Past news

At last! Spring is fluttering its blue ribbon through the air again and the desire for exercise in the fresh air is increasing! The spa town offers, among other things, the ascent of the four Bad Freienwald towers, which are open again from Good Friday, March 29 and invite you to an Easter egg hunt on March 31.

After years of intensive work by many stakeholders, the steering and budget committee (StuBA) of the federal and state office for lignite remediation made a decision last week that was not only fervently hoped for in Frankfurt (Oder). According to the decision, the federal mining rehabilitation company, Lausitzer und Mitteldeutsche Bergbau-Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbh (LMBV), will be responsible for the rehabilitation of Lake Helene near Frankfurt (Oder), which has been closed as a bathing area for almost four years.

On Saturday, March 23, 2024 at 8.30 p.m., people all over the world will symbolically switch off the lights for one hour. Frankfurt (Oder) and Słubice are also taking part in this "Earth Hour". The lights on the buildings of the European University Viadrina and the Collegium Polonicum will be switched off.

On Thursday, March 21 at 5 p.m., the exhibition "Frankfurt Underworlds: Photographic Discoveries by Hartmut Kelm" opens. Here, Frankfurt photographer Hartmut Kelm shares his view of all kinds of hidden places in the Oder city and arouses curiosity about an eventful history.

Applications open until April 7: This summer, a joint delegation from Frankfurt (Oder) and Słubice will once again set off to represent the Hanseatic twin city at the most important Hanseatic meeting of modern times. Interested citizens from both cities are invited to join the travel group and become part of the Hanseatic togetherness in the middle of the historic old town of Gdansk.

At the invitation of Michael Kellner (Member of Parliament and PStS in the BMWK) and Erdmute Scheufele (Member of the Oder-Spree District Council), a press event was held on March 7, 2024 at the Fürstenwalde lock with an alliance of local shippers, shipping companies and port operators as well as the East Brandenburg Chamber of Industry and Commerce to usher in a new era of inland shipping on the Oder-Spree Canal.

The popular and traditional Bad Freienwalde travel journal has been published just in time for the start of spring. Its 68 pages provide comprehensive information about Bad Freienwalde, which Theodor Fontane described as a "pretty word for a pretty place". It is now available free of charge from the Bad Freienwalde Tourist Information Office.

Mayor Claus Junghanns and Jochem Freyer, Chairman of the Management Board of the Frankfurt (Oder) Employment Agency, recently visited the educational institution Quirito Academy Frankfurt (Oder) to find out about the integration offers for refugees and migrants in the labor market.

The next European elections will take place on June 9, 2024. The Frankfurt-Słubice Cooperation Center of the City of Frankfurt (Oder), the Brandenburg State Museum of Modern Art (BLMK) and EUROPE DIRECT Frankfurt (Oder) are jointly taking the European elections as an opportunity to invite young people from Germany and Poland to an EU election poster workshop and competition followed by a poster show.

18 students from the European University Viadrina and the University Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne researched the traces of the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda last year. They show their impressions of the trip in the exhibition "Rwanda and Us. Looking back on a trip to Rwanda 30 years after the genocide" on the second floor of the Gräfin-Dönhoff building, Europaplatz 1. The photos can be seen until the end of May.