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Around 200 African migrants in refugee accommodation in the small southern German town of Ellwangen have forced police to release a man who was due to be deported to the Congo
The 23-year-old man was un-handcuffed by police who considered themselves outnumbered after the large crowd of refugees
threatened violence against officers who had arrived in three police cars
According to local reports there was little prospect of backup as other police units would have taken several hours to arrive
The large group of migrants reportedly surrounded the patrol cars and threatened the police
“They were so aggressive and threatened us more and more
so we had to leave the man behind and retreat to the gate [of the refugee facility],” one officer said
adding that there was some damage to the cars
The migrants then sent a messenger to the police
bearing an ultimatum: that they had to remove the handcuffs from the Congolese national within two minutes
The police decided to give the security guard at the refugee facility a key to release the man
But he added: “It is also very clear that the rule of law can not be prevented by an aggressive crowd. The law will be enforced, that's what we stand for. We will continue to pursue our mission consistently.”
The Congolese national has reportedly gone into hiding.
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The imperial abbey of Ellwangen and its peasants: a study of the polyptych of 1337
Abstract: This paper presents an analysis of Ellwangen Abbey’s polyptych of 1337
with a view to understanding better the nature of the south German rural economy in this period
It is generally accepted that in England by this point
there was little direct management of demesne lands in much of Germany by this point
but the evidence suggests that rural society was
Although this paper is an analysis of only one source for one micro-region
its results suggest that the situation in England might have been less exceptional than is often supposed
and in the final section of this paper some further suggestions are advanced regarding the implications of this point
The article also intends to provide a comparandum from another region for scholars of rural history who cannot access German sources and scholarship
and serves as an invitation to further comparative research on the agrarian history of the later middle ages
Introduction: The later middle ages has been understood as a crucial phase in the agrarian and economic history of England: an ‘age of transition’
this is a period characterised by changing forms of land tenure
increasing commercialisation and social stratification
Scholarship on England – like scholarship on most other regions – tends to follow a ‘national’ trajectory
and generally avoids comparative analysis as a means of understanding the causes of socio-economic change in the long term
This is a particular misfortune in the case of England because
as a result of its industrialisation earlier than other parts of Europe
and because of apparent peculiarities in its agrarian socio-economic system in earlier periods
England tends to be seen very much as an island for itself
unique and following a different path from the rest of the world
as in the case of Robert Brenner (who did indeed adopt a comparative framework
but only in order to prove that England was unique)
or unwittingly in the case of most other more recent historians (whose narratives about England normally betray no hint that similar developments might be found elsewhere)
England tends to be presented as exceptional with respect to agrarian commercialisation
and as a region that appeared to have some sort of drive towards capitalistic development earlier and to a greater extent than can be found elsewhere
The only way one might genuinely establish just how exceptional England was
is by means of detailed comparison with other regions
The basis of any comparative work must necessarily be rigorous empirical analysis
and the purpose of this paper is to provide a comparandum from a region – southern Germany – that tends not to loom large in discussions of agrarian commercialisation and transitions to capitalism
while also providing some stimulus for the more theoretical debate regarding these issues and how unique England’s situation actually was
Agrarian historians in the English-speaking world seeking comparative empirical material from the German lands are relatively well-served by scholarship on the sixteenth century and later periods
most work in English on Germany concerns political history
Although Werner Rösener’s survey of the medieval peasantry focuses on Germany and is available in English translation
with the exception of some articles by Michael Toch
there is a lack of detailed studies of single estates or landlords that could stimulate further comparative research
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Residents say they are at risk in facility where cases rose from seven to 251 in five days
Refugees applying for asylum in Germany fear the government is failing to shield them from coronavirus as infections at one crowded reception centre have risen sharply in recent days.
Confirmed cases of coronavirus at a facility in the south-western town of Ellwangen where refugees are accommodated while their asylum applications are processed had increased from seven to 251 in five days, authorities confirmed on Tuesday.
None of the residents at the centre, which holds 606 people from 26 nations including China, Ghana and Syria, are currently believed to be in a critical condition, though one person has been transferred to a nearby hospital.
Read moreEven though the Ellwangen centre has been under lockdown since 5 April and authorities say they have tested new arrivals for Covid-19 since early March
shared facilities and a lack of protective equipment and disinfectant makes it impossible to avoid contact with people already infected with the virus
“We stayed in the same building and flat as people who had been tested positive for two days,” one of the residents at Ellwangen said
“We used the same kitchens and had meals with them
A report published on the website of the refugees4refugees network alleged that “no special hygiene measures are noticeable” inside the centre
Disinfectant dispensers at the entrance of the canteen were not regularly replenished and protective masks were supplied mainly to protect staff
which Refugee4Refugees said drew on three separate individuals’ accounts from inside the centre
Sources inside the Ellwangen reception centre said residents who had tested positive ate at the same canteen as those who tested negative until Monday
Photos from inside the canteen taken on Monday
show people standing in tightly-packed queues
with only some residents wearing facial masks
a spokesperson for the region council in Stuttgart
said an isolated quarantine area was set up on 6 April
that masks were handed out to all people at the facility and that disinfectants were “freely accessible”
While it was “not possible” to provide separate showers or toilets at a communal facility
steps had been taken to comply with hygiene standards set by the health authorities
Residents at Ellwangen say toilets and baths are typically shared between 50 to 80 people
The refugee council for the state of Baden-Württemberg expressed its concern on Wednesday about reports from inside the Ellwangen facility and called on states across Germany to reduce cramped conditions at migrant centres
“In spite of the prevailing rhetoric that says the whole society has to pull together to contain the pandemic
the refugee council sees in authorities’ actions signs that refugees are excluded from this collective,” the organisation said in a statement on Wednesday
Advocacy groups have welcomed initiatives such as those in Freiburg
where 30 refugees were moved from a reception centre to hotels or hostels that had rooms standing empty during the current lockdown
The Ellwangen facility is one of a number of refugee shelters in Germany reporting fears about coronavirus outbreaks
Residents at a refugee centre in Saxony-Anhalt last week went on a hunger strike to protest against a lack of disinfectants
police shut down a protest by residents of a refugee shelter in the northern city of Bremen
citing a ban on large gatherings while social distancing measures are in place
The residents had protested against cramped conditions at the centre that they said were making social distancing impossible
More than 20 million euros are being invested to meet the strong demand
The expansion will take place gradually until the beginning of 2025
Varta AG is investing in the growth market of renewable energies: In the summer
its new factory for energy storage will go into operation
up to 100,000 energy storage systems per year will be produced on a total area of more than 5,000 square metres in Neunheim in Ellwangen
With an average output of ten kilowatt hours per energy storage system
the production output corresponds to more than one gigawatt hour per year
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Production is automated and with Industry 4.0
The Ellwangen-based company is investing more than 20 million euros for this
See also: Nidec supports power grid at a gold mine in South Africa
A total of around 120 jobs will be created at the new plant
"The growth of the home storage market is unbroken," says Dominik Gluba
more than 110,000 new storage units could be installed in Germany
we expect almost 240,000 new installations in Germany
With the production capacities of the new Gigafactory
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The expansion of production will take place in two stages: From the fourth quarter of 2023
production is expected to be about 500 megawatt hours per year (about 50,000 storage systems)
The output is then to be increased to one gigawatt hour by the beginning of 2025 at the latest
Also interesting: Large-scale storage from used batteries of EVs
The production facility at Varta's headquarters in Ellwangen is located directly on the A7 motorway and is easily accessible from Ulm
Further expansion is under consideration: Additional production lines are to be added in the near future
and expansion areas have already been planned on site
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BERLIN (AP) — Hundreds of German police officers raided a refugee shelter in the southern town of Ellwangen on Thursday
days after an angry mob of migrants prevented authorities from deporting a 23-year-old man from Togo
The massive police operation came as Germany's top security official presented a new "master plan on migration."
Interior Minister Horst Seehofer vowed he would do everything he could to clamp down on illegal immigration
speed up asylum procedures and deport rejected asylum-seekers as quickly as possible
"What happened (in Ellwangen) was a slap in the face of the law-abiding population," Seehofer — who is well-known for his law-and-order stance — told reporters in Berlin
"The right to hospitality cannot be trampled on like that," he added
promising that security authorities would "use all their force and determination" to prosecute those asylum-seekers who blocked police from executing the deportation Monday in Ellwangen
deputy police chief in the town of Aalen near Ellwangen
said the big police operation was necessary because of the "unprecedented" situation officers had faced when they arrived to pick up the Togolese man
"They were massively prevented from doing so
by about 150 to 200 African refugees," Weber told reporters
Weber said a decision was taken to return early Thursday to enforce the deportation of the man to Italy
which he passed through on his way to Germany
people have to apply for asylum in the first EU nation they enter
Four people including one police officer were taken to the hospital for injuries suffered during the raid Thursday
while eight others were treated by paramedics at the scene
the governor of Bavaria before he joined Chancellor Angela Merkel's new government six weeks ago
said he wants to quickly implement new procedures to limiting the overall number of asylum-seekers in Germany
He also vowed to do everything possible to deport criminal and extremist migrants faster
the German government wants to place asylum-seekers in several centralized centers with up to 1,500 other migrants for up to two years
They will not be distributed across the country before their application has been processed
Judges will be working inside these centers and if they reject asylum-seekers
those failed candidates will be deported straight from there
Seehofer wants to increase the number of holding facilities for deportees to prevent them from evading deportation
Asylum-seekers are currently housed in smaller shelters all over Germany while they await their asylum decision
Some migrants go into hiding after being told of their upcoming deportation
Seehofer said he also wants the German government to declare several nations — including Morocco
Tunisia and Algeria as well as Georgia — as "secure home countries," lessening the chances that applicants from there will be granted asylum
Those who do receive asylum will need to integrate better into German society
Seehofer belongs to the Bavaria-only Christian Social Union
which has always taken a harder line on migration than Merkel's Christian Democratic Union
Although the two parties are part of the same governing coalition
with Bavarian state election coming up this fall
Seehofer has made a point of positioning himself to the right of Merkel on migration
In the past he has also often criticized Merkel's more welcoming attitude toward migrants
The battery manufacturer Varta aims to get involved in the market for electric car battery cells in the future
the German company has primarily produced batteries for household electronics but has been involved in cell research for some time
According to the German business publication Wirtschaftswoche
the new large-format battery cell 21700 is at the centre of Varta’s plans
The paper refers to “circles close to the company”
Varta itself did not want to comment on the topic
The company is currently building a pilot line for the 21700 cells at its headquarters in Ellwangen
these are initially to be used primarily in high-performance electric cars – “for example as a short-term accelerator or as part of drive concepts in which the battery is permanently recharged by a motor while driving”
Varta is currently in talks with several car manufacturers about this
However, Varta moved into the limelight first and foremost with its participation in the first battery IPCEI (“Important Projects of Common European Interest”) of the European Union and with subsidies amounting to 300 million euros
which were granted to the company by the federal government and also by the states of Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg in 2022
two-thirds of this sum will flow into the research and development of the new 21700 cells
which the European Commission approved under state aid law
can be drawn down by Varta until the end of 2024
When the funding notifications were handed over in June last year
it was specifically stated that Varta would work on two projects: In addition to developing the latest generation of small-format lithium-ion cells with higher energy densities
the company plans to focus on transferring its technology to larger cell formats
the larger cells should also be able to be used in stationary battery storage or robots
In the course of setting up a pilot line for the new 21700 cells in Ellwangen
Varta is planning a recruitment drive: the group announced in mid-2020 that it intends to create around 1,000 new jobs in the German towns of Ellwangen and Nördlingen by the end of 2021
this is enormous growth: the company currently has around 4,000 employees
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authors were generally not able to exert much control over the medieval dissemination and interpretation of their texts
or even about the texts that were (sometimes completely erroneously) attached to their names
The legacy of Latin authors we now call ‘classical’ – including their image and reputation – was shaped and sometimes truly transformed by generations of medieval readers who each
formed an image of these authorities in their minds
often filtered through the lens of the medieval world they knew
we can’t get inside readers’ heads to see how this process of legacy-building took place
we can find snapshots of readers’ engagement with the ghostly figures behind the texts they encountered in manuscripts
How – if at all – did medieval readers understand and imagine the authoritative authors – auctores – whose words they were reading or listening to
Ermenrich of Ellwangen recounts a nightmarish event
he was visited by a specter (fantasma) who turned out to be a monstrous
Even after Ermenrich had crossed himself and threw the book in question far away from him
Ermenrich committed his vision to writing in a long letter to the abbot Grimald
that was included in a manuscript compilation to be read by a new set of readers
Ermenrich himself continuously cites from the works of classical authors – including Vergil’s
On the other end of the spectrum there were Christian readers
expressed experiences that betray a certain anxiety about the perceived distance between the world of these Roman authorities and their own
Some found creative ways to bridge the gap
Medieval commentaries on the work of the Roman poet Horace
often paint a picture of this author as someone who dispenses moral wisdom ‘like a monk’ (quasi monachus) – although
Horace certainly seems to have been anything but
The fourteenth-century author of the famous Ovide Moralisé took these strategies a step further when he assumed the mammoth task of rewriting and explaining the Metamorphoses to reflect their (supposed) Christian allegories
collections of classical Latin poems were preceded by accessus – introductions that included formalized biographies of the authors being read
these biographies could contain very creative and imaginative elements
Virgil was often believed to be endowed with magical powers
and the obscure reasons for Ovid’s exile proved just as intriguing for medieval as for modern scholars
Despite – or even because of – the fictitious nature of these biographies
classicists have recently set out to revalue them as sources
there are also visual sources that can literally present a ‘portrait’ of an author as imagined by the artist
unless clearly indicated by a name or attributes
manuscripts can be difficult – is the figure of a scribbling man accompanying a poem by Ovid meant to be Ovid himself
or a more generic imagining of ‘someone who writes’
Other creatively reimagined authors show up in newly created literary works
The late-antique writer Fabius Planciades Fulgentius wrote a work in which the shade of Virgil
explained the ‘true moral meaning’ of the Aeneid to the persona of Fulgentius himself
the poet and bishop Baudri of Bourgueil wrote a set of fictitious verse letters to and from Ovid in his exile
authors such as Dante and Petrarch famously brought auctores to life as
The ‘specters’ – to borrow a term from modern authorial theory – of classical school authors
haunted some of our medieval readers in various ways
But what about the image of Christian authorities
Was their legacy shaped in a way that is similar to that of ‘pagan’ Roman authors
or did they fall into a very different category of authorities
This article is part of The Power of Medieval Texts series
Shari Boodts, Iris Denis, Riccardo Macchioro and Gleb Schmidt together make up the team behind a European research project on the reception of patristic sermons in medieval manuscripts (PASSIM), housed at the Department of Medieval History at Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands. You can learn more about their work on the project website
Top Image: Ovid in a manuscript with the Metamorphoses (Cologny
European Black Death spread throughout the world in several waves
A single strain of plague bacteria sparked multiple historical and modern pandemics
This was revealed by the analysis of three reconstructed historical genomes from the causative agent of plague
isolated from plague victims between the 14th and 16th century
The close relationship between strains causing different outbreaks in Europe led the international research team headed by the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History to suggest Europe as a medieval plague hotspot
The researchers study was just published in Cell Host & Microbe
Source of one of the bacterial strains whose genome was reconstructed in the present study
For four centuries following the medieval Black Death
plague was the most feared disease in Europe
Though now mysteriously absent in the continent today
plague persists in other areas of the world
To investigate the evolutionary history of this notorious pathogen
Spain that most likely represents the initial swathe of the Black Death
one from a 14th century plague victim in Bolgar City
and one from a post-Black Death 16th century outbreak in Ellwangen
“By studying three plague victims from separate waves of the second pandemic
we were hoping to capture multiple stages of the bacterium’s evolution in medieval Europe”
historical accounts tell us that plague traveled northeast into Russia
What the history books don’t tell us is that plague didn’t stop there
The study published today provides evidence that 14-century Bolgar City was one stop along plague’s extensive and rapid travel that eventually brought it to Asia
“Our analysis suggests that after the Black Death
European plague strains traveled eastwards
reaching the Golden Horde territory at the end of the 14th century and eventually making it all the way into China where they caused the third worldwide pandemic starting in the mid 19th century”
director at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History
expert in Computational Pathogenomics and co-senior author of the study points out
“though several plague lineages exist in China today
only the lineage that caused the Black Death several centuries earlier left Southeast Asia in the late 19th century pandemic and rapidly achieved a near worldwide distribution.”
plague outbreaks continued in Europe until the 18th century
The question of where this medieval plague reservoir was located has been controversial
members of the team reported a putatively extinct plague lineage from the Great Plague of Marseille
its close relationship with the 16th century Ellwangen genome suggests that plague did not stray very far
Ellwangen is far less connected to global trade routes than the bustling trade centre of Marseille
The presence of a shared plague lineage between the two cities led the research team to suggest Europe as a medieval plague hotspot
“Evidence is accumulating to support the idea that plague was hiding somewhere locally within Europe for several centuries after the Black Death” says Kirsten Bos
molecular paleopathologist at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History
"The reasons for its disappearance from Europe
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Nearly half of the roughly 600 people at a refugee camp in Germany have tested positive for Covid-19
but are being forced to share facilities with everyone else
EUobserver was first alerted when an anonymous resident painted a bleak picture inside Ellwangen camp in Baden-Wurttemberg
\"Everyone is scared to eat something because of crowds and we don't know who has coronavirus or not,\" said the resident
a massive increase from around seven just a week ago
District authorities at Ostalbkreis, where Ellwangen is located, announced they will eventually retest everyone \"in order to determine which persons have become additionally infected.\"
The entire camp has been placed in lockdown since the start of April
with police guarding the entrance to make sure no one leaves or enters
a manager at the Baden-Wurtenburg Refugee Council
said that the authorities handling of Ellwangen camp is a recipe for disaster
\"They are seeing these people as a kind of threat and a danger
it iseems to be an acceptable strategy to park the police outside and make sure nobody comes in and nobody comes out,\" he told EUobserver on Wednesday (15 April)
He pointed out that the Refugee Council had demanded an evacuation of the camp some three weeks ago
a proposal that was ignored by authorities
\"It is about half the people who there in total
just short of 600 people who are in there at the moment,\" he said
The rest are families and women travelling alone
It is also designed as a communal space and residency for people who first arrive in Germany seeking international protection
They are not allowed to cook and must get their food in a canteen
\"They are not even allowed to boil a kettle to make coffee in their own rooms,\" said McGinley
The entire facility was put in lockdown on 5 April after a 32-year old man from Ghana first tested positive
The number of infections has only since increased as police forces have been dispatched to impose a lockdown
A single wi-fi hotspot inside the camp was also recently switched off
placing residents in a near total information blackout
McGinley said authorities had rented a facility able to quarantine some 30 people but because of its size it is of little use
\"It is not going to be a solution where you have 250 people who are infected,\" he pointed out
Similar stories of refugees in lockdown amid an infection outbreak are being reported elsewhere in Germany
Among them is the Halberstadt refugee centre in Sachsen-Anhalt
Some 100 of the 800 residents at the centre went on hunger strike in protest given the outbreak
and lack of space to keep everyone at a safe distance
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The German priest painter Sieger Köder has died in Ellwangen
Köder was a prisoner of war during World War II and became an art teacher before studying theology in Tübingen and being ordained a priest
He combined his vocation as a parish priest with his work as an artist
altarpieces and stained glass windows for churches within and outside Germany
He continued painting long into his retirement
His work shows the artistic influence of Chagall and a distinctive theological and spiritual interpretation of biblical and abstract themes
His wartime experiences also profoundly influenced his depictions of the Passion of Christ and human suffering and evil
This can be seen particularly in his Stations of the Cross and the Misereor Hungercloth
Most famously he painted a fresco of the Last Supper for the German College in Rome which included
In later life Köder's work became world famous and he won many awards
the honorary title of Monsignor and the Order of Merit from Pope John Paul II
He himself was a modest man and in a newspaper interview once said
'People come to Ellwangen asking to see the painter
then they haven't understood the paintings'
His works have inspired countless reproductions
books of meditations and posters and a fully illustrated Bible
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The technology company with headquarters in Ellwangen in southern Germany is expanding its production area in Bavaria to a total of 60,000 square meters
sees the expansion as an important step in the company's growth strategy and as a contribution to securing Germany as a location for battery technology
For Bavaria's Minister of Economic Affairs Hubert Aiwanger
Varta's showcase project secures Bavarian added value in a strategic key technology
Varta AG opened its new lithium-ion cell factory at the Nördlingen site on Monday
which offers a total of 15,000 square meters of production space on two floors
was inaugurated in the presence of the Bavarian Minister of Economic Affairs and Deputy Prime Minister Hubert Aiwanger and Herbert Schein
The new building is an important step for Varta in its growth strategy
the company now has a production area totalling 60,000 square meters in Nördlingen and thus the infrastructure for further growth
New customer orders are already running in on-site production
Varta mainly produces the small lithium-ion cells that are used
in Premium True Wireless Stereo Headsets (TWS)
enable applications such as noise cancelling or voice control to be integrated into Bluetooth headsets that can be worn wirelessly in the ear
With the ultra-high-performance cell called V4Drive
the company has just presented a product that can be used in the home & garden and automotive sectors
The interest in this lithium-ion round cell in the 21700 format on the customers’ side is high due to the special product properties
The cell can be fully charged in just six minutes
it remains efficient even at low temperatures
Production of this cell on a pilot line in Ellwangen will start at the end of the year
Also interesting: Varta: Focussing on larger battery formats
The new three-story building in Nördlingen includes the production area as well as the new Varta restaurant for the employees at the site
was designed and built with climate-friendliness in mind
Production will be CO2 neutral in the next two years
the waste heat from the machines is used to air-condition the building and the drying rooms in production
See also: Varta and Allgäu Batterie partner up for lithium-ion battery packs
Police arrive at the migrants home in Ellwangen
BERLIN: German police launched a raid on a migrant shelter on Thursday where three days ago 150 asylum seekers clashed with police and prevented the deportation of a 23-year-old man from Togo
which police described as "extremely aggressive and violent"
has prompted some far-right and conservative politicians to say the arrival of more than 1.6 million migrants since 2014 has led to a collapse of law and order
Germany is still grappling with the integration of its migrants
many of whom fled war or conflict in the Middle East
Authorities are still wading through a backlog of asylum case decision
migrants' integration into the labour market is a big challenge and the government is discussing rules for family reunions of migrants
Police in the southern town of Ellwangen had on Monday night released the man they wanted to deport
During the clashes asylum seekers thumped police cars with their fists and leaving one damaged
The authorities have launched investigations into breach of the peace and other possible offences but have given no further details
Police also declined to provide further details of Thursday's early morning raid on the shelter
which it said is home to about 500 people seeking asylum
Most are from countries in Africa including Nigeria
Senior police official Bernhard Weber said in a statement the rule of law could not be damaged by an outbreak of aggression by a group of people
may have drawn into a group dynamic and behaved in a way that they would not have done in a more sober environment."
Right-wing politicians jumped on the clashes
"The rule of law is being trampled on by its 'guests'
This is just the beginning," said Alice Weidel
co-leader of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) which scored nearly 13 percent in last year's election and is the main opposition party
"If Germany continues to be led round the ring by the nose instead of making law and order count
the existing problems in this country will become intolerable."
Conservative politician Armin Schuster demanded a tougher line
"There are red lines in our country that are being breached on an almost daily basis by asylum seekers," Schuster told Focus Online
"Anyone who steps over red lines must have their asylum application ended and be deported."
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