NeMat Pickles, September 27, 2018
From The Guardian
Mwenje haisisiri kushanda muimba yemitambo yePatton Barracks, saka maneja wekuvaka Heiko Mueller anoshandisa zvidhinha kuti azaridze masuo uye aite muzuva. Inoratidzira basketball mambure nemicheka inotengesa yakarembera mberi kubva pamasvingo, bhizimusi rekuita gym rakasvibiswa nengura, uye kukura kwekukura paimba yekugeza. Rwiyo rukavhuvhuta pamutambo wekupedzisira webhasikiti yemakore mashanu akapfuura.
Kwemakore anoda kusvika 70 mushure mehondo yechipiri yenyika, Heidelberg yaiva mahofisi makuru euto reUnited States muEurope, uye nheyo yemutungamiri weNato. Asi muna 2009 Pentagon yakasarudza kuderedza nhamba yemasoja eAmerica Europe, kusanganisira kubvisa kunze kweguta reGermany zvachose. Nenguva yaSeptember 2013, ivo vose vakanga vabva.
Kubva kwavo kwakabvarurwa Heidelberg yechinhu chikuru chekuzivikanwa kwayo. Yakanga iine nguva refu ichizivikanwa nokuda kweyunivhesiti yayo yeC700 yemakore uye 800-makore-yekare, asi kushamwaridzana neuto kwakanga kusingadzivisiki: masoja e20,000 neshamwari dzavo vakange vagere muguta revanhu vane 150,000 chete, vachitakura kupfuura 180 hektares of prime land - inenge yakaenzana neyese yeguta racho.
"Kwakanga kune kutya kukuru apo vaAmerica vakabuda," anodaro kwenguva refu Heidelberger Carmen James. "Vakanga vari vashandirwi uye chikamu chemararamiro edu." Meya, Eckart Wuerzner, akafanotaura kuti kubviswa kwaizoita kuti guta riwedzere € 50m (£ 45m) gore roga rega, uye kunyange vakathanyira kuWashington DC kuti vanyengetedze US kuti vashandure pfungwa, pasina.
Kuenda kwehondo kwacho kwakatungamirira pakurasikirwa kwebasa, uye kuwira mune zvekutengesa mabhizimusi, maresitorendi uye kunyange vapeji vese. Asi nekufamba kwenguva, guta rakatanga kuona kuti nzvimbo yakasara neuto yakanga isiri njodzi chete, asi inogona kuva mukana.
Yunivhesiti yeHeidelberg inonyanya kukoshesa mune zvehutano uye hupenyu, uye yaiva pamba purogiramu yemarudzi akawanda SAP. Asi vatsva vaizopedza kudzidza vaizoenda nguva dzose kumabasa akanaka pane imwe nzvimbo, uye inyanzvi yekombiki yekambani yeguta yakanga ine dambudziko kubva pasi, nokuti yakashaya nzvimbo - yekutsvakurudza kuti ibudiswe mumakambani, kutanga kwekuwedzera, uye kuvashandi kuti vararame zvakakwana .
Kubva kweuto reUnited States kwakashandura zvose izvozvo. Imwe kukunda kwekutanga kwakasvika apo kambani inokura, Ameria, iyo inoumba dhipatimendi yedhipatimendi, yaifunga kubuda-kusvikira yapiwa nzvimbo munzvimbo yaimbova mapurisa 'casino yaPatton Barracks. Iyo itsva yekugadzira inoenderana nayo, uye mu2021 ichaenda kune mahofisi matsva ayo anowanidza kune mabhizimusi anowanikwa apo inogona kuedza pfungwa kune vatengi.
"Kwakange kusina nzvimbo yakaita seyi muHeidelberg, kana kupi zvako zvechokwadi," anodaro Ameria's Johannes Troeger. "Innovation inoda nzvimbo, uye yekare yaPatton Barracks ndiyo nzvimbo yekuumba nharaunda yakasimba yekutanga, makambani akasimudzika uye makambani."
Kubvisa kweUnited States kwakasvikawo mberi kwenhamo yepasi pose inopinda, apo mazana ezviuru zvevapoteri vakasvika kuGermany. Maguta mazhinji akaedza kuraramisa vatsva - asi Heidelberg aiva Patrick Henry Musha, a 100-hekitari nzvimbo yaimbogara masoja e16,000.
Yakava nzvimbo yekunyora yevapoteri vose kuenda kuBaden-Württemberg. Vapoteri vazhinji vakapfuura kubva panzvimbo iyi pane kune vagari muHeidelberg, uye guta rava nzvimbo yekuedza yekugadzirisa dambudziko rekubatana kweGermany.
Chimwe chinhu chinoratidzika sechishanda: vashoma kupfuura 5% yeHeidelbergers vanofunga kutamira kune imwe dambudziko guru, uye hapana kusiyana kwakaratidzwa kuchikoro kuwanikwa pakati pevapoteri nevanogara.
A project inonzi Weltliga inounza pamwe vagari vemo uye vapoteri nokuda kwemutambo wepachena webhola zuva reChipiri pa3pm.
"Gore rakapera takava nevanopfuura vatambi ve100 vhiki imwe neimwe," anodaro Benedict Bechtel, uyo anotungamirira purogiramu. Nhasi kune vashoma kupfuura 20. "Vakawanda vevarume vava kushingaira pa3pm," anotsanangura kudaro, kubata kumutambo pamusana wekuita shure kwake. "Vari kushanda kana kutora zvidzidzo kana kuona shamwari."
Guta racho rakasununguka kuenderera mberi nekugadzirwa kwezvinhu zvakagadzirisa chikwata chekuchengetedza mari chinotsigira mabhizimisi emabhizimisi mazano ekutamira ikoko kubva kuAmsterdam mwedzi uno. R Ventures Foundation inotarisira kuti kuumba makambani anotungamirirwa nevapoteri kuchabatsira kuchinja pfungwa dzevapoteri kubva kune "vanoita basa" kune "vanoita basa".
"Kubvira pakuzivikanwa seguta revanofunga, Heidelberg iri kuva guta revanoita," anodaro nheyo Archish Mittal. "Ndinotenda kuti inongova nguva yenguva kusvikira ichizivikanwa pasi rose seguta rezvinhu zvitsva."
Iko pfungwa yakave iyo yekona yekona yeHeidelberg's post-military identity. Guta racho rakangotora hukama pamwe chete naPalo Alto naHangzhou, mbiri dzenyika dzinotungamirira tech, uye dzakakonzera zvitatu zvechina zvekombiki zvepakita kune guta racho.
Dare ramangwana rinotanga kupa zvishoma nezvishoma kutsvaga tariro. "Tiri munzvimbo yakakwana yekubatanidza Googles yekumavirazuva neAlibabas kumabvazuva," Wuerzner anoti.
Vashoma kupfuura varwi veAmerica veAmerica vanoramba vari muEurope, uyezve kuregera kunotarisirwa kutevera mutungamiri weUnited States Donald Trump mashoko pamusoro pezvipo zveNato kubva kuEurope. Haasi maguta ose anotarisana nekutarisana nehondo ane zvinhu zvakadai seyunivhesiti yeHeidelberg, asi ruzivo rweguta runoratidza kuti kuregera kunogona kuva mukana kwete kungovaka zviitiko zvitsva, asi hutsva hutsva.
Zvichakadaro, mabhururi akazosvika paPatton Barracks, uko pamakore maviri anotevera bhandi yemabhedha, casino, discotheque uye nhepfenyuro ichagadziriswa uye kuchinjwa kuva Heidelberg Innovation Park, ine mahofisi matsva uye izvo zvinonzi smart city zvinowedzera zvakadai semigwagwa kuita se wifi hubs uye unogona kutarisa chitima.
Mueller, mutariri wezvivako, anokanganisa zvidhinha zvakasvinura mukova weimba yemitambo uye unoivhara. "Iyi ndeimwe yemikana yekupedzisira yekupinda ino," anodaro. "Uye nzvimbo iyi ndiyo mukana mukuru weHeidelberg."
