Overview

• Frankfurt’s planning and education department under Sylvia Weber has suspended action on the Festplatz am Ratsweg plan and will review Offenbach’s site offer along with other proposals after the summer break.
• Fairground operators, driving instructors, market vendors and allotment gardeners have organized protests at the Festplatz, warning that a school there would disrupt events, training exercises and green spaces.
• Offenbach’s Mayor Felix Schwenke pitched commercial land at Kaiserlei on the city border, highlighting its immediate availability and proximity to the European Central Bank area.
• The Kaiserlei zone is subject to flight-noise settlement restrictions, making a school construction exemption from the Regierungspräsidium Darmstadt highly improbable.
• If Frankfurt cedes its contractual obligation to Offenbach, municipal compensation payments could be triggered, adding financial and political considerations to the final decision.