In its tenth year as a town - Rodgau was granted its town charter in 1979 - the young municipality made the leap over the 40,000 population mark in May. However, this 10th town anniversary was not celebrated on a grand scale. The city honoured the event with the first citizens' reception on 17 September in the town hall and with the issue of a commemorative coin in gold and silver.
This year's local elections on 12 March marked the end of the Christian Democrats' absolute majority in the municipal council, which had prevailed since the establishment of the large municipality in 1977. The new distribution of seats: 22 CDU, 17 SPD and 6 Greens. However, there was no coalition between the SPD and the Greens.
Changing majorities - depending on the subject matter - determined the meetings of the City Council with a record flood of agenda items and thus also meeting dates: 21 meetings (12 meetings in 1988) and 531 items for discussion (170 in 1988).
1989 was also the first full year of administration of Rodgau from the new central town hall. Mayor Paul Scherer was more than satisfied with his and the administration's results, as were the citizens, as there were only positive comments.
Now a summarised overview of the most important events of 1989 in Rodgau:
The "Wednesday Club" organised by the Young Socialists, a series of events with cultural ambitions, celebrated its tenth anniversary at the beginning of January.
The city once again financed a women's self-defence course run by the Rodgau Judo Club.
Circus spends the winter at the Sandhof in Jügesheim.
Frauen-Treff Rodgau in Jügesheim is recognised as a non-profit organisation.
Traditional New Year's reception of the CDU in the Dudenhofen community centre with Hesse's Interior Minister Gottfried Milde and 700 guests in the Dudenhofen community centre.
Milde assured Rodgau of a police station in Dudenhofen.
Children's rock band "Sound Everest Band" celebrates its stage premiere. VHS starts the new semester with 175 courses.
Richard Bonn new fire chief in Weiskirchen
Completion of the traffic calming measures on Jügesheim's old B 45.
Topping-out ceremony for the Catholic meeting centre in Seestraße in Nieder-Roden.
Manfred Lurweg is the new Kolping Chairman in Weiskirchen.
Despite the local election campaign, moderate parliamentary tones in the 89 budget debate.
The CDU pushed through the budget: Record proceeds of DM 11,000 from the carol singers in Jügesheim and Dudenhofen alone
Waldemar Noack again Chairman of the Dudenhofen Music Association
Ernst Schwab, honorary head of the hairdressers' guild in Jügesheim, received the Federal Cross of Merit.
On Shrove Saturday, the carnivalists storm the new town hall in Jügesheim for the first time.
Paediatrician opens practice in the old town hall in Hainhausen.
Another big carnival procession through Jügesheim.
Two new conductors for the Weiskirchen Singers' Association: Fritz Klein and Gisela Massoth.
District Cup victory for the SGN table tennis team on its 20th anniversary.
"Kreisbus" 969 connects western district/Rodgau/Seligenstadt.
Reception in the parish of Weiskirchen for Sister Marietta (she looked after nine generations in the kindergarten) and Rupert Paul (35 years as chairman of the church choir).
Dr Keck began to draw a plot of land in Alt-Nieder-Roden on behalf of the town.
Frank Lenz new chairman of the 1st Judo Club Rodgau/Nieder-Roden.
Jusos with paddle boats on an environmental cruise on the Rodau.
Special applause for Rodgau's first Olympic participant Carmen Giese from the "Gamsbock" shooting club at the town's glittering evening of honour in the Dudenhofen community centre.
Initial surveying work on noise protection at Flachsberg due to the activities of the local citizens' initiative.
The call to strike by the GEW teachers' union was also followed to varying degrees in Rodgau schools because of the reduction in working hours (e.g. 33 out of 59 teachers at IGS Nieder-Roden, none at the Dudenhofen upper secondary school and 14 out of 72 teachers at the Büchner School in Jügesheim).
The city honours successful young people (44 individual and 17 team winners).
Another VHS exhibition "All about Easter" at the Büchner School in Jügesheim.
Joint concert by "Eintracht" and the Jügesheim Orchestra Association in the Hainhausen parish hall.
After a short but intensive election campaign: change in the majority ratios in the local elections in Rodgau: CDU 46.9% (-3.3%), SPD 37.4% (+1.8%), Greens 11.9% (+2.1%), FDP 3.7% (-0.6%).
New distribution of seats in the municipal council: CDU 22, SPD 17, Greens 6. Only in the Weiskirchen local council was the CDU able to maintain its absolute majority with 55.1 per cent.
Easter show organised by the VHS raised DM 1,637 for Friedlandhilfe.
Helmut Hesse new chairman of the shooting club "Diana" Jügesheim .
First art exhibition with Wendelin Werner in the town hall foyer. The first Rodgau pharmacy - Adolf Hippauf retired - is to become a museum of local history.
TSV Dudenhofen kicks off its 100th anniversary year with a concert in the community centre.
The 30 km/h speed limit on the Hainhausen through road was approved.
Lore Riebe! and the town of Rodgau set up the first emergency mum service.
Another ski trip for the town, 13 pupils set off with teacher Hartmut Henkel on the 5th Easter holiday trip by bike on the Rhine.
Diamond wedding anniversary of Elisabeth and Arthur Haller in Jügesheim.
Christian Sonnen from Dudenhofen is the state winner of "Jugend musiziert".
A record 735 runners took part in the TGM Jügesheim Easter run.
Award for the "Ökolopoly" environmental competition organised by the youth centre in the town hall.
Another student exchange with Nieder-Roden's twin town Puiseaux (26 young people in Rodgau).
Children's Action Week in the Protestant parish of Nieder-Roden.
Honorary alderman Ewald Berndt from Jügesheim has died.
Dudenhofen's local historian Manfred Resch summarised the Hamman works in a volume.
Record attendance of 40 exhibitors at the trade show in the Weiskirchen community centre. Mayor Paul Scherer breaks ground for the extension of the Weiskirchen fire station (construction costs just under one million marks); 18 women's choirs at the AGV Jügesheim anniversary song evening to mark the 15th anniversary of the women's choir.
The SPD and the Greens failed to form a coalition due to their differing positions on the further construction of the Rodgau-Ring road.
Honouring hard-working blood donors at the DRK Dudenhofen spring ball (50 donations: Fridolin Raab, Gerhard Kugler and Peter Kühnhanß).
Erwin Kneißl is the new chairman of TGM Jügesheim.
At the constituent meeting of the city council, Rainer Bergert (SPD) is elected chairman of the parliament.
Kolping group from Portugal visits the Kolping Family Jügesheim and is officially welcomed in the town hall.
Municipal elections: for the first time, two Green Party members (Klaus Möller and Reimund Hänle) are elected as honorary councillors, as well as Anette Paul and Richard Resch for the CDU and Bernd Kawecki and Manfred Schubert for the SPD.
New TGS Board of Directors: Sigurd Kant Chairman, Claus Campe Deputy Chairman.
Friedrich and Anna Mahr honorary members of the DRK Weiskirchen.
Music premiere with the wind ensemble of the Dudenhofen Music Association in the town hall.
First kite climbing event organised by the new "Lass steigen" association at the Nieder-Roden bathing lake.
Opening of the new clubhouse of the TC Weiskirchen.
TG Hainhausen indoor handball champions in the Offenbach/Hanau A-Class.
Bernd Kawecki is the new chairman of the Weiskirchen local SPD organisation.
The new local councillors: Günter Lachmund (SPD) in Nieder-Roden, Willy Walter (SPD) in Dudenhofen, as since then Gisela Schobbe in Hainhausen, Hans Spahn in Jügesheim (both SPD) and Herbert Paul (CDU) in Weiskirchen.
Dudenhofen support group sets memorial stone for Dean Ludwig Schuster; "Kinder im Rodgau" association launches homework help programme.
Police found explosives made by a teenager in a cellar in Weiskirchen and defused them.
Six members of the Rodgau Sailing Club passed the examination to become a recreational offshore skipper in Elsfleth/Weser.
City finalises campaign to replace PCB-containing lamp capacitors in kindergartens.
May Day celebration of the DGB local cartel for the first time at Puiseaux-Platz in Nieder-Roden and no longer at Gänsbrüh in Dudenhofen.
Protestant parish in Jügesheim celebrates its 25th anniversary.
Superintendent Martin Lage from the partner parish of Heiligenstadt in Thuringia was also a warmly welcomed guest.
Exhibition of historical coach models by Fritz Hillebrecht from Langstadt in the town hall foyer.
Mayor Paul Scherer welcomed the 40,000th citizen of Rodgau, two-and-a-half-year-old Ester Conelia Paul from Jügesheim.
The first of a total of four trips to Berlin for senior citizens.
First football tournament with his youth team from AS Puiseaux in Nieder-Roden.
More than 600 participants at the 18th Rodgau Run organised by TG Nieder-Roden.
Brigitte Hegner celebrates her 25th anniversary as head of the municipal library in Jügesheim.
500 cyclists take part in the Odenwald Tour organised by TG Hainhausen; an anniversary medal in gold and silver was issued to mark the "10th anniversary of Rodgau's town charter".
Walter Pfau is the new SPD chairman in Nieder-Roden.
Opening of the lido on Whitsun Saturday by Mayor Paul Scherer at a water temperature of 14 degrees.
Tennis players from the CSSR and Frankfurt visit TC Blau-Weiß Dudenhofen over Whitsun.
The artist groups "Gruppe 7" and "Die 12" present their first joint exhibition at the Nieder-Roden Social Centre.
85th anniversary of the kindergarten on Dr.Weinholz-Straße in Dudenhofen.
Holger Wolf and Daniela Fischer new conductors at AGV Sängerkranz Jügesheim.
Five-year anniversary of the Freie Musikschule Rodgau e.V.
Inauguration of the Catholic meeting centre on Seestraße in Nieder-Roden.
Sunny May breaks all records at the Nieder-Roden lido with over 40,000 visitors.
Author reading with Isolde Heyne in the town hall.
116 school-leaving certificates at the Stauffenberg School in Dudenhofen.
Academic celebration to mark the 100th anniversary of TSV Dudenhofen, plus Gauturn and Gaukinderturnfest in Dudenhofen's sports centre.
Federal Cross of Merit for Richard Resch, long-standing chairman of the "Germania" choral society and city councillor in Rodgau.
Dieter Paulun is the new SPD chairman in Jügesheim.
Agricultural nature trail inaugurated in the western part of Jügesheim.
Landscape observers are to detect environmental damage.
Mayor Scherer calls for the district bus to also be connected to the north of Rodgau.
Wilma Ehmann (Jügesheim) and Hans Sterkel (Rödermark) and the Dewald group organised a chamber concert in aid of the children's cancer charity in the town hall.
10th anniversary of the Rodgau bowling club.
Nieder-Roden is to get a new two-field sports hall at the Bürgerhaus school; European elections in Rodgau: only 60.4 per cent turnout and 39.3% for the CDU, 36.4% for the SPD, 10.4% for the Greens, 4.3% for the FDP and 6.4% for the Republicans.
Five choirs, including the Academic Choir from Pardubice (CSSR), at the concert of the Weiskirchen Singers' Association in the community centre; Thomas Wohlert new parish vicar in Weiskirchen.
Start of the refurbishment of the Jügesheim water tower.
Rodgau sailors with 50 participants - including Mayor Paul Scherer and Udenhout's Mayor Topps - officially attend the 750th anniversary of the town in Medemblik, the Netherlands. Melanie Meyer-Marbach new chairwoman of Igemo Jügesheim.
Recognition for retiree Karl Laux Nieder-Roden for his work to keep the environment clean.
Exhibition on solar energy in the town hall; project day at the Georg Büchner School, also on the subject of Aids.
School party at IGS Nieder-Roden for the first time in five years.
The city's last hazardous waste collection - in future the Umlandverband will be responsible - yielded two tonnes.
Wilhelm-Busch-Schule in Jügesheim with a special cycling training programme.
Forest shelter at Himmelsschneise in Nieder-Roden destroyed for the third time.
"Curative day care centre for children" in Jügesheim presented its rooms.
Citizen's donation of 5,000 marks for sick child Ad- mir due to an appeal by the Offenbach Post.
During citizens' question time at the Dudenhofen local council: citizens complain about speeding drivers.
For the first time, the Jügesheim Trade Association organised the "Gassenfest" in the newly extended lanes around the town hall and church.
The whole of Dudenhofen celebrated the 100th anniversary of TSV Dudenhofen for four days; second children's church day in Weiskirchen well attended.
Bärbel Seyer confirmed in office as chairwoman of the SPD city association.
Fourth festival organised by the "Friends of the Water Tower" around the Jügesheim water tower .
"Focus 89" great folklore festival at the Don-Bosco-Heim in Nieder-Roden.
Enthusiastic student concert by the Rodgau Free Music School in the community centre.
Heinrich Böll pupils from Nieder-Roden won first prizes in the foreign language competition.
Letter of honour from the state of Hesse to Edmund Wolf, head of department in the city council's environmental department, for his services to sport and clubs.
Headmaster Walter Bertrandt of the Geschwister-Scholl-School bids farewell after 25 years in office, town council decides on a comprehensive kindergarten advisory board.
Richard Jäger, long-standing head of the city's financial administration, retires after 32 years of service
Start of the municipal holiday games with over 200 children in Jügesheim.
The municipal council decides to build a kindergarten with an after-school care centre in the Jügesheim development area J 26 with 140 places; gas pipes are laid in the centre of Jügesheim to connect Jügesheim to the network of the Obertshausen gas supply association.
Exhibition on natural gardens in the town hall foyer.
Dudenhofen youth centre offers holiday programme.
Parliamentarians find out about the expansion of the wastewater treatment plant in Weiskirchen: Contracts worth over 15 million marks already awarded.
RSC cyclists from Nieder-Roden also travelling to Puiseaux on the three-country tour.
12 cyclists from Dudenhofen's twin town Nieuwpoort as guests and officially welcomed by the town.
SG Nieder-Roden wins the Rodgau Cup tournament for football clubs at the Hainhausen sports centre for the third time in a row.
Another two city holiday trips to the sea to Niblum on Föhr and to Sylt.
Extension work started on the Nieder-Roden community centre.
Third bank robbery in Rodgau.
Weiskircher Kerb expands folkloristic with a focus on the town centre with an amusement park at the church.
Second round of holiday games in Nieder-Roden and Hain- hausen also with record participation; VHS Rodgau offers around 200 courses in the new programme; topping-out ceremony at the fire station in Weiskirchen; soot factory in Hainhausen in the crossfire of criticism due to environmental pollution.
Rochus-Prozesion in Weiskirchen and Hainhausen again. A total of 543 children and young people took part in the town's holiday activities.
The rumours were confirmed: the new building on the Strandpromenade in Nieder-Roden is to house ethnic German repatriates, a project of the Workers' Welfare Association of Hesse.
Nieder-Boden's fire brigade celebrated its 90th anniversary for three days in the sports hall.
There were protests over the expansion of the B 45 near Weiskirchen: Mayor Scherer achieved a 60 km/h speed limit and extended noise protection.
CDU proposed first councillor Wolfgang Oehlschlägel for re-election.
Jügesheimer Kerb in the town centre in the alleyway area between the town hall and church is a success for the first time again
Nieder-Roden local history museum shows 3,500-year-old vessels found in the local area
Rodgau Stamp Club celebrates 20th anniversary with large exhibition in the Dudenhofen community centre
TSV Dudenhofen organised the second triathlon competition with 262 participants, starting and finishing at the bathing lake; Steffen Hartig, Sportsman of the Year 1988 in Rodgau, comes second. "Eintracht" Hainhausen celebrates 15 years of women's choir and three years of children's choir
Spanish folklore for the VHS photo exhibition about Spain in Rodgau town hall
16 young people started their training in the town hall with a commitment and swearing-in ceremony
City archivist Michael Jäger compiles documentation on Rodgau during the Second World War
11th District Health Week with Rodgau participation in the Dudenhofen community centre
Start of the SPD women's cinema series at Saalbau - Lichtspiele
Weiskirch fire brigade visits the fire brigade in Udenhout
At the 9th 24-hour run organised by the "Gemeinsam mit Behinderte Rodgau e.V." association, 34 teams ran a total of 11,518 kilometres and, with the help of the spectators at the Dudenhofen sports centre, raised around DM 30,000.
Record attendance at "Infa 89" organised by the Dudenhofen Trade Association in and around the community centre
The "Frauenhilfe" of the Protestant parish of Dudenhofen celebrates its 85th anniversary
The city council rejected the CDU motion for the re-election of First City Councillor Wolfgang Oehlschlägel by 23 votes to 22; Richard Murmann from Katharinenhof Nieder-Roden was the most successful participant in the tournament there
Concert by culture prize winner Stephan Hohleg, winner of the international piano competition in Senigallia (Italy), in the Protestant community centre in Nieder-Roden
Development measures for the Jügesheim development area J 26 with construction of a new sewer in the direction of Hainhausen
First town reception to mark the town's 10th anniversary on 17 September in the town hall
Large Rodgau delegation headed by Mayor Scherer visits the twin town of Hainburg. Third Ecumenical Day in Nieder-Roden
Rodgau city council footballers and the Igemo club team played out a draw
Much praise also from the state level for the fruit and horticultural exhibition in Hainhausen
Another cheerful children's festival organised by the town in the Jügesheim forest leisure centre
Renovation of the water tower completed and at around DM 400,000 cheaper than expected.
Five years of the "Women meet women" association in Jügesheim.
Project week at the Freiherr-vom-Stein-Schule with 34 themed programmes.
Concert of the Free Music School with "Children's Circus".
State Parliament President Klaus Möller visits the Nieder-Roden CDU with a discussion on housing and refugees; Greens and SPD agree to jointly elect the First City Councillor. Green candidate: Veit. Schameitat.
First central traffic-calmed zone designated in Jügesheim town centre
25 years of the Jügesheim community library.
The first children's parliament of the town of Rodgau in the town hall, formed by the fourth classes of the primary schools in Jügesheim, was a huge success and was also recognised by radio and television.
CDU parliamentary party leader Dr Alfred Dregger spoke at the CDU Dudenhofen's traditional "Sauessen" on the topic of "40 years of the Federal Republic of Germany", conductor's anniversary with a major concert by Matthias Herr at the Jügesheim Singers' Association.
First joint concert "Dudenhofens Jugend singt und musiziert" by the five cultural associations of Dudenhofen in the community centre.
Ideas for redesigning Puiseaux Square in Nieder-Roden: Competition for students or/and citizen involvement and festival of local associations in 1990 as financial aid?
Hard foam no longer in household waste: City accepts moulded parts and chips at the building yard. In the east of Jügesheim, the sewer stank; MEWA was named as one of the main culprits.
German-Czech meeting of old men's footballers from Prague and Dudenhofen.
Weiskirchen's "Haabscher" won the city championship of the Rodgau sports bowlers.
TGS-Musikzug Jügesheim celebrated a new beginning under conductor Martina Busch with a concert.
Big band concert "in a class of its own" by the Rodgau Brass Band of the Nieder-Roden Music Association in the Dudenhofen community centre, major concert by the Karlovy Vary Symphony Orchestra with the Dudenhofen choral societies in the packed sports hall of the Claus-von-Stauffenberg School "the" concert event of the year in Rodgau
The city's Environment Week with numerous information events and exhibitions.
Political dispute over traffic calming in Rollwald.
The Jügesheim local history working group has adopted a constitution and is hoping for a home and local history museum in the old Rodgau pharmacy.
Resignation of SPD parliamentary group chairwoman Rosemarie Wendel and city councillor Schittek as well as SPD city association chairwoman Bärbel Seyerwegen Dispute over the First City Councillor with the Greens.
Karl-Heinz Schönberg succeeded him as Chairman of the Board of Trustees.
Open day at the RTC's big dance tournament in the Dudenhofen community centre.
Parade of hobby artists at the city's annual art exhibition, this time in the Georg Büchner School break hall with 60 participants
City announced the construction of three new kindergartens: in Jügesheim and Nieder-Roden (two).
Information event on the S-Bahn extension with the announcement that the decisive financing agreement at federal level has still not been finalised, while planning for the subways in Rodgau is already underway.
Timetable for community centre renovation in Nieder-Roden can no longer be met, new completion date: end of March.
Georg Büchner School's environmental campaign in the woods and meadows produced mountains of rubbish.
Steffi Sahm and Heiko Mark were crowned the new Rodgau prince and princess of TGS Jügesheim; conclusion of the town's environmental week with a two-day "environmental market" in the Weiskirchen community centre.
Rudolf Gabelmann from Hainhausen received the Federal Cross of Merit First Class for his great services to local politics, associations and the economy.
A rush of visitors from the GDR to Rodgau began, welcome money totalling DM 180 (DM 100 from the federal government, DM 40 from the district and DM 40 from the town) was also paid out to visitors from the GDR at the town hall at weekends.
The municipal council and parliament discussed options for emergency housing and the creation of more social housing; another atmospheric town centre fair in Dudenhofen.
After 20 years as CDU chairman in Weiskirchen, Otto Melzer handed over the office to Anette Paul.
Two poaching dogs cause a bloodbath among sheep in the Jügesheim district, killing eight sheep and injuring a further eight; town council meeting unanimously approves supplementary budget 89 and forms election preparation committee for the election of the first town councillor.
Water and waste charges were increased by the city council.
With the 13th Rodgau Gymnaestrada in the Dudenhofen sports hall, the TSV concluded the series of events for the 100th anniversary celebrations.
Mayor Paul Scherer presented the draft budget for 1990 to parliament.
Record volume of around 136 million marks with the focus on investments in the kindergarten sector and in environmental protection (sewage treatment plant)
At the request of the CDU, parliament paved the way for the development of the wasteland at Toom-Markt with social housing.
Record anniversaries at the TGS Jügesheim evening of honour: Robert Haller and Hermann Massoth have been members for 70 years.
Nieder-Roden's clubs were in favour of a large multi-purpose hall.
Hainhausen local council accepts the city administration's concept for slowing down traffic on the L 3405 by means of so-called tree gates and traffic islands.
The Weiskirchen volunteer fire brigade received a new and ultra-modern fire engine, the TLF 16.
The position of First Town Councillor was advertised in the newspapers, and Christmas lights were first put up in the town centre by the Weiskirchen Tissue Association.
Successful and well-attended Christmas markets in Jügesheim, Dudenhofen, Nieder-Roden and Weiskirchen.
The rush of visitors from the GDR to the Rodgau town hall and Rodgau families continued unabated after the border was opened. Already a tradition: the pre-Christmas concerts by the Weiskirchen Music Association, the Dudenhofen Music Association and the "Edelweiß" mandolin orchestra. The concert by the Nieder-Roden Music Association on Christmas Day could not take place because the community centre was unavailable due to renovation work
The city announced the 1988 culture prize winners: Rudolf Schüler, conductor from Nieder-Roden, and the amateur dramatics group of the Kolping Family Jügesheim, ceremonial presentation of certificates and prizes - DM 2,500 each - on 29 December in the town hall. The new head of the district school, Josef Lach from Nieder-Roden - formerly head of the IGS there - rejected the request for a Rodgau grammar school.
Carpet adhesives used during installation work at the Wilhelm Busch School in Jügesheim caused a stir among parents and led to the school being temporarily closed due to suspected harmfulness.
At the end of the year: the Jügesheim local council has still not made a decision on the future use of the old Jügesheim pharmacy, whether as a local history museum or a cultural café.