Deutschland Ticket Question

It covers to the border - Kehl from Offenburg. There is a tram from there into Strasbourg or the train.

I'm heading bedtime so not looking it up but there is a French regional ticket that helps.

You can find all infos about the tram from Kehl into Strasbourg at the web site of the Strasbourg transport authority https://www.cts-strasbourg.eu

Thanks to both of you. I used the D ticket when I was staying in Strasbourg in 2023, buying a tram ticket from there to Kehl and then boarding a train. I was just wondering if I did that unnecessarily. I may be going in the opposite direction in September.

You can just buy a train ticket for the section between Strasbourg to Kehl and stay on the train into Strasbourg. No need to get off and take the tram.

I may be going in the opposite direction in September.

If your journey to Strasbourg via Offenburg and Kehl actually originates in Gengenbach or any other Black Forest town that participates in the "KONUS" program, the D-ticket is not needed for the regional-train travel segment to the French border near Kehl; the KONUS card, which is handed to guests upon checking in with their KONUS-town accommodations provider, already covers that. Offenburg, if that is where you are staying, does not participate AFAIK; either the D-Ticket or some other ticket would be needed.

You can just buy a train ticket for the section between Strasbourg to Kehl and stay on the train into Strasbourg.

This is what I did both ways. Leaving Colmar, we bought a ticket at the station from Colmar to Kehl. On another trip I used the DB App to buy the Kehl to Strasbourg segment, it was only a few euro. You could do the same at a DB window at any station if you do not use the app.

This way it is seamless, just stay on the same train, you can be in Strasbourg before you could even find the tram in Kehl.

Andrea, the ticket for the French portion was very inexpensive and no one ever even asked for it. You can use the link sla019 gave you above to buy your ticket. That's how I bought mine and it was super easy. And as others have said, you just stay on the Offenburg train till you get to Strasbourg.

Thank you all.

We would be coming from Überlingen and going to Paris. I was looking for an easy way to utilize the D ticket, but also utilize a discounted ticket to Paris on a French train by taking regional trains in Germany as far as Kehl, then a train from Strasbourg. I could do the same thing and take a train from Basel. The SNCF Connect app just asks if I have thought about taking a bus or carpool when I originate the trip in Überlingen. The DB Navigator app gives me a few options, transferring to the train to Paris in Stuttgart, Basel, Zurich or Mannheim. I suppose I should just quit making this more difficult for myself and just choose one of those trains.

could do the same thing and take a train from Basel.

That's what I would do. Take a direct train from Überlingen to Basel Bad. Bf. (valid with DT) and change there to the SBB to Basel SBB.

Thanks sla019. It looks like we will have to buy a ticket from Basel Bad. Bf to Basel SBB when we arrive at Basel Bad. From Basel SBB we can buy a ticket to Paris on the SNCF Connect app and get our discounts. We won’t be traveling until mid-September so I’ll wait until after September 1 to get our Deutschland tickets. When I got them last year on the HVV switch app we were able to get them prorated which was very helpful since we arrived in Germany on the 18th of the month. Hopefully they still do that.

prorated

I saw an earlier post that indicated that prorating is now a thing of the past.

@Andrea:

When I got them last year on the HVV switch app we were able to get them prorated which was very helpful since we arrived in Germany on the 18th of the month. Hopefully they still do that.

Unfortunately, they don't any longer. Prorating was a Hamburg speciality from the decentralized, chaotic early days of the DT, but since 1 May 2025 the HVV has been forced to apply the conditions of the new, central “Deutschlandtarifverbund” organization.

It looks like we will have to buy a ticket from Basel Bad.

Yes, Basel Bad(ischer Bahnhof) ist the last DB station (although it is already in Switzerland).