AllThingsGerman.net: Oberursel
The latest news in English from Oberursel in the Taunus area of Germany.
With the cycle race “Rund um den Finanzplatz Eschborn-Frankfurt” taking place in Oberursel on Tuesday, 1st May, 2018, a number of roads will be closed with changes to public transport services as well.
The following roads will be closed between approximately 9am until 2pm: [Read more…]
A new water fountain supplying free drinking water to shoppers in Oberursel was officially inaugurated in the pedestrian precinct on Saturday, 24th March, 2018.
The fountain, located in the Kumeliusstraße, is connected to the town’s mains water supply and provides 300ml of drinking water when the button is pressed. The steel column is 115cm high and cost just over €4.000.
Unveiling the fountain were Mayor Hans-Georg Brum and the managing directory of the public works “Stadtwerke” Jürgen Funke, along with town treasurer Thorsten Schorr and Alderman Christof Fink.
Detectives in Bad Homburg are asking members of the public to help them identify a man who is a accused of attacking a bus driver in Oberursel last year. A court in Frankfurt has given them permission to release pictures taken from the onboard CCTV cameras.
On Thursday, 2nd February, 2017, a man boarded the X27 bus in Ober-Erlenbach at the “Spessartstraße” bus stop at around 6.23am. The X27 is an express route that connects Karben with Königstein. He sat down near the front of the bus where he stayed until it reached the “Nassauer Straße” stop in Oberursel around 6.52am.
Shortly after leaving this stop the man got up and went to the 70-year-old bus driver, hitting him in the face with his right fist. The driver was hit near his right eye. [Read more…]
Sunday afternoon sees the annual carnival procession take place in Oberursel, with the usual number of large crowds expected.
The procession will form in the Altkönigstraße and then leave from “Am Rahmtor” at 2.11pm before crossing the Marktplatz and entering the Eppsteiner Str.
On reaching the “Homm-Kreisel” it will turn into the Holzweg and cross the Epinayplatz before entering the Henchenstraße, at the end of which it will turn into the Liebfrauenstraße. [Read more…]
The 2017 Christmas Market (Weihnachtsmarkt) in Oberursel starts on Thursday, 30th November and continues until Sunday, 3rd 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 over 100 stands in total. [Read more…]
It was three years ago, on 12th October, 2014, that the last train rolled over the tracks of the miniature railway belonging to the Dampfbahnclub Taunus in the Mainstraße. After that day the tracks, buildings and other fixtures of the old layout were taken up and removed, work that took a whole year to complete.
After that workers from the local authority (Hochtaunuskreis) arrived and started the groundwork for the new railway. They laid the foundations according to a plan that members of the club had designed. In October 2015 the tunnel was installed and the club members moved the railway shed to its new location.
Come January 2016 the club was back on its own and started to build the new layout. Not only did that have to do everything themselves, they had to make most of it as well as almost none of the elements from the old layout – including the tracks – could be re-used and had to be replaced. [Read more…]
Commuters travelling from Oberursel and the surrounding area to Frankfurt face delays due to roadworks that started today in the Frankfurter Landstraße.
To allow the area opposite the U-Bahn station “Bommersheim” to be re-developed, new utility pipes are being laid and the road will be widened to allow for a lane for traffic turning off into the new site.
Whilst the work is going on, the Frankfurter Landstraße is going to be a one-way street towards Oberursel. Traffic travelling towards Frankfurt will be diverted along the Zimmersmühlenweg and the Ludwig-Erhard-Straße. [Read more…]
The indoor pool at the TaunaBad is to re-open on Monday, 25th September, 2017 following maintenance work that was carried out during the summer.
Work will still be taking place on repairing problems with the roof. An intermediate ceiling will allow the work to take place whilst the pool is open and outside a cover for the roof will be installed on scaffolding. However the operators warn that it may still be necessary to close the pool for a few days in October. [Read more…]
The annual Herbsttreiben weekend in Oberursel is being held between the 15th and 17th of September, 2017.
On these days, a handicraft market will take place on the Epinayplatz and in the Kumeliusstraße, cider will be sold on the Marktplatz at the “Ebbelwoi-Vertestigung”, whilst stalls selling French wares will be on the car park behind the Stadthalle.
Sunday, 17th September is “verkaufsoffen” and many of the shops in the town centre will be open during the afternoon.
[Read more…]
The Waldfest in Oberursel traditionally takes place on the last Saturday of the school holidays, which in this year fell on the 12th of August. Regular visitors will have found lots of familiar faces and activities from previous years. Bernd Peppler and Liisa Inkinen were there with their birds of prey “Ukko” the eagle owl and “Pekko” the harris hawk. There were stands to learn about bees, and nature quiz and of course the pond observations. There were guided tours through the woods, as well as coffee, cakes, salads and the barbeque.
But there were also a lot of new things, starting with the opening at 12 noon which was carried out this year by the vice-chairman of the Schulwald supporters: Thorsten Schorr, who explained to the guests what other new things they could expect. [Read more…]
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