The Eschborn-Frankfurt Cycle Race returned to the 1st May bank holiday this year. Here is the elite race passing Camp King in Oberursel:
A sponsored walk to Oberstedten and back
May 16, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Last Sunday saw a flurry of activity in the woods between the northern end of Oberursel and nearby Oberstedten. Several hundred children and parents from the local Waldorf school were holding a sponsored walk to raise money for a school in South Africa.
Although the school itself borders on the area, the start was actually located some distance away in the woods itself – signs led those like myself who had gone to the school instead from the gates along a trail to get there.
Once at the check-in point, the walk itself took a circuit that was about 1 km long, with the walkers being sponsored on a per-lap basis. Over 300 people were expected to take part.
The sponsorship money raised will be put to use in a project at the Dassenberg Waldorf School in South Africa who have had a partnership with the school in Oberursel for the past 15 years. [Read more…]
Oberursel’s swimming pool problem
July 9, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Oberursel’s swimming pool is one of the most discussed topics in the town, after the Hessentag.
For many years, one of its problems had been that the pool was either open as an indoor pool (Hallenbad) or an outdoor one (Freibad), but as far as I know not as both at the same time. This meant that if there was a bad summer, the ticket receipts could be severely affected.
Oberursel's old swimming pool building, closed since September 2008
But it was with the closure of the indoor pool in September 2008 that the real problems started. After the collapse of the roof of a public ice rink in southern Germany, many towns commissioned studies of their public buildings to ensure that they did not suffer the same fate during the winter months, which appeared to be receiving more snow from year to year.
Oberursel’s roof was deemed too unsafe for public swimming, and the indoor pool has not been open since. [Read more…]
