To kick off the year 1981, a youth football championship is held for the first time in the still young history of the town of Rodgau, in which 16 B and D youth teams take part.
The teams from SG Nieder-Roden were crowned city champions in both groups.
This month sees the start of discussions between the Rodgau town council, the youth sections of the clubs and the non-club youth about the use of the Dudenhofen youth centre.
Jügesheim's former mayor, Wilhelm Albert (SPD), takes his final retirement.
According to state statistics on towns and municipalities in Hesse, Rodgau starts the ninth decade of this century in 17th place in terms of the size of Hessian towns and is therefore well on the way to becoming a respectable small town.
Of the five highest marks awarded, "Excellent", three awards went to the successful poultry breeders of the Nieder-Roden Poultry Breeders' Association 1925 e. V. at the 28th General Odenwald Show.
For the first time, the Dudenhofen CDU organised a New Year's reception in the Dudenhofen community centre. In addition to prominent politicians from the town and district of Offenbach, many representatives of clubs and associations from Rodgau were also present.
The cold winter brings records at the bathing lake. More than 10,000 ice skaters were counted in ten days.
The town of Rodgau is calling on commuters to save money and energy by taking part in a carpooling campaign.
Following the failure of the first self-administration model at the Dudenhofen youth centre, the municipal council rejects the idea of leaving the centre in the sole responsibility of the youth again.
SG Nieder-Roden becomes city champion in old men's football. The town council hires Johannes Bosten from Rödermark to head the Dudenhofen youth centre.
The cup tournament for Rodgau's youngest footballers was won by the SG Rodgau F-Youth team.
The balloon launched by Oliver Jakob travelled around 310 km and flew as far as Lohnkirchen near Mühldorf am Inn. The Nieder-Roden CDU had organised this balloon competition.
The "Ride with us - save energy" campaign attracts nationwide attention through reports on radio and television.
After the bravura victory of the indoor handball team of the Turngemeinde Nieder-Roden over the Hessian Oberliga team TuS Holzheim with 23:17 goals, this team reached the main round of the cup and a place among the last 32 teams in the Federal Republic.
The 1981 budget is passed with the CDU voting against the SPD.
Once again, the "fire devil" struck in Dudenhofen.
The Chairman of the Maritima Monitoring Committee, Bernhard Koser, reported to Parliament on the results of a year's work in front of the television audience of Hessischer Rundfunk.
Parliament unanimously approves the successive realisation and expansion of the Rodgau footpath and cycle path network.
The "decade work" is valued at 8.5 million marks.
The town council and the Catholic parish of Hainhausen opened the "Hainhausen Public Library" in the parish hall. The honorary director of this public library is former rector Egon Kottek.
The Weiskirchen local SPD association celebrates its 80th anniversary.
Ground-breaking ceremony for the extension of the Münchhausen School for Weiskirchen and Hainhausen by Offenbach District Councillor and Head of Schools Franz Borgmeyer. The new building will accommodate eleven group rooms, a workroom and an ancillary room on a total floor space of 735 square metres. The extension project is estimated to involve an investment of around three million marks.
In a slide show at the Rodgau Bank, globetrotters Giselher and Barbara Ahlers report on their circumnavigation of the world in a 9.20 metre English wooden yacht. The circumnavigation lasted a total of five years and brought a wealth of interesting travel experiences.
The results of the local elections held on 22 March were as follows: Party Votes 0/0 CDU 9367 52.12 SPD 7042 39.18 FDP 1568 8.68
CDU 23 mandates SPD 10 mandates FDP 4 mandates.
The district building authority refused to extend the building permit for the Maritima project on the condition that the site be cleared.
At the Rodgau town's evening of honour for its successful athletes, cultural figures, breeders and board members, Mayor Paul Scherer presented young teacher Dieter Jonas with the 1980 Rodgau town culture prize, which had been awarded to the Weiskirchen teacher for his dissertation on the economic development of Rodgau.
Old fire engine from the Dudenhofen fire brigade becomes a museum piece in the National Fire Service Museum in England.
The former mayor of the town of Rodgau, Hans Eigner, was sentenced to two and a half years in prison by the 1st Grand Criminal Chamber of the Darmstadt Regional Court for forgery of documents and breach of trust in office in connection with the "Maritima" project.
The Nieder-Räder CDU city councillor Willy Purm was unanimously elected head of the city council at the constituent meeting of the new city council.
14 teams want to run for kilometres for people with disabilities from the Global South at the Dudenhofen sports centre. The "Gemeinsam mit Behinderten" association has invited disabled and non-disabled people to take part in a 24-hour run.
Forester Herbert Klee celebrates his 40th anniversary of service.
Wilhelm Albert, the long-standing SPD parliamentary group leader in the city council, has resigned from office. The SPD parliamentary group introduced Manfred Steder, the previous deputy, as his successor.
The Social Democrats of Dudenhofen celebrate their 85th anniversary.
The 11,000th visitor is welcomed by Mayor Paul Scherer at the Nieder-Roden lido.
The cycling club "Germania" Jügesheim celebrates its 70th anniversary at the same time as the inauguration of its new indoor cycling centre.
The rain of the century also leads to flooding and considerable damage in Rodgau.
Dieter Weiss from the "Diana" Jügesheim shooting club became the first German shooting king in the hunting rifle discipline.
The youth fire brigade from Nieder-Roden became Hesse champions.
Over 2000 senior citizens are travelling on the "Happy Rodgauer" to Bad Dürkheim, the destination of the four pensioners' excursions on special trains operated by Deutsche Bundesbahn.
The Catholic church choir "Cäcilie" Weiskirchen celebrates its 95th anniversary.
In the Jügesheim forest leisure centre, children romp around with numerous play offers and amusements on the occasion of the town's children's festival.
A Russian folk dance group put on a colourful performance in the sports hall of the Weiskirchen sports association.
The Protestant parish of Hainhausen/Weiskirchen/Rembrücken inaugurates its new parish centre on Dietrich-Bonhoeffer-Straße.
The Weiskirchen German Shepherd Dog Club celebrates its 25th anniversary.
A model of the planned Catholic community centre in Jügesheim is presented.
The branch of Bezirks-Sparkasse Seligenstadt in the Jügesheim district celebrates its 20th anniversary.
The first chairman of the DRK Jügesheim, Adolf Hessler, has resigned for health reasons.
The chairman of the Weiskirchen gymnastics club, Peter Becker, unexpectedly resigns.
The "Rodgau-Tramps" s Hainhausen celebrate their 15th anniversary.
With over 6000 visitors, the second Nieder-Roden trade exhibition (Ni-Ro-Ga) was a great success.
Father Helmut Grittner joins the Catholic parish of Nieder-Roden as the successor to Father Schefzik.
Rodgau's first shooting king is Richard Frenzel from the "Gamsbock" Nieder-Roden shooting club.
"Nieder-Roden then and now" is the subject of a remarkable exhibition by the local history working group at the Nieder-Roden Social Centre.
Peter Töpfer, long-standing chairman of the CDU parliamentary group in the city parliament, is leaving Rodgau for professional reasons and is therefore leaving the city parliament. His successor is Wolfgang Oehlschlägel.
The sudden death of Franz Borgmeyer, district councillor and head of the schools department, has also caused grief and consternation in Rodgau.
Otto Melzer became the new chairman of the Rodgau CDU. His predecessor, Wolfgang Oehlschlägel, succeeds Mr Töpfer as leader of the CDU parliamentary group in the town council.
Valuable exhibits can be seen at the first nativity scene exhibition, which the town of Rodgau is organising together with the Bayerische Vereinsbank in the foyer of the community centre in the Dudenhofen district.
More than 1,500 citizens of pensioner age in the individual districts accept the invitation of the local councils to the city's pre-Christmas parties.
A new company confirms its intention to realise the "Maritima" leisure project in Rodgau by 1983.
