Sinsheim (Elsenz) Hauptbahnhof

Sinsheim (Elsenz) Hauptbahnhof
Through station
Station with class 425 EMU
Location	Sinsheim, Baden-Württemberg Germany
Coordinates	49°15′02″N 8°52′29″E / 49.250537°N 8.874807°E / 49.250537; 8.874807Coordinates: 49°15′02″N 8°52′29″E / 49.250537°N 8.874807°E / 49.250537; 8.874807
Line(s)	Neckargemünd–Bad Friedrichshall-Jagstfeld S 5
Platforms	3
Other information
Station code	5870
DS100 code	RSM
Category	4 [1]
Website	www.bahnhof.de
History
Opened	1868

Sinsheim (Elsenz) Hauptbahnhof — called Sinsheim (Elsenz) station until 2010 — is a station on the Neckargemünd–Bad Friedrichshall-Jagstfeld railway in the German state of Baden-Württemberg. The station falls within the area of the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Neckar (Transport association of Rhine-Neckar) and is an important station in the Kraichgau. In the area of the city of Sinsheim, there are also stations (all called Haltepunkte in German, “halts”) at Hoffenheim, Sinsheim Museum/Arena, Steinsfurt and Reihen.

History

The station was opened in 1868 to coincide with the opening of the Meckenheim–Rappenau section of the Neckargemünd–Bad Friedrichshall-Jagstfeld railway of the Grand Duchy of Baden State Railways. The station building was built in 1867/68. It was designed in the Weinbrenner style by a student of the architect Friedrich Weinbrenner.^[2] The building, including its ground and upper storey, is listed as a cultural monument by the state of Baden-Württemberg.^[3]

The station facilities had been expanded by 1900 with an overpass over Dührener Straße (street).

In 2009, the town of Sinsheim began to renovate the entrance building and the surrounding area, including the establishment of a park and ride parking area and the redesign of the bus station. The existing pedestrian zone of the town was extended to the station. Since December 2009, trains on the Rhine-Neckar S-Bahn have stopped at Sinsheim Hauptbahnhof.^[4]

Station infrastructure

The station building and the stairway to the pedestrian overbridge seen from the south side

South side of the station building with track field

The station building has a largely symmetrical floor plan centred on an axis extending from the southern end of Bahnhofstraße. The platforms are on the south side of the building. East of the station building is the bus station. The tracks and the street of Jahnstraße to its south are spanned by a footbridge. This was rebuilt during the line’s electrification. The station has three platform tracks. Track 1 is located next to the station building and tracks 2 and 3 are on a central platform. South of the tracks is a timber roundhouse, including a turntable. The roundhouse, which, with its stalls for two locomotives, is used by Eisenbahnfreunde Kraichgau (railway friends of the Kraichgau) as its club house, stood in Meckenheim until 1947.^[5]

Rail services

In 2012, Sinsheim Hauptbahnhof is served by Regional-Express service RE 2 (Mannheim–Heilbronn) every two hours. On weekends, occasional services of Regionalbahn service RB 10 run on the Mannheim–Stuttgart route. There are hourly services of RB 74 between Sinsheim and Bad Friedrichshall-Jagstfeld. Every half hour there is a service of line S 5 of the Rhine-Neckar S-Bahn (Heidelberg–Eppingen).

All services are usually operated with class 425 electric multiple units. Individual services of the Mannheim–Heilbronn route are operated as push-pull trains propelled by class 111 locomotives and five Silberling carriages.

The main station is next to a bus station, which is served by bus lines 741, 761, 763, 765, 767, 768, 771, 772, 795, 796 and 797 of the PalatinaBus company, which connect to the town of Sinsheim.^[6][7] Shuttle buses to the Rhein-Neckar Arena football stadium, where TSG 1899 Hoffenheim plays its home games, also operate from the bus station.^[8]

Notes

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