With a festive ball atmosphere, the Dudenhofen Male Voice Choir ensures a stylish start to the New Year.
TGS Jügesheim also uses the New Year's Eve ball as a prelude to its 100th anniversary celebrations.
CDU leader Christa Breitenbach is also celebrating her 65th birthday on New Year's Eve.
The celebrations continue in the New Year. The oldest citizen of Rodgau, Mrs Maria Waldinger in Jügesheim, Ostring, will be 100 years old on 2 January.
The state government rejects the application submitted by the city and surrounding area association for the land use plan to relocate the continuation of Rodgau-Ring-Straße to Weiskirchen/B 448, which is still planned on the east side of the railway line, to the west side parallel to the railway. The state government is also opposed to this extension, as it sees it as competing with the planned suburban railway in Rodgau. However, no thought was given to the burden on the citizens of Rodgau-Nord. The official naming of the square in front of Jügesheim town hall "Bürgermeister-Hermann-Sahm-Platz" was a belated tribute to Mayor Sahm, who was killed in an accident at the station on 12 January 1945. The cause of the accident was never clarified, and political backgrounds were not ruled out.
The "Rettungswacht" refuge at the Nieder-Roden bathing lake, which was only completed last year, is set alight on New Year's Eve.
St John Ambulance in Nieder-Roden is getting a new ambulance that is also suitable for patient transport as it has the appropriate equipment.
The breeding facility of the Jügesheim rabbit breeders will be transferred to the breeders.
A pupil is seriously injured in an accident at the soot factory. This source of danger has now been removed by a crash barrier to the carriageway.
Appeal proceedings begin in the series of school fires in 1991/92. The appeal hearing is cancelled because the main defendant's defence lawyer resigns at short notice.
Hash and ecstasy are also seized in Rodgau on the basis of tips from the public. But no major dealers are convicted, only six young people are temporarily arrested.
The negative reports continue at the beginning of the month. Animal abusers set fire to a pigeon loft in Weiskirchen, resulting in the agonising deaths of 50 to 70 animals.
District sports physician Dr Klaus-Werner Scarlat is officially bid farewell and retired in Hainhausen.
Dudenhofen has become a major construction site. Manual labour is always required for the renovation work on the sewer. In the area of the house connections, many supply lines (such as water, gas, telephone and power lines) cross the main sewer. The house connections therefore have to be uncovered shovel by shovel, which is tedious and time-consuming work.
The three Jügesheim sports clubs lack space. A sports centre would be the solution, but the city councillor groups have not yet been able to agree on the location of the new sports centre. An inter-party committee is formed to clarify the many issues (such as negotiations with landowners, etc.).
The Protestant parish of Weiskirchen gets a new vicar, Elke Decken Rudolf Gabelmann, a long-standing local politician and member of the TGH board, turns 75.
S-Bahn to be extended from Offenbach to Ober-Roden on two tracks after all. A delayed start of the S-Bahn is feared. There is an emergency meeting of the city council calling for an interim solution to make travelling by train much more attractive much earlier.
The unemployment rate is also rising in Rodgau, but it is still better than the district average.
The large wind orchestra of the Nieder-Roden Music Association has the youngest conductor in its history. Timor Chadik (18) was one of the youngest in the state music association to pass his examination with honours.
A 20-year-old has been sentenced to 15 months juvenile detention, suspended on probation, for arson at the pavilion of the Georg Büchner School in Jügesheim. He will also be required to complete 60 hours of social work. Although the trial against the main offender has been postponed (he has already received a 20-month prison sentence), the young man (who is seeking vocational training) faces a claim for damages from the fire insurance company totalling 200,000 marks.
An unknown driver hit a woman on Frankfurter Straße, dragged her about ten metres and seriously injured her. He fled the scene of the accident without looking after the injured woman.
In the state election held in Rodgau on 19 February, the CDU received 44.6% of the vote, the SPD 33.6%, the Greens 12.0% and the FDP 5.8%. (Result for the Offenbach district: CDU 44.6%, SPD 32.7%, Greens 11.6%, FDP 7.0%).
A smouldering fire and water damage in the basement of the "Engelchen Bengelchen" daycare centre is apparently caused by a fault in the instantaneous water heater. However, things could have been even worse if there had been an explosion. For the duration of the renovation, the town offered alternative rooms in the municipal daycare centre, Am Alten Weg.
First-graders at the Münchhausen School go on strike because too many lessons are cancelled due to teacher illness. The parents' concerns are brought to the attention of the Minister of Education.
The population of the town of Rodgau has surpassed the 1,000 mark once again. The statistics count exactly 13,003 Rodgau residents, meaning that Rodgau, the largest town in the Offenbach district, retains the top position.
The museum in Jügesheim is developing favourably. The number of visitors has increased by 44 0 since 1993. The people of Jügesheim identify with their museum for local and geological history, and more and more citizens are bringing their "treasures" from the good old days. But there are still financial worries, although the town helps the association with substantial subsidies, the monthly costs for rent and maintenance of the museum are considerable.
The wedding of the year is the wedding of the princely couple Anja I (Müller) and Frank 1st (Eser). In full regalia, the royal couple said "I do" in the registry office of the town hall on 24 February at 12:11 pm.
The month of February comes to an end with the Giesemer Narrenzug.
The magistrate travels with his self-built suburban railway.
The reconstruction of the A 3 motorway/ B 45 federal road junction (popularly known as the "snake's nest") requires the demolition of the Daimlerstraße motorway bridge in Weiskirchen. For this reason, a temporary access road to the B 45 motorway from Weiskirchen East (industrial estate) will be built directly to the roundabout.
The city administration sends out circulars to house, flat and property owners with questionnaires that serve as the basis for the future calculation of wastewater charges.
At the CDU herring dinner, deputy party chairman Volker Bouffier attracts many supporters to the community centre hall.
Interior Minister Gerhard Bökel spoke at the SPD herring dinner in Jügesheim. At the Sonntagverein Nieder-Roden, the "sour herrings" tasted good even without a political garnish. -
Günther Hindel, the last mayor of the former municipality of Dudenhofen, presents his seventh volume of poetry. "Humour keeps you young" is his motto and so he has compiled everyday thoughts with charming wit.
The Protestant Synod meets in Jügesheim. Pastor Jürges-Helm is inaugurated as Dean of the Rodgau Deanery during a church service.
The information events in the individual districts on the new wastewater regulations, which come into force in 1996, are consistently well attended. The administration helps where it can, including with filling out the questionnaires.
The town of Rodgau joins the Climate Alliance (with a red-green majority in favour). The nature conservation organisation gives away 236 high-stemmed fruit trees and hopes that orchards will be planted again in Rodgau, thus preserving old fruit varieties for children and grandchildren.
Since the US citizens were withdrawn, many flats in Nieder-Roden in the "Chinese Wall", where American soldiers and their families used to live, are for sale or rent.
In recognition of her numerous social services, Elisabeth Petzinger is awarded the Federal Cross of Merit for her services to the Protestant Women's Aid organisation.
Herbert Legel takes his leave of the Polyhymnia Board after 40 years.
A support association is founded at the Carl Orff School. The parents want a supervised primary school in Jügesheim.
Topping-out ceremony at the new Catholic parish centre in Nieder-Roden.
In March, many clubs kick off their "birthday celebrations". For example, the women's choir of the "Eintracht" Hainhausen choral society celebrates its 20th anniversary. The Jügesheim Workers' Choral Society 1895 turns 100 years old.
Well-known choirs from the region congratulate the Dudenhofen Workers' Choral Society on its 70th birthday.
The Dudenhofen Countrywomen's Association also has reason to celebrate. It may not be a milestone birthday, but the Langauenverein has not just been a meeting place for farmers' wives for 35 years.
The Nieder-Roden Nature Conservation Association (Nabu) has purchased a strip of land (250 metres wide, 6 metres long) in the Flitzenflohr district (near the community centre) and planted a new orchard with fruit varieties that no longer occur in Rodgau.
Helmut Schwab, also known as "Mn Feuerwehr", retires from the fire service after 40 years. He is presented with the Florian Medal, a rare honour.
In Weiskirchen, the local history museum is inaugurated as a "house of village history". There is much praise for the hard-working idealists of the local history association, who renovated the old fire station in Bahnhofstraße from the ground up with a great deal of empathy and even more hours of voluntary labour and built a new building next to it. The deanery singing of the Catholic church choirs will take place in Jügesheim this year.
At the accident-prone section of the L 3405 (between Hainhausen and Jügesheim), a crash barrier will separate the footpath and cycle path from the carriageway, making the route to school safer.
A diesel locomotive on the Rodgau railway derails near Weiskirchen due to human error. No one is injured, but the railway line between Obertshausen and Jügesheim was blocked until the evening hours.
April joke in the Offenbach Post: "The first S-Bahn train runs" with a photomontage of a 5-Bahn train at Nieder-Roden station, "like vehicles from another world". Mayor Scherer is delighted: "If only yours would be like that soon."
Successful dialect comedy "Thommys tolle Tanten" by the Nieder-Roden amateur theatre group in the community centre.
At the town's annual evening of honour, 157 individual winners and 38 teams are honoured for their successes in the previous year in the Bürgerhaus Weiskirchen. The following are honoured with the town's letter of honour for meritorious work on club boards: Rudolf Gabelmann (CTG Hainhausen), Karl Müller (VdK Hainhausen), Hermann Reichenbach (Geflügelzuchtverein Nieder-Roden), Nikolaus Rudolph (Vdk Hainhausen), Hugo Schlee (TGM Jügesheim) and Raimund Werner (TGS Jügesheim).
As a first step towards planning a sports centre in Jügesheim, the town council established a special committee "Sports Centre" with Helmut Trageser (CDU) as chairman.
In Rodgau, a pilot project "Help to Work" is established with financial support from the city and district to make it easier for welfare recipients to re-enter working life. 12 positions are to be made available in the administration and schools for this purpose.
Günther Hindel, the last mayor of Dudenhofen and winner of the 1991 Culture Prize, presents another book entitled "Good advice is expensive".
Fritz "Sherry" Emge, a native of Jügesheim who lives in Namibia, announces a happy event: the African by choice became a father. The "Zur Krone" inn in Dudenhofen celebrates its 300th anniversary. Young athletes from Dudenhofen's twin town Nieuwpoort are once again guests in Dudenhofen with a training camp for the swimmers under the direction of town councillor Vermute at the invitation of DLRG Rodgau. 758 starters are registered for the 18th TGM Jügesheim Easter Run over 25 kilometres.
Anniversary for the cross-country friends in Rodgau: 20 years of the running club in Jügesheim, at that time the 14th in Germany, today there are around 2,700. Rudi Bischoff led this running club for 20 years.
Another anniversary: 25 years of the youth fire brigade in Weiskirchen. A new fire engine - worth 450,000 marks - is put into service at the Jügesheim volunteer fire brigade.
The new postal freight centre in the Nieder-Roden industrial estate, one of 33 planned freight centres nationwide, begins operations. The new centre creates around 560 new jobs in Rodgau and provides the town with a total infrastructure contribution of 2.5 million marks over five years, as well as a further 500,000 marks to finance the "Help to Work" pilot project.
The male choral society "Germania" Dudenhofen opens an anniversary exhibition in the community centre to mark the 100th anniversary of its association.
Ernst Borde, the local elder of Hainhausen, has died, as has Johann Goßmann, who was a local councillor for Jügesheim from 1964 to 1976 and also the head of the local court there from 1980.
At the end of April, the kite festival organised by the kite club "Aiolos" Rodgau e.V. takes place at the Nieder-Roden bathing lake.
The Männergesangverein "Germania" Dudenhofen began the series of events to mark its 100th anniversary with an anniversary celebration in the community centre and the ceremonial planting of an oak tree in the Rodgau floodplain.
The volunteer fire brigade in Hainhausen celebrates its 60th anniversary. The city's cultural promotion prize, endowed with 5,000 marks, is awarded to the young conductors Timor Chadik and Volker Reih from the Nieder-Roden music association.
On Saturday, 6 May, the bells of the parish church of St. Matthias Nieder-Roden will ring in Sunday throughout the state on Hessischer Rundfunk. The oldest of the four tower bells, St Mary's bell, is 477 years old. The other bells were cast after the Second World War.
At the new weekly market in Jügesheim - on Saturday mornings at the town hall and church - master baker Ralph Bauder presents Hesse's largest crumble cake, consisting of 500 slices. The proceeds go to the association "Gemeinsam mit Behinderten e.V. Rodgau".
On the 50th anniversary of the end of the war, District Administrator Josef Lach from Nieder-Roden lays a wreath at the memorial stone for the prisoners in the Rollwald camp.
Kurt Müller, Chairman of the Management Board of Volksbank Rodgau/Rödermark, is retiring after 47 years as a banker. Instead of a farewell party, a donation of 10,000 marks was made to the association "Gemeinsam mit Behinderten e.V. Rodgau".
Mayor Paul Scherer welcomes young French people to the town hall, guests of the Geschwister-Scholl-Schule Hainhausen, and recalls the end of the war 50 years ago and the 20th anniversary of the partnership with the French town of Puiseaux.
The workers' choir Volkschor Dudenhofen celebrates its 70th anniversary and honours Philipp Mahr as a founding member and the former long-standing chairman Fritz Klein for founding the children's choir 20 years ago.
Together with the investors, Mayor Paul Scherer breaks ground for the construction of a residential and nursing home for the elderly next to the Toom supermarket in Dudenhofen, which will offer 120 nursing places and 30 places for short-term care as well as flats for the elderly from summer 1996. The town provided the land for the project and secured the right to award the contract.
TGS Jügesheim begins the series of events in the anniversary year with the academic celebration of its 100th anniversary and presents the club's history in a documentary exhibition.
For the first joint trade show, the tradespeople from the two districts merged to form the Weiskirchen/Hainhausen trade association and came together in the Hainhausen sports hall, attracting a large audience.
The two Jügesheim breeding clubs, the poultry breeding club and the rabbit breeding club, inaugurate their joint breeding facility "Nehlsee", which was built with a lot of voluntary work and financial support from the town.
Georg Roßkopf, sexton of the Jügesheim parish for around 50 years and active until the age of 88, celebrates his 90th birthday.
The tent festival on the last weekend in May to mark the 100th anniversary of MGV "Germania" Dudenhofen begins with a large-scale friendship singing event, in which renowned choirs from all over Hesse take part.
On 1 April it was still an April Fool's joke by the Offenbach Post, but on the last Sunday in May - even if only on that day - it became reality: a modern S-Bahn railcar rolled along the Rodgau line for a trial run as part of the S-Bahn inauguration in Offenbach.
1500 singers from 27 choirs take part in the singing competition organised by MGV "Germania" to celebrate its 100th anniversary,
The young choir "Mixed Voices" of the Sängerkranz Jügesheim returns from the 11th IDOCO Singing Festival in Bern (Switzerland) with a silver diploma.
The women's and men's choirs of the Sängerkranz-Polyhymnia Nieder-Roden Sängervereinigung will also perform in the Arena of Verona and take part in the Holy Mass in the Basilica of San Zeno Maggiore in Verona during their five-day concert tour of Lake Garda.
Over Whitsun, the MGV "Germania" Dudenhofen's big tent festival is held on the festival site to celebrate its 100th anniversary with a disco party on Friday, a folk evening on Saturday, the matinee singing on Sunday morning, the big parade through Dudenhofen in the afternoon and the traditional Dudenhofen morning pint on Monday morning. All of this was attended by a large audience.
As part of this celebration, Dudenhofen also celebrates 20 years of partnership with the Belgian coastal town of Nieuwpoort. Willy Verniete, a long-standing councillor from Nieuwpoort, is honoured with the Rodgau Civic Medal at this celebration. One of the highlights of the parade will be the giant figures from Nieuwpoort.
Gerhard Willi Robrecht, Erwin Klein and Friedrich Keller from Rodgau are awarded the State of Hesse's letter of honour at the district hall.
The City of Rodgau's Culture Week 1995 offers around 60 events over the course of ten days, from cabaret in the town hall to a forest concert at the "Gänsbrüh" in Dudenhofen with the chamber singer Günter Wewel to children's theatre and amateur drama in the Nieder-Roden community centre.
The city's "Nordring" day care centre celebrates its 25th birthday in Jügesheim.
Joy for 110 "alumni". They graduate from the Claus von Stauffenberg School in Dudenhofen.
Finally installed after years of requests from the city and now switched on: A traffic light system at the Alfred-Delp-Straße/L3405 junction in Hainhausen, with green lights for cyclists and pedestrians too.
Two schools, the Münchhausenschule in Hainhausen and the Schule am Bürgerhaus Nieder-Roden, celebrate their 20th birthday before the summer holidays with a colourful programme and a good attendance.
TGS Jügesheim celebrates its 100th anniversary with a four-day festival, the highlight of which is a parade formed by a total of 52 motif and foot groups. The star guest at the colourful evening is singer Tony Marshall.
The anniversary charity match is played by a selection of the old men's teams from TGS, TGM and SV Jügesheim against the former Bundesliga players from Bayer Leverkusen, the latter also winning by 9:4 goals.
The TGS hiking group starts its 200th hike to Lake Edersee as an anniversary celebration. TGS's festive week ends with a club Olympics. SV Jügesheim wins ahead of the AGV (Mixed Voices) and host TGS Jügesheim.
The long-standing headmaster of Münchhausen School, Kurt Lind, who ran the school for 18 years, retires.
The city council accepts the extended S-Bahn planning, which now envisages the complete double-track extension in Rodgau. All of the planned road crossings are to be transferred by the railway. The total costs are estimated at 135 million marks. The city of Rodgau is expected to contribute around 20 million marks.
The nice administration building is inaugurated at the town's building yard.
On the weekend of 9/10 July, the Nieder-Roden lido experiences a record crowd of around 22,000 visitors in temperatures of up to 33 degrees in the shade.
The town's holiday games start with 160 children in Jügesheim and 110 children in Nieder-Roden in the first two-week round.
Ground-breaking ceremony FOR the construction of the municipal kindergarten "Binger Weg" in Dudenhofen in the new development area west of the railway. The costs are estimated at 2.3 million marks and the opening is planned for August 1996.
The Nieder-Roden local council becomes active in the design of Puiseaux Square and, in agreement with the city, secures the purchase of a "Fountain of Youth" made by Düsseldorf artist Hermann König. However, the final purchase is tied to the condition that 100,000 marks in donations for the purchase - purchase price 120,000 marks - are collected. The bronze sculpture, which is 3.50 metres high, two metres wide and weighs 1.5 tonnes, depicts five young girls striving towards the light.
The town's youth centre in Dudenhofen organises tutoring in German for foreign pupils during the holidays.
In the old town hall of Dudenhofen at the community centre, additional rooms on the upper floor are converted for an investigation team planned there in addition to the police station. The city of Rodgau bears the costs for this, which amount to 275,000 marks.
To mark its 100th anniversary, the AGV Sängerkranz Jügesheim receives the plaque of honour from the state of Hesse, having already received the Zelterplakette from the Federal President in the spring. To mark the anniversary, the AGV organises a matinee of the young choirs in the sports hall.
The town's holiday games come to an end with a festival at the Hainhausen sports hall.
The AGV Sängerkranz festival weekend in the sports hall with a concert by the Rodgau choirs ends with a cheerful pensioners' drink at a morning pint and a sports show.
City decision: The call-and-collect taxi, initially introduced as a trial to supplement the Rodgau bus in the evenings, is to run until the end of 1996.
The city installs five so-called 'speed cameras' to control the speed of motorists.
The city is once again organising its traditional five-day excursions for senior citizens on the excursion boat "Frankonia" on the River Main between Miltenberg and Marktheidenfeld. The number of participants is again just over 2,000 citizens of retirement age.
After the end of the holidays, the "serious side of life" begins for 561 first-graders in Rodgau's primary schools.
The CDU Weiskirchen celebrates its 50th birthday. Thuringia's Minister for Federal Affairs, Christine Lieberknecht, gives the keynote speech.
The Jügesheim-based family business "Eisen" Jäger' celebrates its 100th anniversary. Hesse's Minister of Economics, Lothar Klemm, is among the well-wishers and guests of honour.
Rodgau's adult education centre director Helmut Krämer has two reasons to celebrate: he has been running the Rodgau adult education centre for 20 years with over 3,000 course participants every year and he can also accept congratulations on his 60th birthday.
The city puts its first "social mobile" into service, a minibus that is available to the city free of charge. The bus, which is to be used primarily in the social sector, is financed by advertising placed on it by local companies.
To mark its 30th anniversary, the church choir of the Protestant parish of Nieder-Roden is organising a spiritual anniversary concert in the spirit of ecumenism with the partner choir from Königsee/Thuringia and the choir of the parish of St. Matthias Nieder-Roden.
Jügesheim's Protestant pastor Gerhard Roth, who has worked in Jügesheim since 1964 and previously spent four years in Dudenhofen, retires. The town honours Pastor Roth with the silver citizens' medal.
70 years of AGV Volkschor Dudenhofen is the motto at the Dudenhofen community centre with a meeting of local choral societies to congratulate them.
The city administration is celebrating a small administrative success: the organisational preparations for the changeover of wastewater charges can be completed on time, thanks to the good cooperation of the approximately 9,000 house and property owners concerned, after all the self-declarations sent in have been checked and processed.
There is one more gem in the centre of Jügesheim after a half-timbered house built in 1691 in Hintergasse was successfully restored thanks to the commitment of the Elfriede and Lothar Mark family. The former "oil mill" or "Mittelmühle" at Hintergasse 34 now houses a beauty parlour and an ice cream parlour in the courtyard.
The local historian from Dudenhofen, Manfred Resch, presents his new book on Dudenhofen's local history in the town hall, his main work after five books and collections.
The annual 24-hour run organised by the association "Gemeinsam mit Behinderten e.V." (Together with the Disabled) sets a financial record with donations totalling 180,000 marks and also a sporting record with 1,063 laps completed by the winning team.
This was also achieved by a team of wheelchair users ahead of the second-placed "GOS-Busters" from Claus-von-Stauffenberg-Schule Dudenhofen.
To mark the double anniversary, 10 years of the Women's Choir and 115 years of the Weiskirchen Singers' Association, the community centre is dedicated to choral singing for three days with the "Women's Choir Evening" as a highlight.
The first international festival organised by the Foreigners' Advisory Council in Rodgau, under the motto "Treffpunkt Arche" (Meeting Point Ark) in the Jügesheim forest leisure centre, is a great success.
The 1995 bathing season at the Nieder-Roden lido ends with a new visitor record: with 258,993 registered bathers, the old record from 1983 is beaten by around 6,300 visitors.
A man from Rodgau has been making headlines because he has been assembling new bicycles from old ones for South America since 1979: Günter Rohr from Jügesheim, 59, a former Lufthansa flight attendant and Green Party parliamentarian.
The float of the Dudenhofen male choir in the parade for the 100th anniversary of MGV "Germania" Dudenhofen with the motif "Sängerkrieg auf der Wartburg" (Singers' War at Wartburg Castle) is given a second - and this time nationwide - appearance, namely in the parade for the Day of German Unity in Berlin. It is transported to Berlin on a low loader. It will then travel to Eisenach, where it will enrich the annual local history festival and parade.
And another anniversary announcement in September: the lido statistics have registered the three millionth visitor to the lido, Christel Ziegler from Messenhausen, who receives free admission until the year 2000 as a gift from the town hall.
The Spanish Club celebrates its 20th anniversary with a lively party in the Nieder-Roden community centre.
And once again over 1,000 children take part in the town's annual children's festival in the Jügesheim forest recreation area with a colourful programme.
"Starr frei" is the motto for the newly founded Rodgau Senior Citizens' Co-operative, which aims to provide "mutual help" for older citizens and has its office in the Jügesheim retirement home and was initiated by Bürgerhilfe Rodgau.
For 65 children and their teachers at the Catholic kindergarten in Jügesheim, a temporary arrangement is beginning. Until the new building in Landwehrstraße is completed, they will move to the "Haus der Begegnung" community centre in the town centre.
The 20th anniversary of the partnership with Nieuwpoort is celebrated with a partnership ball - and lots of fish specialities - in the Bürgerhaus Dudenhofen.
At the annual citizens' reception in the town hall, to which all those born on 1 July - 108 of them - were invited, the birthday for 1996 is drawn by lot: This year, all those born on 13 June are invited.
The Protestant parish of Dudenhofen celebrates its church anniversary - 225 years ago the beautiful baroque-style church was consecrated - with a big ceremony.
The Jügesheim local history study group expands the geological history section of its local history museum in the old Schwesternhaus and presents the new fossil wall to the public.
The Catholic parish of Weiskirchen inaugurates the church's restored organ with a festive concert. Nicolo Sokoli and Andreas Spahn will be playing. The church choir and the youth choir under the direction of Martina Busch round off the concert programme.
Twenty pupils from the Polish town of Ilawa - formerly Deutsch-Eilau - are visiting the Georg Büchner School as part of a youth exchange programme to break down prejudices with financial support from the town of Rodgau and the district.
The topping-out ceremony is celebrated at the Dudenhofen old people's centre. The centre is due to be occupied in summer 1996 and will provide a home for 120 elderly people in need of care.
With a description of the fate of Jewish families in the former Rodgau, Michael Jäger from Nieder-Roden concludes his multi-part series of articles in the Offenbach Post to mark the end of the war 50 years ago, in which he has analysed the local events of the war and first post-war period.
In the rooms of the former Dudenhofen town hall that have been converted by the town for police purposes - including the construction of a holding cell - the new investigation team of the criminal investigation department takes up its duties with eight officers. The police station also set up in this building remains occupied. For Mayor Paul Scherer, this is another successful step in the town's demand for a police station in Rodgau.
Mayor Paul Scherer celebrates his 60th birthday on 19 October, at his desk in the town hall. A real surprise for the head of administration, who has been in office since 1980, is the birthday serenade performed in the morning by the "Stadtkapelle", a brass band formed especially for the occasion by all of Rodgau's music and orchestra clubs. The CDU will be providing the "big station" the following weekend with a reception in the Weiskirchen community centre.
The "NiRoGa" exhibition organised by the Nieder-Roden trade association once again proved to be a crowd-puller with around 50 exhibitors in all rooms of the community centre.
Almost a curiosity: from the bankruptcy estate of a former property company, and due to municipal omissions from the 1960s, the time of new beginnings in Nieder-Roden with the construction of the so-called garden city, the Leipziger Ring with neighbouring streets and parts of Heidelberger Straße are put up for auction at the Seligenstadt district court - a total of 20,000 square metres of road surface for 220,000 marks. A Rodgau citizen buys the streets at auction, which are duly dedicated as public traffic areas, but at the time were not owned by the former municipality of Nieder-Roden, but remained in Finnish ownership.
The Rodgau Sailing Club celebrates its 10th anniversary in the Weiskirchen community centre with the 3rd "Rodgau Harbour Concert" with lots of jazz and coastal atmosphere.
Ludwig Kratz IX, mayor of Dudenhofen for almost 25 years, celebrates his 75th birthday.
Brandenburg's Minister of Social Affairs, Regine Hildebrandt, is a guest at the SPD's traditional Hesse Evening in Dudenhofen.
The city council presents the draft budget for 1996, which shows around 106 million marks in the administration section and around 30 million marks in the assets section, thus closing the year in balance and giving the city of Rodgau a healthy financial basis for 1996 as well.
The executive committee meeting of the German Fire Brigade Association takes place in Nieder-Roden, attended by Federal Minister of the Interior Manfred Kanther.
The Nieder-Roden CDU celebrates its 50th anniversary. An exhibition in the social centre commemorates the re-founding of the Nieder-Roden SPD, which is also visited by guests from the SPD in Thuringia.
Hannelore Schmiedel, long-standing local politician for the SPD in Rodgau and member of the executive committee of the town council as well as SPD district manager, celebrates her 60th birthday. State Secretary Matthias Kinds also honoured her development work in Sömmerda, Thuringia.
Around a year of construction work on Nieder-Räder Straße in Dudenhofen, including the construction of a new sewer network and a new road, has been completed, which is symbolised by the cutting of the red and white barrier tape by city councillor and head of construction Alfred Schüler. Around 1.2 kilometres of sewer and water pipes were replaced.
High honour for "Friedland driver" Adolf Heßler, who has already made over 200 donation trips from Rodgau to the Friedland camp.
In Bonn, the President of the DRK, Knut Ipsen, presented the dedicated DRK man with the Red Cross Decoration of Honour, the highest award.
The nature conservation organisation in Dudenhofen celebrates its 10th anniversary.
The Jügesheim Heritage and History Society commemorates the crimes committed against the Jews with a reading by Jewish author Valentin Senger.
Andreas Kopp, long-time city councillor and local councillor (SPD), dies on 10 November at the age of 70.
The pastor couple Claudia Kautzmann and Frank Paulmann, who have been working in the Protestant parish of Nieder-Roden for many years, say goodbye. They are taking on a new pastoral role in India.
The carnivalists of TGS Jügesheim present the prince and princess of the new 95/96 campaign, Sibylle and Gerhard Bruder, two teachers.
SG Nieder-Roden celebrates its 50th anniversary and also honours numerous still active founders at the celebration.
On Remembrance Day, the Weiskirchen Heritage and History Society presents an impressive exhibition in the local history museum in the Spritzenhaus: photos of the more than 120 fallen soldiers from Weiskirchen during the Second World War.
CDU parliamentary party leader Roland Koch gives the keynote speech at the CDU's traditional pig dinner in the Dudenhofen community centre.
In Rodgau, 4,333 signatures are registered in favour of Catholic church reform (there are around 15,000 Catholics in Rodgau).
MGV "Germania" Dudenhofen crowns the festivities for its 100th anniversary this year with a glittering opera gala in the Dudenhöfen sports hall.
The town sets a record with more than 100 exhibitors at its annual art and hobby exhibition in the Nieder-Roden community centre.
Karl Friedrich Collet celebrates the rare anniversary of 75 years of membership: the 89-year-old has been a member of the Catholic church choir in Jügesheim for so long.
Around 600 young people from Rodgau and the surrounding area demonstrate against the nuclear tests announced by France with a star march to the town hall square in Jügesheim and a rally there with three hours of rock music.
Jügesheim local historian Hermann Bonifer presents another work of local history with his book on Jügesheim field names.
At the weekly market on Puiseaux Square, the city presents the bronze sculpture "Fountain of Youth", which has arrived from Düsseldorf and is generally applauded.
An unusual exhibition in the Jügesheim local history museum: over 200 historical dolls are on display, part of the collection of Erika Rhein from Jügesheim.
The Christmas season is heralded with numerous bazaars and concerts in all districts of Rodgau, as well as in Jügesheim -Adventsbummel-, Nieder-Roden, Dudenhofen and Weiskirchen, where the local trade associations once again organise very well-attended Christmas markets.
With a clear majority, the city council elects the former First City Councillor, Thomas Przibilla (SPD), for a further six years. The SPD and CDU had spoken out in favour of the lawyer's re-election, while seven Greens voted against him. Thomas Przibilla will continue to head the departments of Finance, Social Affairs and Environment.
The city once again organises Christmas parties for the city's citizens of retirement age in all districts. A Christmas benefit concert organised by the Herdt family in the Nieder-Roden community centre raises a total of around 20,000 marks for the Children's Cancer Aid Foundation. Kurt Herdt and his family have been organising these Advent concerts for eight years now.
The symbolic ground-breaking ceremony by Pastor Meissner and building councillor Alfred Schüler, supported by the children Lisa, Elena and Anna, marks the start of the construction of the new Catholic kindergarten in Landwehrstraße in Jügesheim. Construction costs are estimated at around 3.2 million marks.
