AllThingsGerman.net: Oberursel
The latest news in English from Oberursel in the Taunus area of Germany.
Around 20 people gathered at the kiosk at the U-Bahn station this evening, Friday, 30th November, 2012, to light candles and hold a vigil in protest over the decision to close the kiosk in two weeks time.
They intend to gather again next week at the same time, 5.30pm, and again on 14th December when the kiosk closes for the last time.
The Verbraucherzentrale (consumers’ association) will be offering individual energy saving consultations in the Rathaus in Oberursel on Thursday, 6th December, 2012 between 2pm and 6pm.
Appointments cost €5 for 30 minutes, and €2.50 for each 15 minutes after that. They need to be arranged in advance by calling 06171 502-310.
The Seniorentreff in Oberursel will be offering an afternoon of Bingo on Thursday, 6th December, 2012 between 2.30pm and 4.30pm in the “Altes Hospital” (Hospitalstraße 9).
Anyone who is interested is invited to come along and try their luck!
Congratulations to Ilse and Gunter Müller in Oberursel who are celebrating their Golden Wedding Anniversary today!
The Christmas Market in Oberursel was opened on Thursday, 29th November, 2012 by Mayor Hans-Georg Brum, accompanied by the Fountain Queen Vanessa I, City Manager Wolfgang Bräutigam, Fountain Master Harry Hecker, Treasurer Thorsten Schorr, Alderman Wilfried Abt and Council Chairman Dr. Christoph Müllerleile.
The market stretches from the Rathaus through the Vorstadt and Strackgasse to the Marktplatz.
(Click on the photos to enlarge)
Around €24,000 of damage were caused last Thursday (22nd November) by an accident on the “Kanonenstraße” (L3004).
For reasons as yet unknown an VW Golf driven by an 18-year old came into contact with an Audi Q7, driven by a 40-year old and travelling in the opposite direction near the “Sandplacken”.
After this, the Golf had a head-on collision with a Ford Cougar driven by a 41-year old from Frankfurt.
The driver of the Cougar was slightly injured, although the driver of the Golf more seriously. Fuel leaked from the vehicles, resulting in Oberursel’s fire brigade being called to the scene. The road was fully closed for two hours until around 6.50pm.
Electricty cable worth around €12,000 was taken at some point during last weekend from the building site at the swimming pool.
The thieves opened the building site fence to gain access to the grounds, where they took 77m of loose cable and removed a further 237m of cable that had already been installed.
Police believe they must have transported the cable in a motor vehicle or a trailer.
The Kurmainzerstraße, which was originally due to re-open at the end of this week, will now remain closed until Saturday, 8th December, 2012 to allow work to be completed on the bridge over the Urselbach.
The diversion via Ludwig-Erhard-Straße, Zimmersmühlenweg and Weißkirchener Straße will remain in force.
No one visiting the Ausländerbeirat this week was left in any doubt that things are going to be different, something the chairman Franz Zenker made very clear at the beginning of the committee’s meeting.
But his good intentions almost came to a halt when one of the other committee members asked to move the second item on the agenda (“minutes of the last meeting”) to the non-public part of the meeting, or hold the non-public part first. Considering how long the non-public part actually took later on, it may have quicker to have just done one of those two rather than discuss the possibilities.
In the end, and after much discussion, the agenda was not changed but the approval of the non-public part of the minutes was moved to the non-public part of the meeting.
Moving on to the integration monitoring report and the ominous question of who had actually read it, the change that Franz Zenker had talked about became very clear. [Read more…]
The kiosk at the station will close in just over three weeks, ending a 100 year tradition of having a kiosk at that location. Even a last minute attempt to save it at the town council has failed.
Can anything still be done? Well, there are plans to hold a vigil at the kiosk every Friday evening until it closes. And there is still the matter of 1,400 signatures on a petition, but this has yet to be handed in to the town hall.
So when I was invited to a press appointment yesterday with the kiosk’s operator and the mayor (although admittedly not by either of them directly) I expected either to be told something new, such as a new solution for the bus drivers’ problem or a new location for the kiosk, or simply a photo appointment to hand over the petition.
As it turned out, neither was the case. The appointment between them turned out to be a discussion, a sort of “setting the facts straight” affair. Worse still, no-one had bothered to inform either the town hall or the mayor that the press had been invited.
In my opinion, that is not the way to deal with either the people in the town hall who you are hoping will help you stop your business closing next month, nor with the local press who you hope will be reporting on it.
I left the meeting to attend another appointment after the first hour, and – regardless of any personal opinion that I may have about the kiosk situation – took a conscious decision not to report on the details of what had been discussed. As yet, I have not found any articles from the newspaper reporters who were present in their on-line editions either, so maybe they came to the same conclusion as well.
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