2013

2013

  • January

    • The city sets up a volunteer exchange.
    • DRK local associations Nieder-Roden, Dudenhofen and Jügesheim merge to form the Rodgau Red Cross.
    • Hans-Joachim Kahlo dies at the age of 91.
    • House Emmanuel III is ceremoniously inaugurated. The fools are on the loose - Janina I (Streit) and Philip II (Sahm) ascend the throne as the youth prince and princess and Sandra I (Grimm) and Stefan II (Grimm) as the adults.
    • The disciplinary proceedings against former First City Councillor Hildegard Ripper are discontinued.
    • The annual timber auction once again attracts many visitors to the forest.
    • Municipal "parent experts" project continues, even without EU funding.
    • Michael Schüßler confirmed in office as FDP Chairman.
    • What will happen to the emergency service centre - the Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians is looking at Seligenstadt as a location. City wants to prevent relocation.
    • W18 industrial estate - municipal council urges owners to make a decision.
  • february

    • The "Wellcome" project of the Child Protection Association celebrates its first birthday.
    • The introduction of licence fees for local authorities will not bypass the town of Rodgau. The double costs must be factored in.
    • Once again this year, the day-care centres are opening their doors and presenting their concepts and facilities.
    • A pedestrian is fatally injured on a pedestrian crossing in Nieder-Roden.
    • The jesters storm the town hall.
    • The inn "Zum Engel" looks back on 300 years of family ownership.
    • 60 groups and floats parade through Jügesheim in the carnival procession.
    • Minister of Economic Affairs Florian Rentsch opens the Rodgau education fair.
    • A citizen solar system is launched on the roof of the administrative building of the water supply association for the city and district of Offenbach.
    • The city council honours Klaus Möller with the silver badge of honour for his political work.
    • The 16-year-old violinist Maria Ließ receives the Rodgau Cultural Award.
    • Opel Test Centre and city sign letter of intent for future cooperation.
  • March

    • Rodgau takes part in the state campaign "Clean Hessen" with more than 150 volunteers.
    • Environment Minister Lucia Puttrich and members of the Rodgau Monotones open the event.
    • The One World Shop in Nieder-Roden celebrates its 20th anniversary.
    • The town's Easter market once again attracts many visitors and presents a colourful range of products for the approaching spring.
    • SPD local associations and the city association merge to form the SPD local association Rodgau.
    • The operators of the soot factory agree to invest 100,000 euros to beautify the exterior façade.
    • Unicyclists Inga Kern and Karina Lach are Rodgau's "Sportswomen of the Year".
    • The Protestant parish in Nieder-Roden sells the Christuskirche and moves into the parish hall on Puiseauxplatz.
    • Michael Gröschel is elected deputy town fire inspector for a further five years.
    • The town, owners and investors discuss initial plans for a new town centre in Jügesheim.
    • The Protestant parish of Dudenhofen welcomes its new pastor Christina Koch.
    • Ground-breaking ceremony in Rollwald - construction of the new church can begin.
  • April

    • In future, clubs will be able to enter their own dates on the city's homepage.
    • The ground-breaking ceremony marks the start of the construction phase for the family centre on Alter Weg in Jügesheim.
    • Law enforcement officers catch skunk Liesel with citizen support.
    • Young and old celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Rollwald day care centre.
    • Five times Hessen champion and two times vice Hessen champion - these are the successes of the dance sport department of TGM SV Jügesheim at the state championships.
    • The sun can come - the lido prepares for the season.
    • Jügesheim public library will soon be moving to its new home at Ludwigstraße 58-60.
    • The first construction measures at the Opel Test Centre make it clear that things are getting underway.
    • Residential development area N 39 in Nieder-Roden is to be redesignated as a green space, prompting protests from citizens.
  • May

    • A citizens' energy cooperative has been founded in Rodgau-Rödermark. Its first project is to be a solar roof on the sewage treatment plant.
    • The building inspectorate rejects extensive use of the TGS gymnasium in Jügesheim. The club has to think about other solutions.
    • Social housing on Ludwigstrasse costs 400,000 euros more than originally planned.
    • It gets loud at the city council meeting - citizens trill with whistles for the preservation of the Eugen-Roth-Straße playground and the preservation of the N 39 residential development area. City councillors decide to sell the playground and pass on the discussion of the N 39 bill to the Nieder-Roden local advisory council.
    • Economic plan of Stadtwerke Rodgau shows a profit.
    • Lena Krawczyk, highly decorated with countless prizes and awards, is ending her career as a solo guard dancer.
    • 31 business people take part in the town's shop window competition under the motto "Rodgau's summer delights".
  • June

    • Young artists exhibit their works at the first Rodgau JugendArt in the youth centre.
    • Mayor Jürgen Hoffmann is halfway through his term - three of his six years in office are over.
    • TGM SV Jügesheim celebrates 125 years.
    • The development work in the J 41 construction area has been completed. The new owners can now submit building applications.
    • The remodelling of the "Eulennest" kindergarten will not be broadcast. Broadcaster RTL2 cancels the programme "Ross - der Kindergartenboss" due to poor ratings.
    • New tenant found for community centre restaurant in Dudenhofen. TGS Jügesheim converts restaurant into training room.
    • UNESCO honours Heinrich Böll School for its "Education for Sustainable Development" project.
    • The expansion of Rodgau-Ring-Straße is called into question by an expert opinion.
    • City library opens its doors in the new premises in Ludwigstraße.
    • Tanja Lehmberg (Gips-Art) and Melanie Grimm (Raumdesign) win the Rodgau shop window competition.
    • Maingau Energie makes a donation, enabling Johanniter Unfall-Hilfe to offer a warm meal for €2.50 to senior citizens in need.
    • Flower meadows are blooming in Rodgau, creating a rich diet for insects.
    • The public order police catch the animal runaway "Max" again - the (official) grey horse was neighing right in front of the town hall, but he wasn't one.
    • Children from the Gartenstadt School work together with staff from the Johanniter hospice groups in Rodgau and Dreieich on the subject of death and dying.
  • July

    • Over 100 drivers from all over Hesse, Saarland and Bavaria travelled to the "Rodgaudrom" for the Hessen Cup of model cars.
    • A farewell room is set up at the forest cemetery in Jügesheim.
    • Teacher Andrea Klem from Nieder-Roden takes second place in the nationwide "Professionals for Daycare Centres" campaign.
    • Some say goodbye to the holidays with a huge foam party, others leave school with dream grades: With a grade point average of 1.1, high school graduates Cora Jennifer Albert, Tina Kostic and Sven Johann Stripling are honoured as the best in their year.
    • Cars have been doing the rounds on the roads at the Opel test centre for 50 years now - and its establishment in Dudenhofen remains a popular and curious story.
    • As it should be, TGM SV Jügesheim can not only look back on a long tradition, but also look up to the sky full of joy: the sun is shining on the 125th anniversary.
    • Signal red plastic signs are to prevent drivers from swerving onto the pavement in Ludwigstraße. The traffic trial is scheduled to last one year.
    • Sabine Beyer celebrates her ordination in the Protestant Emmaus parish in Jügesheim.
    • The children at the St. Rochus daycare centre have a lot of fun with the new play equipment in the outdoor area of the facility.
    • Over 2000 analysed questionnaires provide an insight into the living situation and wishes of senior citizens in Rodgau.
    • A rather old guest lost his teeth at the bathing lake: fossil collector Gerhard Lämmlein finds a piece of a prehistoric animal's teeth that is around 80 million years old.
    • The excavations at the moated castle in Hainhausen continue.
    • The Rollwald estate has been in existence for 75 years.
    • A 25-year-old man from Frankfurt drowns in a swimming lake.
    • A major roadworks site has been set up at the junction of the Kreisquerververbindung and the Jügesheim/Dudenhofen through road, causing obstructions for at least six weeks.
    • Andreas Beseler is on a charity bike tour in Canada and is collecting donations for the Nathalie Todenhöfer Foundation, which cares for MS sufferers.
    • The town mourns the death of Klaus Möller, who died at the age of 61. Möller left his mark on Rodgau as a local politician, producer, director, author and photographer.
    • The municipal utilities now generate additional electricity with a solar system on the roof of the sewage treatment plant.
  • August

    • Sales and St Joan Frances of Chantal.
    • The Weiskircher Kerb is a living tradition and delights the guests.
    • A second death at the bathing lake shakes the town: a 23-year-old from Dietzenbach drowns.
    • Five injured, including An assassination attempt on a critic of Islam in the Rodgau forest shocks the locals.
    • In the Catholic parish of St Peter in Chains, a double reliquary containing the mortal remains of St Francis of Assisi causes a collision between a bus and a car on the cross-city link towards Seligenstadt on the parish's patronal day.
    • The municipal council approves the amended planning application for the Medicum medical centre. In future, only 14 surgeries are planned.
    • Speed camera warning signs will not be erected in Rodgau for the time being.
    • Heide Klabers receives the Federal Medal of Merit for her decades of voluntary work.
    • The Rodgau Lido Festival is once again a crowd-puller and attracts around 1500 guests to dance, sing along and enjoy the atmosphere.
    • What is Police Commissioner Ullmann doing with the sledgehammer? It is the symbolic gift from the town to mark the start of the conversion of the former Dudenhofen fire station into the Rodgau police station.
    • Graffiti artist Carlo Zilch uses a total of 104 spray cans to freshen up the skate park at the bathing lake.
    • The people of Jügesheim celebrate the 75th birthday of the water tower.
    • Visitors to the Rodgau Seniors' Day defy the rain and don't let it spoil their mood.
  • September

    • Handball icon Jo Deckarm gives the starting signal at the 24-hour run, which is cancelled after 18 hours this year due to continuous rain.
    • TGM SV opens an exercise trail for senior citizens on its own club grounds.
    • School social work has been successfully practised in Rodgau for more than twenty years. The only pharmacy in Hainhausen closes. The artefacts found during excavations at the Hainhausen moated castle suggest that aristocrats lived here "in high living comfort".
    • The Dudenhofen community centre has a new tenant, Marinko Milotic, who plans to open the restaurant at the beginning of 2014.
    • The "Open Forum Nieder-Roden" is founded and wants to get involved in the neighbourhood.
    • Construction defects in the new municipal flats on Ludwigstrasse annoy tenants and the city.
    • The chances of the Rodgau-Ring road being extended appear to be dwindling: too expensive and less relief for residents than expected.
    • September traditionally ends with the kite festival at the bathing lake.
  • october

    • Positive results for one year of citizen service in the town hall.
    • The file inspection committee set up to enact a trade tax claim takes place behind closed doors due to tax secrecy.
    • The furniture store Interform closes its shop in Rodgau.
    • Genealogist, local historian and author Helmut Simon dies at the age of 83.
    • Music director Fritz Klein lays down his baton and bids farewell with a magnificent gala concert in the Dudenhofen community centre.
    • The "Long Night of Energy Consultancy" takes place in Rodgau for the first time.
    • According to the results of the retail concept, the centre of Jügesheim is suitable as a town and shopping centre for the whole of Rodgau.
    • In Hermann Bonifer, Jügesheim has lost a man who dedicated himself with great commitment to the local and cultural history of the district.
    • 50 artists show their works at RodgauerArt.
    • Despite the budget deficit, kindergarten attendance in Rodgau is to remain free of charge.
    • Discussions about the accommodation of refugees are beginning throughout the district and state: the cities are to be made responsible.
  • November

    • The Open Forum Nieder-Roden begins its work after the kick-off event in September.
    • The Advent market in Nieder-Roden has been cancelled and will return next year with a new concept.
    • After the first night procession of four carnival clubs and the traditional flag-raising on the town hall square, Rodgau is firmly in the hands of the fools, at least for a few hours. With Carmen I. (née Ries) and Patrick II. (Hösbacher), "old" TGM AV nobility sits on the carnival throne.
    • Memorial plaques commemorate war victims at the cemetery in Dudenhofen.
    • In Hainhausen, athletes symbolically show racism the red card at the "Respekt" football tournament.
    • Julia Hirschfeld is the city's new senior citizen counsellor.
    • The Heinrich Böll School is sending its second "PAUL", a portable water filter system financed by donations, on its journey.
    • This time, "PAUL" is travelling to the disaster area in the Philippines.
    • Willy Kahl retires from the Nieder-Roden senior citizens' organisation after 15 years on the board and hopes that the senior citizens' meeting place will continue to exist.
    • As a new educational consultant, Ulrike Mosig is on hand to provide help and advice to teachers in the city's daycare centres.
    • Day-care centre children plant 100 wild apples in the forest near Jügesheim and Nieder-Roden - the insects will certainly have something tasty to snack on next year!
    • The old walls at the carbon black factory in Hainhausen are disappearing behind a new façade. Chemische Werke Brockhues is spending more than 100,000 euros on this project.
  • December

    • A week-long Advent market in Jügesheim - a successful attempt.
    • After years of abstinence, Weiskirchen also successfully hosts a pre-Christmas market again.
    • The municipal council proposes three locations for a refugee centre to the district and thus stimulates discussion in Rodgau.
    • The municipal supervisory authority urges Rodgau to increase taxes - otherwise there will be no budget approval.
    • There is still no end - or rather a start to construction - to be seen at the Medicum in Nieder-Roden.
    • S-Bahn and city bus celebrate 10th anniversary in Rodgau and surprise passengers with small gifts.
    • There are different plans for the former HR site: private biogas plant or municipal compensation area.
    • Textilhaus Spahn has existed in Jügesheim for 120 years and is still a family business.
    • Excitement and a war of nerves in Jügesheim at the Jet petrol station: A 19-year-old man holds a hostage for hours, causing a large-scale SEK operation.
    • The town hall has stood in the centre of Jügesheim for 25 years.
    • With an ecumenical forest Christmas in Dudenhofen, an extraordinary concert by the Nieder-Roden music association, the "Soft Christmas" by Open Stage in Jügesheim, a nativity play with 17 little actors in the Catholic parish of Weiskirchen and the Hainhausen original Ludwig Kleinhenz as St Nicholas on the barrel organ, the year in Rodgau is drawing to a close and slipping into the tranquil time of the New Year.