work on the former Geldmacher-Gelände (piece of real estate, diagonally across from the Kappus complex): fast-food restaurant (Burger King, not far from the McDonald's, which has been there a while longer), automotive parts dealer and a discount market (completed June/August 2007) New building work on the Campus Europa Hochschule Fresenius (college in the inner town, under construction) New building work on the Tournesol-Allwetterbad (swimming pool) with biomass power station in the Nassau-Viertel New building work on the health centre/hospital Kappus-Anlage (at the "railway station roundabout"): doctors' centre and discount market (completed 2008) Ramp onto the A 3 from Bundesstraße 275 towards Frankfurt (completed: April 2008) Public institutions Idstein Protestant parish Idstein St. Martin Catholic parish Idstein volunteer fire brigade Idstein youth centre State institutions Amtsgericht (court) Technisches Hilfswerk (THW) Sozialpädagogisches Zentrum Kalmenhof (State Welfare Federation institution) Education Taubenbergschule (primary school) Alteburgschule Heftrich (primary school) Franz-Kade-Schule (Wörsdorf primary school) Limesschule (cooperative comprehensive school with Hauptschule and Realschule branches) Grundschule Auf der Au (primary school) Erich Kästner-Schule (school for those in need of learning help) Pestalozzischule (Gymnasium) Hochschule Fresenius (college) Volkshochschule Rheingau-Taunus (folk high school) Hospital In 2008, the hospital moved into a new €22,000,000, 90-bed building on an plot on Robert-Koch-Straße. The state provided a subsidy of €17,200,000 (earlier, €3,000,000 came from the district, which had forgone part of the buying price for the former district hospitals at Idstein und Bad Schwalbach). Swimming pool A partly prefabricated all-weather pool came into being (after some delays) in spring 2010 in the Nassau-Viertel for €19,000,000. The town is subsidizing the more than €2,500,000 plot on Bundesstraße 275 and the yearly €500,000 operating costs. For the manufacturer, it is, with its cupola, biomass power plant and natural bathing pond a demonstration project near Frankfurt Airport. Culture and sightseeing Buildings Unionskirche The Unionskirche, whose outer appearance is quite plain, holds within its splendour. The building history of the church, originally consecrated to Saint Martin of Tours as a monastery church, reaches back to the 13th century. In the mid 14th century a new building in the Gothic style arose, which was remodeled in the 17th century. In 1553 Idstein turned Lutheran. The church was decorated in Baroque style in the 17th century, unusually rich for a Protestant church. The ceiling in the main nave was thoroughly covered with large-scale oil paintings from the Dutch school of Rubens. Several well known works by Rubens form the