AllThingsGerman.net: Oberursel
The latest news in English from Oberursel in the Taunus area of Germany.
The “Allianz U15 Cup against racism” took place in Oberursel at the weekend with 18 teams competing against each other in a series of matches.
Saturday morning started off with the news that flight scheduled to bring Tottenham Hotspur’s team to Frankfurt had been cancelled and so local team FV Stierstadt stepped in at the last minute to allow the matches to take place. Although they finished on 18th place, this led to them being awarded the Fair Play award on Sunday afternoon. [Read more…]
During the “Culture stage in the Allee” event back in June the Fairtrade Town steering group had an information stand with a number of Fairtrade products as well as information leaflets.
They also had a “Fußballtorwand” – a wall with two holes in to that you try to kick a football through. This was covered with information about how child labour is used to make sports articles.
A fairtrade football was raffled off amongst all those who had a go at getting the ball through the hole, and the winner was 11-year-old Nikolas Alt, who was presented with the football by Dr. Johannes Bickel (left) of the steering group and Mayor Hans-Georg Brum (right). Also in the photo are Nicole Schüppenhauer and Jens Gessner from the town’s environment, conservation and energy department.
Henni Nachtsheim, one half of the duo Badesalz, will be performing solo at the Äbbelwoi-Straußwirtschaft Alt-Orschel in Oberursel on Thursday, 25th August, 2011 at 6pm.
His stand-up comedy programme entitled “Den Schal enger schnallen und in die Ohren spucken” is all about football, although not all of it is to do with what goes on on the pitch.
Tickets can be purchased in advanced at the OK Service Center in the Kumeliusstraße.
The sport club “Eintracht 1957 Oberursel” is holding their annual international Whitsun Tournament for the 44th time this year which also coincides with the Hessentag in Oberursel.
Taking part are teams from Borussia Dortmund, Eintracht Frankfurt, Mainz 05, 1. FC Köln, FSV Frankfurt and many others including teams from Austria and Luxembourg.
The first match kicks off on Saturday, 11th June at 9am between 1. FC Köln and Eintracht Frankfurt.
To get there, take the U-Bahn (U3) to Kupferhammer, cross over the road and into the Eichwäldchenweg. The grounds are on the right-hand side after a short distance.
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