I was at the town hall in Oberursel today for the farewell press conference of the fountain queen, where Christina II. and Jürgen were thanked for their work by Mayor Hans-Georg Brum and town treasurer Thorsten Schorr.
The new face of Oberursel’s administration
April 3, 2012 By Leave a Comment
The local elections last year in Oberursel saw a change in the ruling coalition. The parties CDU and FDP had held a majority for many years and suddenly found themselves replaced by a mixture of the Green, SPD and OBG parties.
At the end of the day, no party holds more than a third of the seats, so the only chance for the town’s parliament to move anything forward is to work together.
It is something that is reflected in the new structure of the town’s administration in the Rathaus. [Read more…]
Violence in the Taunus area
December 16, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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. [Read more…]
