The local elections last year in Oberursel saw a change in the ruling coalition. The parties CDU and FDP had held a majority for many years and suddenly found themselves replaced by a mixture of the Green, SPD and OBG parties.
At the end of the day, no party holds more than a third of the seats, so the only chance for the town’s parliament to move anything forward is to work together.
It is something that is reflected in the new structure of the town’s administration in the Rathaus. [Read more…]
Several weeks ago a visitor to the town hall (Rathaus) in Oberursel 
Regular readers of this blog will by now know that the Hessentag will be taking place in Oberursel this year – in a few weeks in fact – and that I had been having trouble getting a permit to enter the town during that time to by able to visit my IT clients.