50 years of the brine wave pool and 25 years of the Fitness-Treff: Bäder, Sport und Freizeit Salzgitter GmbH (BSF) celebrated the double anniversary together with its guests in the week from September 13 to 18. The Thermalsolbad was opened in February 1972 and was one of the first indoor pools in Lower Saxony with a brine wave pool and a Finnish sauna with a brine plunge pool. The Kurmittelhaus, which specialized in spa therapies, was directly connected.
As part of a joint project, Alstom is developing a solution for converting existing locomotives to hydrogen propulsion at its site in Salzgitter. This is being done together with Verkehrsbetriebe Peine-Salzgitter (VPS), WTZ Roßlau gGmbH, TU Braunschweig and the associated partners Fraunhofer IST and Robert Bosch Elektronik GmbH. The project is supported by the city of Salzgitter.
The aim is to enable emission-free shunting operations in rail freight transport in the future. The decarbonization of an existing locomotive is to be implemented for the first time on a VPS vehicle and tested on the railroad company's premises.
At its meeting on September 14, the Salzgitter City Council unanimously adopted the "Region 2022 appeal to reject a nuclear waste storage facility at Schacht Konrad". "This is a clear signal from Salzgitter to those responsible in the state and federal governments," emphasized Lord Mayor Frank Klingebiel.
"According to the current state of science and technology, Schacht Konrad would be ruled out as a storage site for nuclear waste," the appeal states. In May 2021, the environmental associations BUND and NABU, together with the alliance "Salzgitter gegen Schacht Konrad", submitted an application to withdraw or revoke the planning approval decision. Despite this, the state and federal governments intend to continue expanding the old iron ore mine into a nuclear waste repository to the detriment of the region and spend billions of euros on it by 2027.
The Lower Saxony state parliament elections took place in October. The direct mandate for constituency 11 "Salzgitter", which includes the northern part of Salzgitter and the municipality of Lengede from the district of Peine, was again awarded to Stefan Klein. The results of the second votes were as follows: SPD 39.94%, CDU 20.95%, AfD 18.37%, Greens 8.32%, Die Linke 3.49%, FDP 3.34%, Animal Welfare Party 1.68%, Others 3.90%
The traditional Adventstreff at the Salder Castle Municipal Museum was once again a wonderful experience for several thousand guests from near and far on the third weekend of Advent. The special exhibition "A piece of heaven?! - Silesian Cuisine in Salzgitter", which opened on 8 December, was also very well attended this weekend with around 2,000 guests counted over two days. The exhibition, which was produced by the museum team itself, will be on display until February 12, 2023.
Finally, digital media: the city's YouTube channel exceeded the 2 million film views mark in 2022. Over 3,000 users have already subscribed to it to be informed about new films from the city at short notice. The city's official fan page can also be found on the digital network Facebook. It already has over 5,200 "likes".
The Twitter channel is also used regularly to spread the latest news even faster. Subscribers to the channel receive the news in a compact 280 characters. Over 1,800 users already follow the city's channel.