AllThingsGerman.net: Oberursel
The latest news in English from Oberursel in the Taunus area of Germany.
Having successfully taken over the town hall last Saturday, Prince Jürgen I. moved into the Mayor’s office on Monday where he intends to run things until Ash Wednesday.
The photo shows him settling into the Mayor’s office with his page Sonja Coy and Lord Stewart Patrick Volz, with Mayor Hans-Georg Brum, Alderman Christof Fink and Treasurer Thorsten Schorr in the background.
Sunday afternoon sees the annual carnival procession take place in Oberursel, with this year seeing a return to the normal finishing point in the Oberhöchstadter Straße.
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 CluGeHu (Karnevalsverein Club Geselligkeit Humor Weißkirchen 1952 e.V.) is holding a carnival party for children in the Turnhalle in Weißkirchen (Oberurseler Straße 16) on Saturday, 14th February, 2015 at 2.31pm.
Doors open at 2.11pm and entry costs €2 per person.
Frohsinn’s “Große Garde”
The Karnevalverein Frohsinn is holding a carnival party for children at the hall in the Frohsinnweg on Saturday, 14th February, 2015 at 2.11pm.
Doors open at 1.11pm and entry costs €1.50 per person.
The annual carnival Karnevalssitzung in the St.Hedwig’s community in Oberursel is being held on Saturday, 14th February, 2015 in the Hedwigsheim (Freiherr-vom-Stein-Str. 8a).
The motto is “Polonaise Oppidum-hier lachen sich die Kelten krumm”, ie. here is where the Celts laugh.
Music is being provided by Klaus Schneider.
The event begins at 20:11, doors open at 19:11 and tickets costs €10.
The Rathaussturm when the carnival prince takes over the town hall took place in cold but dry weather on Saturday morning:
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Sunday afternoon sees the annual carnival procession take place in Oberursel, with this year seeing a slightly altered route for the procession due to the roadworks taking place at the Bärenkreuzung.
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 continue into the Oberhöchstadter Straße before turning into the Austraße, Aumühlenstraße and finishing in the Adenauerallee around 2½ hours later.
A commentary of the procession will be provided at the Marktplatz, Epinayplatz, Oberhöchstadter Straße and in the Aumühlenstraße.
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, Freiligrathstraße, 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.
Having taken over the town hall on Saturday, Prince Benjamin I. has taken a “hands-on” approach.
Not only did he take a tour of the departments on Monday morning, he sat in on a press conference and announced his intention to take over the council meeting on Wednesday evening.
In the photo he is seen in one of the offices getting to grips with the telephone system, wtih Mayor Hans-Georg Brum (left), treasurer Thorsten Schorr (right), his Lord Steward Harald Pratt and pages Nadine and Nathalie.
The Rathaussturm when the carnival prince takes over the town hall took place in slightly wet weather on Saturday morning:
When the town council met on Thursday, 12th September, 2013, there were no really “big” topics. There was almost no mention of the swimming pool and almost no mention of the state of the town’s finances. In fact, there was quite a bit of agreement about things not to talk about, but to send off to other sub-committees.
Nethertheless, there were still plenty of things to talk about.
One of the more curious set of questions during the evening came from the CDU group, who wanted to know how much the town spend on the annual Brunnenfest (Fountain festival), in particular in 2013. They also wanted to know why the fireworks did not take place this year. A rather strange request, considering that one of the people on the committee that organizes the festival is also a CDU councillor. [Read more…]
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