Offenbach (Main) Hauptbahnhof

Offenbach am Main Hauptbahnhof is a railway station serving the German city of Offenbach am Main. It is located on the Frankfurt–Göttingen railway between Frankfurt and Hanau on the south bank of the Main. It is also the starting point of the Rodgau Railway, via Obertshausen, Rodgau and Ober-Roden to Dieburg (originally to Reinheim).

Offenbach (Main) Hbf
General information
Location	Bismarckstr. 146, Offenbach am Main, Hesse Germany
Coordinates	50°5′58″N 8°45′39″E
Line(s)	Frankfurt–Hanau (south Main) (10.1, KBS 615, KBS 641 km) Offenbach–Dieburg–Reinheim (0.0 km)
Platforms	6 [1]
Construction
Accessible	No
Architect	De la Sauce and Schenk
Architectural style	Renaissance Revival
Other information
Station code	4742[2]
DS100 code	FO[3]
IBNR	8000349
Category	4[2]
Fare zone	: 3601[4]
Website	www.bahnhof.de
History
Opened	1873
Services
Preceding station DB Regio Mitte Following station Frankfurt South towards Frankfurt (Main) Hbf RE 50 Hanau Hbf towards Bebra Hanau Hbf towards Frankfurt (Main) Hbf RB 51 Hanau Hbf towards Wächtersbach Preceding station DB Regio Bayern Following station Hanau Hbf towards Frankfurt (Main) Hbf RE 55 Hanau Hbf towards Würzburg Hbf Preceding station VIAS Following station Frankfurt South towards Frankfurt (Main) Hbf RE 85 Hanau Hbf towards Groß-Umstadt-Wiebelsbach
Location

History

Vogelbrunnen ("bird fountain") by Bruno Schäfer

The station was built from 1872 to 1873 during the construction of the Frankfurt–Bebra railway and was given an entrance building in Renaissance Revival style. It was commissioned by the Königliche Eisenbahndirektion (Royal Railway Division) of Frankfurt. Because of the development of the city around the line which was originally laid on the same level as the roads, the railway was put on an embankment between 1912 and 1926 so that the increasing road traffic could run under it. This forced the rail track field to be elevated. A new station building was out of the question because of the depressed economic conditions. The entrance building was radically restructured in the 1920s with a "conservative-traditionalist” appearance. The entrance building is listed as a monument under the Hessian Monument Protection Act.^[5] There is a fountain by Bruno Schaefer called Vogelbrunnen ("bird fountain") on the platform between tracks 1 and 2.

Significance

The station has had no Deutsche Bahn long-distance services since December 2016, although it has been served by FlixTrain since 2022.

The opening of a line of the Rhine-Main S-Bahn through Offenbach in 1995 greatly reduced the station's importance. The new line runs in a tunnel under central Offenbach and bypasses the Hauptbahnhof. On its western side it partly uses the route of the former Frankfurt-Offenbach Local Railway (Frankfurt-Offenbach Lokalbahn). After Deutsche Bahn had stopped investing in the station building for some time, the ticket office was closed in January 2011, so that Offenbach Hauptbahnhof no longer has any rail staff.

Services

The following services stopped at the station in 2024:

Line	Route	Interval
FLX 11	Mainz – Frankfurt-Flughafen – Frankfurt-Süd – Offenbach (Main) – Hanau – Fulda – Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe – Göttingen – Hannover Messe/Latzen – Wolfsburg – Berlin-Spandau – Berlin	3 times a week
RE 50	Fulda – Wächtersbach – Gelnhausen – Hanau Hbf – Offenbach (Main) Hbf – Frankfurt (Main) Hbf	Hourly (extra trains in peak)
RB 51	Wächtersbach – Gelnhausen – Langenselbold – Hanau Hbf – Offenbach (Main) Hbf – Frankfurt (Main) Hbf	Hourly (20/40 mins in peak)
RE 55	(Bamberg Hbf –) Würzburg Hbf – Aschaffenburg Hbf – Hanau Hbf – Offenbach (Main) Hbf – Frankfurt (Main) Hbf	2 hourly (extra trains in peak, some to/from Bamberg)
RE 85	(Erbach (Odenw) –) Groß-Umstadt Wiebelsbach – Babenhausen (Hess) –) Seligenstadt (Hess) – Hanau Hbf – Offenbach (Main) Hbf – Frankfurt (Main) Hbf	Hourly (2 hourly to/from Erbach)

• Views of the station
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  Main entrance
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  South side
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  View from the station towards the bus station on Bismarckstraße
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  The station from the bus station