AllThingsGerman.net: Oberursel
The latest news in English from Oberursel in the Taunus area of Germany.
The building site at the new Porsche garage was broken into on the weekend of 8th – 10th February, 2014. Cable and electrical parts work around €2,500 were stolen.
The thieves broke through part of a roll-up door and were then able to activate an emergency exit to gain access to the rooms, where they removed a number of switches, sockets, fuses and 2,000m of cable.
Two locked up bicycles were recently stolen in the space of one weekend in the town centre.
In one case, a bicycle worth €170 was taken from the bicycle stand at the front of the station building between 8am on Friday, 17th January, 2014 and 12pm the following day. The bicycle had been chained to the stand.
A bicycle worth €390 was stolen between 7am on Friday, 17th January, 2014 and 9am the next morning from the Holzweg. This time the bicycle was not only attached to the stand, but the stand was in the yard of a house.
A safe was removed from a wall in a company office in the Zimmersmühlenweg on the night of 7th/8th January, 2014.
The video surveillance recording shows at least two men involved in the break-in, and it is not known how the managed to enter the premises.
The safe, measuring 35 x 35 x 25cm and weighing 31kg contained cash and a mobile phone.
A number of properties in Oberursel were broken into on Friday, 3rd January and Saturday, 4th January, 2014.
On Friday between 11am and 1.10pm a house in the Dornbachstraße was broken into by smashing the patio door. Electrical appliances and jewellery were stolen.
The second house to be reported was in the Tilsiter Straße in Weißkirchen, were between 2.30pm and 8pm the patio door was forced out of its frame. Once again electrical appliances and jewellery were stolen.
On Saturday afternoon between 2pm and 9pm the patio door of a ground floor flat was forced out of its frame in the Hohemarkstraße whilst the occupant was out. Details of what was stolen are not yet available.
Finally on Saturday afternoon, between 4.30pm and 11pm a house in the Altkönigstraße was broken into by throwing a stone through the glass-patio door to the rear of the property. Again, the occupants were not at home and are as yet unable to give details of what exactly was stolen.
Police in Oberursel are asking anyone who can help them with their enquiries to call them on 06171 62400.
A bus driver in Oberstedten suffered lacerations after being attacked by two young men on Sunday, 22nd December, at around 9.20pm.
An argument had broken out between the driver and the two passengers after they had started hitting the windows inside the bus. After the men left the bus in the Bergweg they continued to bang on the windows from the outside, at which point the driver also got out to have words with them.
A fight ensued and the 45-year-old driver was hit in the face a number of times. As a result of his injuries he was taken to hospital for stitches.
The men are both described as being between 19 and 22 years old, 1.80m tall, and wearing dark clothes. After the attack they both quickly left the scene and police have as yet been unable to trace them.
On the night of 21st/22nd October, 2013, at least four garden huts were broken into at the allotments “In den Kreuzhecken”.
According to police the only thing that appears to have been stolen was a bar of chocolate. However the damaged caused is estimated to be worth €300.
A 12-year-old boy was attacked in the U-Bahn (U3) on Tuesday, 24th September, 2013. The attack took place between the stops “Waldlust” and “Lahnstraße” just before 6pm.
The attacker is described as a man, around 1.80m or 1.85m tall, well built, with a black beard. He was wearing black trousers, a black jumper with a hood, and coloured Adidas trainers.
According to police, he hit the boy in the stomach and then took his keys before leaving the train at the “Lahnstraße” station. Luckily the boy was not hurt.
Detectives in Bad Homburg would like to hear from anyone who can identify the man on 06172 1200.
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