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1. FC Germania 08 Ober-Roden

FC Germania 08 Ober-Roden is a German association football club from Ober-Roden one of five former villages that today make up the town of Rödermark, Hesse.


Amo Bishop Roden

Amo Paul Bishop Roden (born 1943) is the former wife of George Roden, a rival of David Koresh for leadership of the Branch Davidians.

Charles Filgate

Charles Roden Filgate (16 October 1849 (Lissrenny, Ardee, County Louth, Ireland) – 1 September 1930 (Grove House, Pinner, Middlesex, England)) was an Irish amateur cricketer who played first-class cricket from 1869 to 1877 for Gloucestershire and Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), where he was a member.

Dieburg station

From 14 December 2003, the Rodgau Railway between Offenbach and Rödermark-Ober-Roden became part of the Rhine-Main S-Bahn, but the section between Ober-Roden and Dieburg was not included.

Dietzenbach station

After the beginning of S-Bahn operations in 2003 there was consideration of extending the railway line and S-Bahn operations to Rödermark-Urberach station where it would have connected with the Dreieich Railway (Dreieichbahn), running between Dreieich-Buchschlag and Rödermark-Ober Roden station.

Dreieich-Buchschlag station

Shortly south of the station, the Dreieich Railway branches off to Rödermark-Ober Roden.

Frankfurt Griesheim station

The station is now served only by S-Bahn lines S1 (WiesbadenRödermark-Ober-Roden) and S2 (NiedernhausenDietzenbach).

Frankfurt Sindlingen station

The only trains that stops at Frankfurt-Sindlingen station is S-Bahn line S 1 running between Rödermark-Ober Roden and Wiesbaden every 30 minutes during the day, every 15 minutes during peak hours and every 60 minutes during quite periods.

George Roden

George Roden (January 17, 1938 – December 6, 1998), was a leader of the Branch Davidian sect, a Seventh-day Adventist splinter group, and the former husband of Amo Bishop Roden.

Jess Roden

The Butts Band played a short US tour (including multiple dates at New York's Max's Kansas City), a handful of British dates (including opening for The Kinks at London's Finsbury Park Astoria, later The Rainbow Theatre) as well as recording one session for BBC TV's The Old Grey Whistle Test after which Roden, Chenn and Davies left the group.

Karel Roden

Other comic turns include Roden's Captain Tuma in "What Kind of Soldier" (Copak je to za vojáka), a humoristic look at life as a soldier in the socialist Czech army, the character Dragan in the action-thriller Dead Fish with Gary Oldman and Terence Stamp.

Roden has also voiced Mikhail Faustin in the video game Grand Theft Auto IV.

Offenbach Ost station

Line S1 of the Rhine-Main S-Bahn has been operating on the Rodgau railway since 2003, not to Reinheim, but only as far as Rödermark-Ober-Roden station.

Offenbach-Bieber station

In the opposite direction service on line S1 run via Obertshausen and Rodgau to Ober-Roden and on line S2 to Dietzenbach via Heusenstamm.

The Rodgau Railway has been operated since 2003 as part of S-Bahn line S1 of the Rhine-Main S-Bahn, but only as far as Rödermark-Ober-Roden.

Offenbach-Bieber–Dietzenbach railway

A proposed extension of the line to Rödermark-Ober Roden via Rödermark-Urberach failed as it was found not to be economically justified.

Pelican, Alaska

Henry Roden, the former attorney general of Alaska who was helping Raatikainen raise money, finally had success when Norton Clapp agreed to participate in the project.

Philip IV, Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg

The Archbishopric of Mainz objected to the reformation policy of Hanau-Lichtenberg and saw to it that Catholicism prevailed in the condominiums of Ober-Roden and Rodgau.

Roden, Bavaria

The community is rich in woodland (roughly 1 000 ha) at the seam between the Spessart’s mostly bunter-based geology and that found on the Fränkische Platte (a flat, mostly agricultural region), which is mostly Muschelkalk-based.

The Butts Band

They began looking for a new project, linking up with Roden, Phil Chen and Roy Davies to form the Butts Band.


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