Osterburken station

Osterburken
Junction station
Train in Osterburken station (April 1984)
General information
Location	Bahnhofstr. 1, Osterburken, Baden-Württemberg Germany
Coordinates	49°25′48″N 9°25′22″E
Owned by	Deutsche Bahn
Operated by	DB Netz DB Station&Service
Line(s)	Stuttgart–Würzburg (km 101.8) Neckarelz–Osterburken (km 81.3)
Platforms	4
Other information
Station code	4790
DS100 code	TO
IBNR	80004790
Category	4
Website	www.bahnhof.de
History
Opened	1866
Services
Preceding station   DB Regio Baden-Württemberg   Following station Template:RE stations toward Template:RE stations Template:RE lines Frankenbahn Template:RE stations toward Template:RE stations Template:RB stations toward Template:RB stations Template:RB lines Frankenbahn Terminus Preceding station   Rhine-Neckar S-Bahn   Following station Template:SRN stations toward Template:SRN stations Template:SRN lines Terminus   Future service as of 15 December 2019   Preceding station   Go-Ahead Baden-Württemberg   Following station Template:RE-BW stations toward Template:RE-BW stations Template:RE-BW lines Template:RE-BW stations toward Template:RE-BW stations   Future service as of 14 June 2020   Preceding station   Abellio Rail Baden-Württemberg   Following station Terminus Template:RB-BW lines Template:RB-BW stations toward Template:RB-BW stations
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Osterburken station is at the junction of the Franconia Railway and the Neckarelz–Osterburken railway. It is served by Regionalbahn, Regional-Express and Rhine-Neckar S-Bahn services.

Location

The station is located about 300 metres from central Osterburken.

History

The Royal Württemberg State Railways (Königlich Württembergischen Staats-Eisenbahnen or K.W.St.E.) opened the station in 1866 as the terminus of the Lower Jagst Railway (Untere Jagstbahn) from Heilbronn to Osterburken, now considered part of the Franconia Railway. At the same time the Mannheim–Würzburg railway (Odenwaldbahn) railway was opened.

At the end of March 1945, an "evacuation" train with detainees from the Neckarelz concentration camp was parked near the station for three days. Nine of the detainees died and were buried in a common grave at what is now the old cemetery; a memorial stone is located there.

Services on line S1 of the Rhine-Neckar S-Bahn commenced at the 2003/2004 timetable change on 14 December 2003. As part of the upgrade for the S-Bahn, the platforms for tracks 1 (next to the entrance building) and 3 (bay platform) were equipped for the disabled and are provided with shelters from the weather. The 140 metre-long and 76 centimetre-high platforms now provide level access to the S-Bahn trains, which operate almost exclusively on track 1.

Rail services

Osterburken Station is a railway junction in Baden. The Franconia Railway (Stuttgart–Würzburg) and the Neckarelz–Osterburken railway, part of the Baden Odenwald Railway, meet here. On the latter route, the station is the terminus of line S1 of the Rhine-Neckar S-Bahn. Regional-Express services connect with Würzburg at two-hour intervals, and are supplemented by additional peak hour services. Regional-Express services run via Heilbronn to Stuttgart every 120 minutes. Regionalbahn services run to/from Heilbronn and Stuttgart, some starting or ending at Lauda. The S1 service provides an hourly connection to Homburg via Mosbach-Neckarelz, Eberbach, Heidelberg, Mannheim, Ludwigshafen, Neustadt (Weinstraße) and Kaiserslautern.

Train class	Route	Interval
IRE	Osterburken – Bad Friedrichshall – Neckarsulm – Heilbronn – Stuttgart	One train pair
RE	Würzburg – Lauda – Osterburken – Bad Friedrichshall – Neckarsulm – Heilbronn – Bietigheim-Bissingen – Ludwigsburg – Stuttgart	120 minutes (+ extra services in peak)
RB	(Lauda –) Osterburken – Möckmühl – Bad Friedrichshall – Neckarsulm – Heilbronn – Bietigheim-Bissingen – Ludwigsburg – Stuttgart	60 minutes
Template:S-Bahn-RheinNeckar	Homburg (Saar) – Kaiserslautern – Neustadt (Weinstr) – Schifferstadt – Ludwigshafen (Rhein) – Mannheim – Heidelberg – Eberbach – Mosbach-Neckarelz – Osterburken	60 minutes

Entrance building

Built in the 1860s, the entrance building was auctioned by Deutsche Bahn in 2014 and bought by the municipality of Osterburken for €120,000. It has an area of around 1090 square metres and a part of the building that is not used by Deutsche Bahn is rented out.

References

Sources

• Helmut Maisch und Herbert Walz (1998). Osterburken ... wie es einmal war (in German). Horb am Neckar: Geiger. ISBN 3-89570-503-9.
• Helmut Neumaier (1973). Osterburken Stationen seiner Geschichte (in German). Heidelberg: Milte.
• Elmar Weiss, Helmut Neumaier (1986). Geschichte der Stadt Osterburken (in German). Osterburken: Stadt Osterburken.

External links

• "Tracks in Service" (PDF) (in German). Deutsche Bahn. Retrieved 24 May 2016.