AllThingsGerman.net: Oberursel
The latest news in English from Oberursel in the Taunus area of Germany.
The Altkönigstraße will be closed between the Theodor-Heuss-Straße and Rotbornstraße from Tuesday, 2nd April until Friday, 31st May, 2013. This is to allow for work on the new swimming pool to take place.
A diversion will be in place via the Theodor-Heuss-Straße, Brüder-Grimm-Straße and Rotbornstraße.
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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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.
In the early hours of Sunday morning (17th February, 2013), a 20-year-old man was driving his Renault car along the Altkönigstraße when he came into contact with two cars that had been properly parked and damaged them.
He continued on his journey without dealing with the situation and police believe that he was under the influence of alcohol at this time. They were able to identify the car shortly afterwards and find out how was driving it.
They then found the driver at home in his flat and took him to the police station for a blood alcohol test. His driving license was confiscated. The damage to the cars is estimated at €5,200 but no-one was hurt.
Sunday afternoon sees the annual carnival procession take place in Oberursel, with this year seeing a new route for the procession to avoid the narrow streets and tight corners around the pedestrian precinct.
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.
From here it will follow the old route along the Adenauerallee, turning into the Aumühlenstraße, then into the Austraße before finishing in front of the police station in the Oberhöchstadter Straße around 2½ hours later.
A commentary of the procession will be provided at the Marktplatz, Epinayplatz and in the Austraße, with food stands on the Epinayplatz for the first time.
Road closures and diversions
To allow the roads to be closed to traffic, the town centre will be closed off from 1pm.
The Hohemarkstraße will be closed at “Im Diezen”. Traffic travelling south will be diverted via Im Diezen, Erich-Ollenhauer-Straße, Frieligrathstraße, Herzbergstraße, Kumeliusstraße or Liebfrauenstraße, and back onto the Feldbergsraße.
The Feldbergstraße will be closed at the junction with the Liebfrauenstraße or Kumeliusstraße. Traffic travelling north will be diverted via the Kumeliusstraße and Berliner Straße back onto the Hohemarkstraße.
The Freiligrathstraße will be closed between the Homm-Kreisel and Berliner Straße.
The bus routes 41 and 42 will still be operating but will travel around the Homm-Kreisel in the opposite direction to the normal flow of traffic.
It is expected that the roads will re-open at around 6pm.
The last time that I wrote about the term “Ausländerbeirat” I had just voted in Oberursel to elect a new one in November 2010. At the time I asked what the point of having one was, especially I did not know any of the candidates and the turnout at the election was only 3%.
For the benefit of readers who are not aware of the Ausländerbeirat (other than a voting slip every 5 years), it is an elected parliamentary body that every town in Hessen has where more than 1000 foreigners live. And only those foreigners are eligible to stand for election and to vote.
As I understand it they have two purposes. One is to support the integration of foreigners in the local community, and the other is to look at the decisions being made by other committees and the town parliament in order to comment on whether the non-German communities will be particularly affected by them.
Whether they have any power to block any of those decisions, I have yet to discover. [Read more…]
Oberursel needs a new swimming pool – I think most people in the town would agree on that.
And although they may not have agreed on how to finance it in the past, the current plan is to sell off the current car park as building land.
Again, most people would probably agree with that. If only it wasn’t for these trees:
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The trees form a border between the current houses along the Altkönigstraße and the car park, and in the Bebauungsplan (Nr. 218) only the part of the row to the right of the photo is set to remain. [Read more…]
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