AllThingsGerman.net: Oberursel
The latest news in English from Oberursel in the Taunus area of Germany.
A tour entitled “War and Peace in Oberursel” is being held on Sunday, 25th June, 2017.
A host of guides – Sylvia Struck, Hermann Schmidt, Angelika Rieber, Maren Horn und Dietrich Andernacht – will lead tour through the centre of the town to visit places where the town was once defended as well as places that played a roll in the wars of the 20th Century.
The tour is set to last around 2 hours and costs 3 Euro per person to take part. The starting point is at the St.Ursula church at 2.30pm.
A tour entitled “War and Peace in Oberursel” is being held on Sunday, 17th July, 2016.
A host of guides – Sylvia Struck, Hermann Schmidt, Angelika Rieber, Maren Horn und Dietrich Andernacht – will lead tour through the centre of the town to visit places where the town was once defended as well as places that played a roll in the wars of the 20th Century.
The tour is set to last around 2 hours and costs 3 Euro per person to take part. The starting point is at the St.Ursula church at 2.30pm.
Once again this weekend, two major events are taking place in Oberursel.
The annual “Seifenkistenrennen” – soap box racing – will be held on Saturday evening (13th September, 2014) in the Strackgasse. Training for the children begins at 3pm with racing starting at 4pm and the winners being announced at 7pm. The adult races will start at 7pm, with the winners being announced around 10pm.
Sunday is the “monument open day” and a number of guided tours will be on offer.
Between 1pm and 2.30pm Angelika Rieber will be at the Jewish Cemetery in the Altkönigstraße (next to the swimming pool car park) to explain the history of the cemetery and the differences between the styles of graves. Please note that men are asked to cover their head as a sign of respect when visiting the cemetary.
At 3.30pm at tour of “war and anti-war memorials” will start at the Christuskirche in the Oberhöchstadter Straße, with Angelika Rieber and Dietrich Andernacht visiting and explaining the different monuments in the town that have been erected since 1871. The tour costs €3 per person.
10 years ago a group of Oberursel’s residents met in the “Zum Schwanen” pub in the old town to begin their training as town guides. Knows as the “Stadtführer”, they not only take groups around the town centre, but other parts as well such as the Hohe Mark clinic and Camp King. They also offer walks along the Mühlenwanderweg and themed tours about the war memorials and jewish life in the town.
To celebrate their 10th anniversary, a group of the guides returned to the spot where it all began where they were met by Mayor Hans-Georg Brum and town treasurer Thorsten Schorr. [Read more…]
A tour of the war memorials in Oberursel is being offered on Sunday, 8th September, 2013.
Led by local historian Angelika Rieber and Dietrich Andernacht the tour encompasses memorials in the town starting in the 19th century and covering both World Wars and also the latest victims’ memorial in memory of those taken from Oberursel against their will never to return.
The tour starts at the Christuskirche in the Oberhöchstädterstraße at 3.30pm and costs €3.
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A tour of the war memorials in Oberursel is being offered on Sunday, 26th August, 2012.
Led by local historian Angelika Rieber and Dietrich Andernacht the tour encompasses memorials in the town starting in the 19th century and covering both World Wars and also the latest victims’ memorial in memory of those taken from Oberursel against their will never to return.
The tour starts at the Christuskirche in the Oberhöchstädterstraße at 2.30pm and costs €3.
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