life in countryside, she has quickly become native. ” Here world is still in order, “she says. It won’t always ruin everything, for example, if someone planted something. Also Liegtnicht everywhere. If she had to characterize Swabians with an activity, it would be sweeping. All of m are very diligent in ir clichés, but at same time relaxed as well. “In Berlin have fears for my children,” says Wuttke. Something could happen everywhere. That was different in her childhood. Now she wants to go to weekend indie old Homeland, a Berlin girlfriend celebrating her bachelor party. The Flixbusnimmt you for first time.
Ines Wuttke © Jacobia Dahm for time online
The man who brought bus to Wolpertshausen is called Christian von Stetten. “Diegrünen buses drove through Hohenlohe anyway,” he says, “unfortunately Bisherohne halt.” Von Stetten is CDU-Bundestag MEP for Hohenlohe, DenWahlkreis, in which Wolpertshausen is also located. The idea with Flixbus had vonStetten already more than a year ago. In a speech at a Jubiläumsfeierin Wolpertshausen, he made his idea a promise to Bürgernund of her mayor. Sometimes he got annoyed about it later, he talks today. It was not easy to convince Flixbus of Notwendigkeiteiner stop in his constituency. The company considered it doubtful that Wolpertshausen Eineneigenen needs a foothold. He has made his promise to Endetrotzdem.
CDU politician Christian von Stetten (copyright) Karlheinz Schindler/DPA
For Christian VonStetten, advantage of new bus service is obvious: a ZweiteBrücke for trains over nearby Kocher is not to be financed, Deröffentliche local transport in area thin, region suspended. For this aberliege Wolpertshausen directly on highway. From re EineBusverbindung to Hochschule in Schwäbisch Hall, and: There were already eineHaltestelle for coaches. For many years tourists NachWolpertshausen come to see one of famous Swabian-Hällischen land pigs, which because of ir black spots are also called “Mohren köpfle”. The pig is marketed by “Peasant Producer Association Schwäbisch Hall”. What sounds like a Stinknormalen peasant federation is now a lobby association with KNAPP120 million euro turnover and 450 employees, especially perhaps most powerful citizen of Wolpertshausen: Rudolf Bühler.
Buhler, 65 years old, has its Sonnenhof just opposite town hall. Some of offices of association are located just behind it. The village is also dominated by Rudolf Bühler. The magazine brand one once called farmer “Farmer’s Guide”. He has not only preserved “Mohren köpfle” from extinction, but also Wolpertshausen owes him a lot. Twenty years ago re was only one bakery, a small beverage trade and an old petrol station in village. Today, one sees first Buhler’s large regional market, when one goes into place. The commercial tower for regional market, reminiscent of towers of food, is kilomerweit to see.
