Bensheim-Auerbach station

Bensheim-Auerbach station
Through station
Location Bensheim, Hesse
Germany
Coordinates 49°42′7″N 8°36′48″E / 49.70194°N 8.61333°ECoordinates: 49°42′7″N 8°36′48″E / 49.70194°N 8.61333°E
Line(s)
Platforms 3
Construction
Architect Georg Moller
Other information
Station code 489
DS100 codeFBAU
Category5 [1]
History
Opened 1850

Bensheim-Auerbach station is a station on the Main-Neckar Railway in the Bensheim district of Auerbach on the Mountain Road in the German state of Hesse. It has a heritage-listed entrance building. The station is classified by Deutsche Bahn (DB) as a category 5 station.[1] Only Regionalbahn services stop at the 3 platform tracks (only tracks 1 and 2 are used regularly).

History

The location of the station in the Bensheim district of Auerbach
The platforms of Bensheim-Auerbach station

The station was opened in 1850 along on the Main-Neckar Railway, which was opened in 1846 between Frankfurt and Heidelberg.

The plans for the entrance building were probably drawn up by the Darmstadt court architect Georg Moller. The station is a two-storey building, originally containing railway residential and administrative spaces. It features a gable roof covered with a low pitched roof. Beneath the eaves there are small mezzanine windows. The station has three lines of windows built of yellow sandstone. The southern gable is clad in timber. On the trackside toward the roof there are cast iron columns, which were probably made in 1846. On the southwest side a small signal box house was built in 1920. There is architectural evidence that it was designed by Heinrich Metzendorf.[2]

Infrastructure

The station is classified as a category 5 station.[1]

In December 2007, DB announced that it intended to sell the station building and shortly later that it had sold it to an investor.

The station is an increasingly important transport hub for the region and it is included in the overall concept for Hessentag 2014, which is being celebrated in Bensheim. There are also proposals to include it on a new line of the Rhine-Neckar S-Bahn. Work has therefore been under way since April 2012 to fully rehabilitate it.[3][4]

Operations

Regionalbahn service in Bensheim-Auerbacher station on its way to Heidelberg Hauptbahnhof

The trains is served by the RB 60 Regionalbahn (stopping) service on the Heidelberg Hbf–Weinheim (Bergstr)–Bensheim-Auerbach–Bensheim–Darmstadt Hbf–Frankfurt (Main) Hbf route.

Preceding station   Deutsche Bahn   Following station
toward Frankfurt (Main) Hbf
RB 60
Main-Neckar Railway

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Stationspreisliste 2015" [Station price list 2015] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 15 December 2014. Retrieved 1 January 2015.
  2. ↑ "Bahnhof Auerbach". Cultural monuments in Hesse (in German). Retrieved 25 December 2012.
  3. ↑ "Bensheim: Auch der Auerbacher Bahnhof wird S-Bahn-gerecht umgebaut" (Press release) (in German). Hesse. Retrieved 25 December 2012.
  4. ↑ "Bensheim: Erste öffentliche E-Tankstelle auf dem neuen P & R-Parkplatz" (Press release) (in German). Retrieved 25 December 2012.
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