At the turn of the year, there was a great atmosphere at the New Year's Eve balls in Rodgau's halls, traditionally in the Dudenhofen community centre (men's choir/women's choir), in the Weiskirchen community centre (local history and heritage association), and for the first time in 20 years at the TGS Jügesheim and - especially for the youth - at TSV Dudenhofen.
On New Year's Eve, there was a major fire in a block of flats in the Hainhausen district, causing an estimated three quarters of a million marks worth of damage. There were no injuries and the residents escaped with a scare.
At the turn of the year, with the help of haulage company Thomas Krammberger, Rodgau residents brought a lorry load of donated goods to Croatia, which had been collected by the Kolping family in Jügesheim, Caritas and the Nieder-Roden Workers' Welfare Association.
EVO Offenbach cited a short circuit in an underground cable on Alter Weg as the reason for the blackout, which brought the power supply to a standstill in parts of Rodgau. Many of the affected citizens (around 15,000) had to wait up to an hour and a half before they were supplied with electricity again.
The population statistics for 1993 are already available in mid-January. According to these statistics, the population of the town of Rodgau stagnated for the first time in its history at 42,453, but Rodgau remained the largest town in the Offenbach district.
A serious accident occurred at the new Jügesheim industrial estate in mid-January. Three construction workers were fatally injured and a fourth was seriously injured after the false ceilings were to be installed in the steel frame of a hall shell and collapsed in the process.
At the CDU Dudenhofen New Year's reception in the community centre, which has already become a tradition and a social event, the honorary chairman of the Hessian Christian Democrats, Walter Wallmann, gave the New Year's address. For the first time, representatives from Croatia, Austria, Brazil, Venezuela and South Africa were among the guests. In a ceremony organised by the Jügesheim fire brigade, Helmut Schwab was appointed Honorary President after 40 years of active service.
The volunteer fire brigade in Dudenhofen, which celebrated its 100th birthday this year, held an open day. The occasion was the inauguration of the extended fire station, which cost almost 1.8 million marks. New fire chief in Jügesheim Gerhard Simon replaces Ralph Reblin.
Change also at the Nieder-Roden fire brigade: Egon Weiland hands over the leadership of the brigade to Roland Ehresmann after 35 years in charge of the brigade.
Ground-breaking ceremony for the extension of the building yard, which will have an administrative wing with a caretaker's flat (total costs DM 700,000). Richard Bonn is confirmed as Weiskirchen's fire chief.
The turn of the month is marked by many carnival events, which are met with thunderous applause for their wit and humour, and on Shrove Tuesday 45 groups and floats once again parade through "Giesem's alleyways".
Just in time for the carnival season, the municipal council approves a proposal by the Junge Union to run a "carnival bus", which will then travel to the most important venues in Rodgau from Carnival Friday until the early hours of Ash Wednesday.
The call-and-collect taxi service (AST) is also starting its trial run at the beginning of the month, which is to extend over the next five months. The AST will initially operate at weekends (Friday to Sunday) in the evening from 7 p.m. to midnight within the city districts of Rodgau.
Evidence of the past is discovered when the old sisters' house in Nieder-Roden is torn down. A signature of the carpenters and the then parish priest, dated 7 May 1898, was found on a floorboard. This and even some of the old stones were collected and integrated into the new Catholic community centre, as efforts to preserve the outer walls of the building had been unsuccessful.
In the middle of the month, the Moscow State Circus with the world-famous clown Oleg Popov will be making a guest appearance at the Nieder-Roden fairground, before being welcomed by Mayor Paul Scherer in the town hall,
Chancellery Minister Friedrich Bohl speaks at the CDU's traditional herring dinner in the packed community centre in Dudenhofen and Adelheid Tröscher makes a guest appearance at the "Political Ash Wednesday" of the Jügesheim SPD.
Record numbers at VHS Rodgau: The spring semester begins with more than 1400 participants.
The town council approves the establishment of a postal freight centre in the Nieder-Roden industrial estate, which is expected to create over 500 jobs. Marie and Kurt Fleischfresser in Dudenhofen celebrate their diamond wedding anniversary.
Following the example of the Landesjungendorchester, talented young musicians from Rodgau's music clubs start their first rehearsal together.
Two Rodgau schools, Freiherr-von-Stein-Schule (Gudrun Behring) and Georg-Büchner-Schule (Franz Firner) have had vice-principals again since the beginning of the month, meaning that the school management teams have finally been complete for years.
The town of Rodgau receives the full subsidy of 3.94 million marks from the state of Hesse for the further construction of the Rodgau ring road (from Jügesheim to Hainhausen). However, the continuation of construction up to the Obertshausen bypass is still the subject of controversial debate. The discussions about the 5-Bahn and subways are also a recurring theme in the press. The S-Bahn citizens' initiative collected 2,000 signatures against the construction of S-Bahn subways and presented them to the city councillor Schüler.
A development plan for the redevelopment of the core area of Jügesheim (j 35) will now be submitted to your parliament for approval.
Gold, silver and bronze are awarded to successful sportsmen and women, breeders and cultural figures at the town's awards ceremonies.
In addition, long-serving club officials Helmut Rühl, Heinz Spahn, Willi Rücker, Alwin Rink, Günter Dries and Hans Grün are awarded the Rodgau City Council's Certificate of Honour.
The women's movement was unmistakable in Rodgau on 8 March, International Women's Day. With pot lids and rattles, around two dozen women protested against everyday discrimination. The highlight of this action is the short-lived naming of the square in front of the town hall "Hedwig-Dohm-Platz". The Georg Büchner School and the Rodgau Free Music School are joining forces with immediate effect. The independent music school is making its teaching staff and instruments available for a school choir and can use the music rooms of the Georg Büchner School for this purpose, as it does not have its own music school building and individual lessons are only possible to a limited extent in the office on Rathenaustraße.
Mrs Linz Malsy, the oldest citizen of Rodgau (known as "Grandma Lina"), celebrates her 100th birthday on 13 March.
The Dudenhofen volunteer fire brigade (incidentally the oldest fire brigade in Rodgau) also rings in its 100th birthday with an academic celebration.
The town of Rodgau is the first local authority in the Offenbach district to take part in the "Help to Work" project. The aim is to take a step towards integrating the long-term unemployed. The higher nature conservation authority and the district president of Darmstadt reject the application by the town of Rodgau to release part of the Rodau floodplain from landscape protection in order to designate new allotment gardens. Reason: The Rodauaue is unique in the district.
The youth club in the Weiskirchen social centre is now receiving professional educational support after it was opened last year without any red tape by local head Helmut Sattler.
A Rodgau emergency vehicle that was hijacked from the Jügesheim fire station and used for further criminal offences is found again near Giessen. Michael Jäger, from Nieder-Roden, presents his book "Rodgau 1945". In it, he describes the Rodgau communities in the post-war period, between the end of the war and the new democratic beginning.
The inauguration of the new Turmstrasse in Nieder-Roden is another look back at a chequered history. It has been transformed into a traffic-calmed zone and is a step towards redesigning the old town centre.
Ralf Ackermann from Jügesheim, district fire inspector of the Offenbach district, is elected as the new chairman of the Hesse State Fire Brigade Association. He is therefore the representative of 2620 volunteer, 77 works and six professional fire brigades and represents the interests of 120,000 active firefighters.
Elisabeth and Arthur Haller celebrate their iron wedding anniversary in Jügesheim.
For the past theatre season '93/94, the city reports a record number of 1118 subscribers.
Despite considerable rainfall and cool outside temperatures, more runners (650) and cyclists (700) started the spring than in previous years at the TGM Jügesheim Easter run.
The DLRG receives a visit from the Belgian twin town of Nieuwpoort. The training camp at the "Gänsbrüh" is already a firm fixture in the diary of the young lifeguards from the Belgian twinning association.
Rodgau's playgrounds are being overhauled for the "new" season by workers from the municipal building yard, with 1400 tonnes of sand being replaced on 51 playgrounds.
The parent-child initiative at the "Kleine Strolchen" is also active and sets up a sand construction site for the children.
The swan moth, which is ravaging the forests of Hesse and is being fought by helicopter, has so far spared the forests of Rodgau.
Author and educator Michael Jäger from Nieder-Roden presents Mayor Scherer with ten copies of his book "Rodgau 1945" for the municipal libraries. This book describes politics and everyday life between the Second World War, the occupation and the new democratic beginning and is available in bookshops. Moving images from four decades - from the construction of the first residential buildings to the kindergarten anniversary in 1983 and the addition of a new storey to the bell tower - can be seen on the film evening about "Rollwald" by Rudi Keller.
There has been a change in the leadership of the SPD parliamentary group. Jürgen Kaiser is now the new parliamentary group chairman. He takes over this office from Karl-Heinz Schönberg, who is not re-elected after four years.
Old Dudenhöfer documents can now be found again. The "historical" part of the town archive from the time before the municipal reform in 1977 is now complete.
The advice centre for municipal archives at the Hessischer Landkreistag took on this task. A "finding book" is the key to the archive, it is a kind of keyword register without which it is almost impossible to find a particular document again.
A self-help group for Parkinson's patients, the first in the Offenbach district, starts with 100 members. The dispute over the Rodgau ring road is settled, the town of Heusenstamm gives in and withdraws its complaint at the Administrative Court in Kassel.
The new mayor of the Dutch twin town of Udenhout declares the partnership officially terminated, which is regretted by the town and the local council, who have been committed to the partnership since 1973. The Weiskirch clubs declare that they want to continue to maintain contact with the clubs and citizens of Udenhout.
At their meeting in April, the Rodgau fire brigades took stock: 518 deployments in 1993. 219 people, including 10 women, are currently on duty in the 5 district fire brigades.
20th anniversary of the First Rodgau Skat Club in Dudenhofen. Four founding members are honoured: Willy Walter (chairman), August Muh] (game master), Herbert Grimm and Klaus Mahr.
The roof renovation of the Dudenhofen community centre is completed (DM 600,000). New self-help group in Rodgau for Parkinson's sufferers.
The Rodgau Racing Club with "Rodgaudrom" for model cars in Dudenhofen is organising the B-45 round of the German Championship for the first time.
The clubs once again provide a colourful start to May at the Waldfest. The DGB May Day celebration in Nieder-Roden attracts only a small audience, while the Bürgerhaus Nieder-Roden is transformed into a witches' cauldron for the Walpurgis Night of the Rodgau Witches & Wizards and the kite festival at the Nieder-Roden bathing lake.
The Association of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (UMW) is setting up a district office in the Hainhausen district of Hesse-South. The task of the politically neutral association is to ensure the success of small and medium-sized companies through self-help and thus to preserve jobs.
The Dudenhofen Workers' Choral Society (AGV) celebrates the 25th anniversary of its conductor Walter Scholz with a festive choir concert. The two have been linked since 1969.
The dreaded gypsy moth has now reached Rodgau. A gypsy moth clutch has been discovered in Dudenhofen, but it is still thought to be an isolated case, as no other clutches have been found during an inspection.
Members of the Jügesheim rabbit and poultry breeding clubs are rolling up their sleeves and working together to create their own breeding site, either by investing hours of labour or financial resources. The town of Rodgau, the district of Offenbach and the state of Hesse are covering half of the costs.
The development measures in the J28 industrial estate have been completed. Construction can begin immediately. Companies with crisis-proof jobs are still being sought.
Friday 13 May is considered a lucky day, as it marks the premiere of the weekly market on Puiseauxplatz in Nieder-Roden. The 20th anniversary with the twin towns of Puiseaux and Hainburg is celebrated with a ceremony, street party and a festive ball. Artists from the twinned towns showcase the diversity of their work in the Nieder-Roden community centre and a memorial stone is unveiled on Puiseauxplatz.
There is another anniversary to celebrate in the Nieder-Roden district: the Heinrich Böll School is celebrating its 20th anniversary. District Administrator Josef Lach is the keynote speaker, as he started the school himself as its headmaster.
In the town council meeting, the grand coalition of CDU and SPD votes against the votes of the Greens/Alliance 90 in favour of the planning approval procedure for the removal of level crossings by subways in the planned S-ballast expansion of the Rodgau line. A delegation from Rodgau, headed by Mayor Scherer, visits the Croatian town of Donja Stubica together with representatives of TG Weiskirchen in order to expand contacts and examine support projects.
50 French pupils visit Nieder-Roden as part of a school partnership between the Collee St Joseph in Rodez and the Heinrich Böll School. The programme also includes a reception in the town hall.
Unusual theatre premiere at the Bürgerhaus Dudenhofen: Former members of the Protestant amateur drama group Dudenhofen perform the Dürrenmatt play "Romalus", as they last did 25 years ago.
The 1994 Culture Week starts with a Glenn Miller concert in the Nieder-Roden community centre and cabaret by the "En haufe Leut" group from the TGS Jügesheim in the town hall, as well as the Nieder-Roden amateur dramatics group with the play "Hey, Oldie!".
The Dudenhofen volunteer fire brigade celebrates its 100th anniversary with a two-day festival in sunny weather with a large audience, including demonstrations, a parade and a colourful programme in front of the fire station with guests from the twin town of Nieuwpoort.
The youth fire brigade from Nieder-Roden wins the district championship, third place for Weiskirchen and 4th for Jügesheim.
Major search operation for missing 33-year-old woman from Hainhausen (also with helicopter): Missing person run over by train between Babenhausen and Sickenhofen.
At the beginning of the month, the CDU declares the grand coalition with the SPD to be over due to the SPD's objection to the coalition agreement, which in turn is not seen as such by the SPD: "CDU has clung to formalities".
The call-and-collect taxi (AST) will continue to operate at half-hourly intervals on weekend evenings until the end of the year.
Young gymnastics festival winner in Hamburg from Jügesheim: Diana Eger from TGM (13) won the pentathlon in her age group.
Start in the summer holidays: Remodelling of the Georg Büchner School in Jügesheim with five new classrooms (DM 350,000) and extension of the Weiskirchen community centre (restaurant, stage, roof, heating).
Youth group from Aizkraukle (Latvia) performs folklore from their homeland at the "Gänsbrüh" forest leisure centre in Dudenhofen at the invitation of the "Germania" choral society.
RSC Rodgau's "Around the Otzberg" cycle tour attracts around 500 participants.
Start of the town's holiday games in Nieder-Roden and Jügesheim with 270 children.
Heavy downpours in the district, including in Rodgau, lead to the flooding of numerous cellars; the fire brigade had to be called out over 40 times to pump out the water.
End of the dispute over the opening of the Rodgau-Ring road (to Hainhausen): The town of Heusenstamm has withdrawn its lawsuit against Rodgau. Just over a year earlier, Rodgau had opened the road (since completed) to traffic without authorisation, thus providing noticeable relief for the Hainhausen thoroughfare.
A welcome change during the holiday season: guest performance by the "Pink Band" from the Belgian twin town of Nieuwpoort with lively swing and three performances in Dudenhofen. 30 young people from the French twin town of Puiseaux visit Nieder-Roden.
Not only the Catholic parish of Nieder-Roden is horrified by the desecration of the church (butts on the altar, holy water font soiled, graffiti - some with Nazi slogans). Perpetrators unknown.
June begins with a concert in the courtyard of the Spritzenhaus, which is still being converted into the Weiskirchen Museum of Local History, featuring the vocal ensemble "Vox Humana" and the Weiskirchen Catholic Youth Choir. The latter and the cultural initiative "Focus" and the Jügesheim television presenter Klaus Möller are honoured with the 1993 Culture Prize in the town hall on the following Friday. In general, the numerous events during the second Rodgau Culture Week characterise the events at the beginning of June with almost 50 events.
Greta and Albert Busch celebrate a rare diamond wedding anniversary in Weiskirchen.
A rather sad record figure for the month of June for Rodgau: the unemployment rate for Rodgau and Rödermark rose by 38% compared to the previous year, although at 6% the overall unemployment rate is still pleasingly low compared to the Offenbach district as a whole at 7.7%.
After five weeks of trialling, the new weekly market on Friday mornings on Puiseaux Square is now well established.
Two years after the arson attack in which the Wilhelm Busch School in Jügesheim was completely destroyed, the new building (DM 6.2 million) is completed. Classes start on 22 June.
The Minister of Education and Cultural Affairs approves the Rodgau school development plan, which provides for a change: The Geschwister Scholl School in Hainhausen becomes a co-operative comprehensive school and is expanded to include a grammar school branch. The special school at the Freiherr-vom-Stein-Schule in Dudenhofen is closed.
New rules for citizens' question time in the local councils: In future for half an hour before the meeting and no longer, as previously, after the agenda.
Dudenhofen and Nieder-Roden local councils agree: Nieder-Roden lido can be used as an "open-air musical arena" twice a year.
A choir celebrates its resurrection: Waldemar Tobers - "Da Capo", a youth choir that last performed in 1977.
New at the head of the Rodgau SPD city association: Rosemarie Wendel as successor to Jürgen Kaiser, who had headed the Rodgau Social Democrats for four years.
Result of the European elections in Rodgau: CDU 42.5% (+3.2), SPD 29.5% (-6.9), Greens 13.5% (+3/), Rep. 4.2% (-2.2), FDP 4.0% (-0.3).
Exhibition on women's resistance to Hitler at the Claus-von-Staufenberg School in Dudenhofen.
The 2nd Rodgau Culture Week in June attracted around 3,500 visitors. But it was not all satisfaction: despite the high quality of some events, they were not as popular as expected.
TGM Jügesheim opens new athletics facility, which was built with total funds of 135,000 DM and 700 hours of voluntary labour.
First annual record at the Nieder-Roden bathing lake: 7,500 visitors in one day.
Giesemer Gassenfest on this Sunday, 19 June, was a huge success with thousands of visitors.
60th anniversary of the Weiskirchen Red Cross: Gabriele Mahr and Birgit Siewert honoured for their active commitment.
Unusual thanks from a school: On moving-in day, the Wilhelm-Busch School thanks school bus driver Mathias Theis, who provided transport to the alternative school (von Stauffenberg-Schule in Dudenhofen) for two years.
Questions of the month for June: Which administrative departments will move into the renovated old teacher's house in Jügesheim, public utilities or town hall administration?
Will there be delays due to the partially unplanned second track of the planned S-Bahn Rodgau?
Will the city buy a commercial site offered to it in Jügesheim as a new domicile for the municipal utilities?
Will the municipal social centre be merged with Johanniter-Unfallhilfe?
Back from a 1,000-day tour around the world by bike: Joachim Grimm from Jügesheim, who "experienced" four continents.
At the end of the month: Start of construction work on the redesign of Mainzer Straße with connection to Rodgau-Ring-Straße and noise barrier.
Abitur certificates for 106 pupils at Claus-von-Stauffenberg-Schule.
Fatal accident at the bathing lake: a 25-year-old non-swimmer drowned in the deep part of the lake.
The issue of the purchase of land for the municipal utilities in the Jügesheim industrial estate becomes a "crucial test" for the grand coalition of CDU and SPD. CDU rejects purchase and emergency meeting and suspends coalition with SPD until further notice.
Change of board at the Rodgau/Rödermark Lions Club: Kurt Gottfried Hauser succeeds Horst Grimm.
Unusual for Weiskirchen: For the first time in several hundred years, the spiritual and secular parts of the Kerb are celebrated on separate dates. One week before the actual Kerb date, on the first weekend in August, the parish organises its procession through Weiskirchen so that it does not have to coincide with the carnival at the church. At the beginning of August, Jügesheim resident Stefanie Heberer and her children Alexander and Robin welcome the 200,000 bathing lake visitors of the 1994 season, in this record-breaking summer with temperatures of up to 35 degrees.
Start of the second round of municipal holiday games with 246 children, whose programme includes the construction of a hut village ("Western town").
The shell of the new postal freight centre in the Nieder-Roden industrial estate is completed. The 100 million euro project is due to go into operation in summer 1995 and will provide around 650 new jobs.
A big anniversary celebration in the holiday month of August: the municipal kindergarten Dudenhofen 1, on Dr.-Weinholz-Straße, celebrates its 90th anniversary with over 300 children and many other guests. The oldest guest of honour was Katharina Schüler (93) from Nieder-Roden, who, as Katharina Klein, was one of the first children to attend the town's oldest kindergarten.
An uproar over the premature actions of the Weiskirchen sports association, which had excavated earth poured onto a site in the Ostgemarkung area, even though no permits had been granted for the project to build a nature and leisure park there.
Start of the 7th Environment Week of the town of Rodgau with exhibitions, eco-market and lectures.
The surprise of the month for many: The spectacular murder case of sports and cinema star O.J. Simpson in Los Angeles has also affected Rodgau, because the mother of the murdered Nicole, Judith Brown, née Baur, was from the Rollwald district, from where she moved to the USA with her family in the 1970s.
End of the holiday month with the city's five traditional senior citizens' day trips with over 2,000 participants on the ship "Frankonia" on the Main between Mainz and Höchst.
The "Freundeskreis Giesemer Kerb" is founded at the Jügesheimer Kerb.
A resignation from the Green Party in the city council: Günther Rohr resigns his seat. Eleonore Eigner replaces him in the city parliament.
An unusual success for the inland Rodgau region. youth sailors from Nieder-Roden, who start for Hungen. Ingo Brune became Hesse champion of the sailors in the "Europe" class, while his brother Jochen Brune came fourth.
On Monday, 5 September, the new day nursery on Alter Weg in Jügesheim opens for business. It is the town's 10th nursery, offering space for four groups and an after-school care centre (up to 140 children). It cost 4.3 million marks. The official opening in the presence of the Hessian Prime Minister Hans Eichel takes place on 19 September.
The Dudenhofen trade association is organising its 6th trade show "Infa" in the 10th year of its existence in and around the community centre with 50 exhibitors.
On Saturday, 3 September, the Catholic parish of Nieder-Roden, headed by Pastor Helmut Grittner, will lay the foundation stone for the construction of the new community centre on Schulstrasse, which, according to the chairman of the parish council, Walter Stolz, will cost around 6 million marks.
High-ranking visitor to the Schoenstatt Centre in Weiskirchen: Bishop Karl Lehmann comes to the family celebration.
Horst Gaubatz, footballer and carnival organiser at TGM Jügesheim, dies unexpectedly at the age of just 53. He headed the TGM's old men's section for 17 years and led the TGM carnival to great prosperity.
Bank robbery in Jügesheim. Perpetrator with a pistol steals 10,000 marks and escapes despite a major police operation.
Premiere in Nieder-Roden for the Kerb: For the first time, the historic Turin of the Catholic Church of St Matthias shines in bright light. The Nieder-Roden trade association organised this installation.
The traditional 24-hour run organised by the "Gemeinsam mit Behinderten" association at the Dudenhofen sports centre raises a record 165,000 marks. This 13th run is won by the guest team from the twin town of Nieuwpoort. A total of 48 teams take part.
The "Women meet women" association celebrates its 10th anniversary. The Freie Musikschule Rodgau e.V. also turns 10 in September and opens the series of events with a district music school concert in the Weiskirchen community centre.
In Dudenhofen, construction work begins on the renovation of the sewer in Nieder-Räder Straße, which will last until the end of 1995.
Bernhard and Margarete Gotta from Nieder-Roden celebrate their diamond wedding anniversary.
A stroke of luck for the residents of the so-called terrace house on Seestraße in Nieder-Roden. A man committed suicide in the stairwell by dousing himself with a fire accelerant and setting himself alight. The fire brigade was unable to save the 48-year-old man, but was able to prevent the fire from spreading.
The municipal environmental office moves into the old teacher's house on Vordergasse, which was renovated at a cost of 1.2 million marks and converted for administrative purposes. 13 offices provide 22 workplaces on a total of 281 square metres of work space.
When presenting the supplementary budget, Thomas Przibilla, Head of the Social Welfare Department and City Treasurer, made it clear that the Rodgau social centre, which moved to the old Hainhausen town hall in the summer, is a ray of hope and should remain under municipal management.
A symbolic ground-breaking ceremony in Obertshausen marks the start of the 5-Bahn extension for the Rodgau line, which will remain a partial single-track extension (a 20-minute interval is planned) once the planning approval procedure - eight subways for Rodgau alone - has been completed.
Anniversary also in Dudenhofen: 90 years of Protestant Women's Aid celebrated with an exhibition.
With the annual international folklore festival, the cultural group "Focus" demonstrates the diversity of peoples and solidarity in Rodgau at the well-attended Jügesheim forest festival site.
"Out" for the group of trees "Two lime trees and a black locust", a natural monument at Nieder-Roden railway station. It has to be felled for safety reasons.
Two people from Rodgau help disabled people in Cameroon: Heidi Stieglitz and Rolf Schachner are building up a network of village helpers there.
Citizens' reception in the town hall again for all those born on 28 December with 85 invitations. For 1995, all those born on 1 July are invited.
The European flag hangs in the town hall for a week, brought to Rodgau by a relay team of runners (Lauftreff Rodgau TGM).
On the Day of German Unity, 3 October, young people from the music clubs of Rodgau and Rödermark will give a joint concert in the Bürgerhaus Nieder-Roden, reflecting the high level of performance of the clubs.
The public library in Jügesheim, which has been run by Brigitte Hegner for just as long, is 30 years old. The library in the old school on Ludwigstraße has around 13,000 volumes for around 1,100 regular readers.
Results of the Bundestag election in Rodgau: CDU candidate Wolfgang Steiger 'from Rödermark wins the constituency and wins 49.9% of the first votes in Rodgau compared to 46.1% of the second votes. SPD 35.6/32.4%, FDP 2.8/7.3%, Greens/Alliance 90 8.2/9.9%, REP 2.0/1.9%, PDS 0/0.9%. Voter turnout was 85.1% (83.2% in 1990).
A new biotope is being created in the eastern part of Dudenhofen to compensate for the construction of the postal freight centre in the Nieder-Roden industrial estate.
Elise and Adolf Kreis celebrate their diamond wedding anniversary in Jügesheim.
"Building permission for the Flachsberg wall at last" is the headline in the press on the signing of the planning approval decision for the construction of the new noise barrier along the B 45 motorway, which has been demanded by residents in Dudenhofen and the town for years. Hessian Transport Minister Lothar Klemm signed the document in the town hall.
The trade associations of Weiskirchen and Hainhausen decide to merge, which is to be completed on 1 January 1995.
On no less than four film days, local film-maker Rudi Keller from Nieder-Roden will be showing films of the post-war period in the former communities of Rodgau in the individual districts.
Margarete and Albert Staudt and Theresia and Josef Geppert, both couples from Jügesheim, celebrate their diamond wedding anniversary.
A 17-year-old cyclist dies as a result of an accident caused by a 25-year-old female driver who drives onto the hard shoulder near the Toom supermarket to save a few seconds. In doing so, she runs over the cyclist.
The Heinrich Böll School in Nieder-Roden is expanding its international contacts with an exchange programme to Pool Scholl in Cornwall in the south of England.
New Rodgau prince and princess of the TGS Jügesheim for the 1994/95 campaign: Frank Eser and Anja Müller.
Environment Minister Klaus Töpfer is the keynote speaker at the CDU Dudenhofen's traditional pig dinner.
Robbery at the petrol station on Udenhoutstraße in Weiskirchen. The perpetrator escapes with 4,000 marks in loot.
Rodgau comes 109th out of 185 competitors in the nationwide environmental competition.
Rodgauer Rockhand "Grand Dads Dad" reaches the final of the 1822 Rockfestival in Frankfurt.
The municipal art and hobby exhibition in the Nieder-Roden community centre attracts a record 80 exhibitors and a large number of visitors.
With an opera gala, the Weiskirchen Singers' Association provides a cultural highlight for its 115th anniversary with the Marienbad Symphony Orchestra and soloists from Rodgau and the international stage in the sports association's sports hall.
The Rodgau Gymnaestrada, the annual showcase of gymnastics groups from Rodgau clubs, remains unique in the region and is being organised for the 18th time - this time by TGS Jügesheim as the organiser - with 20 groups from eight clubs in the Jügesheim sports hall.
Tragic incident in Jügesheim: A 16-year-old is killed by a police bullet when youths in a car with stolen licence plates try to escape a police patrol in Jügesheim.
Adolf Hessler undertakes his 200th aid transport from Rodgau to the Friedland camp near Göttingen. This is the 25th year of his Christmas aid campaign.
The series of Christmas bazaars begins again with the SOS Bazaar in the Nieder-Roden community centre, which has been held for 22 years and has already raised over 300,000 marks in donations for the SOS Children's Villages.
No less large and successful was the Advent bazaar organised by the Protestant Women's Aid on the last Sunday in November, which was also the first Advent of the year.
In the Jügesheim museum of local history, you can see music boxes from a century ago, collected by Helga Iser from Jügesheim.
Rodgau's mayor Paul Scherer celebrates an anniversary without a "big station". The Christian Democrat has been a member of the district council for 30 years. He has led the CDU parliamentary group since 1982.
They have become a tradition in the run-up to Christmas: the Christmas markets organised by the trade associations in Jügesheim, Dudenhofen, Nieder-Roden and Weiskirchen, the town's Christmas parties for senior citizens in all parts of the town and the large number of club Christmas parties in all parts of the town.
In keeping with the Christmas season, the exhibition by the Nieder-Roden local history study group provides information about old Christmas traditions in the local history museum in Turmstraße.
A new investor has presented itself for the planned retirement centre in Dudenhofen, which has entered into a contract with APP - Planungs- und Beratungsgesellschaft für Alten- und Pflegeheime.
Construction of the 120-place home near the Toom supermarket is scheduled to begin in spring 1995.
Hesse's Minister of Economics and Transport, Lothar Klemm, attended the ground-breaking ceremony for the expansion of the Weiskirchen motorway junction (A3/B45), a 120 million mark project. The project, which also heavily affects Weiskirchen and the Jügesheim junction at the water tower, is expected to be completed by the turn of the millennium.
And as is often the case at Christmas: Fritz "Sherry" hinge from Jügesheim, who emigrated to South West Africa - now Namibia - 34 years ago, is visiting his mother, relatives and friends in Rodgau.
14,500 marks in donations are raised at a benefit concert by Kurt Herdt and his daughter Theresia Uglik in the Nieder-Roden community centre in aid of the children's heart ward at Frankfurt University Hospital.
At the last meeting of the year, the city council presents the draft budget for 1995, a balanced budget of 102 million marks in the administrative budget and 30 million marks in the capital budget.
Stadtwerke Rodgau presents its new geographic data processing system. The aim is to make all underground lines visible on the computer screen at the touch of a button.
Werner Burkert from Hainhausen, although active in many areas of local politics and club life and yet one of the quiet ones in the country (as the press put it) is celebrating his 75th birthday.
Gottfried Zilch from Hainhausen receives the State Certificate of Honour for his services, which is presented to him at the district administration office.
Representatives of the Weiskirchen gymnastics community deliver an ambulance as a gift to the town of Donja Stubica in Croatia, a joint initiative with the town of Rodgau and the Weiskirchen Red Cross.
In the centre of Jügesheim, surveying work begins on the remaining development of Vordergasse, Hintergasse and Schwesternstraße as a traffic-calmed zone.
At the same time, the city council set the course for the further redevelopment of the southern part of Hintergasse by amending the development plan J 35.
Despite the ground-breaking ceremony for the S-Bahn extension to Rollwald having already taken place, there is now a supra-regional discussion about the double-tracking of the S-Bahn and the possibility of being able to maintain train frequencies even with single-tracking on some sections by means of a so-called stumble cycle.
Just in time for Christmas, Reinhold Leonhardt (54) from Nieder-Roden returns from a three-year trip around the world. He fulfilled a lifelong dream with this adventurous journey.
The last bad news of 1994: masked robbers rob the Toom supermarket in Dudenhofen of almost 100,000 marks.
And at the end of the year, a man who worked as a district chimney sweep in and around Rodgau for over 50 years, Kurt Friedrich from Jügesheim, retires.
