The Maize Maze in Weißkirchen (Maislabyrinth) opened for the 2024 season last weekend. I was there for the Oberurseler Woche. Click here to read my report (in German).
About Graham
Graham Tappenden is a British ex-pat who first came to Germany as a placement student in 1993, returning in 1995 to live there permanently. He has been writing for AllThingsGerman.net since 2006. When not writing blog posts or freelancing for the Oberurseler Woche and other publications he works as a self-employed IT consultant and online community manager. In 2016 he gained German citizenship.
A song for the stairs – 12 points for the neighbourhood
July 26, 2024 By Leave a Comment
It’s not often that I get to write about the Eurovision Song Contest, even less so in Oberursel. But this Wednesday saw the premiere of a musical comedy featuring no less than 27 songs from previous years of the contest, sung live and outdoors in the town.
Click here to read more (in German)
Petra Oho, Christian Kerkhoff, Susanne Anders and Klaus Heindl performing “Making Your Mind Up”
War memorial in Gingst
July 25, 2024 By Leave a Comment
When we visited Gingst last year, we saw that a new war memorial was being erected. But the inauguration was scheduled for the day we returned to Oberursel, so it was still covered when we left.
This year we could see it in all its glory. The memorial commemorates those who died in the First World War, and a similar memorial was erected on the site in 1925. It was removed in 1974, according to Wikipedia.
The new memorial incorporates elements of the original, which in the intervening years had been used as flower tubs in the village, ultimately saving them.
