Local transport Dillenburg/Herborn – Wikipedia

The local public transport in the Dillenburg and Herborn area is organized by the Verkehrsgesellschaft Lahn-Dill-Weil (VLDW). Both cities are also shareholders of the Rhein-Main Transport Association (RMV).

Dillenburg and Herborn have around 43,000 inhabitants, with the neighboring town of Haiger and their districts, there is a population of around 63,000. The local communities such as Dietzhölztal, Eschenburg or Driedorf are not included here. Due to the Tripolar city structure, bus traffic also focuses on a total of three city centers. Despite the spatial proximity, each city represents its own hub for public transport.

Since the decommissioning of many agricultural tracks, which have assumed Haiger, Dillenburg or Herborn, the surrounding traffic has been operated by buses. Three regional railway and two regional express lines form train traffic. Between December 2009 and December 2011, this offer was supplemented by a single Eurocity train couple (Siegen-Klagenfurt). In December 2021, rail passenger transport returned with Intercity Line 34. It is kept exclusively in Dillenburg. Certain trains can be used between Dillenburg and Iserlohn-Letmathe at a local traffic. The trips in SPNV also take place through DB Regio Mitte and the Hessian State Railway. The bus lines are carried out by regional transport companies.

After hard cuts on many lines were made for the 2013/2014 schedule year, further restrictions on the 2014/2015 timetable change follow. But changes and optimizations also took place.
In Haiger, the surrounding traffic was reorganized. The existing additional lines 102 A, 104 and 106 A were integrated into the existing lines. In addition, the growing industrial area of ​​Haiger-Cold Early is connected by three stops. This was preceded by a new advertisement by the Haiger-LDK line bundle, in which the Working Group on Line Transport (ALV) Oberhessen was awarded the contract.

The main change is also the deletion of the rail parallel traffic, line 102 from Dillenburg via Manderbach, Sixhelden to Haiger was reduced to the Dillenburg – Manderbach section.

The crossing point for bus and train is the Dillenburg train station in the core city. Here the bus lines come together in a star shape from the surrounding area.

The most important stop is that Central Omnibus train station (ZOB) Dillenburg With six complete holding bays and two unavoidable needs stops.

City bus traffic [ Edit | Edit the source text ]

The city bus traffic in Dillenburg is limited to a line. This largely runs every hour on Monday to Sunday.

Number	Linienweg	Explanation
100	City traffic Dillenburg	Round traffic on two line paths in the urban area Saturdays in a 2-hour clock to Manderbach

Surrounding traffic [ Edit | Edit the source text ]

Dillenburg is the starting point for many bus connections to the neighboring communities, but also national bus connections begin and end there.

Number	Linienweg	Explanation
R26	Burbach → Allendorf → Haiger → Dillenburg	Parallel to the Hellertalbahn; currently discontinued
101	Dillenburg → Niederscheld → Eibach	discontinued since 2014, part of line 150
102	Dillenburg → Manderbach → Sixhelden → Haiger	only to Manderbach since 2015 After Haiger and Sixhelden, only individual school trips
107	Dillenburg → Donsbach
150	Dillenburg → Eibach → Nanzenbach → Hirzenhain
302	Dillenburg → Eschenburg → Dietzhölztal
491	Dillenburg → Oberscheld → Biedenkopf

Bus traffic is served for the most part on weekdays every hour, usually every 2 hours on Saturdays until late afternoon. Transport also takes place on lines 302 and 491 on Sundays.

Herborn forms the southern hub of the 3-city center and plays a major role here when it comes to public transport. Herborn is the starting point for the lines of the Hessian Westerwald and for the lines to the Aartal and further towards Bad Endbach. The central stop is the bus station at Herborn train station with ten busy owners, which enables a switch to other bus lines, but also for rail traffic.

city ​​traffic [ Edit | Edit the source text ]

In the course of the convert of the line network Aartal 2008 and Westerwald 2009 , which were associated with Europe -wide tenders, the lines were completely reorganized here. Since December 13, 2009, a completely new city bus concept has also been in effect in Herborn, which has replaced the previous one. The city bus concept has been revised again since December 11, 2017 and new vehicles are being used.

Number	Linienweg	Explanation
130	Round traffic Herborn	until December 12, 2009 replaced by line 500 and 501/502
132	Herborn → Burg / Seelbach → Herborn	until December 12, 2009 replaced by line 503
500	Herborn Reuterberg → ZOB → outdoor pool → cemetery → ZOB → Herborn Reuterberg
501/502	Hörbach/Guntersdorf → Hirschberg → Merkenbach → ZOB → Alsbach → and back
503	Herborn → Burg / Seelbach → Herborn	ehm. Linie 132 only a two -hour clock on Saturdays
505	Herborn → Sinn → Fleisbach → Merkenbach → Hörbach → Guntersdorf → Hirschberg

The new city bus lines run every hour, where there is an overlap of pairs of travel, there is a 30-minute cycle.

Other important stops in Herborn are the “Dillcenter” and “Leonhardsturm” stops in addition to the ZOB.

Surrounding traffic [ Edit | Edit the source text ]

Since the last branch was closed to Herborn’s surrounding area, the AAR-Salzböde-Bahn to Bad Endbach in 2001, local transport has been completely taken over by buses. In 2008 and 2009 the lines were completely redesigned and renamed. In addition, lines followed to 60 and 120 minutes, and traffic was also expanded and clocked on Saturdays. In the 2010/2011 timetable change in December 2010, however, cuts were made on some lines or diligent pairs of trips were deleted. There were also some cuts in Saturday traffic; Line 530 no longer runs on Saturdays on Saturdays, but only between Herborn and Fleisbach. Since the timetable change 2016/2017 in December 2016, new vehicles have been running on the “400” lines. Since the timetable change 2017/2018 in December 2017, new vehicles have also been used on the “500” lines and the line path has been redesigned and additional trips are offered. For the first time, buses run across the national border to Rennerod. ^[first] Part of the trips, especially during the holidays, has only been carried out as a call bus since May 1, 2018 after registering with VLDW. A new call bus center was set up for this.

Number	Linienweg	Explanation
403	Herborn → Mittenaar → Hartenrod	Replacement traffic for the disused Aar Salzböde-Bahn No Saturday traffic since 2014
405	Siegbach → Ballersbach → Herborn	Only one trip in the morning in the morning
407	Herborn → Bishops → Bad Endbach → Hartenrod	Part of the “blue line” as “Bergland-Express” Only weekend traffic
471	Herborn → Katzenfurt	formerly from/to Dillenburg today only student traffic
510	Rabenscheid → Gusternhain → Breitscheid → Medenbach → Uckersdorf → Herborn	Part of the “blue line” as a “cave express”
515	Uckersdorf → Erdbach → Amdorf	Partly from/to Breitscheid
520/521	Rennerod → Community Driedorf → Schönbach → Herborn	Part of the “blue line” as “Westerwald-Express” (line 521) 2017 extended to Rennerod
530	Mengerkirchen → Greifenstein municipality → Driedorf → Sinn → Herborn	2017 to Mengerkirchen and partly extended to Allendorf Since 2017 Saturday traffic to Beilstein, Mengerkirchen and (as a call bus) to Allendorf

Heart, Driedorf and Beilstein are significant changeover points to other bus lines.

The blue line [ Edit | Edit the source text ]

The so -called “Blue Line” is a line concept (lines 407, 415, 510 and 521), which from May to September on weekends and public holidays, among other things, connects the Krombachtalsperre via Herborn and the Aartalsee near Niederweidbach with the Bad Endbach pool. Since 2017, Wetzlar has been connected by the Aartalsee and (only on Saturdays) Altenkirchen. Since 2018 (only on Saturdays) from Herborn, the stalactite caves near Breitscheid and the fuck chewing near Waldaubach have been connected.

The buses run on an almost 80 km line network every two hours (partly between Herborn and racing death every hour) and (except one line), also lead a bicycle trailer for up to 20 bicycles (thanks to new trailers, e-bikes have also been able to be transported). The lines are integrated into the RMV and can be used with RMV tickets for the regular RMV tariff.

The following lines belong to the concept of the blue line:

Number	Designation	Linienweg	Explanation
407	Bergland-Express	Hartenrod → Bad Endbach → Niederweidbach → Bicken → Herborn	Two -hour clock Bicycle trailer in Herborn switch from/to line 521 possible
415	Aartalsee-Express	Wetzlar → Hohensolms → Königsberg → Erda → Niederweidbach → Altenkirchen	since 2017 Two -hour clock Bicycle trailer On Sundays and public holidays only to Niederweidbach
510	Cave express	Herborn → Uckersdorf → Erdbach → Breitscheid → Waldaubach	since 2018 Two -hour clock No bicycle trailer Only on Saturdays
521	Westerwald-Express	Herborn → Uckersdorf → Schönbach → Driedorf → Mademühlen → Rennerod	Two -hour time, partly hourly time Bicycle trailer in Herborn change from/to line 407 possible Rennerod since 2018

Here, public transport connection to Siegen, Wetzlar, Gießen and Frankfurt am Main is possible. There are stations in Haiger, Haiger Obertor, Allendorf, Dillbrecht, Rodenbach and Sixhelden.

city ​​traffic [ Edit | Edit the source text ]

Haiger city traffic was discontinued in 2007. It was taken over by line 103a, which only runs on school days.

Surrounding traffic [ Edit | Edit the source text ]

Number	Linienweg	Explanation
R26	Dillenburg → Haiger → Burbach
102	Dillenburg → Manderbach → Sixhelden → Haiger	Since 2015 only individual student traffic between Haiger and Manderbach
103	Haiger → Haigerseelbach → Steinbach → Haiger
104	Haiger → Allendorf	just on schooldays Discontinued in 2015, part of line 103
105	Haiger → Langenaubach → Flammersbach → Haiger
106	Haiger → Roßbachtal → Haiger
106a	Haiger → Roßbachtal

1. ↑ SPNV Nord, 60th Assembly Assembly, TOP 6: Appeal: Evaluation of the current planning status from the point of view of the SPNV-Nord , December 5, 2018, p. 60, accessed December 20, 2018