Short-dial programme

We Greens want all people to be able to afford life in Wiesbaden and no one to be displaced – whether families, trainees or senior citizens. To this end, we are securing affordable housing through a 40 percent social quota for new buildings and an extended rent brake for municipal housing associations. Thus, rents remain stable. With active land policy, we bring land into urban hands. We stop speculation and vacancy. Heritable building law, concept assignments and housing for the common good create fair opportunities; Increases use existing space – for a Wiesbaden that does not exclude anyone.

The climate crisis makes our summers hotter, but Wiesbaden should remain worth living in. We Greens are designing cities and neighbourhoods to cool rather than heat up – with new city trees, more unsealing, green roofs and facades, and more shady squares without the need for consumption. With more green oases, flower strips and community gardens, we bring nature back to the city. Our forests are climate-stable and sustainably managed, waters and soils are designed close to nature and the biodiversity and the unique cultural landscape of Wiesbaden is protected. Agriculture and nature conservation are reconciled.

We want a transport system that puts people first and offers real freedom of choice with attractive mobility offers. The more people who travel through the city by bus, train, bicycle or on foot in a good, safe and sustainable way, the better it will be for everyone – especially for those who depend on the car. The further expansion of safe footpaths and cycle paths as well as the implementation of the new, more efficient bus network have priority for us. We want to expand car sharing as well as e-charging infrastructure in public spaces. We want to facilitate the expansion of private e-charging stations. Traffic-calmed residential areas and adequate speeds on the main axes better balance traffic flow, safety and quality of life. In order to open up a long-term growth perspective for public transport, we need a discussion about even more efficient transport services, in which we will represent a tram network as the most promising option.

Culture and sport create community and strengthen the identity of our city. We GRÜNE promote theatres, museums, the independent scene, the Künstlerhaus43, the creative factory or the WALHALLA. Wiesbaden should be a city where culture is felt in everyday life – on stage, in the park, on the street. In addition to culture, sports are important to many people. That's why we want to expand public sports facilities such as calisthenics facilities. We want to renovate sports facilities in a climate-friendly and barrier-free manner.

Digital participation should be a matter of course for everyone, regardless of income. We GRÜNE are expanding free Wi-Fi in parks, squares and educational institutions and making the ‘Alles Wiesbaden’ app the central platform for culture, leisure and services – networked, interactive and climate-conscious. We strengthen existing innovation venues such as the Zukunftswerk and promote creative projects, workshops and offers such as a ‘digital café’ to enable exchange and digital learning for all.

We rely on parity in committees, the strengthening of the equality body, fair pay, sufficient daycare places and the expansion of all-day care services. We want to expand women's shelter places and counselling services as well as the concepts ‘Is Luisa here?” and continue the home phone. We also want to bring the model of women's taxis to Wiesbaden.

We reliably promote CSD, queer cultural offerings, counselling centres and health services. We are committed to secure queer youth rooms, a queer network in administration and projects in schools through queer counselling centers.

Accessibility benefits everyone – people with disabilities, families with strollers and senior citizens. With an inclusion action plan, we want to improve accessibility in Wiesbaden and make the city more age-appropriate – including with advice for independent living and strategies against loneliness.

With multilingual services, a diverse city administration, sensitive care and intercultural offerings, we want to strengthen participation and community. In the future, a Welcome Center will offer immigrants central advice in order to learn German, take up work and make it easier to arrive.

Safe spaces are created through good lighting, space management and social presence. A citizen-oriented, unarmed city police, sensitized regulatory authorities and security measures based on systematic data analysis create trust and a sustainable sense of security.

Poverty and homelessness threaten cohesion and marginalize people. We create places for everyone through consumption-free places with benches, drinking water, toilets, play areas and freely accessible libraries. A non-discriminatory citizen card is intended to combine social benefits, volunteer card and library card and reduce stigma. Housing First against homelessness, medical as well as psychological and psychiatric care and sufficient sleeping places ensure support in emergencies.

We strengthen the framework conditions for participation, dialogue and volunteering – through neighbourhood projects, associations and initiatives. This strengthens the sense of community, breaks down barriers and acts against hatred and exclusion. For us, this includes the revival of town twinning and the preservation and strengthening of the volunteer centre, the Wiesbaden Foundation, the service center of the associations and the Bürgerkolleg as well as programs such as ‘Young and Committed”, the Youth Information Centre and the Youth Parliament.

Municipal heating planning is Wiesbaden's strategic roadmap towards a reliable, climate-neutral heat supply throughout the city. It is also about an energy supply that is as cost-effective as possible. In addition, we are focusing on more photovoltaics on urban roofs as well as on a demand-oriented expansion of the electricity grids and the e-charging infrastructure. The decisive factor in all this is the involvement of citizens and companies as well as practical advice on all questions of the changeover. 

The expansion of district heating in the city centre sets the pace for the renovation of canals, pipes and pipes. Using the example of Schwalbacher Straße, we show that this also means the opportunity to redesign the urban space and create more space for pedestrians, cycling and greening. In this way, we use synergies between the energy transition, the renewal of infrastructure and sustainable urban development.

We focus on precaution rather than reaction. To this end, we continue to develop early warning systems and protect relevant infrastructures such as energy and water supply, communication infrastructure and health facilities from failures. For systematic flood and heavy rain protection, we rely on the renaturation of waters as well as on the sponge city principle with more green roofs, infiltration areas, unsealing and rainwater storage. For hot summers, cool places are accessible free of charge. We equip the necessary fire brigades and other aid organizations for the future. We want to attract and support volunteers from all parts of our society, especially young people and women.

We are expanding the digital twin of the city, which was introduced in 2025. It links data on energy consumption, urban planning, the environment and transport, for example, and thus creates a virtual image of our city. Complex relationships can thus be visualized and intelligent solutions developed for greater sustainability. The online construction site map should also be integrated here and provide the most up-to-date possible status of the current construction sites as well as a preview of the upcoming measures.

We are decisively driving forward the KLIMA_PLAN, making Wiesbaden independent of oil, gas and coal and introducing a climate traffic light that creates transparency about the climate-friendliness of urban projects. In the land use plan, we secure the necessary space for the infrastructure. The UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are achieved by cities and supported local actors, for example through sustainable procurement that takes life-cycle costs into account. We are expanding the funding management, consulting supports companies and start-ups. In this way, sustainability becomes a strong location factor – for jobs, prosperity and quality of life.

A climate-neutral, secure and affordable energy supply is a decisive economic factor. We want to support our local companies on their way to climate neutrality and promote innovative cooperation, for example in the use of waste heat. In order to increase the opportunities of ecological transformation, for example for local crafts and the construction industry, we are forging a Wiesbaden Alliance for Green Trades. Digitalization not only offers many possibilities for accelerating processes, but also makes our city more sustainable. With the establishment of an Innovation Council, we bring together administration, politics, business, science and citizens to bundle new ideas, initiate pilot projects and position the city of Wiesbaden as a pioneer of modern, digital urban development.

Within the framework of the municipal possibilities, we are committed to a good offer of nursing schools and training places in Wiesbaden. With a health campus, we want to strengthen the health sector, better network clinics, research and the economy and secure medical care. We want to increase the attractiveness of the nursing professions – for example through job tickets, improved accommodation options such as subsidised trainee housing and flexible childcare services. At the same time, we are creating space and housing for students in order to promote RheinMain University of Applied Sciences and vocational training in the long term. We want to further develop the ‘Industrial Skilled Workers’ Initiative’ developed during the last parliamentary term and extend it to new sectors such as crafts and health.

Areas are scarce in our condensed region. We further develop the location profile, expand strengths and use the agreed commercial space concept to pool resources, expand settlement management and define sustainability criteria for commercial spaces.

Online trading is fundamentally changing the inner cities and leading to vacancy in the inner city. As a municipality, we need to take on a much stronger role to accompany the change in the city centre. However, empty buildings cannot be bought and developed by the city. This can only be achieved through the establishment of integrated vacancy and settlement management, the use of funding programmes, discussions with all parties involved and, in general, by supporting efforts to revive the vacancy in the sense of a mix of uses.

Our aim is an administration that works digitally, efficiently and close to the citizen. We use artificial intelligence specifically where it speeds up procedures and improves services - transparently and in compliance with data protection regulations. The E-file enables paperless processes and flexible working. Online forms, digital appointments and reminders of deadlines simplify administrative procedures and relieve everyone involved. All offers should be understandable, barrier-free, multilingual and usable on any device.

We want to expand our home office, mobile work, flexible working models and digital collaboration, including for apprentices. This makes it easier to combine work and private life, and the city remains an attractive employer. Ergonomic workplaces, exercise, counselling and prevention ensure that employees remain healthy, motivated and can develop their potential. This makes Wiesbaden attractive for skilled workers and ensures efficient teams.

We also want to improve housing supply for urban workers. We also want to examine company apartments, as we have already built them on the grounds of Helios Dr. Horst Schmidt Kliniken (HSK) by GWW, for other groups of employees, such as the bus drivers of ESWE Verkehr. The model project ‘Apprentice housing”, we want to expand and also benefit urban apprentices.

Our investments secure central tasks such as water, housing and mobility. They should work economically and at the same time promote social responsibility, climate protection and equality – with clear democratic control.

Wiesbaden should be able to perform its tasks reliably without overburdening the city budget. That is why we are committed to ensuring that the federal and state governments fully finance new tasks entrusted to the city. At the same time, we consistently use state, federal and EU funding to support urban projects and relieve the budget. We use public funds responsibly by regularly checking which tasks are necessary and where funds can be used more efficiently. In this way, we create financial leeway for a reliable infrastructure and a sustainable future.