Home

Welcome to our new site

The Falkirk Council area is twinned with Créteil in France and Odenwald in Germany. Find out more about both areas, and how you can get involved in twinning, on this website.

Latest updates

Winterzauber im Odenwald

Five OA members, Gray, Isabella, Walter, Anne, and Amanda, and one friend, Graham, flew into Frankfurt in the late afternoon on Friday, 1 st December. Hanne met us there and transported us to the Michelstädter Hof, then onto Erbach to see the Christmas market and meet up with Detlef and other SLV members. It started…

What we did this summer

Three Schottland-Vereinigung Board members, Detlef, Rainer and Markus, visited Falkirk as part of a Wissmüller coach tour, bringing whisky from St. Kilian’s Distillers with them, enough to host a very enjoyable whisky-tasting at St. Francis Xavier’s church hall. The week after we entertained the Löw family with a meal at the Sanam, a visit to…

Robert Stirling

Odenwald Association members were saddened to hear of the passing of one of its long-standing members, Robert Stirling, before Christmas. Robert travelled to the Odenwald on many occasions to attend the Schottische Nacht and the Burns Supper events and was well known in the Odenwald.  Memories of Robert are of a larger than life character…

Discover Créteil

Créteil is a large cosmopolitan town lying to the south of Paris, France. It is composed of the old part, known as Créteil Village with its traditional streets, shops and restaurants and the contrasting development of the ‘new town’ with its innovative architecture, variety of residential accommodation and interesting water features throughout.

Twinning may be enjoyed by people of all ages and abilities, by groups including educational, cultural, sporting and special needs organisations.

On this website you can find out about Falkirk district’s twin areas – Creteil and Odenwald – and how you can become a member of one or both of the local twinning associations. Both groups can give free help and advice to Scottish organisations trying to forge links with Germany and France. You’ll also find answers to frequently asked questions and the history of the local twinning associations.

There is something for everyone in twinning – and it’s fun!

Visit Odenwald

Odenwald is a quiet, mainly rural area in the south west of Germany and is promoted through the twinning organisation The Odenwald Association.

Falkirk District Twinning Association

(Promoting twinning with Creteil, France)

Contact: The Secretary, Falkirk District Twinning Association
Email: falkirktwinning@gmail.com

“Like” the Falkirk District Twinning Association on Facebook

Odenwald Association

(Promoting twinning with the Odenwald Region in Germany)

Contact: Anne Simms, the Odenwald Association
Email: falktwinfo@yahoo.co.uk

“Like” The Odenwald Association on Facebook

Search this site

The Kelpies and mini Kelpies at the Helix Park between Falkirk and Grangemouth. Website by THE PR STORE in sunny Bo’ness, Scotland