Bensheim-Auerbach station

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).

Bensheim-Auerbach station
Through station
LocationOtto-Beck-Str. 32, Bensheim, Hesse
Germany
Coordinates49°42′7″N 8°36′48″E
Line(s)
Platforms3
Construction
ArchitectGeorg Moller
Other information
Station code489[1]
DS100 codeFBAU[2]
IBNR8000877
Category5[1]
Websitewww.bahnhof.de
History
Opened1850

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.[3]

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.[4][5]

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

The trains is served by the RB 68 Regionalbahn (stopping) service on the Heidelberg Hbf–Weinheim (Bergstr)–Bensheim-Auerbach–Bensheim–Darmstadt Hbf–Frankfurt (Main) Hbf route.

Preceding station   Deutsche Bahn   Following station
RB 68
Main-Neckar Railway

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 Auerbach". Cultural monuments in Hesse (in German). Retrieved 25 December 2012.
  4. "Bensheim: Auch der Auerbacher Bahnhof wird S-Bahn-gerecht umgebaut" (Press release) (in German). Hesse. Archived from the original on 2013-04-05. Retrieved 25 December 2012.
  5. "Bensheim: Erste öffentliche E-Tankstelle auf dem neuen P & R-Parkplatz" (Press release) (in German). Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 25 December 2012.
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