AllThingsGerman.net: Oberursel
The latest news in English from Oberursel in the Taunus area of Germany.
Blood can be donated at the Red Cross in Oberursel on Saturday, 14th June, 2014 between 1.30pm and 6pm. The Red Cross is located at Marxstraße 28, opposite the U-Bahn station “Lahnstraße”.
To donate you must be healthy and between 18 and 68 years of age. If you have not donated before, then you must not be over 60. You must take some form of identification with you, such as a passport, that contains a photo.
You can read more about what then happens here (in German).
Last Saturday (10th May, 2014) saw two people from Oberursel and one from Bad Homburg thanked for their long-term support for the Blood Donation service.
Christel Rindt (62), Gerhard Hohmann (69) und Karl Hainz (65) had come along to the monthly blood donation session at the Red Cross on the Marxstraße, each of them donating 500ml of blood as they had done so many times before.
Except that this time it was for the 100th, 125th and 150th time respectively. “That is particularly impressive” commented Jürgen Swoboda from the Red Cross Blood Donation service. [Read more…]
Blood can be donated at the Red Cross in Oberursel on Saturday, 10th May, 2014 between 1.30pm and 6pm. The Red Cross is located at Marxstraße 28, opposite the U-Bahn station “Lahnstraße”.
To donate you must be healthy and between 18 and 68 years of age. If you have not donated before, then you must not be over 60. You must take some form of identification with you, such as a passport, that contains a photo.
You can read more about what then happens here (in German).
Blood can be donated at the Red Cross in Oberursel on Saturday, 12th April, 2014 between 1.30pm and 6pm. The Red Cross is located at Marxstraße 28, opposite the U-Bahn station “Lahnstraße”.
To donate you must be healthy and between 18 and 68 years of age. If you have not donated before, then you must not be over 60. You must take some form of identification with you, such as a passport, that contains a photo.
You can read more about what then happens here (in German).
Blood can be donated at the Red Cross in Oberursel on Saturday, 8th March, 2014 between 1.30pm and 6pm. The Red Cross is located at Marxstraße 28, opposite the U-Bahn station “Lahnstraße”.
To donate you must be healthy and between 18 and 68 years of age. If you have not donated before, then you must not be over 60. You must take some form of identification with you, such as a passport, that contains a photo.
You can read more about what then happens here (in German).
Blood can be donated at the Red Cross in Oberursel on Saturday, 8th February, 2014 between 1.30pm and 6pm. The Red Cross is located at Marxstraße 28, opposite the U-Bahn station “Lahnstraße”.
To donate you must be healthy and between 18 and 68 years of age. If you have not donated before, then you must not be over 60. You must take some form of identification with you, such as a passport, that contains a photo.
You can read more about what then happens here (in German).
Blood can be donated at the Red Cross in Oberursel on Saturday, 11th January, 2014 between 1.30pm and 6pm. The Red Cross is located at Marxstraße 28, opposite the U-Bahn station “Lahnstraße”.
To donate you must be healthy and between 18 and 68 years of age. If you have not donated before, then you must not be over 60. You must take some form of identification with you, such as a passport, that contains a photo.
You can read more about what then happens here (in German).
Blood can be donated at the fire station in Weißkirchen (part of Oberursel) on Wednesday, 26th December, 2013 between 1pm and 5pm. The fire station is located at Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Strasse 2a.
To donate you must be healthy and between 18 and 68 years of age. If you have not donated before, then you must not be over 60. You must take some form of identification with you, such as a passport, that contains a photo.
You can read more about what then happens here (in German).
Blood can be donated at the Red Cross in Oberursel on Saturday, 14th December, 2013 between 1.30pm and 6pm. The Red Cross is located at Marxstraße 28, opposite the U-Bahn station “Lahnstraße”.
To donate you must be healthy and between 18 and 68 years of age. If you have not donated before, then you must not be over 60. You must take some form of identification with you, such as a passport, that contains a photo.
You can read more about what then happens here (in German).
Karl-Heinz Burkart is one of the money people who regularly donates blood at the Red Cross in Oberursel.
What makes him unusual is that he lives in Bad Homburg, and so theoretically he could donate there. But instead he comes to Oberursel, because, as he said recently “I like it here”.
In November 2013 he made his 125th donation, and by way of thanks was presented with a calling card box engraved with his name, a certificate, a pin with the number 125 and a hamper.
Karl-Heinz Burkart with Red Cross Volunteers Christine Schöck (left), Heike Wick and Michaela Tappenden (right)
Anyone who is in good health and between 18 and 71 years old can donate blood, although you must not be older than 64 to donate for the first time. To make sure that there are no complications, a doctor checks the health of all donors in advance. The blood donation itself only takes a few minutes, but the whole process of registration, check-up, and the snack afterwards can take around an hour.
That hour can save lives, because in Hessen alone 5,500 people must donate blood each week in order to create sufficient supplies for the hospitals in the area.
The blood donation in Oberursel takes place on the 2nd Saturday in each month at the Red Cross building at Marxstraße 28 between 1pm and 6pm. A further two appointments take place each year at the fire brigade in Weißkirchen, the next one being on Boxing Day (26th December) between 1pm and 5pm.
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