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
General information
Location	Otto-Beck-Str. 32, Bensheim, Hesse Germany
Coordinates	49°42′7″N 8°36′48″E
Line(s)	Main-Neckar Railway (47.2 km) (KBS 650)
Platforms	3
Construction
Architect	Georg Moller
Other information
Station code	489[1]
DS100 code	FBAU[2]
IBNR	8000877
Category	5[1]
Fare zone	VRN: 35[3] : 4510 (VRN transitional tariff)[4]
Website	www.bahnhof.de
History
Opened	1850
Services
Preceding station DB Regio Mitte Following station Zwingenberg (Bergstraße) towards Frankfurt (Main) Hbf RB 67 Bensheim towards Mannheim Hbf or Hockenheim RB 68 Bensheim towards Wiesloch-Walldorf

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.^[5]

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 carried out from April 2012 to fully rehabilitate it.^[6][7]

Operations

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

The trains is served by the RB 67 Regionalbahn (stopping) on the Neu-Edingen/Friedrichsfeld – Weinheim (Bergstr) – Bensheim-Auerbach – Bensheim – Darmstadt Hbf – Frankfurt (Main) Hbf route and the RB 68 service on the Heidelberg Hbf – Weinheim – Bensheim-Auerbach – Bensheim – Darmstadt Hbf – Frankfurt (Main) Hbf route, both hourly.

Notes

1. "Stationspreisliste 2024" [Station price list 2024] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 24 April 2023. Retrieved 29 November 2023.
2. Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas) (2009/2010 ed.). Schweers + Wall. 2009. ISBN 978-3-89494-139-0.
3. "Wabenplan" (PDF). Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Neckar. February 2021. Retrieved 21 February 2021.
4. "Tarifinformationen 2021" (PDF). Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund. 1 January 2021. p. 131. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 May 2021. Retrieved 8 April 2021.
5. "Bahnhof Auerbach". Cultural monuments in Hesse (in German). Retrieved 25 December 2012.
6. "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.
7. "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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