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Seligenstadt is the only town in the Offenbach district that does not have a S-Bahn. An extension of the planned southern regional bypass could change that.
If you live in Seligenstadt, you need strong nerves in terms of traffic technology if you want to get to Frankfurt or Offenbach: With the car he drives on the Autobahn 3 almost every day in traffic jams, with the train he first has to go to Hanau to get on the S-Bahn to get in. That has to change, believes the city of Seligenstadt, and insists that the 23,000-inhabitant municipality is finally connected to the S-Bahn network by an extended southern regional bypass.
Even if it will probably take 15 years before the planning is completed – at least on paper the desired southern S-Bahn tangent has already taken shape: From Frankfurt Airport it would go via Frankfurt, Offenbach, Obertshausen and Rodgau-Weiskirchen to Froschhausen , Seligenstadt and Mainhausen. The idea is not entirely new. Two and a half years ago, the Offenbach district commissioned a feasibility study for an additional tangential connection to the South Main – but only with a core section to Rodgau.
The people of Seligenstadt feel left behind by the Rhine-Main area. Her S-Bahn journey is currently over in Rodgau-Weiskirchen. There the S1 branches off to the south and opens up all of Rodgau’s districts.
Sketch of the southern regional bypass with the extension to Seligenstadt and Mainhausen-Zellhausen.
© City of Seligenstadt
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A technical discussion on Friday made it clear that the city can certainly raise its hopes with its demand for a connection. The regional association Frankfurt-Rhein-Main, the RMV, the Offenbach district and the Chamber of Commerce and Industry supported the idea, said the member of the state parliament René Rock (FDP), who is an elected representative of the city in the planning association of the regional assembly. The city of Offenbach also supports the idea if the primary route goes through Offenbach’s main train station.
Seligenstadt must now scream “here”, said Rock. The long-distance railway tunnel from Frankfurt-Niederrad via the main train station to Kaiserlei is included in the urgent needs of the Federal Transport Infrastructure Plan 2030, with the construction of which there will then be free capacities for regional traffic – and this south Main variant. Mayor Daniell Bastian (FDP) calculated that around 35,000 residents could be connected to Frankfurt with the extension of the southern bypass.
The route could be led from Rodgau-Weiskirchen in large parts along the A3 to Froschhausen. In Seligenstadt, the S-Bahn would not enter the center of the village, but would stop at the bypass and connect the planned new development area “Am Westring”. Shortly after Seligenstadt, the S-Bahn would run on the route of the Odenwaldbahn and stop in Mainhausen. For this purpose, sidings would have to be laid there because the line is single-track.
For the extension of the route to Seligenstadt “no major obstacles are visible”, only a few kilometers need to be expanded, said Rock. All that is needed is a bridge structure “because we have to get to the other side of the B45”.
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