The town of Dreieich came into being on 1 January 1977 in the framework of municipal restructuring in the Offenbach district, bringing together five communities which until then had been self-administering.

At the time of the merger, their population figures were as follows: Today, 43.542 people live in Dreieich (main residences, 31 December 2019), including all five communities.

This forest stretched along the lower Main from Aschaffenburg to Rüsselsheim and from Vilbel to the Neunkircher Höhe (heights) in the Odenwald.

In the middle of this royal hunting forest in the 11th century rose Dreieichenhain, when the Lords of Hagen built a tower castle in 1075.

This community was founded in 1904 as a Villenkolonie ('villa colony', a form of town planning once popular among the well-to-do in Germany) by the Frankfurt salesman Jakob Latscha in the wooded Gemarkung (a cadastral unit) of Mitteldick.

Buchschlag has largely managed to keep its Villenkolonie character: many old Art Nouveau villas in the middle of the community are still preserved today and collectively are under heritage protection.

In the 11th century, a tower castle (Burg Hayn) was built from which the Lords of Hagen, later Hagen-Münzenberg (1075–1255), administered the Imperial hunting forest of Dreieich.

The Falkensteins, who inherited the land from the Hagen-Münzenberg family, died out in 1418, and the Counts of Isenburg managed in time to acquire the lordship over Dreieichenhain.

After the Falkenstein family had died out, Götzenhain found itself under the ownership of the County of Isenburg in 1418, and in the 16th century, the Reformation was introduced.

In a Langen boundary description, Ovemdan[3] was mentioned about 834, making Offenthal the oldest settlement in the Dreieich area after Sprendlingen.

Offenthal lies on the Deutsche Fachwerkstraße (German Timber Framing Road) and on the Hessian Apple Wine and Orchard Route.

The biggest clubs are the SUSGO, the FCO, the TTCO and the Offenthal Volunteer Fire Brigade (535 members as of 31 December 2007).

[6] Buchschlag on Dreieich’s western outskirts has numerous buildings in the Art Nouveau style by such architects as Wilhelm Koban, Ludwig Bernoully and Alois Beck, which as a contiguous ensemble are under monumental protection.

The Dreieichbahn (RB 61): Dieburg – Rödermark-Ober Roden – Dreieich-Offenthal – Dreieich-Götzenhain – Dreieich-Dreieichenhain – Dreieich-Weibelfeld – Dreieich-Sprendlingen – Dreieich-Buchschlag – Frankfurt Central Station runs hourly through the entire town every day.

From Monday to Friday there are additional trains between Rödermark-Ober Roden and Neu-Isenburg resulting in a half-hourly service on the common section.

[7] Furthermore, some buslines serve the town: Updated: 2022 Timetable The Bundesautobahn 661 with its Dreieich interchange affords a road link to Frankfurt am Main.

Through Sprendlingen runs the former Bundesstraße 3 – now part of Bundesautobahn 661 – which begins south of Hamburg (Buxtehude) and ends at the border with Switzerland near Basel (Weil-Otterbach).

In the last five or ten years, though, Dreieich has developed itself into a central agglomeration of the information technology service provision industry.

Besides branches of OBI, Kaufland (formerly Real from 2006 until 2022 and Walmart until 2006) and Mann Mobilia (furniture chain), the biggest BMW dealership outside Munich can be found here.