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Offenbach (Main) Hauptbahnhof

Coordinates: 50°5′58″N 8°45′39″E / 50.09944°N 8.76083°E / 50.09944; 8.76083
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Offenbach am Main Hauptbahnhof
Deutsche Bahn
Through station
General information
LocationBismarckstr. 146, Offenbach am Main, Hesse
Germany
Coordinates50°5′58″N 8°45′39″E / 50.09944°N 8.76083°E / 50.09944; 8.76083
Line(s)
Platforms6 [1]
Construction
ArchitectDe la Sauce and Schenk
Architectural styleRenaissance Revival
Other information
Station code4742[2]
DS100 codeFO[3]
IBNR8000349
Category4[2]
Fare zoneRhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund (RMV): 3601[4]
Websitewww.bahnhof.de
History
Opened1873
Services
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Map
Location
Offenbach am Main Hauptbahnhof is located in Hesse
Offenbach am Main Hauptbahnhof
Offenbach am Main Hauptbahnhof
Location within Hesse
Offenbach am Main Hauptbahnhof is located in Germany
Offenbach am Main Hauptbahnhof
Offenbach am Main Hauptbahnhof
Location within Germany
Offenbach am Main Hauptbahnhof is located in Europe
Offenbach am Main Hauptbahnhof
Offenbach am Main Hauptbahnhof
Location within Europe

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).

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 was temporarily connected to Deutsche Bahn’s Intercity-Express network in May 1996, but it now has few long-distance services. It has up to two Intercity services each day. Otherwise there are only regional services to destinations in Hesse and Bavaria.

Even before that Offenbach Hauptbahnhof had been greatly reduced in its importance, because a line of the Rhine-Main S-Bahn had been built through Offenbach. This 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.

The city of Offenbach has proposed that Offenbach (Main) Ost station be declared the Hauptbahnhof because of its better transport connections. This would further reduce the significance of the current Hauptbahnhof.

Services

IC connections

(*) Only in the direction shown

Regional connections
  • RE 50: Fulda – Wächtersbach – Gelnhausen – Hanau Hbf – Offenbach (Main) Hbf – Frankfurt (Main) Hbf
  • RB 51: Wächtersbach – Gelnhausen – Langenselbold – Hanau Hbf – Offenbach (Main) Hbf – Frankfurt (Main) Hbf
  • RE 55: (Bamberg Hbf – Würzburg Hbf – Aschaffenburg Hbf –) Hanau Hbf – Offenbach (Main) Hbf – Frankfurt (Main) Hbf
  • RE 85: (Erbach (Odenw) –) Groß-Umstadt Wiebelsbach – Babenhausen (Hess) – Seligenstadt (Hess) – Hanau Hbf – Offenbach (Main) Hbf – Frankfurt (Main) Hbf
  • Views of the station
  • Main entrance
    Main entrance
  • South side
    South side
  • View from the station towards the bus station on Bismarckstraße
    View from the station towards the bus station on Bismarckstraße
  • The station from the bus station
    The station from the bus station

Notes

  1. ^ "Station track plan" (PDF) (in German). Deutsche Bahn. Retrieved 18 November 2011.
  2. ^ a b "Stationspreisliste 2024" [Station price list 2024] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 24 April 2023. Retrieved 29 November 2023.
  3. ^ Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas) (2009/2010 ed.). Schweers + Wall. 2009. ISBN 978-3-89494-139-0.
  4. ^ "Tarifinformationen 2021" (PDF). Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund. 1 January 2021. p. 153. Retrieved 8 April 2021.
  5. ^ Landesamt für Denkmalpflege Hessen, ed. (2005). Eisenbahn in Hessen. Kulturdenkmäler in Hessen. Denkmaltopographie Bundesrepublik Deutschland (in German). Vol. 2.1 (Strecke 019). Theiss Verlag Stuttgart. ISBN 3-8062-1917-6.

References

  • Landesamt für Denkmalpflege Hessen, ed. (2005). Eisenbahn in Hessen. Kulturdenkmäler in Hessen. Denkmaltopographie Bundesrepublik Deutschland (in German). Vol. 2.1 (Strecke 019). Theiss Verlag Stuttgart. ISBN 3-8062-1917-6.
  • Michael Hofmann (2004). Die Eisenbahn in Offenbach und im Rodgau (in German). DGEG Medien. ISBN 978-3-937189-08-6.
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