Eschenhahn bypass work gets underway

Germany’s Federal Ministry of Transport has granted the financial resources for the 3.3km-long bypass work on for Bundesstraße 275 highway - more than €93 million.

The Hessen Mobil traffic authority will begin preparatory work in April for the construction of the Eschenhahn bypass for the Eschenhahn district of Idstein.

Germany’s Federal Ministry of Transport has also granted the financial resources for the 3.3km-long bypass work on the Bundesstraße 275 highway – more than €93 million.

The B275 is a feeder route to the Idstein junction of the autoroute A3. As such, the village of Eschenhahn, with just over 700 inhabitants, sees around 13,000 vehicles passing through it, including many heavy trucks.

After the bypass is completed, Eschenhahn will become a dead end, to be used by only local traffic, according to Hessen Mobil.

However, construction of the bypass is estimated to take around seven years, for opening at the end of 2032, after which the demolition of the old federal road will begin.

Idstein is a university town of 25,000 inhabitants around 25km north of Wiesbaden and 50km northwest of Frankfurt in the Rheingau-Taunus district of the federal state of Hesse.