The turn of the year is quite eventful for the Nieder-Roden volunteer fire brigade: five call-outs, including the explosion of a gas appliance at a New Year's Eve party with several casualties. The Dudenhofen volunteer fire brigade is also called out to extinguish a fire in the roof truss of the old residential building (formerly a school) at the Protestant church, which is about to be demolished. Probably the result of arson.
After 27 years as sextons in the parish of Weiskirchen, Otto and Hildegard Herzog bid farewell at the turn of the year: Pastor Ulrich Engel bids them both farewell with many words of thanks and Bishop Karl Lehmann from Mainz also thanks them for their diligence and conscientiousness.
Honours at the "Edelweiß" Dudenhofen hiking club: 60-year member Friedrich Walter.
Sparkasse Langen-Seligenstadt celebrates its 25th anniversary in Weiskirchen.
First major sporting event of the new year: 3rd run of the 19th winter running series organised by TGM Jügesheim with around 400 participants and good results from the participants from Rodgau, including Frank Malter (TGM) in 5th place (34:50 minutes over 10 km).
Pastor Philipp Keller from Nieder-Roden also celebrates his 60th anniversary as a priest at the beginning of January. He worked mainly in Rüsselsheim. The festive service will take place on 10 January in the parish church of St. Matthias in Nieder-Roden, where Father Keller (born 1912) has lived in retirement since 1986.
Accompanied by a 50-strong group of supporters, the Rodgau HR team makes its way to the television studio in Kassel to compete with the team from Offenbach during the recording of the HR 3 programme "8... und fertig los" programme with the team from the city of Offenbach. The recording will be broadcast on 29 January. The Rodgau team already knew the result beforehand, as the guessing team of Heike Nenner, Ute Frank, Pastor Markus Nett and Volker Roth, as well as the unicycle team from TSV Dudenhofen, won the quiz programme and qualified for the next round.
An accident on the B 45 near Dudenhofen ends fatally for a 62-year-old driver from Rodgau.
Recognition for the Rodgau/Rödermark medical emergency service centre in Dudenhofen, which is run by 60 local doctors in private practice and provides on-call services outside of surgery hours. It is regarded as the leading centre in the country. The centre was set up in 1980 and treats around 13,000 patients per year.
An unpleasant statistical figure in January: 2,426 people from Rodgau/Rödermarkt are out of work. The first major popular event of the year: the historic timber auction in the "Gänsbrüh" organised by the "Germania" Dudenhofen male choral society, which was once again well attended despite the rain.
The Kurt Herdt/Theresia Uglik family of musicians hands over 36,300 marks as a result of their endeavours to raise funds - concerts and campaigns - for the Frankfurt Children's Aid Foundation, which also supports the Offenbach "Tommy Hall" project.
Now that the noise barrier on the B45 in Dudenhofen has been completed, the residents' initiative "Am Flachsberg" is disbanding after 10 years of existence, as the goal has been achieved - albeit not quite as effectively as hoped. Some residents want to continue their work in an informal setting. They are calling for a speed limit of 100 km/h on this section of the 4-lane motorway-like B 45.
After almost 24 years as director of the adult education centre in Rodgau, the qualified teacher Helmut Krämer is retired by Mayor Przibilla and the district.Helmut Krämer had taken on this task (albeit employed by the district of Offenbach) in 1975 - at that time initiated by Jügesheim Mayor Wilhelm Albert - and replaced Karl Hegner, who had been director of the adult education centre in Jügesheim for many years.He then also set up the adult education centre in Rodgau in the course of the municipal merger in 1977.
At the traditional New Year's reception of the CDU in the Bürgerhaus Dudenhofen, Anette Schavan, Minister of Education and Cultural Affairs of Baden Württemberg and Vice Federal Chairwoman, will speak.
Another guest speaker at the Dudenhofen community centre will be Hesse's Minister President Hans Eichel, the leading candidate for the upcoming state elections, at an election campaign event organised by the Offenbach district SPD sub-district.
Just one day later, Federal Minister of Defence Rudolf Scharping (SPD) comes to Rodgau to discuss structural problems with business representatives from the town and surrounding area at the "Holiday Inn" hotel in Nieder-Roden.
Another top political and social event in the first month of 1999: the long-serving mayor of Rodgau, Paul Scherer (1980-1998), receives the Federal Cross of Merit First Class for his great services - also to the Offenbach district (he has been a member of the district council since 1964). The laudatory speech in the town hall is held by Darmstadt District President Dr Bernd Kummer.
February's press coverage begins with a success story: Sönke Neitzel from Rodgau becomes one of Germany's youngest private lecturers at the age of 30. He also became known for his expert advice on the ZDF series "Hitler's Helpers". After graduating from the Claus von Stauffenberg School in Dudenhofen, he studied history in Mainz, wrote his doctoral thesis at the age of 26 and completed his habilitation at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz just four years later. The Claus-von-Stauffenberg-Schule in Dudenhofen, still proud of its young professor Dr Sönke Neitzel, who once "built" his Abitur there, complains about the lack of teachers, the resulting cancellation of courses and the threat to the Abitur.
The Rodgau training fair is being held for the third time at the Heinrich-Böll-Schule in Nieder-Roden, where 47 companies - including the municipal administration - are providing information about their training programmes. The exhibition is once again well attended by young people.30633 eligible voters are called to vote in the state election on Sunday, 7 February, including 133 first-time voters.
The result of the election in Rodgau: First votes (second votes) CDU 50.5% (49%), SPD 37.9% (36.2%), Greens 5.3% (3.8%), Republicans 3.5% (3.2%). The other 17 parties on the list fall below 1%. Electoral district representative Frank Lortz (CDU) once again makes the leap into the state parliament. For the SPD, Judith Pauly-Bender from Nieder-Roden once again enters the state parliament via the state list. With the exception of the "Volksbank Dudenhofen" constituency, which went to the SPD, the CDU won all of the other 35 constituencies.
TGM Jügesheim successfully concludes its 19th winter running series (largest running event in the district) with over 400 participants.
Around two dozen Rodgau residents commemorate more than 12,000 Jewish citizens who were sent to their deaths from Frankfurt at the memorial site, including Amalie and Adolf Reinhardt, who lived in Dudenhofen and were expelled from there. The town council resolves to set up a children's and youth advisory board to advise the town on all matters affecting children and young people. the advisory board is to comprise 22 members.
On Shrove Saturday, 13 February, the final spurt of the Rodgau carnival begins with the traditional storming of the town hall by the TGS Jügesheim and the carnival procession through Jügesheim on Shrove Tuesday with 55 parade numbers as the final highlight of the campaign. Mayor Thomas Przibilla defends the town hall for the first time as mayor, but is unable to prevent the jesters from winning.
Helmut Rühl celebrates his 30th anniversary as caretaker at the Freiherr-vom-Stein-Schule in Dudenhofen. On a voluntary basis, he led the Dudenhofen volunteer fire brigade for 23 years, was deputy district fire inspector for 16 years and was the first town fire inspector for the town of Rodgau.
The guest speaker at the CDU's traditional herring dinner in the Dudenhofen community centre on the Saturday after Shrove Tuesday is the Bavarian Minister of the Interior, Günther Beckstein.
Toni Tumpach, long-standing chairman and co-founder of the Egerländer Gmoi in Rodgau, is confirmed in office as chairman.
Janina Schmidt from Heinrich-Böll-Schule in Nieder-Roden wins the 6th grade reading competition in the eastern district. The Seestraße day care centre in Nieder-Roden - run by the Catholic parish - receives a significant spatial extension thanks to the roof extension (financed by the town).
At the traditional herring dinner at the end of the carnival campaign, IGEMO Jügesheim, as the organiser of the carnival procession, awards prizes to the winning and placed groups. The best group is the "United Europe" motif of the TGS Elferfrauen.
The unicyclists from TSV Dudenhofen won the youth category with their long "China dragon".
The topping-out ceremony is celebrated at the shell of the new residential and commercial building in Jügesheim on Ludwigstrasse / Eisenbahnstrasse, called "Triangel". The 2,000 square metre project with underground car park (42 parking spaces) offers 500 square metres of retail space, 750 square metres of office space and 800 square metres of living space (8 flats) and is due to be completed and occupied in 1999.
An arsonist, who has been up to mischief in the garden city of Nieder-Roden for some time, sets fire to an apartment block. Three people are injured and property damage totalling around 80,000 marks is caused.
On 1 March, the town of Rodgau will open its new citizens' office in the town hall in Jügesheim, which will primarily deal with residents' registration matters and more, far beyond the timeframe of the administration's previous office hours in the town hall. The citizens' office on the ground floor with entrance also from Hintergasse is open Monday to Friday from 7.30 am to 6.00 pm.
At a special meeting, the Nieder-Roden local council accepts the concept presented for a so-called "generation centre" on Frankfurter Strasse in Nieder-Roden. "generation centre" on Frankfurter Strasse in Nieder-Roden, an investor's €40 million project with flats for young families and older people as well as a kindergarten.
Günther Jäkel from Jügesheim has collected a large collection of relics from the former GDR since 1990, ranging from a Trabi to a piece of original border fence.
For the 13th time, the VHS Rodgau is organising its exhibition "All about Easter" in the large break hall of the Georg Büchner School in Jügesheim, which is very popular with visitors and once again features the "Flower Queen" from the "Old Country" on the Lower Elbe.
Ignatz Bubis, Chairman of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, is a guest of the FDP Rodgau and speaks and discusses in a public and well-attended event in the "Krone" hall in Dudenhofen.
A well-preserved Kurmainz Bible from 1740 expands the local history collection of the Weiskirchen local history association, which is also presenting a special exhibition on the history of the Jews in Weiskirchen in its museum on the first weekend in March.
At a very well-attended information evening in the Weiskirchen community centre hall, the city of Rodgau presents the entire bypass planning for the demolition of the Schillerstraße bridge, which is due on 24 April, as part of the reconstruction of the roundabouts for the A 3. The main diversion route is to be routed over the new bridge at Mollischgraben during the approx. 1-year construction period. The town honours a total of 170 individual winners and 47 teams who were successful at district and international level in the previous year. Among them are two world champions in unicycling from TSV Dudenhofen, namely Irene Dietze and Petra Fisch.
Horst Herold (Jügesheim Poultry Breeding Association), Werner Seib (Dudenhofen Male Choir), Dieter Kratz (MGV Germania Dudenhofen), Franz Dörfler (Weiskirchen Volunteer Fire Brigade) and Helmut Jäger (Chairman of Svgg Weiskirchen since 1973) were awarded the town's letter of honour for their outstanding work on the boards of their associations over many years.
The TSV wind orchestra from Dudenhofen is organising its traditional spring concert in the community centre together with the "Koninklijke Katholieke Fanfare Nieuwpoort" to mark the partnership with the Belgian coastal town.
As recommended by the Nieder-Roden local advisory council, the municipal council also approves the contract for the construction of the "Generation Centre" in Nieder-Roden by a private investor, which also includes the construction of an additional kindergarten that is urgently needed in this district.
In addition, the city council adopts the 1999 budget with a balanced volume of DM 115 million by a large majority.
The founder and long-standing chairman of VdK Dudenhofen, former mayor Ludwig Kratz, does not run for the chairmanship again for health reasons and is appointed honorary chairman. Ludwig Kratz also retires from the leadership of the Dudenhofen hunting association and is appointed honorary hunting chairman in grateful recognition of his services.
In the second round of the HR 3 TV city quiz "8... und fertig los", the Rodgau team narrowly loses to Laubach. The programme, recorded at the beginning of April, will be broadcast on 23 April.
In the middle of the month, Schillerstraße in Weiskirchen will be closed at the old bridge over the B 45, which is due for demolition. Demolition work will begin; the bridge will be demolished on the weekend of 24/25. This means that the B 45 will be closed for several hours. The construction work is expected to take just under a year. The Heinrich Böll School in Nieder-Roden celebrates its 25th anniversary with an Oldie Night organised by the parents, among other things.
The members of TG Nieder-Roden meet for their first annual general meeting in the new clubhouse on Breitwiesenring, which has been extended at a cost of around 600,000 DM. At the annual general meeting of TG Hainhausen, the long-standing chairman, Ludwig Kleinhenz, is confirmed in office.
A crowd of more than 2,000 spectators is on hand for the Oberliga match between SV Jügesheim and SV Darmstadt 98. For security reasons, the match is not played on the SV pitch in the centre of Jügesheim, but at the Dudenhofen sports centre. Jügesheim loses 0:1 and a contingent of around 100 police officers and 50 stewards provide security.
Reception for 53 guests from the College St. Joseph - St. Genevieve in Rodez (France) in the town hall under special auspices: For 10 years, this connection has been cultivated with the Heinrich Böll School in Nieder-Roden, which is now also joined by the Georg Büchner School in Jügesheim.
The Rodgau choirs took top places in their respective classes at the "Liederkranz" Klein-Welzheim choir competition, including the male choir of the Sängervereinigung Jügesheim with its conductor Matthias Herr, the women's choir of the Sängervereinigung Weiskirchen and the MGV Germania Dudenhofen.
The junction expansion of the B 45 at the water tower in Jügesheim now also requires traffic to be restricted for several months by closing the road to left-turning traffic.
The Weiskirchen Heritage and History Society is showing the exhibition "Views of the town then and now".
The "signals" have come from Deutsche Bahn AG that the S-Bahn in Rodgau is to run from summer 2003, after the Rodgau SPD had publicly called for the realisation of the project, which has been announced for years, in writing and in talks with railway representatives.
The Nieder-Roden lido opens for the first time on 1 May. The Nieder-Roden volunteer fire brigade launches its celebratory programme for its 100th anniversary with an academic ceremony in the community centre and a large tent festival as the highlight on the weekend of 18/21 June.
The weekly market on Puiseaux-Platz in Nieder-Roden is celebrating a small anniversary with a "market festival" on Sunday, 16 May: the Friday market with its wide range of products is well received by the public and has become indispensable.
The AGV Volkschor 1925 Dudenhofen bids farewell to its conductor Walter Scholz, who led the choir for 30 years and is also celebrating his 50th conducting anniversary this year, with a concert.
Surprisingly, the town receives good news from the Hess. State Government in the form of a commitment of 408TDM for the further expansion of Vorder-/Hintergasse and Schwesternstraße in the centre of Jügesheim. Construction work is due to begin this year.
The Protestant parish of Jügesheim is celebrating a double anniversary: 35 years as an independent parish and 25 years as a community centre on Berlinger Strasse. The rebuilt and extended community centre is inaugurated in time for the anniversary celebrations.
On the weekend of 15/16 May, Nieder-Roden will also be celebrating a double anniversary, namely 25 years of partnership with the French town of Puiseaux and the Austrian town of Hainburg.
A memorial stone at the old fire station now commemorates the partnership with Hainburg. The highlight of the festive weekend is the well-attended joint academic anniversary celebration in the Nieder-Roden community centre, at which the three mayors, Franz Hirschl (Hainburg), Christian Blumenfeld (Puiseaux) and Thomas Przibilla (Rodgau), reaffirm the partnership on a certificate. The former mayor of Nieder-Roden, Hans Elgner, who founded the partnership 25 years ago, also takes part in this celebration.
Unknown persons set fire to the construction site of the Geschw. Scholl School in Hainhausen, which is being extended. Thanks to the rapid intervention of the fire brigades from Hainhausen and Weiskirchen, no major damage is caused. Piles of rubbish had been set alight in several places on the building site.
By the end of April, ten break-ins in nursery schools and youth centres had been registered in Rodgau, say the police, and they are looking for witnesses to solve the crimes, which cause more damage through destruction than through theft.
At the local Agenda 21 kick-off evening, 70 visitors come to the community centre hall in Weiskirchen and choose the sunflower as the mascot for the project to harmonise the different goals and interests of economy, ecology and social demands. Three working groups have already begun their work to realise the project.
The Johanniter-Unfallhilfe rescue team from Rodgau wins the national first aid competition on the occasion of the 900th anniversary of the Johanniter in Berlin.
Brigitte Hahn is the first auxiliary policewoman to be employed by the town of Rodgau, succeeding the retiring "Hipo" Günter Hacker (the longest-serving to date), who had already served in the former municipality of Jügesheim. A first for young people and the town: youth sports in the Nieder-Roden sports hall until late into the night, known as "midnight sports" and "mega-in", as the response shows.
The trip by a group of pupils from Georg Büchner School and representatives of the district youth ring and the Dudenhofen and Jügesheim youth fire brigades also celebrates an anniversary: 5 years of youth exchanges with Poland and trips to Ilawa with corresponding return visits to Rodgau. The TGS Jügesheim footballers celebrate their 50th anniversary for ten days - with many sporting events. 70 teams are involved.
At the end of the month, the Dudenhofen male choir and Dudenhofen female choir invite you to an unusual choir premiere, namely a concert entitled "Das gab's nur einmal", evergreens from the 1920s and 1930s.
Pupil Rudolf Polzer from Weiskirchen - who attends Einhard-Gymnasium in Seligenstadt - wins the German Maths Olympiad for tenth-graders.
The 1st Rodgau Skat Club celebrates its 25th anniversary. Willy "Schonny" Walter, one of the co-founders, has been running the club for 23 years.
The Islamic community of Rodgau (around 400 members) invites you to an open day at its Islamic Centre in Ober-Rodener Straße in Nieder-Roden.
After only a short construction period, the junction at Toom-Markt in Dudenhofen (Feldstr./L3116/Nieder-Röder-Str./Hainburger Str.) will be fitted with a temporary roundabout (cost around DM 100,000). It is hoped that this project, which is to be followed by a roundabout in the north of Dudenhofen this year, will improve the flow of traffic by eliminating the need for traffic lights, thus saving considerable electricity and maintenance costs.
The trade associations announce their first major joint trade show "Rodgau-Messe 2000" at the municipal press conference in the town hall, which is to take place from 15 - 17 September at the Nieder-Roden fairground with over 100 exhibitors.
Melodies from three centuries of opera, operetta and musicals are presented by the "Sonntagverein" Nieder-Roden choral society with choirs and soloists in the Nieder-Roden community centre.
The European elections on Sunday, 13 June, with a voter turnout of 59.4% of the 30,841 eligible voters, produced the following result: CDU 53.3%, SPD 30.6%, Greens 6.7%, FDP 2.8%, REP 2.3%, PDS 1.2%, Animal Protection 0.7% and others 2.4%.
As one of the items on the programme of the big fire brigade festival celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Nieder-Roden volunteer fire brigade, 41 teams from six countries test their operational readiness and speed on the Sunday of the festival. The Nieder-Roden team comes 5th. Langenbach wins. The best foreign team was the team from Koscian in Poland.
The historical fire brigade procession through Nieder-Roden also attracts a large crowd.
As part of its project week, the Heinrich Böll School in Nieder-Roden is also testing environmental protection at its "Penne", under the expert guidance of the municipal energy consultant Ralf Bendel. energy consultant Ralf Bendel. Good approaches were found, but there was also much room for improvement.
At the Claus-von-Stauffenberg-Schule in Dudenhofen, 105 school leavers celebrate their successful graduation with a stage show and buffet.
A small victory for humanity and common sense at a time when flight and displacement bring much suffering to the people affected - as in the former Yugoslavia, for example: thanks to the commitment of the school management of the Claus-von-Stauffenberg School in Dudenhofen and citizens such as Herbert Kemp, the 19-year-old pupil, who came to Rodgau from Bosnia as a refugee child at the age of 12, was not expelled from Germany a year before she was due to take her school-leaving exams, but was able to take her school-leaving exams here. This Rodgau concern reached the Petitions Committee of the Hess. State Parliament.
The laying of a gas pipeline under the B 45 near Jügesheim using a new method has been recognised nationwide: While traffic continued to flow unhindered on the 4-lane federal road, specialists pushed an 86 metre long gas pipe from the east to the west side of the road without any excavation. A Rodgau resident, Fritz Gerritz from Nieder-Roden, a long-standing city councillor in the CDU parliamentary group, was also responsible for the success of the project.
Two teachers who have worked in Rodgau for many years, especially at the Georg Büchner School in Jügesheim, retire at the end of the school year with many words of thanks: Karlheinz Enders (in Rodgau for 38 years, 32 of them in Jügesheim) and Alfons Pfeiffer (in Jügesheim since 1962). Teacher Pfeiffer is both culturally active in the school's theatre group and athletically active (he has led the VHS swimming courses for 33 years), has run the marathon route over 150 times and climbed several four-thousand-metre peaks in the Alps. He will continue to be active.
First Councillor Alfred Schüler, who has been ill since September 1998, gives the press an interim report on his recovery progress after successfully surviving cancer surgery: his rehabilitation phase will continue throughout the summer. According to the optimistic Alfred Schüler, the public health officer will then have the last word, despite the recent news from the pension office that he is 100% severely disabled.
Doris Lechner, a community nurse for many years (19 years of service) and administrative employee at the Dudenhofen contact centre for the last six years, died after a short, serious illness.
The old Rodaubrücke bridge on Eisenbahnstraße in Jügesheim is demolished and rebuilt at a cost of 270TDM. The new, widened bridge should be completed by Christmas. During the construction period, pedestrians and cyclists will only be able to cross the bridge via a replacement bridge.
The "Onkel-Otto-Rutsche" (Uncle Otto slide) (prize from the HR TV quiz "8... und fertig los") is installed at the day care centre II in Freiherr-vom-Stein-Str. in Dudenhofen and inaugurated with a cheerful celebration.
The young Jügesheim farmer Sebastian Roßkopf and his partner, Dirk Müller from Groß-Gerau, won the national prize and were congratulated by Mayor Thomas Przibilla in the presence of local farmer Stefan Raab after receiving the award at the German Building Day in Leipzig.
The hot July weekend of the 16th and 17th set a new daily record for the lido in Nieder-Roden with 13,010 bathers.
A kiosk on Heidelberger Straße in Nieder-Roden goes up in flames - presumably caused by burglars - and burns out. The Nieder-Roden volunteer fire brigade extinguishes the fire with 25 firefighters and four vehicles. The damage is estimated at 50TDM.
The new energy purchasing association - REGE - aims to provide inexpensive electricity for Rodgau households, clubs and companies. It is a joint initiative of citizens and the town of Rodgau, following the cancellation of price fixing on the electricity market.
TSV Dudenhofen celebrates its 110th anniversary with a big club party. TSV member Alfred Klein is awarded the State of Hesse's Letter of Honour by District Administrator Peter Walter in the presence of TSV Chairman Hans Klein.
To mark the 25th anniversary of the partnership between Nieder-Roden and Puiseaux, 23 young people spent an eventful few days in France.
Major operation for 60 firefighters from Weiskirchen, Hainhausen and Jügesheim in the western field area of Weiskirchen. Around midnight, arsonists set fire to 300 bales of straw in a field. It took the fire brigades an hour and a half to bring the fire under control.
The "Veurns Vocaal Ensemble" from the twin town of Nieuwpoort gives a highly acclaimed concert in the Dudenhofen Protestant Church as a contribution to the 110th anniversary celebrations of TSV Dudenhofen.
The city's five-day excursions for senior citizens to Würzburg (combined coach/boat trip on the "Frankonia") set a new record with 2496 registrations.
A thundery downpour on Monday, 9 August, flooded streets and cellars, especially in Nieder-Roden and Jügesheim. The cause of the alarm at the Vereinigte Volksbank on Babenhäuser Str. in Jügesheim is curious: it was not burglars but lightning that triggered the bank's alarm system.
For the first time, the "Mosaiksteine" self-help group for multiple sclerosis sufferers organised a boat trip. This was made possible by donations from Rodgau (e.g. from the town's senior citizens' excursions), Rödermark and Dietzenbach.
On Saturday, 14 August, the centre of Jügesheim will be dominated by the colourful programme of the "Children's Caravan", which will also make a stop in Rodgau on its tour through Germany. Local groups and clubs contribute the main part of the well-attended programme.
When school starts after the summer holidays, around 500 children in Rodgau make their way to school for the first time.
The newly designed fountain at the town hall - a donation from the MEWA company - is inaugurated with a cheerful celebration. It is a bronze work by sculptor Reiner Uhl, which depicts views and scenes from the old Jügesheim - Gugisheim - and is already popularly known as the "Gugi fountain".
The Protestant church in Weiskirchen shines in fresh white: the tower has been repainted after 50 years.
The Weiskirchen Sports Association inaugurates a new pole vault facility to mark the 40th anniversary of the sports centre. At the same time, the club is delighted that two particularly deserving members, Annemarie Jonas and Helmut K. Erbert, are awarded the State Certificate of Honour by District Administrator Peter Walter in the presence of club chairman Helmut Jäger, Mayor Thomas Przibilla and Frank Lortz, Member of the State Parliament.
In Dudenhofen on the edge of the "Farnebüsch", the town has designated a special dog meadow where dogs can run around off the lead.
A slide is installed in the non-swimmers' area of the lido. This is a first small step towards making the pool more attractive, albeit at a cost of almost 15,000 DM.
The VHS exhibition "My favourite picture of Poland" is shown in the town hall. Barbara Ahlfeldt from Wiesbaden wins first prize in the annual VHS photo competition with photos from EC and neighbouring countries.
In the Hainhausen public library, the long-serving manager, Egon Kottek, is bid farewell with a "great reception". His successor is Joachim Bunde, also a retired teacher, who now looks after the 6,000 books with his team of helpers.
The local history association in Weiskirchen recalls an unusual event, namely the "battle" around the Tannenmühle 200 years ago, when Rodgau residents tried to defend themselves against Napoleon's French with their sickles and scythes. According to historical documents, however, there were no casualties.
Sensational local Rodgau discovery in the Goethe year 1999 by Hans Nowim (written in the Offenbach-Post on the last weekend in August): Goethe also made a guest appearance, or rather held court, at the Tannenmühle in Weiskirchen and thus in today's Rodgau. Goethe rhymed, among other things: "From the Isar to the Rhine, many mills grind, but the Tannenmühl' alone is what we aim for". Since Weiskirchen was one of the well-known mill villages, Goethe, who is known to have had a weakness for beautiful millers, must have known it according to this surviving quatrain and consequently, more or less secretly, visited it or stayed there. There is no known contradiction to this finding, neither from Frankfurt nor from Weimar.
To round off a rather sunny August, the famous Japanese Suzuki violin orchestra will be making a guest appearance at the Bürgerhaus Nieder-Roden with the participation of the Freie Musikschule Rodgau.
The Frankfurt Institute for the Common Good donates 10TDM to the Rodgau branch of the German Child Protection Association. Managing Director Lothar Mark presents the donation cheque to Chairwoman Sybille Stallmann-Beseler. The money will be used for parent counselling, for the separation/divorce group and for prevention work in schools.
On 09/09/99, eleven couples married in the Rodgau registry office. The couples still available who had married on 08/08/88, at that time still in the registry office in Weiskirchen, were guests in the town hall on the anniversary - there were still five of 16 couples.
The 18th 24-hour run of the "Gemeinsam mit Behinderten" association on the weekend of 11/12 September sets a new record with 44 teams and proceeds of DM 268,000, increasing the foundation's capital to over 1.3 million. The interest earned on this capital essentially covers the work of the organisation in Rodgau and the surrounding area. With 993, the most laps, the team "Dream Team" wins ahead of the "GOS Busters" with 959 laps and "Froscher Büchenbach" with 949 laps. As the imaginative team names show, a pleasing number of young people are involved. The performance of Nikola Divic from Dietzenbach, who completed 444 laps in his wheelchair as an individual participant over the 24 hours, should also be emphasised. Friends from the twin town of Nieuwpoort also took part, preparing 50kg of delicious fish and donating the proceeds.
The annual horse show organised by the Jügesheim Hunting and Riding Club in the club's 25th anniversary year at the showground in the Westgemarkung set a new record with 465 entries.
The Rodgau fire brigades receive four new vehicles, which are handed over to the individual brigades at the Weiskirchen fire station.
The first half of September is also characterised by hot, midsummer weather in Rodgau. To the delight of the youngsters at Georg Büchner School in Jügesheim: there are three heat-free days.
Mayor Thomas Przibilla presents his draft budget for the year 2000 at an early stage, in which 7.6 million is earmarked for the construction of the suburban railway, which is due to start in the course of the coming year.
The town is commemorating the anniversary of the granting of Rodgau's town charter on 15 September 1979 with an exhibition entitled "20 years of the town of Rodgau", featuring a wealth of images from the archive of former OR reporter Klaus Kölpin as well as a presentation of the town's development during the so-called "Gründerzeit" of Rodgau in the 1970s. The exhibition will run for 14 days and will culminate in the annual citizens' reception in the town hall at the end of the month. On the occasion of the exhibition opening, the Weiskirchen entrepreneur Friedrich Henkel will be honoured for his entrepreneurial life's work.
In Dudenhofen, after 50 years of serving customers, the Reinhold and Margarete Mahr family closes the last so-called "corner shop" in Dudenhofen. "corner shop" in Dudenhofen for reasons of age, but also due to the opening of another supermarket in Dudenhofen and thus greater competitive pressure. "A piece of culture is being lost," was one of the many comments from customers.
Hubertus K. Bader, board member of numerous Jügesheim associations and co-founder of the local history working group, is awarded the State Certificate of Honour, which is presented to him by District Administrator Peter Walter in the presence of City Councillor Anette Schweikart-Paul.
The town's annual children's festival in the Jügesheim forest leisure centre is attended by around 1,000 children and their parents.
The Nieder-Roden Protestant church choir bids farewell to its long-serving conductor Michael Jäger with a big concert in the church.
The town council makes an important decision for the further development of western Jügesheim: The so-called. The so-called western connection to Rodgauringstr., via the planned Elbingerstr./Eisenbahnstr. suburban railway subway, will be via Marburger Str., which will be extended to Rodgauringstr. This solution had already been planned since 1970, which is why the route had been designated and kept free in the planning. Parliament thus clearly decided in favour of planning security as the primary argument, because "it is a requirement of the citizens of our city", said Mayor Przibilla in the debate, "that planning must also be predictable in the long term". Nevertheless, it is not just Marburger Str. that is to absorb the traffic, but also Allensteiner Str. In this way, the load is to be distributed.
The bronze goose group on Nieuwpoorter Str. in Dudenhofen now also has its "ancestral" goose keeper in memory of the last goose keeper in the former village community, Christian Walter.
For the group of geese and shepherds (Gensert), the support group for cultural projects in Dudenhofen (under the direction of Heinz Koop) was able to collect around 50,000 DM in donations.
For the first time in the history of the still young town of Rodgau, the lido will remain open in the second half of September until the last weekend of the month due to the continuing midsummer weather.
The Gretel-Egner-Haus retirement and nursing home in Dudenhofen, which opened in autumn 1996, is once again making headlines: Criticism of the nursing care due to staff shortages and, at the beginning of October, the announcement that the fourth change in the home's management is imminent. There have been three different home managers in 1999 alone.
After the exhibition "20 years of the town of Rodgau", which also provided information on the current status of the urban railway planning, the display boards will continue to be shown in the town hall and updated in line with further developments for ongoing public information.
The 125-strong travelling group from MGV "Germania" Dudenhofen returns to Rodgau after a successful tour of the USA with two recitals and a final performance at the famous "Met" - Metropolitan Opera.
In mid-October, the "Kulturherbst 1999", the annual cultural week with 39 events, which has now moved from summer to autumn, begins, with the cultural award ceremony in the town hall as one of the highlights. The 1999 Culture Prize is awarded to the music formation "Da Capo", with founder and conductor Waldemar Tober at the helm. The Culture Prize goes to the young organist Andreas Spahn from Weiskirchen.
This "cultural autumn" lasts from 16 October to the weekend of 20/21 November.
Two long-serving administrative employees retire: Klaus Steine, civil engineer, who has worked for 30 years, first in the municipality of Jügesheim and then in the environmental department of the city of Rodgau, as head of the department responsible for the sewage treatment plant and its expansion, and Gerhard Weiland, who worked for 34 years in the municipality of Nieder-Roden and then in the tax department of the municipal administration's treasury.
At the 35th International Leather Forum in Offenbach, the Jügesheim leather goods manufacturer Eduard Becker is honoured with the 10TDM Leather Goods Prize for its universal bag.
Around 1,900 citizens, companies and associations have expressed their interest in cheaper electricity to REGE-Rodgauer Einkaufsgemeinschaft für Energie, of which around 200 are interested in green electricity: ultimately too few to obtain more favourable conditions from the electricity supplier, even as individual customers.
Versbach Metallbau in Dudenhofen celebrates its 75th anniversary on 29 October. Founded 41 years earlier by Carl Versbach in Frankfurt, the company has been based in Dudenhofen, on a 22,000 square metre site on Kronberger Str., since 1965. There are currently 134 employees in Dudenhofen - formerly up to 250 - and 32 employees at the branch plant in Walldorf/Thuringia.
The new children's and youth advisory council of the town of Rodgau meets in the large meeting room of the town hall for its constituent meeting and elects Christine Lachmund as chairperson and Eva Berg, Daniela Kratz, Miriam Müller, Manuel Solbach and Christine Werner as deputies.
After 30 years in office as Chairman of SG Nieder-Roden, Ottmar Weyland hands over the reins to his successor, Herbert Kusenberg. Joachim Zimmermann also stood down after 28 years as deputy chairman. The Annual General Meeting elects Dr Hans Baumeister as his successor.
At the TG Hainhausen's evening of honour, 93-year-old Josef Bihn takes centre stage: the 93-year-old has been a member of the club for 79 years. He was made an honorary member back in 1972 for his services. Martin Bihn and Franz Weitz have also been members of TGH for 60 years.
Following a positive vote by the parish of St Matthias Nieder-Roden, the old and valuable Marian altar is to be reconstructed and given a worthy place in the side aisle.
On Tuesday, 9 November, a memorial plaque will be placed on the side wall of the "Michelsbräu" in Dudenhofen, in close proximity to the former home of the Jewish family Amalie and Adolph Reinhardt, by "Citizens who do not want to forget". It is intended to commemorate the fate of the former fellow citizens who were expelled from Dudenhofen and ultimately perished in the Litzmannstadt concentration camp. Zoya Fiedler, granddaughter of the Reinhardt family, unveils the memorial plaque, which Pastor Nett sees as "a reminder for the future". He announces that the Protestant community will be holding a memorial service on 9 November in future.
The municipal council informs citizens and, above all, residents of Jügesheim-West about the possible variants of the western connection on the basis of the resolution passed by the municipal council on 29 September.
The city is also organising two information evenings in the town hall in Jügesheim and in the community centre in Dudenhofen to provide information on the status of the S-Bahn and other transport plans in Rodgau.
Hubert Fecher, 74-year-old from Hainhausen, has received a very special honour: the city of Tullahoma in the US state of Tennessee has made him an honorary citizen in grateful recognition of his services to German-American understanding. Hubert Fecher was captured by the Americans as a young soldier in France during the Second World War and taken to the US camp "Camp Forrest" in Tullahoma. There he worked on a nearby farm and built up close relationships with the local community, which he still maintains today.
At the opening gala of the TGS Jügesheim at the start of the 1999/2000 carnival campaign, the new Rodgau prince and princess are introduced: Markus I. and Christine I., "bourgeois" Markus and Christine Schlaich from Jügesheim.
On Remembrance Day, the fallen and deceased are not only commemorated at the city's five cemeteries, but also at the memorial stone for the prisoners and deceased of the former Rollwald camp. Around 1,500 people were imprisoned there from 1938 to 1945. 156 of them died during their time in the camp.
At the 22nd Rodgau Gymnaestrada, the Rodgau clubs present their dance and gymnastics groups to the public in the packed Hainhausen sports hall at the host gymnastics club "bigger than ever before", according to the press headline of the OP.
The town library in the Rektor-Geißler-Haus, next to the Protestant church in Dudenhofen, is closing due to the necessary renovation of the historic half-timbered building. The book stock will be distributed among the remaining (church) libraries in Dudenhofen
At the northern entrance to Dudenhofen, a second temporary roundabout is being set up to channel traffic in a more orderly fashion than is currently the case at the confusing junction of the old B45.
High-ranking visitor to the Georg Büchner School in Jügesheim: Hesse's Minister of Education Karin Wolff comes to visit and supports the fundraising campaign "Hesse's schools help Turkish schools" to alleviate the hardship caused by earthquakes.
Another association is registered: The Camping- und Caravanfreunde Rodgau "CCR" in the German Camping Club is founded. Jochen Bleyel becomes the first chairman.
On the first weekend of Advent and during the Advent stroll in Jügesheim as the prelude to the Christmas markets in Rodgau, the new "Triangel" business premises in the centre of Jügesheim are inaugurated.
The city invited almost 4,000 senior citizens to the senior citizens' Christmas parties on the first two weekends in December, which is around 10% more than in the previous year and documents the growth of the so-called age pyramid in Rodgau too. age pyramid in Rodgau too.
Following a lengthy process, the "Rotsohl und Thomassee" area in the eastern part of Dudenhofen is placed under nature conservation protection by the Darmstadt Regional Council. This important ecological area covers 52 hectares.
Jakob Koser, a long-standing member of Rodgau municipal council and district councillor (SPD), dies at the age of almost 77 and is buried on 7 December. From 1968 until his retirement in 1982, the engineer managed the former waste incineration plant of the Offenbach waste disposal association in Heusenstamm.
In the neighbouring town of Rödermark, the citizens vote 62.5% in favour of the incumbent Alfons Maurer in the first round of the upcoming mayoral election.
At the municipal press conference on 7 December in the town hall, an important contract for the further development of the bathing lake with the Nieder-Roden lido is signed between the city and the Umlandverband Frankfurt. Association Director Alfons Faust and Councillor Dr Thomas Rautenberg from the Umlandverband, as well as Mayor Przibilla and Councillor Schweikart-Paul from the city, sign the contract. The Rodgausee is to be developed into a leisure park over the next few years with the great support of the Umlandverband. The construction of a skate park and beach volleyball courts are already planned for the 2000 season. Car parking facilities are also to be improved.
On Tuesday morning, 7 December, the long-standing honorary city councillor Manfred Schubert died unexpectedly, just a few days before his 60th birthday.
The lawyer at the Hess. The lawyer at the Hessian Association of Towns and Municipalities was one of the longest-serving elected representatives in Rodgau. The Social Democrat was first elected to the municipal council of his home town of Jügesheim in 1972 and was a member of the town council from 1977 to 1985 after the establishment of the large municipality and later town of Rodgau, including four years as deputy chairman of the town council. He was elected to the municipal council in 1985 and remained a member until his death.
He was awarded the State of Hesse's Letter of Honour in 1996 for his services. The funeral service will take place at the Waldfriedhof cemetery in Jügesheim with great sympathy from mourners from the town and region.
In the last series of meetings of the year, the city council discusses and decides on the 2000 budget and the motions submitted for it on three consecutive days. The debate "offers a lot of dynamite", as the press reports in detail. The main issue is the 15% cut in all voluntary services provided by the city to cover the budget. However, according to the city council, the cuts are to be offset by setting up a so-called hardship fund totalling 150,000 euros. However, the city council wants to mitigate the cuts by setting up a so-called hardship fund totalling 150,000 DM in the area of club and youth work. With the votes of the CDU and SPD, the budget - all motions by the Greens, FWG and REPs are rejected - is finally adopted, with a total budget of 128.2 million.
In an accident at the Capitol theatre in Offenbach, two Rodgau residents attending a pre-Christmas theatre event, a 67-year-old woman and her 34-year-old daughter, suffer life-threatening injuries after a 35 kg reflector ball comes loose from the ceiling anchorage and falls into the auditorium. The family's two children were unharmed, but suffered a shock. Two more forward-looking decisions by the town council: it approves the updated contract for the realisation of the so-called "generation centre" in Niederkirchen. "Generation Centre" in Nieder-Roden, which does not include a day care centre for senior citizens, but does include the construction of a day care centre for the town. In addition, the city invests DM 2 million in this project to secure flats suitable for the elderly. Furthermore, the parliament decides that the city will contribute to the development costs and car park construction as well as the purchase of the land required for the construction of the new Jügesheim sports centre in the Westgemarkung for DM 2 million. This gives the go-ahead for the realisation of this major project.
The construction of the three sports fields is at the expense of SV Jügesheim, TGM and TGS, but is subsidised by the city as part of the club promotion programme, while TGM wants to bear the costs for a 400m track alone.
Chamberlain Kurt Haase, who was hired by Jügesheim's former mayor Adam Jäger as an administrative trainee in 1952, retires at the end of the year.
The people of Rodgau prepare for the turn of the year, century and millennium on New Year's Eve, mainly at home, but also with a ball in Weiskirchen, as well as at the TGS Jügesheim and the Dudenhofen men's and women's choir in the community centre.
For the first time since the turn of the year 1976/77 (when the town was founded), a large crowd celebrates the new millennium on the square in front of St Matthias Church in Nieder-Roden, which is greeted with cheers in the open air.
