Press releases on the marketplace conversion

The completely renovated market square was celebrated with a big party on Saturday, September 9. The square is now more accessible and inviting, and the area around the fountain is a great place to linger.

The remaining work on the redesign of the market square is making progress. For the first time, the redesigned square could be used again during Offenbach Week without any major barriers.

The steel construction work required for the installation of the leaf roof as part of the marketplace conversion has been completed.

As part of the market square conversion, preparatory construction work for the installation of the leaf roof, a green weather protection to replace the former tent roof stop, will begin on March 6, 2023.

As announced, the market square was opened to traffic on December 15. This means that Offenbach's city center is once again as easily accessible by car as before.

Weather permitting, the market square is expected to be open to traffic again from December 15.

The already completed areas on the eastern side of the market square will be thoroughly cleaned by a specialist company on November 15 and 16, 2022.

The final major phase of the redesign of the market square begins on October 31. The new concrete roadway at Frankfurter Straße will be completed by the end of the year.

The ornamental cherries cannot remain in their old location. For this reason, a specialist company is to carry out a costly replanting of large trees.

To replace the felled plane trees on the redesigned market square, the city council has decided on an innovative approach to rainwater management and significantly larger tree beds.

The reconstruction of Offenbach's market square will enter its third construction phase on April 14, 2022. This means that Wilhelmsplatz and the weekly market will once again be accessible from the south via Bieberer Straße.

As part of the current construction work and the associated adjustment of the height of the square, three plane trees in front of the ice cream parlor in the area of house number 4 will have to be felled in mid-March 2022.

The next major construction phase change is scheduled for mid-April. Wilhelmsplatz and the weekly market will then be accessible again from the south via Bieberer Straße.

As part of the market square renovation, construction work will begin on Monday, February 14, 2022, in the area of Marktplatz / corner of Bieberer Straße, which will mainly affect the sidewalk.

The redesign of Offenbach's market square is entering its second construction phase: work in the Bieberer Straße / market square area will begin on November 11. All destinations in the city center remain accessible.

The increasingly critical supply bottlenecks in the construction industry are also having an impact on the ongoing marketplace conversion.

With the redesign of the City-Center from 1981, the remaining remnants of the second level, which spanned Berliner Straße and Marktplatz until 2004, will give way in the coming days and weeks.

In addition to the urban marketplace conversion, work on the former Toys'R'Us building and the City-Center is currently in full swing - including the demolition of the second level.

In order to speed up the work to redesign the market square, a ban on driving through from Berliner Straße to Waldstraße will apply until the beginning of March 2022. This will now be monitored more closely.

Over the past few days, the city police have registered around 30 to 40 violations of the driving ban per hour, each of which resulted in a fine of 25 euros.

The redesign of Offenbach's market square can begin: After the construction site was set up, the actual construction work began on Monday, May 10, 2021.

The preparatory work for the redesign of Offenbach's market square begins: From Thursday, April 8, 2021, the construction site will be set up.

Now that the city council has approved the awarding of the construction work on March 17, the redesign of Offenbach's market square can begin - as a central building block to strengthen the city center.

The city of Offenbach is tackling the reconstruction of the market square. The new plan envisages that the central market square from Frankfurter Straße to Waldstraße and Geleitsstraße, excluding Bieberer Straße, will be rebuilt.

The market square is expected to be redesigned from fall 2020 in a smaller version than originally planned.