Last Sunday saw a flurry of activity in the woods between the northern end of Oberursel and nearby Oberstedten. Several hundred children and parents from the local Waldorf school were holding a sponsored walk to raise money for a school in South Africa.
Although the school itself borders on the area, the start was actually located some distance away in the woods itself – signs led those like myself who had gone to the school instead from the gates along a trail to get there.
Once at the check-in point, the walk itself took a circuit that was about 1 km long, with the walkers being sponsored on a per-lap basis. Over 300 people were expected to take part.
The sponsorship money raised will be put to use in a project at the Dassenberg Waldorf School in South Africa who have had a partnership with the school in Oberursel for the past 15 years. [Read more…]
One lesser known fact about that match is that Helmut Haller who scored the first goal for Germany kept the ball, as is the tradition here, rather than Geoff Hurst, who scored a hat-trick and by English tradition should have been allowed to keep it. Haller returned the ball 30 years later.