The history of the dispute over the development plan begins around 2009, others say the quarrels have actually been going on since the 1990s.

"You could start as early as 1981," Schwalbach's mayor Alexander Immisch (SPD) goes one step further.

Or even earlier, when the field between Schwalbach and Eschborn first became a German "air base" and then, after the Second World War, an American military airfield.

At times, nuclear warheads were stored in Camp Eschborn, and at times the central initial reception facility for refugees of the state of Hesse was located here.

Andrea Diener

Correspondent in the Main-Taunus district

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The largest part of the airfield was converted into an arboretum with tree species worth seeing as a compensation area for the West runway, one part is a business park with the military-style name Camp Phoenix.

This business park was developed jointly by Schwalbach and Eschborn.

The private Obermayr International School has been located to the south of it, in the Schwalbach district and embedded in the arboretum, since 2010.

The school is currently attended by 440 students and includes a day care center, primary school and secondary school.

However, the operator would like to double the number of students, thanks to the many international companies in the area there are enough interested parties.

The construction of a new sports hall has already begun.

An educational campus “from crèche to high school” is also planned.

The difficulty now is that although the site is on Schwalbacher Grund, it is accessible via Eschborner streets.

And they are notorious at this point and have been clogged for years - also because they are often used as a shortcut.

You don't feel heard

Now it gets complicated.

Schwalbach had actually planned to approve the final resolution for the school extension at the next meeting of the city council on January 6th.

This would have secured the expansion.

However, in mid-December the city councilors of the neighboring municipality of Eschborn decided to file a legal action against the Schwalbach development plan.

The mayor there, Adnan Shaikh (CDU), is the third official to have bothered with this matter during his term in office. Even under his two predecessors, statements and objections were repeatedly raised about the traffic congestion.

You don't feel heard from your neighbors.

It is demanded that traffic-related remedial measures must be taken, namely beyond the motorway exit that has already been built on Düsseldorfer Strasse.

A traffic report from Schwalbach states that there will also be a remedy, for example with the expansion of the Northwest Crossing in Frankfurt.

The L 3005, which runs right through the Camp Phönix commercial area, is to be better connected to the nearby motorway, but not until 2030. In addition, the Regionaltangente West is to connect the area to local transport.

And anyone who lives in the western Rhine-Main area will only believe in the regional tangent when they see it in person - it is said to be possible in 2028.

But they don't want to wait that long in Eschborn.