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Whether central roller shutter and sun protection control via app, radio transmitter, timer or pushbutton – you decide what suits you best.

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Renovation: roller shutters& rethinking sun protection.

Modernizing your home increases the value of your property and your personal living comfort. Intelligently automating your roller shutters and sun protection is therefore one of the most sensible elements of your modernization project. And if you choose a wireless system from becker, you don’t even have to install additional cable ducts in your walls. Technically easy to integrate and even easier to operate – this is how you increase the value of your home in the long term.

New construction: modern from the start.

When you build a new home, it is an investment for life. They think accordingly modern and future-oriented thereby. And we think along with you. Becker has developed its products in such a way that you can automate the roller shutters and sun protection products in your smart home very flexibly and without any special technical hurdles. Whether by wire or radio, by sensor, with your PC and mobile device, or via alexa, control is simple and highly compatible with all current smart home systems.

Whether it’s a private home or a large-scale project, a simple drive or a full smart home program, you are our focus.

become FIT FOR SMART HOME!

Not everyone wants to install a smart home system immediately when renovating or building a new house. If, for whatever reason, you decide against a smart home solution today, we advise you to set the course for the future when installing a new roller shutter or sun protection drive. Make your home future-proof and give yourself, your children or potential buyers of your property the option to easily retrofit a smart home control center at a later date.

All actuator series marked with our "FIT FOR SMART HOME" logo offer you this opportunity. This means you can install products in your roller shutter or sunblind today – at no extra cost – that will give you full flexibility for smart home retrofits tomorrow. Because experience shows that the appetite for smart home grows as soon as the first products are in the house. Make your home "FIT FOR SMART HOME" – with drives from becker! Because a smart home without roller shutters and sun protection is not a smart home.

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Develop solutions that make life, living and working easier. That is the goal we pursue at becker – and have been doing so since 1921.

Our drives and controls for roller shutters, sun protection and other applications enable people around the world to enjoy greater comfort, security and energy efficiency. Even today, there are numerous possibilities – from simple control by pushbutton to automatic timers and the integration of our drives into smart home systems. You alone decide which solution is right for you.

Our local specialist dealers will be happy to advise you – because in addition to innovative products, you can also rely on optimal advice and professional installation.

You’ll find that the drives and controls we make are all about you. Your quality of life and living are at the center of the development of our drives. And we set the highest quality standards right from the moment of the product idea – for reliable and sustainable solutions "made in germany".

corona pandemic : millionaires in the home office – luxury real estate on trend

The Corona pandemic has boosted the business with expensive luxury residences in Europe

Hamburg/Frankfurt good things can also be expensive: the corona pandemic has spurred the desire among millionaires for a cozy luxury home – preferably as a second residence.

By carsten hoefer and alexander sturm, dpa

the corona pandemic has boosted the business with expensive luxury residences in europe. Real estate brokers and experts report a sharp rise in interest among financially strong clientele.

This is the report of the hamburg-based brokerage firm engel&, which operates in a good 30 countries volkers that in 2021, compared to the first crisis year of 2020, it brokered almost twice as many properties (plus 97 percent) in the price segment between 5 and 10 million euros.

"especially for premium properties of two million euros or more, we have significantly higher demand," says ralph kunz, director of premium management at von poll immobilien in frankfurt. When it comes to top prices, the location and the degree of privacy are the most important factors. "here, prices sometimes reach the double-digit million range for detached houses and villas in prime locations."

This is confirmed by an expert who does not broker real estate himself: "we have a very, very strong market in luxury properties," says stephan kippes, the market researcher for the IVD sud real estate association in munich. Kippes sees one factor at work that has been driving the real estate market for years: long-term low and penalty interest rates make many other capital investments not very profitable. "this money is wafting through the market," says kippes.

Often intended for own use

Yet expensive residences are often not intended purely as capital investments: "vacation homes and luxury properties are very often owner-occupied," says kippes. "one treats oneself, and then still has the effect of the increase in value."

Prices vary widely from country to country. "while the top prices in the premium segment in hamburg, for example, range up to 30.000 euros per square meter, thus approaching the international level of paris with 35.000 euros per square meter, prices in italy top out at 9000 euros," reports engel& volkers ceo sven odia.

On the German market for second homes and vacation homes, foreign buyers do not play a dominant role, contrary to what is often assumed or feared by many long-established residents. in reality, this tends to be the other way around: rich german, swiss and austrians go looking for vacation spots outside their own borders, especially in the mediterranean region.

"in greece, most buyers come from the DACH region, followed by interested parties from france and the UK," says odia. In mallorca, the majority of foreign "search customers" come from germany – 66 percent. far behind are the british with 9 percent.

Trend toward the home office

Corona is now also blurring the line between primary and secondary residence: "properties in secondary residence markets are in demand like never before," says odia. "especially in the luxury segment, we are observing a trend towards home offices in second homes as a result of the corona pandemic."

Many customers now spend more time in their secondary residences and no longer consider them only as investment properties, or as a second home for a few weeks a year. "thus, classic secondary residence markets and mediterranean vacation destinations are increasingly becoming primary residence markets."

Prerequisites are a good infrastructure and fast internet, as expert kunz reports. High inflation also plays a role. "above all, capital investors and also wealthy customers are hedging against inflation by purchasing real estate," says kunz. The market price of the property rises in line with inflation, but the loan amount decreases and falls as a percentage of the market price. "Real estate is increasingly preferred to equities as a stable and crisis-proof investment option."

Not always welcome

But by no means only the finca in mallorca is popular. "secondary residences in popular vacation regions in germany have already been an ongoing topic since the beginning of 2021," says kunze. there are understandable reasons for this, as market researcher kippes explains: "even in corona times, you can still get there relatively easily."

Second home and vacation home buyers are not very welcome in many german resorts, just as there are reservations against german buyers in tirol and salzburg. On the one hand, prices are rising. At the same time, living space is being lost for the less affluent local population.

One example is the bavarian alps. Many communities along the alpine fringe now levy a tax on secondary residences, according to a spokesman for the bavarian municipal association. administrations designate little building land, and when they do, it is often only for locals. This is particularly clear in Berchtesgaden: anyone who wants to use apartments or hotel and boarding house rooms there as a second home must obtain special permission to do so if the rooms are vacant for more than half the year.

World premiere in Fulda’s Schlosstheater: On Friday evening, "The Pope – The Musical" came on stage there. The model for the musical provides the novel best-seller of the same name. The bishop of Fulda spoke earlier of "another piece in the mosaic of a frivolous fiction".

Behind the musical is the Fulda "spotlight Musicalproduktion", which already brought the historical musicals "Bonifatius" (2004) and "Elisabeth – The Legend of a Saint" (2007) to the stage. The composer and librettist of "Pope Joan" is "spotlight" managing director Dennis Martin. Sabrina Weckerlin can be seen and heard in the title role – as she did in the Elisabeth musical. In Fulda the musical is to be performed until the middle of August. With its "Popes" novel, which is partly set in Fulda, Cross reached into the 9. Century going back history of a P?pstin Johanna on.

There is "no, really no proof at all" of the existence of a Pope Joan, Algermissen stressed. Everything was pure fiction and based on legends. Serious historians have long since shelved the case of the popes. Nevertheless this fairy tale is cooked up again and again and believed, so the bishop.

What a narrative material
The story is too good not to be true: The girl from the Middle Rhine, inquisitive, shrewd and androgynous, sneaks into the 9. The Pope enters the men’s monastery in the nineteenth century. Seizing the opportunities for education and career offered there, she arrives in Rome and deceives the church leadership there for years: as a religious, healer – and finally pope! What a narrative.

That’s probably what New York author Donna W thought. Cross. In 1996 her best-selling novel "The Pope" was published. Last year it was made into a film by Sonke Wortmann. Not least because of this film adaptation, many Germans take the material at face value. But even despite the premiere of "The Pope – The Musical" in Fulda on Friday, the Pope remains what the experts have long recognized her as: an effective legend of the 13th century.
Century.

How well one can argue and polemicize, on high historical and on stocking level, was to be experienced, when the novel of Cross, which partly takes place in Fulda, stormed the bestseller lists and caused a media hype. Criticism of the church often functions as a Pavlovian reflex that is easily triggered. With blurb sentences such as this one: "The life of Johanna von Ingelheim, whose existence is known up to the 17th century, is a matter of great interest to the reader. The story was widely known in the sixteenth century and only then removed from the Vatican manuscripts.". The medieval historian Horst Fuhrmann, on the other hand, rates the scientific value of the novel at that of "Asterix and Obelix".

Propaganda weapon
The story of Joan has always been an excellent propaganda weapon – but it has also worked in the other direction: the end of Joan, as reported by the chronicler and Dominican Martin of Troppau in 1277, could also be used as a parable for the traditional distribution of roles in society: The pope does what is in the nature of a woman; she gives herself to a man, becomes pregnant and gives birth – during a procession near the church of San Clemente, of all places.
She dies in the gutter like a whore; just punishment from God for her attempted deception?

To cite evidence for or against the existence of a female pope is difficult, given the paucity of sources from the 9. This is a laborious business in the early twentieth century, in which one almost inevitably encounters large gaps and factual contradictions. And who really likes to mentally comprehend the bulky convolutions of the specialist historians in the end?? It is more comfortable to conclude from a silence of the sources that all evidence for the scandal has been eliminated. That however would have succeeded amazingly completely.

The Johanna story was embellished over the centuries – perhaps just because no evidence was available. "Possibly," according to Erlangen professor Klaus Herbers, an expert on the pope’s history of the 9. According to the legend of the late seventeenth century, "the legend also defies explanation in some points, because in the Middle Ages, as today, people were able to invent a scandal or a scandalous story without a precise background and without a concrete occasion."

In other words, with the available sources it might be difficult to convince someone who wants to believe something specific of the opposite. In fact, there was no shortage of manipulation of ecclesiastical documents and representations in the Middle Ages. Thus, the discussion about Johanna – also called Jutta, Gilberta, Agnes or Glancia – resembles a dispute about the Pope’s beard. The Germans may have been pope for six years – but pope not.