Carnival parade on 1 March through Jügesheim with over 50 parade numbers and record crowds. Municipal council dispenses with a VIP platform and rides on a special float in the procession for the first time, because "the Kölpin drove them away". The Jügesheim Singers' Association's float wins prize for best parade number.
Academic celebration of TSV Dudenhofen at the start of the big 90th anniversary celebrations.
Local politicians from Nieder-Roden win the parliamentary disc of honour of the Jügesheim "Diana" shooting club for the second time.
Volleyball players of TG Nieder-Roden become champions of their class.
Table tennis team from TG Hainhausen becomes champion and Hesse Cup winner. Pool billiard club Jügesheim wins two runner-up titles in Hesse. Three lane golfers from Jügesheim are called up to the Hesse selection team.
Opening of the Weiskirchen forest leisure centre.
Nieuwpoort becomes a European municipality. Delegation from Dudenhofen attends the ceremonial presentation of the European flag in the twin town.
Sportvereinigung Weiskirchen celebrates a quadruple championship for its footballers, namely the D-, A-youth, juniors and 2nd team.
The Dudenhofen noise barrier is built at the optimum height, with the federal government bearing the entire cost of 1.5 million marks.
Hovestadt sand-lime brickworks celebrates its 25th anniversary.
Regional planning community Untermain partially rejects Rodgau's planning concept. For example, the Rollwald and Nieder-Roden districts are not to grow together structurally, but the fields between them are to be preserved.
Holiday games begin in perfect weather. This time two groups travelled to Nieuwpoort.
Dirk Czerwek becomes Hesse champion of the track golfers.
TSV Dudenhofen wins the Rodgau Cup for footballers 3:0.
Victory over SG Nieder-Roden in the final.
DRK Hainhausen is re-established. Günther Möhlig 1st Chairman.
Successful appeal to support the Brixen orphan village in South Tyrol.
The A 683 motorway is being reclassified as federal road 45.
Joint anniversary celebration of the three local associations of the Workers' Welfare Association in Weiskirchen, Hainhausen and Nieder-Roden to mark the 60th anniversary of the organisation in Germany.
Successful holiday for the disabled organised by KJG Jügesheim in the Vosges with 55 participants.
Nieder-Roden youth fire brigade wins bronze medal at the 2nd International Youth Fire Brigade Competition in Austria.
Catholic parish of Dudenhofen celebrates 25th anniversary of St Mary's parish church.
Over 2,100 senior citizens take part in the trips to Lahnstein over three days.
City Week, the week-long festival in all parts of the city, begins on Monday, 10 September, with an indoor handball match between the European Cup winners Groß-Wallstadt and a Rodgau selection in the Nieder-Roden sports hall. The visitors win 29:14 in a furious game in the packed hall.
Highlight of the city week and the year in Rodgau:
On 15 September, the Hessian Minister of the Interior, Ekkehard Gries, presents the certificate for the granting of town rights at the big celebration in the Nieder-Roden community centre hall. From now on, Rodgau is no longer a municipality, but a town.
The city's first act after the week-long celebration: ground-breaking ceremony for the construction of the municipal sports hall in Hainhausen in September.
The cycling club "Germania" Jügesheim once again organises its cycling race "Grand Prix of Rodgau" with record numbers of participants and visitors.
The district's school development plan envisages a special school in Rodgau.
The Jügesheim Fruit and Horticultural Association celebrates its 25th anniversary.
The singing group "Rodgau Tramps 66", singing group of the "Eintracht" Hainhausen, transfers 3,820 marks to the "Aktion Sorgenkind" as proceeds from the TV evening during the city week.
International billiards match in Jügesheim.
Red Cross Jügesheim wants to purchase social vehicle for elderly and disabled people.
1st ground-breaking ceremony for the construction of the municipal sports hall in Jügesheim .
The sixth form is to be set up in pavilions at the Jügesheim comprehensive school as early as the 1980/81 school year, until the new building planned in Dudenhofen is completed.
Handball-Rodgau selection plays against Bundesliga team SG Dietzenbach in favour of Aktion Sorgenkind and loses 28:10.
Red Cross Jügesheim launches clothes sale campaign to purchase the social vehicle.
Angelika Siegler from Nieder-Roden first "city child" of Rodgau.
World premiere for new chicken breed at large show organised by the Weiskirchen Small Animal Breeding Association in the Jahnhalle.
The results of the November traffic count in the Hainhausen/Weiskirchen area show that a bypass for Hainhausen will not be necessary if the Rodgau ring road is built.
Major concerts by the music and orchestral societies, Weiskirchen Music Society, Dudenhofen Music Society and Nieder-Roden Music Society with praise from the state level and also a major joint concert by the Jügesheim societies in aid of the planned Catholic parish centre, which is to replace the sisters' house.
Another good deed by the Rodgauers at the end of the year: over 10,000 marks in donations in kind are collected for the orphanage village in Brixen.
The SOS bazaar in Nieder-Roden brings in 16,000 marks, the Protestant bazaar in Dudenhofen 8,000 marks.
On Christmas Day, 50 children set off on the first municipal ski trip to Mittelberg/Oberallgäu.
