A new website for Oberursel

July 1, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Oberursel Altstadt seen from the BleicheSince the Hessentag last year in Oberursel, the number of items relating to the town have increased dramatically on this site.

At the same time a number of sub-sites for local events and a ticker have been started, meaning that the information about the town has been spread out, whilst the blog has been a mixture of Oberursel and non-Oberursel topics.

To reflect the importance of Oberursel to the AllThingsGerman.net site we have decided to bring all of the topics connected with the town together, and to give the blog back to its original purpose: information about the culture, politics and places to visit in all of Germany.

If Oberursel does not interest you, then stay here on the blog as you have done until now.  Otherwise, please visit www.allthingsgerman.net/oberursel and see the new site for yourself.  Don’t forget to sign up for the new e-mail newsletter as well!

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How Oberursel plans to increase childcare costs

June 10, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Oberursel's town hallTwo weeks ago I sat in on a meeting of the town council where the charges for Kindergarten places were discussed at length.  Now the town administration has come up with new proposals that will be put to the next town council meeting for approval.

It is worth taking a moment to look at the demands that parents had made a few months ago when the topic first arose.  Many of them have been fulfilled, such as keeping the Siblingbonus in place and not reducing the quality or number of places available in the town.

They also wanted the increase to take place in several steps, which is what will now happen.  The increases will take effect on 1st August 2012, 1st February 2012 and 1st August 2013.  However they insisted that the increase should be “moderate”.  The question is: what is moderate?

At the town council meeting some parties were more direct, and announced the highest percentage that they considered to be reasonable.

In the end, however, some people will end up with a larger increase than many wanted. [Read more…]

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Oberursel’s Station Grand Re-opening: The Bahnhofsfest

May 27, 2012 By Leave a Comment

This Whitsun weekend will be one that many people in Oberursel remember for a long time to come, because it was this weekend that the station building re-opening with what may be the first “Bahnhofsfest” that it has even seen.

“May be” because no-one knows whether they held one when the building was originally opened in 1901.

The day started at 11am when a large crowd gathered in front a stage that had been set up partially on the U-Bahn platform.  Dr. Justus Förschner of SEWO, the organisation responsible for the renovation work, opened the proceedings with the Mayor Hans-Georg Brum.

Dr. Justus Förschner presenting to key to the new tenants of the station building

Dr. Justus Förschner presenting to key to the new tenants of the station building

After a brief look back at the history of the building, how the dual railway connected had benefited the development of the town, and not forgetting the fact that it had taken over 20 years to find a solution to the “station” problem (the building had been run down, with ticket sales only at peak hours), the key was officially handed over to the new tenants.

[Read more…]

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