Büdingen (Oberhess) station

Büdingen (Oberhess) station is a station on the Gießen–Gelnhausen railway (also known as the Lahn-Kinzig Railway) in the town of Büdingen in the German state of Hesse. The station is located in the centre of the town. Büches-Düdelsheim station is also located in the municipality, in the district of Büches. The station is classified by Deutsche Bahn (DB) as a category 5 station.[1]

Büdingen (Oberhess) station
Through station
Former station building
LocationBahnhofstraße 70, Büdingen, Hesse
Germany
Coordinates50°17′20″N 9°06′09″E
Line(s)
Platforms2
Other information
Station code0957[1]
DS100 codeFBDG[2]
IBNR8001250
Category5[1]
Websitewww.bahnhof.de
History
Opened30 October 1870
Services
Preceding station   Hessische Landesbahn   Following station
Büches-Düdelsheim
toward Gießen Hbf
RB 36
Lahn-Kinzig Railway
Mittel-Gründau
toward Gelnhausen

History

The station was opened on 30 October 1870 as the end of the third section of the Lahn Gießen–Gelnhausen railway (Nidda–Büdingen) by the Upper Hessian Railway Company (German: Oberhessische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft). Exactly a month later, the railway was extended to Gelnhausen.

The entrance hall of the station is now listed as a monument under the Hessian Heritage Act. The station building is now privately owned and is no longer used for rail purposes. The condition has deteriorated and dilapidated.[3]

Operations

Büdingen is served only by the RB (Regionalbahn) 36 service of the Hessische Landesbahn (Hessian State Railway, HLB) on the Gießen–Nidda–Glauburg-Stockheim–Gelnhausen route. The “house” platform (platform 1) is used by trains towards Gelnhausen. Track 2 is used by trains towards Nidda or Gießen. The service operates at 60-minute intervals in both directions, but is supplemented by an extra service towards Gelnhausen in the morning peak and after lunch and from Gelnhausen in the evening peak. Gießen can be reached in around 75 minutes by train, Frankfurt (with a change in Gelnhausen to the RE 50 service) in about an hour.[4][5]

The Lahn-Kinzig Railway also offers interchanges in Nidda (with SE/RB 32 towards Friedberg or Frankfurt) and in Glauburg-Stockheim (with RE/RB 34 towards Bad Vilbel or Frankfurt).

Buses

Büdinger station is connected by several bus routes to the surrounding area.

Notes
  1. "Stationspreisliste 2020" [Station price list 2020] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 4 November 2019. Retrieved 15 November 2019.
  2. Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas) (2009/2010 ed.). Schweers + Wall. 2009. ISBN 978-3-89494-139-0.
  3. "Bahnhof ist Thema der Parlamentarier". Kreis-Anzeiger (in German). 25 May 2012. Archived from the original on 11 February 2013. Retrieved 12 July 2012.
  4. "Timetable for RB 36 (table 631, southbound)" (PDF) (in German). Deutsche Bahn. Retrieved 23 August 2017.
  5. "Timetable for RB 36 (table 631, northbound)" (PDF) (in German). Deutsche Bahn. Retrieved 23 August 2017.

References
  • Landesamt für Denkmalpflege Hessen, ed. (2005). Eisenbahn in Hessen. Kulturdenkmäler in Hessen. Denkmaltopographie Bundesrepublik Deutschland (in German). Stuttgart: Theiss Verlag. pp. 409–411. ISBN 3-8062-1917-6.
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