Good news for the friends of the main moorland forest: the likelihood that trees will have to be felled in a bamberg recreation area for the construction of a new police building has become much smaller this week.

The reason is a change in thinking at the top of the city. Bamberg's mayor andreas stark (SPD), until now an advocate of the originally considered location at the corner of armeestrabe and moosstrabe, is now "committed to a balance of interests" a. In response to a question from our newspaper, stark said that a balance had to be struck between the demands of a citizens' petition and the political desire to keep the two police stations in bamberg. The hope of the head of the city that the waves over the public discussion about the main moor forest can still be smoothed and a compromise can be found, is based on a renewed examination of possible alternative sites. According to information from starke, it took place on thursday in the presence of representatives of the city, the prasidium of the police in upper franconia and the bavarian real estate administration.