We discovered Bonjour Provence! last year during the Hessentag in Oberursel when they had a stall in the Strackgasse. The stall sells products from the South of France that have been either hand-made or produced in smaller companies. They also have an on-line shop.
Yesterday they took up a permanent base in the Strackgasse when they opened their new shop there (at Strackgasse 9). [Read more…]
A joint announcement was made at the Rathaus in Oberursel yesterday, and you could tell how important it was by of the number of people present. Representatives of 5 political parties, the school, the town, local residents, and even the mayor got together to announce a compromise had been reached on the location for the new FIS sports hall.
The project started two years ago when Frankfurt International School (FIS) in Oberursel held a competition to design a new sports hall. The winning entry would have probably been the easiest to build, as it was outside the current campus and would have been located diagonally opposite the main entrance at the Waldlust, next to the Hans-Rother-Steg.
Except that this location had its opponents. For a start there were the local residents in that road who already have to contend with the traffic that the school generates. They collected over 900 signatures against the plan.
But there were also a number of groups who were opposed to the forest being cut down to make space for the building.
This particular area of forest is called a Schutzwald, ie. a forest that enjoys a certain level of protection because it performs a specific function, such as preventing landslides or for water management.
And so it was, that in the past months all of these groups, along with the parties from the town’s parliament, have sat down at a so-called “round table” to discuss the options available.
A number of options were on the table, and the school evaluated each of them on criteria such as security for the campus, accessibility, but also for their environmental impact and whether they could also reduce the daily traffic load that the roads around the school have cope with. [Read more…]
Last year the Hessentag in Oberursel took up quite a bit of the town’s resources and also was covered quite extensively on this blog.
Today the day arrived when one of the key questions after the event was answered: “how much did it all cost?”, or to be more precise – how big was the loss that the town’s finances have been left with.
The original budget was for a loss of 3½ million Euro. In the end, it turned out to be 4½ million. An addition €836,000 were spent by the town’s own service department (BSO) and €503,000 on personnel costs. However these are not included in the deficit as to a certain extent they would have been spent anyway on the normal day-to-day running of services in the town.
So what went wrong? [Read more…]
Please click on ACCEPT to give us permission to set cookies [more information]
This website uses cookies to give you the best browsing experience possible. Cookies are small text files that are stored by the web browser on your computer. Most of the cookies that we use are so-called “Session cookies”. These are automatically deleted after your visit. The cookies do not damage your computer system or contain viruses. Please read our privacy information page for more details or to revoke permission.