AllThingsGerman.net: Oberursel
The latest news in English from Oberursel in the Taunus area of Germany.
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.
Following an appeal by local bus drivers and engaged members of the public, including discussions on Facebook, a member of the town council representing the party “Die Linke” put forward an urgent motion to extend the lease on the kiosk at the station at the council meeting last Thursday (22nd November, 2012).
The motion received the two-thirds majority that it required to be accepted onto the agenda, with all councillors voting in favour of its addition with the exception of one councillor from the CDU party who voted against it.
But with the town’s budget to be debated first, it was not until three hours later that the councillors actually got round to discussing the motion itself. [Read more…]
Council Chairman Dr. Christoph Müllerleile and Mayor Hans-Georg Brum with Inge and Dr. Eberhard Laeuen, Manfred Kopp, Treasurer Thorsten Schorr and Alderman Christof Fink
The citizens’ medals 2012 were awarded to:
1. Manfred Kopp for his work as a local historian, which includes putting together the archive of documents about Camp King, 1933-1993. The archive is due to be re-located to its new permanent home in the “Kinderhaus”, previously known as “House Florida”. Since 2003 he has also been responsible for training the town guides (“Stadtführer”) and he himself offers several tours of the Camp King area each year.
2. Inge and Dr. Eberhard Laeuen, who were among the initiators of the working group “Nie wieder 1933” (never again 1933), which was set up in 1981 to research and document the crimes that took place during the Nazi period in Oberursel. They were also among the initiators of the “Initiative Opferdenkmal e.V.” (victims’ memorial) foundation in 2008, whose aim is to create a lasting memorial for the victims of the National Socialist regime who came from the town.
They received their medals during the Bürgerempfang in November 2012.
Members of the cycle club Fahr Wohl (Sophie Röhm, Natalie Schubert, Lukas Schaak & Phillip Krämer) perform a demonstration of synchronised cycling at the Bürgerempfang, November 2012
Wilfried Abt, Mayor Hans-Georg Brum, Tim Leinert, Marianne Brodbeck, Jessica Wüst and Reiner Göpfert
The Rotary Club Youth Prize (Förderpreis) in 2012 was awarded to:
1. Tim Leinert, for organising an open air film festival in the Rushmoor Park which centred around regional up-coming media talent.
2. Jessica Wüst, respresenting the students who provide homework assistance at the primary school “Grunschule Mitte”, accompanied by teacher Marianne Brodbeck.
The presentation was made by Reiner Göpfert of Oberursel’s Rotary Club.
The 2012 Christmas Market (Weihnachtsmarkt) in Oberursel starts on Thursday, 29th November and continues until Sunday, 2nd December.
The market is open Thursday 4pm-9pm, Friday 2pm-10pm, Saturday 12pm-10pm and Sunday 12pm-9pm, and takes place in front of the town hall (Rathausplatz), along the “Vorstadt” and “Strackgasse”, and on the market square (“Marktplatz”) with around 100 stands in total.
The Marktplatz is the location for the “middle-ages” market, whereas a miniature steam train will be offering rides on the Rathausplatz.
Arts and Crafts
Inside the town hall an arts and crafts fair will be taking place with around 40 stands, including those from the twin towns of Epinay-sur-Seine, Rushmoor and Lomonossow. The fair closes an hour before the Christmas market, except on Thursday.
Concerts
The “Hospitalkirche” Church in the Strackgasse will be hosting a series of concerts over the weekend, with entry free but a donation requested.
Friday 6pm: Flute ensemble from Oberursel music school
Saturday 6pm: Crotchets – the Klezmerensemble of Oberursel’s music school
Sunday 6pm: Youth orchestra and recorder group from the TV Stierstadt.
Advent market in the museum
The Vortaunusmuseum at the Marktplatz will be holding an advent market on Saturday 10am-6pm and Sunday 12pm-6pm.
Seniorentreff
The “Seniorentreff” will be holding their own Christmas market at Hospitalstraße 9, where they will be selling knitted socks and other hand-made items. There will also be refreshments available including mulled wine. The opening times are: Friday 2pm-9pm and Saturday 10am-9pm.
4 Rooms Open Air Winter Party
The Café Portstrasse will be holding an “Open Air Winter Party” next to the U-Bahn stop “Altstadt” on Thursday between 6pm and 8.30pm, with hot drinks, music, twists, sausages, and a fire show and young people from all parts of the town are invited to start or end their Christmas market tour here.
Road closures
The following roads will be closed during the Christmas Market opening times:
The Untere Hainstraße will be open to two-way traffic.
The Ackergasse will be closed where it meets the Schlenkergasse, allowing traffic to flow via the Schlenkergasse and Weidengasse.
The car park next to the town hall will be closed from Tuesday, 27th November.
The normal market on Wednesday and Saturday will be moved to the Epinayplatz.
More than 2,500 Euro were raised on “Volkstrauertag” – the German equivalent of Remembrance Sunday – by a concert held in the Christuskirche Church to support the restoration of the “Ehrenmal” – the war memorial dedicated to those from Oberursel who lost their lives in the First World War.
Before the concert got underway, the manager of the Ursella-Foundation, Dr. Justus Förschner, explained the current state of the monument, which has been stabilised by filling the hollow base and column with cement. He also went into detail of why it will take some time for the pieces of the mosaic to be re-applied, work that is to be undertaken by a special company from Eppstein (Matthias Steyer). He believes that the work will be finished by the spring of next year. [Read more…]
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