Photos of the building site taken from the Altkönigstraße on 15th March, 2013, with sun in the sky and snow on the ground:
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Archives for March 2013
Car slipped out of gear leading to accident
March 22, 2013 By
A car travelling along the Frankfurter Landstraße on Monday afternoon (18th March, 2013) slipped out of gear, which shocked the 28-year-old driver so much, that he slammed on the brakes.
The lorry driver behind him was unable to see this coming and hit the car from behind. The damage is estimated at €13,500.
Changes to refuse collection days for Easter
March 22, 2013 By
The collection days for the black and yellow rubbish sacks and bins are being brought forward for the week before Easter.
The changes are as follows:
Black sacks and bins
… from Monday 25th March to Saturday 23rd March (2013)
… from Tuesday 26th March to Monday 25th March
… from Wednesday 27th March to Tuesday 26th March
… from Thursday 28th March to Wednesday 27th March
… from Friday 29th March, Good Friday, to Thursday 28th March
ie. if the rubbish is normally collected on Monday, then it will be collected on Saturday, and so on.
Yellow sacks and bins
… area D will be collected on Saturday, 23 March
… area C will be collected on Monday, 25th March
… area B will be collected on Tuesday, 26th March
… area A will be collected on Wednesday, 27th March
The areas A-D are defined in this PDF file.
Altkönigstraße closed on Monday
March 22, 2013 By
The Altkönigstraße will be closed on Monday, 25th March, 2013 between the Theodor-Heuss-Straße and the Rotbornstraße. This is to allow for building work in connection with the new swimming pool to take place.
A diversion via the Bruder-Grimm-Straße will be in place.
Philipp-Reis-Straße closed on Saturday
March 21, 2013 By
The Philipp-Reiss-Straße will be closed on Saturday, 23rd March, 2013 between 7am and 8pm to allow for a crane to be erected.
Kurt Gläser – 90th Birthday
March 21, 2013 By
Congratulations to Herr Kurt Gläser of Oberursel who is 90 years old today.
Three cars damaged in parking maneuver
March 21, 2013 By
The 89-year-old driver of an Opel Vectra was reversing his car out of a parking bay at the Marktplatz on Tuesday afternoon (19th March, 2013), when it came into contact with a Skoda Yeti that was passing by.
Shocked by the sudden impact, he drove forward again and into the Ford Fusion parked in front of him.
The damage is estimated at €7,500.
Lost property to be auctioned off
March 21, 2013 By
Items of lost property that have been handed in to the town hall in Oberursel and not been claimed are due to be auctioned off in the coming weeks.
From today (21st March, 2013) a preview of the items is available on the website www.sonderauktionen.net where the auctions will start on 18th April. By then, all of the items will have been left unclaimed for over 6 months.
The auction works as follows: each item has a set maximum and minimum price and while the auction is running the price will keep dropping a few cents at a time. Bidders can enter the price they wish to pay or stop the auction at any time if they are prepared to pay the current asking price.
For example: a bicycle starting at €100 and going down to €10 over 10 days. Bidder 1 enters a bid of €55, bidder 2 enters a bid of €69,50. If once the price reaches €72 a third bidder offers to pay that price then they win the auction.
The items won are to be collected and paid for by 31st May, 2013, from the lost property office in the town hall (first floor, room 101) during the opening times (Monday to Friday 7.30am until 12pm and Monday to Thursday 2pm until 6pm). Payment may be made in cash or by ec-card.
The town hall offers no warranty on the items won and no exchange or withdrawal from the purchase is possible.
Green Party wants to abolish coffin requirement
March 21, 2013 By
At tonight’s meeting of the town council the Green Party in Oberursel will be putting forward a motion to abolish the requirement for bodies to be put into coffins before they are either buried or cremated.
The motion will also ask for the town the find out whether it is possible to offer burials in accordance with the Muslim burial tradition at one or more of the cemeteries in the town.
“Death is a part of life and a community should make it possible for both the deceased and the next of kin to grieve according to their own moral concepts”, Councillor Lars Stockmann explained. The party is of the opinion, that in a pluralistic society with different religions that these different concepts should also be considered in the funeral options available. [Read more…]
Mountain Lodge open to the public
March 21, 2013 By
Last Saturday, 16th March, 2013, visitors to the Camp King area had a rare chance to visit the Mountain Lodge, previously known as building 1027 and the officers’ mess, it was once intended to be the new town hall in Zeppelinheim after being exhibited in Frankfurt, but instead was dismantled and rebuilt at the end of the 1930s in Oberursel.
One of the investors, Stefan Kuhn, was on hand to answer questions about the building and I am grateful to him for permission take and publish photographs of the interior.
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