All of the town's community centres danced into the New Year and welcomed it with lots of colourful rockets and fireworks in the sky.
The magnificent spectacle was followed by a tragedy in the centre of Jügesheim. A few young people had been partying in front of the town hall and behaved "like vandals" (according to the police report). Sandstone slabs of the town hall were torn out, the electric candles, the town hall letterbox and the telephone box at the back of the town hall were destroyed with brute force. But that was not enough. The drunkards moved on and did not stop at the listed chapel in Eisenbahnstraße. A leaded window was smashed and torn out of its bracket.
In Weiskirchen, the fire brigade had to go out at around 1 a.m. to extinguish the fire at the town's social housing project in Bonhoefferstrasse.
Fortunately, only building materials were on fire, which were quickly extinguished.
The new year brought some changes to waste disposal for the residents of Rodgau. For example, large household appliances and refrigerators (HaKü for short) were switched to collection using the "token system".
The pilot project "Bulky waste on demand" was introduced in the Nieder-Roden district and recyclable waste was immediately collected in yellow bags or bins. There were initial difficulties with the introduction of the dual system (DS).
The yellow bags, in which recyclable waste is to be collected, were a long time coming. However, the city council was generous and took all types of bags on the collection dates for the green dot.
There was a record attendance at the CDU's New Year's reception in the Dudenhofen community centre.
Wolfgang Schäuble( the chairman of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group in the Bundestag, spoke in front of over 1,000 guests.
The Weiskirchen Sports Association kicked off its 100th anniversary with a festive gala.
Four workers from a Rogau construction company died on 12 January when they drove their van into the diesel locomotive of the Ober-Roden/Offenbach local train at the unrestricted level crossing at the Rödermark sewage treatment plant.
The fire in the pilsner parlour of the Rodgau Passage affected three shops in the row of shops (including the Offenbach Post branch).
At the end of January, the private road between the gravel works at the Nieder-Roden bathing lake and the district cross-connection was put into operation, meaning that the citizens of Nieder-Roden were no longer burdened by the heavy gravel lorries.
After a six-month vacancy, the head of the Georg Büchner School was taken over by teacher Winfried Döring.
The month of February began with a series of information events on urban railway planning.
Information evenings were organised in each district, where models of the S-Bahn subways and crossings were exhibited.
These evenings met with lively interest and there were some lively debates.
The adult education centre has once again reported record enrolments for the new semester.
The population statistics (as at the end of 1992) were now available. According to these statistics, Rodgau had grown by 650 citizens and remained the largest town in the district with 42,413 inhabitants.
The foundation stone was laid for the reconstruction of the Wilhelm Busch School, which was completely destroyed by a major fire in May last year.
At the same time, the trial of three suspected arsonists accused of the series of school fires in previous years began at the district juvenile court in Offenbach. The trial ended with juvenile sentences of 8, 1S and 20 months (taking into account pre-trial detention), which were suspended on probation. Due to the pitfalls in the chain of evidence, the major fire at the Wilhelm Busch School could not be included in the sentencing.
The Rollwald Chronicle "From Forest to Settlement" was completed by Werner Stolzenburg and was published.
The refurbishment of two Rodaubrücken, on Hörnersgraben in Nieder-Roden and on Bahnhofstraße in Weiskirchen, was completed.
The carnival events were very popular and ended with the "town hall storm" and the carnival procession through the "Giesemer" alleyways.
A 366,000-mark rescue vehicle was handed over to the firefighters in Dudenhofen.
For the homeless men who were living in the old school in Jügesheim, the city has set up containers behind the "Dotorhaus" in Dudenhofen. This will make room for the Rodgau Youth, who are to have a youth centre in these premises.
Before the local elections, the grand coalition once again set an example in the area of social housing: the municipal council invited guests to the topping-out ceremony for 23 social housing units in Dietrich-Bonhoeffer-Straße (Weiskirchen district).
By casting their vote, voters had spoken on 7 March. In Rodgau, the CDU fell just short of an absolute majority, receiving 47.1% of the vote, the SPD 31.6%, the Greens 17.1% and the FDP 4.24/0.
With the establishment of the "Sozialstation Rodgau", in Hain- hausen, Robert-Koch-Straße 1, the town of Rodgau has intensified its care services and placed the outpatient care service for the sick, elderly and families on a new organisational footing.
The Kolping Family Nieder-Roden organised a diocesan day in the Nieder-Roden community centre, which was followed by a peace march through Nieder-Roden. The reason for this major event, which was attended by guests from all over the diocese, was the 40th anniversary of the Kolping Family Nieder-Roden.
Reinhold Daus was honoured for his 30 years of conducting the "Sängerkranz Polyhymnia" choral society with a Daus song recital.
In general, 1993 was a year of anniversaries. The "Edelweiß" hiking club in Dudenhofen, for example, celebrated its 70th anniversary in a relaxed rather than an official setting. Before the end of the legislative period, six local politicians were given a farewell with full honours in a special session of parliament: Rainer Bergen (SPD) as head of the town council, Richard Resch (CDU) as town councillor, Jakob Reck (CDU), Josef Schäfer (CDU), Heinz KooP (CDU) and Willy Walter (SPD) as town councillors or local councillors.
The city council thanked and recognised the city's promising young talent at the youth awards ceremony in the SKV-Halle Hainhausen.
The best athletes, breeders and cultural groups were honoured.
The parent-child initiative 'Die kleinen Strolche' was able to move into the converted old villa at Jügesheimer Kapellchen at the beginning of April.
At the same time, Rodgau's first open play centre for children up to the age of twelve opened its doors on the ground floor of the old school in Nieder-Roden.
At the evening of honour for adults, which took place at the beginning of the month, the city awarded 25 gold medals, 80 individual winners and 12 teams received the gold, silver or bronze badges of honour. Dietmar Grimm from the Jügesheim Poultry Breeding Club was named "Breeder of the Year".
Letters of honour for many years of meritorious board work in the clubs were awarded to: Walter Manus (Sängerkranz Polyhymnia NR.), Richard Sahm and Helmut Erbert (Spvgg. Weiskirchen), Willibald Englert (TGS) and Bruno Schöbel (VdK NR) as well as Magda Breitenbach (SKV).
A major fire in a joinery in Dudenhofen caused millions in damage, but no people were injured.
The escape of the Jügesheim triple murderer, Lothar Luft, from Schwalmstadt prison in an armoured reconnaissance vehicle made headlines across Germany and was the talk of the town in Rodgau.
Journalist Gerd Morian travelled to India to find out about the good progress being made on the construction of a home for the elderly and girls in Sipcot near Madras, which is being built with the support of the Catholic parish of Weiskirchen.
The Red Cross in Dudenhofen underwent a generational change on the Board of Directors Willy Walter did not stand for re-election after 37 years in office and was appointed Honorary Chairman.
The municipal machinery fleet received a wheel loader, which was immediately used to replace sand on the 51 playgrounds. Athletes from all over Hesse took part in the 16th Easter Run (which has already become a tradition) in favourable weather conditions.
The swimming club from the twin town of Nieuwpoort once again organised its training camp in Dudenhofen, and the town twinning is full of lively exchanges.
A sudden hailstorm on Easter Monday led to a pile-up on the "Rodgau motorway", the B 45.
The 1,000th wedding (after moving into the new town hall at the end of 1988) took place at the Rodgau registry office. The couple Bernd Karg and his wife Petra, née Martine, were lucky by chance.
Young guests from the twin town of Puiseaux visited Nieder-Roden.
Following the election of the new local councillors in the individual districts (Jügesheim: Hans Spahn (SPD) and Bernd Winter (CDU); Nieder-Roden: Bernhard Kosen (CDU) and Günter Lachmund (SPD); Dudenhofen: Karlheinz Beredt (SPD) and Claudia Jäger (CDU), Hainhausen: Ewald Simon (CDU) and Gisela Schobbe (SPD); Weiskirchen: Helmut Sattler, the municipal parliament convened for its constituent meeting on 27 April. Karl Erb (CDU) was elected head of the town council.
The Johanniter District Association celebrated the topping-out ceremony at its new rescue centre in Borsigstraße (at the southern entrance to the Nieder-Roden industrial estate).
May began with rain, but the forest festival on 1 May was still well attended, including the traditional May Day celebration of the Rodgau DGB local cartel at the Nieder-Roden social centre.
Hesse's Minister of the Interior Herbert Günther was the keynote speaker at the SPD party that followed.
Start of the first of four Berlin city tours for senior citizens.
And also at the beginning of May, a colourful and well-attended kite festival at the bathing lake.
The new royal court at Schützenhof "Gamsbock" Nieder-Roden, Stefan Wolf and Annemarie Sykora.
Change at the top of Turngemeinde Weiskirchen: The long-standing managing director Otto Arndt replaced Günther Reichard, who had also been chairman of the association for many years and did not stand for re-election for health reasons.
The wrought-iron fountain in front of the Haus der Begegnung in Jügesheim, skilfully designed by Master Harbut, has been restored to its original location.
The new municipal council after the local elections in March: One more seat in the voluntary sector in addition to the three full-time officials: CDU five seats, SPD four seats and one seat for the Greens. New members of the municipal council: Rosemarie Wendel (SPD), Christa Breitenbach (CDU), Edeltraud Zintel (The Greens), Willi Seihe] (CDU) and Edgar Krausch (SPD). Re-elected: Anette Paul (CDU) and Manfred Schubert (SPD).
The magistrate is completed by the full-time members, namely Mayor Paul Scherer (CDU), First City Councillor Thomas Przibilla (SPD) and Alfred Schüler (CDU).
More than 30 exhibitors took part in the large trade show "NiRoGa" organised by the Nieder-Roden trade association in the community centre. It was already the eleventh exhibition.
A visit from France to the Heinrich Böll School in Nieder-Roden: 51 students from the College St Joseph in Rodez. The three-day programme also includes a reception in the town hall.
No longer unusual: car racing in Rodgau, but on a scale of 1:8 on the circuit of the Rodgau Racing Club.
The Dudenhofen youth fire brigade won the district competition at the Rosenhöhe in Offenbach Opening of the swimming season at the Nieder-Roden lido with an enlarged non-swimmer section.
RTC tournament weekend at the Bürgerhaus: several RTC couples move up in class.
With the academic celebration, the Weiskirchen Sports Association kicked off the series of events to mark its 100th anniversary with the highlight of a multi-day festival (over Whitsun).
Chairmen Helmut Jäger and Annemarie Jonas and their board presented a modern association with 16 departments and around 1,700 members to the public. 75 years of Musikverein Nieder-Roden honoured with an academic celebration.
Arnold Groll appointed honorary member.
The Hell-Dogs in Rodgau on your culture trip: Successful first Gutland party with hard rock and many visitors.
The youth choir of the Sängerkranz Jügesheim choral society proved to be German and Rodgau ambassadors of singing at a choir festival in Norway, and a guest choir from Taiwan was expected in Jügesheim at the beginning of June.
Another meeting of all Rodgau women's groups, this time on the subject of violence and xenophobia, already the 12th joint event.
At the end of May, the scoop of the month or even of the year 1993: Rodgau's local politicians from the municipal council and town council jointly removed the barriers on Rodgau-Ring-Straße Jügesheim/Hainhausen in a surprise move, thus opening it up to traffic. An action in defiance of the opposition from Heusenstamm, but in the interests of Hainhausen and Jügesheim residents plagued by through traffic. With this unauthorised step, which was universally acknowledged as courageous and correct, Rodgau ultimately also secured the subsidies from the state that had been jeopardised by the delayed road maintenance.
Anniversary celebrations over Whitsun not only at the Weiskirchen Sports Association (100 years) with a star performance by La Toya Jackson and at the Nieder-Roden Music Association with "Truck Stop" (75 years) as well as parades, but also at the Jügesheim Tennis Club (25 years).
The DLRG Rodgau presented its results for 1992: 196 people were trained in swimming and lifeguarding.
The AGV Sängerkranz Jügesheim choral society hosts a guest performance by a women's choir from Taiwan as a thank-you from the choir for hosting them for several days in Jügesheim on the occasion of their participation in the singing festival in Zellhausen.
A clear view over the rooftops of Nieder-Roden and Rollwald: HEAG has declared the dismantling of all overhead lines complete. The power supply is now exclusively provided by underground cables. 14 kilometres of cable were laid in the streets and another 12 kilometres for the house connections. Kurt Herdt announced the result of his musical collection campaign for the Frankfurt Children's Aid Foundation in May: 5,844 marks.
The Dudenhofen local SPD association honoured Willy "Schonny" Walter with the title of Honorary Chairman for his services to the SPD and local politics.
Result of the first traffic count in Hainhausen after the opening of Rodgau-Ring-Strasse: a sharp drop in through traffic of just under 40%.
Breeders from all over the district came to the Weiskirchen Tileintierzuchtverein's 85th anniversary celebrations at the Bürgerhaus.
23 pupils from the Georg Büchner School in Jügesheim enjoyed an eventful visit to the new partner school in Villeneuve d'Ascp near Lille.
78 pupils from Claus-von-Stauffenberg-Schule in Dudenhofen celebrated their Abitur and to mark the day on 25 June, Ignaz Bubis, Chairman of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, even came to give the speech.
The "Eghanlanda Gmoi Rodgau" celebrated its 15th anniversary with a large exhibition in the Schwesternhaus Jügesheim, the clubhouse of the association, as well as a cultural evening in the Bürgerhaus Dudenhofen. With the 11th Gassenfest, the Jügesheim trade association once again "enchanted" Jügesheim's old centre, as the press reported.
Jürgen Kaiser was confirmed as chairman of the SPD town association. Around 300 people attended the third spring concert organised by the Claus-von-Stauffenberg School in Dudenhofen, which was also attended by a choir from the Wilhelm-Busch School in Jügesheim.
The newly created Breitwiesnring in Nieder-Roden, "Nieder-Roden's most beautiful residential street", was officially opened with an improvised celebration, according to the Offenbach Post.
New and unusual in Rodgau's road network: the small solar mobile of the city administration, which is intended to set an example in terms of environmentally friendly transport. Planned for use in the city's nurse or courier service.
Good news for Rodgau at the end of June: the Rodgau-Ring road from Jügesheim to Hainhausen can remain open. The Darmstadt Administrative Court rejected the temporary injunction requested by Heusenstamm against the opening of the road.
25 years of the Protestant parish of Nieder-Roden: a parish festival with many musical highlights.
At the end of the season, TG Weiskirchen celebrated the championship in the football B class and promotion to Kreisliga A Offenbach-Ost.
Due to the changeover from 6054 (old postcode) to the new postcode (63110), the residents' registration office was closed to the public on 1 and 2 July, but otherwise the change went smoothly.
Ms Ulrike Seyfarth took a promise from rock star Stefan Remmler (which he had made on a talk show) and organised a benefit concert in aid of a children's home in Bolivia.
The first Rodgau Culture Week, which took place throughout Rodgau, offered an unprecedented programme of events and something for every taste with an open-air rock festival, Mozart evening, children's cinema, exhibitions and the "Evening of Choirs" (which united all Rodgau choirs). TGI-I inaugurated its four tennis courts next to the TGH hut with brass band music, speeches and free beer.
There was also lively participation in the Gau Hiking Day to mark the tenth anniversary of the TGM hiking department, which ended with a forest festival.
The Catholic parish of Dudenhofen celebrated the 40th anniversary of St Mary's Church with a parish festival.
There was also a reason to celebrate at the Seestraße Nieder-Roden Catholic kindergarten. "All the children in the world" celebrated its 20th birthday with it.
Tobias Rausch from Jügesheim received the City of Rodgau's Cultural Promotion Prize, which was awarded for the first time, at a dignified ceremony in the town hall.
As in previous years, a water emergency was declared in Rodgau and all citizens were urged to use water sparingly.
Retired forestry officer Herbert Klee (68), who worked as a district forester in Dudenhofen for over 25 years and was known as a nature and animal lover far beyond the town's borders, passed away unexpectedly on 16 July.
At the European firefighting competitions in Berlin, the young firefighters achieved a respectable ninth place.
Karl Massoth, Heinrich Massoth, Egon Grimm and Johann Jäger were presented with a letter of honour from the State of Hesse by District Administrator Josef Lach.
The four honourees have been on the board of their association, which celebrated its 100th anniversary this year, for around four decades.
The month of August began with a short but violent thunderstorm. At St Nicholas Church in Jügesheim, a chestnut tree was uprooted and fell onto the church roof, but the churchgoers escaped unscathed.
There was a peaceful demonstration in Weiskirchen, at which neither the motorway nor the roundabout were blocked, after the news came from Wiesbaden that the funding for the expansion of the A 3 / 13 45 junction (also known as the "snake's nest") had been cancelled due to the austerity measures in Bonn.
The 5 trips for senior citizens, a combined coach and boat trip, were once again fully booked.
In mid-August, the Weiskirch Small Animal Breeding Club celebrated the official opening of its new breeding facility in the immediate neighbourhood of the German Shepherd Dog Club.
The forest festival season in Dudenhofen ended with the 25th "Keeskuchenfest" organised by the Männerchor 1842 e.V. and the Frauenchor 1976 e.V. at the Gänsbrüh.
The Suzuki Orchestra from Japan played with its young performers (aged four to 15) in the Dudenhofen community centre.
They were guests of the Freie Musikschule Rodgau e.V., bringing the holiday month of August to a musical close.
Kerb M Jügesheim ("Giesem") again in the town centre at the town hall and with a Kerb procession from the "Backes" to the town hall, where the Kerb tree was also erected at the Haus der Begegnung.
The Rodgauer Lauftreff e.V. celebrated its 10th birthday: total mileage of all participants more than 28 laps around the equator.
At the start of the new school year, around 500 first-graders arrived at the six primary schools in Rodgau.
A historic date more Thursday, 9 September, inauguration of the wastewater treatment plant in Reiskirchen, which was extended at a cost of almost 20 million marks. Hesse's Minister Jordan from Wiesbaden also attended the inauguration. Irony aside: he arrived late, having got stuck in the traffic jam outside Weiskirchen. And it was because of this traffic problem and to demand the speedy expansion of the A 3 B 45 junction in Weiskirchen that a delegation from Rodgau, headed by Mayor Scherer, had visited Bonn this very month.
90 years of the volunteer fire brigade in Jügesheim: a popular celebration around the fire station. The annual 24-hour lind organised by the "Gemeinsam mit Behinderten" association at the Dudenhofen sports centre with 47 teams was interrupted for several hours at night for the first time due to rain.
Nevertheless, the winning team from the twin town of Nieuwpoort completed 765 laps. The proceeds reached a new record of 155,451) marks. The youngest participant in a wheelchair was Karsten Lohse from Jügesheim, who spontaneously joined in on the opening day and completed 60 laps - 24 kilometres.
At the end of the '93 bathing season at the lido, Mayor Paul Scherer handed over the boat, which was no longer needed, to the rescue service of the Belgian twin town of Nieuwpoort, which intends to use it for patrols on the beach - Belgian canal coast - of the Seehade.
The Jügesheim local history researchers received a district grant of 5,000 marks to further finance their museum of local history in the former nurses' house.
Heinz Koop, long-time municipal councillor and local chairman (DWD and later CDU) took his leave of local politics.
Construction work has begun on the remodelling of Turmstrasse in Nieder-Roden, the first major step towards beautifying the town following the plans developed in the previous year. Cost: 370,00 marks.
Opening of a new youth centre in the "Alte Schule" in Jügesheim.
At the water tower festival in 1993, the restored entrance door was unveiled with trumpets and drums by the "Friends of the Water Tower" association.
There was once again a huge crowd at the town's annual children's festival in the Roßbach-Anlage in Jügesheim. More than 1,000 children were estimated.
After extensive extension work, the extended Bodelschwingh School Weiskirchen - a school for the practically educated - was officially reopened on Saturday, 25 September. The school has been in existence for 20 years. Josef Schäfer (CDU) and his wife Bärbel (long-standing chairwoman of the Hainburg partnership group), two deserving Nieder-Röder residents, retired from the local political stage.
Albert Gröger became the new chairman of the Nieder-Roden music association.
The new Johanniter-Unfall-Hilfe building at the southern end of Nieder-Roden was inaugurated with a large turnout of representatives from the town and district (construction costs 2.8 million marks).
With the resolution to approve the "Feldstrasse" development plan, the town council set the course for the construction of a retirement, residential and nursing home for 120 senior citizens in Dudenhofen.
Despite the turmoil of war in the former Yugoslavia, representatives of the partner club from Donja Stubica (Croatia) visited TG Weiskirchen.
The city council gave the chairman of the parliament, Stanko Repar, the opportunity to address the city council. Donja Stubica's mayor Aloijz Mlinaric was also present. They expressed their thanks for the humanitarian support received from Rodgau to date.
Reinhold Daus conducted the choir of the Sängervereinigung Sängerkranz Polyhymnia Nieder-Roden for 30 years, and almost to the day after this long and successful career, he handed over the baton to his successor Gottfried Kämen, naturally with a heartfelt thank you from the association.
Gerhard Lämmlein explained his extensive collection of prehistoric fossils in several events at the Jügesheim local history museum in the Schwesternhaus.
Another so-called small anniversary: 15 years of the Rodgauer Tanzsportclub with your conclusion: sporting success without worries about new blood. As shown at the ball in the Dudenhofen community centre.
25 years of women, or rather "ladies", in the male choral society "Germania" Dudenhofen, another anniversary 93.
Start of a new chamber music series "Ton-Art" with a well-attended concert evening in the community centre foyer in Weiskirchen.
After 17 years, the literature circle of the Protestant church in Nieder-Roden ended its series of events with Helmut Schluroff.
Amazing: a gymnastics anniversary at a football club, SV Jügesheim. The Dannen gymnastics department of this club has been active for 25 years.
The city's 6th Environment Week offered five days of information and education about environmental problems.
Shooting couple at the TG Weiskirchen "Auerhahn": Albert and Gabi Ricken.
A special honour for Weiskirchen's DRK Chairman Heinz Spahn: badge of honour for the 400th "Immediate measures at the scene of an accident" course.
An unusual reading took place in the old Spritzenhaus Weiskirchen. Rolf Sieber read from his novel "Heiter Skelter", which is set in southern buses - including Rodgau - in 1970.
The traditional Itochus festival of the Catholic parish of Hainhausen also marked an anniversary: The church was consecrated 100 years ago.
TG Nieder-Roden honoured its oldest member at the Oktoberfest in the Bürgerhaus. Michael Wade, honoured his 75-year membership of the club.
The young people were pleased with the new youth rooms in the Christian-Zang-Haus in Weiskirchen, for which the head of the village, Helmut Sattler, had provisionally made these rooms available through his initiative.
October ends with a successful community campaign in favour of nesting birds.
The former substation building in Nordendstraße in Nieder-Roden was given to the Nieder-Roden Nature Conservation Association by HEAG and the town of Rodgau to create roosts for bats.
One result of the increased school social work by the town of Rodgau was noted: violence in the schoolyard has decreased noticeably, as one press headline stated.
And finally, German champions from Dudenhofen, namely the siblings Stephanie (10) and Melanie (12) Dubberstein in the unicycle pair freestyle "Ertyle", eight-year-old Svenja came fourth - in her age group - in the unicycle 60m sprint.
The month of November got off to a "hot" start with a well-attended youth disco organised by the Junge Union in the Weiskirchen community centre and another anniversary: the 10th Hesse Evening of the Dudenhofen SPD in the community centre with SPD national executive Günter Verbeugen as the keynote speaker.
A record-breaking 22 "Witches & Wizards" clubs took part in the Nieder-Roden community centre at the beginning of November. The Dudenhofen Protestant church choir celebrated its 90th anniversary at the Reformation service. Gerhart Hartmann, who had been chairman for 30 years, was made honorary chairman.
SKV Hainhausen honoured Friedrich Becker for 70 years of membership at the head of a whole series of long-standing members.
The new youth centre in Jügesheim presented itself to the public with an "open day" in the old school, praised by the taxpayers' association for the city of Rodgau's economical administration and, above all, its low personnel costs and minimal material expenses.
Hans Spahn, active at a local political level (local chairman) and in club life (25 years on the board of the AGV Sängerkranz), received the State Certificate of Honour, which District Administrator Josef Lach presented to the Social Democrats.
At TGM Jügesheim's annual Victory and Honours Evening in the sports hall, two veterans who have been members of the club for 75 years were at the forefront of those honoured: Adam Roßbach and Adam Schwab.
A good 300 people took part in a demonstration through Rodgau to the Catholic church in Weiskirchen to protest against right-wing extremism, and the Protestant youth deanery in Rodgau commemorated this Nazi prison camp with an exhibition entitled "Camp Rollwald" in the Nieder-Roden Protestant community centre.
"Ironman" Steffen Harzig from Hainhausen came 30th in the triathlon in Hawaii with a time of 8 hours, 50 minutes and 58 seconds. In his age group 30/35, this meant he was runner-up in the world championship.
TG Hainhausen celebrated the 70th anniversary of its handball department with a sportsmen's ball in the clubhouse.
Break-in at the post office in Hainhausen: the burglars drove up with a pallet truck, loaded the 20-centimetre safe and escaped undetected. 30 per cent of the 3,239 eligible voters took part in the first election for the Foreigners' Advisory Council in Rodgau. The result: International List 6 seats, Interessengemeinschaft ausländischer Mitbürger five seats, Allianz zum Wohltun der Menschheit two seats and Demokratische Liste für Solidarität two seats, totalling 15 seats.
In its 70th anniversary year, the Nieder-Roden Poultry Breeding Association achieved a super result at the local show: for the first time, the highest mark of "Excellent".
Dr Alfred Dregger, Honorary Chairman of the CDU parliamentary group in the Bundestag, spoke to over 700 visitors at the traditional "Sauessen" (pig dinner) organised by the CDU Dudenhofen in the Bürgerhaus.
The new TGS royal couple was presented: Steffi Pfeiffer from Nieder-Roden and Holger Follmann from Weiskirchen.
Conclusion of a series of talks with state politicians at the Stauffenberg School in Dudenhofen with deputy parliamentary group leader Matthias Kurth (SPD).
Hermann Bonifer from Jügesheim presented his dialect book "Giesemer Platt - ein kernig derber Dialekt im Kreis Offenbach", a reference work with over 3,500 keywords.
As part of the "Choirs of our Stach" series, there was a big concert evening in the Nieder-Roden community centre by the Germania Dudenhofen choral society, :Sonntagverein Nieder-Roden and the Catholic church choir Cäcilia Nieder-Roden with orchestra and soloists.
The Post Office's plan to build one of the large freight centres in the Nieder-Roden industrial estate triggered discussions - with the prospect of jobs for Rodgau, but also even more traffic. The decision on the part of the city should be made in December.
At the annual art and hobby exhibition in the Nieder-Roden community centre, 69 citizens showed samples of their artistic creations.
The Dudenhofen Music Association kicked off the series of concerts in the run-up to Christmas with a big concert in the Dudenhofen community centre.
There was a rift between the Green Party councillor Edeltraus Zintel and her party, but she will remain a member of the municipal council as an independent.
A day of remembrance, not so much an anniversary: 50 years ago, bombs caused extensive damage to Weiskirchen and the church of St. Peter was destroyed on 26 November 1943 at 2.30 am.
On the first Sunday in Advent: Another well-attended Advent stroll organised by the trade association in Jügesheim. In Weiskirchen, the western section of Lortzingstrasse was handed over as completed with a small celebration.
And as every year on the eve of the 1st Advent, the Musikverein Weiskirchen and its orchestra proved their high level of performance under conductor Dietmar Schrod.
The topping-out ceremony for the new building of the Wilhelm Busch School, which burnt down last year after arson, at the beginning of December marked the first milestone in the reconstruction of this primary school in Jügesheim.
In Weiskirchen, the 23 council flats in the town's new building on Mollischgraben were occupied well before Christmas. The total construction costs totalled 4.7 million marks, with the town receiving 3.3 million marks in subsidies.
A delegation of Rodgau schoolchildren presented 1,300 signatures against Nazi graffiti to Mayor Scherer, who promised to support the goal of having graffiti removed. Christmas market organised by the Weiskirchen trade association with a good attendance and Heinz Schenk as star TV guest.
One of the concert highlights in December was not only the anniversary concert of the Madolinenorchester of the "Edelweiß" hiking club in the community centre, but also a charity concert on the initiative of Kurt Herdt from Nieder-Roden with the participation of the Nieder-Roden music club and the Nieder-Roden Sunday club in aid of the Children's Aid Foundation, which raised 14,000 marks.
Before Christmas, the city council finalised the budget for 1994, which has a total volume of 135 million marks.
The Weiskirchen gymnastics community also completed the renovation of the small Jahnhalle in good time for its Christmas party, which was carried out with a great deal of personal effort from dedicated members.
The renovated "old pharmacy" of the town in Jügesheim was also inaugurated, in which three rooms will be used by the administration in future (adult education centre, women's representative), while the former sales room with the historical furniture will be preserved as the actual "old pharmacy" as a small museum.
The AGV Volkschor Dudenhofen honoured Philip Mahr for 70 years of membership at its family celebration.
MGV Germania Dudenhofen also honoured Kurt Fleischfresser for 70 years of membership.
As in previous years, the city once again invited its elderly citizens to the senior citizens' Christmas parties.
Hesse's Transport Minister Ernst Welteke came in person to Rodgau Town Hall to sign the planning approval decision for the expansion of the A 3 / B 45 junction in Weiskirchen.
Despite Christmas time: Unknown persons caused a series of destructions in the Dudenhofen allotment garden area.
