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Gaining Insights at the Speed of Light – Weißenfels Finally Takes Off (After 32 Years of Preparation)The Mitteldeutsche Zeitung recently reported that the city council now wants to create 60 parking spaces on Marienstraße to strengthen the city center. News that one would normally celebrate with fanfare and confetti – if it weren’t so unintentionally comical. Because it sounds as if Weißenfels has just reinvented the wheel. In reality, they are discovering something that has been on the table for over three decades. 
The speed of light should watch out not to be overtaken by the fax machine. The gain of insight in the Weißenfels town hall races ahead at breathtaking speed – just backward through time. Cynics might say: At the latest with the opening of the “Schöne Aussicht” shopping center in Leißling over 32 years ago, it was visible to everyone what would happen. Whoever offers everything to retail on the greenfield – space, parking, convenience – and leaves the city center with nothing but empty words, should not be surprised by empty shop windows. Competition: city center vs. greenfield? In 1993, that was no longer a prediction, but reality. And yet, in 2026, they act as if it is a groundbreaking insight that customers come not in thought, but by car. The decline of Weißenfels’ city center has been openly visible for decades: vacancies, thinned-out offerings, hardly any foot traffic. Even Müller has reduced its product range – not out of strategic whim, but because the customers are missing. When even chain stores retreat, it is no longer a warning signal, but a wailing siren. And yet: administration manages, reviews, postpones – and eventually discovers the obvious: the city center competes with the greenfield. The truly bitter question is: Which insights will arrive in the administration and city council in another 32 years that are already crystal clear today? Perhaps by then it will be realized that mayors should not only moderate, but in many ways should have opposed state and federal policies when they systematically harmed the city center, the city itself, the economy, and the citizens. That one should not blindly approve every directive if it drains purchasing power and life from the city. That one cannot hide behind responsibilities while the downtown dries up. Perhaps in 2058 people will say: “If only we had understood earlier that courage, resistance, and taking a firm stand were necessary. That more parking spaces are good, but many free parking spaces like on the greenfield are better for retail. That administration and politics should be guided by what people want and what the economy needs. That one should not try to educate citizens and tell them what they must want.” The current parking decision is not progress – it is a belated admission. Reality always strikes back. Often, however, it takes a while for this to be understood in the offices of authority. As can be seen from comments on Facebook, not every Weißenfels resident likes this transformation. But the question is: what do you want? Tax revenue from business and retail to even partially finance measures? Then you must ensure that customers can reach retailers and businesses as conveniently as on the greenfield. Or do you want a green city center? Then nothing needs to be done. Buildings decay on their own, and nature reclaims everything without human intervention.  Author: AI-Translation - АИИ | |
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