Violence in the Taunus area
Friday, December 16th, 2011
Several weeks ago a visitor to the town hall (Rathaus) in Oberursel attacked the people working there with a knife. Only a day later I read that it was believed an attack might take place at a grammar school in Frankfurt.
It’s not that these things don’t happen in Germany, but these two were too close for comfort – I even had a meeting the very next day at the town hall to attend!
It made me wonder if this sort of violence was on the increase. Were these one-off attacks or threats? I often read the local news and even the police press releases and can’t remember anything on quite this scale for a long time.
And yes, it worries me. (more…)




Last winter many towns in Germany were criticised for not doing enough to prepare for the hard winter months. In fact, when I think about it, the last TWO winters have been very cold and with lots of snow here, and in some cases I had the feeling that the side roads were not being gritted or cleared. There were days when it was almost impossible to get off my parking space and I resorted to taking the bus into town to get to my appointments.

