“Bye Bye Rushmoor”
Visitors from Rushmoor at the Christmas Market
November 29, 2018 By
Visitors from Oberursel’s twin town, Rushmoor, in the the town hall during the Christmas Market: Bill Barron, Janine Wraight, Frank Rust
Visitors from Rushmoor at the Christmas Market
December 3, 2017 By
Visitors from Oberursel’s twin town, Rushmoor, in the the town hall during the Christmas Market: Carol Rust, Frank Rust, Bill Barron
Visitors from Rushmoor at the Christmas Market
November 26, 2016 By
Selling their wares from Rushmoor in the town hall at Oberursel’s Christmas market: June Smith (left), Veronica Graham-Green, Frank Rust and Carol Rust (right).
This year they have added chutney, gingerbread green tea and Lady Grey tea bags to the range on their stall.
A cold and wet fountain festival (Brunnenfest)
May 30, 2013 By
The fountain festival (Brunnenfest) in Oberursel stands a good chance of being remembered for its weather. Not only for the wet Sunday, but for the cold and at times damp weather on Friday evening or Saturday afternoon. In particular, it may well go down in the history of the festival as the one where snow lay on the Feldberg, with sub-zero temperatures in parts of the Taunus in Friday morning.
But for some, Fountain Queen Annabel I. in particular, the weather was not going to spoil the weekend and she cheerily opened the festival on Friday evening accompanied by pageant queens from other towns, who she took on a tour of the Strackgasse to see her parents’ house.
The sun even came out for her to officially inaugurate “her” fountain – the stork fountain (Storchenbrunnen) – which is located on one side of the Maasgrundweiher, accompanied by her Brunnenmeister and an honorary guard from Ursellis Historica. [Read more…]
Christmas Market in Oberursel 2012
November 30, 2012 By
The Christmas Market in Oberursel was opened on Thursday, 29th November, 2012 by Mayor Hans-Georg Brum, accompanied by the Fountain Queen Vanessa I, City Manager Wolfgang Bräutigam, Fountain Master Harry Hecker, Treasurer Thorsten Schorr, Alderman Wilfried Abt and Council Chairman Dr. Christoph Müllerleile.
The market stretches from the Rathaus through the Vorstadt and Strackgasse to the Marktplatz.
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IGS-Band “Just Music” in Rushmoor
September 28, 2012 By
The IGS band “Just Music” playing at the Princes Gardens in Aldershot (Rushmoor) as part of the National Bandstand Marathon on 9th September 2012.
Photo: Stadt Oberursel
Oberursel Wine Festival
August 4, 2012 By
Councillor Peter Crerar, Mayor of Rushmoor, with his wife and Mayoress Norma Francis Crerar, at the 12th Rheingau Wine Festival in Oberursel.
Brunnenfest: English Bitter and Stout at the Rushmoor stand
June 3, 2012 By
June Smith from the Rushmoor Twinning Association pulling a pint at their stand in the Weidengasse
