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Schlüchtern station

Coordinates: 50°20′28″N 9°30′35″E / 50.341054°N 9.50967°E / 50.341054; 9.50967
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Schlüchtern
Deutsche Bahn
Junction station
General information
LocationAm Bahnhof 1
Schlüchtern, Hesse
Germany
Coordinates50°20′28″N 9°30′35″E / 50.341054°N 9.50967°E / 50.341054; 9.50967
Owned byDB Netz
Operated byDB Station&Service
Line(s)
Platforms4
Other information
Station code5601[1]
DS100 codeFSUE[2]
IBNR8000891
Category4[1]
Websitewww.bahnhof.de
History
Opened15 December 1868
Services
Preceding station   DB Regio Mitte   Following station
Template:RE-Hesse lines
TerminusTemplate:RB-Hesse lines
Location
Schlüchtern is located in Hesse
Schlüchtern
Schlüchtern
Location within Hesse

Schlüchtern station is a station in the town of Schlüchtern in the German state of Hesse on the Kinzig Valley Railway (German: Kinzigtalbahn). The station is classified by Deutsche Bahn (DB) as a category 4 station.[1]

History

The station was opened on 15 December 1868 along with the NeuhofSteinau (Straße) section of the Kinzig Valley Railway. The Kinzig Valley Railway was built as part of the Frankfurt–Bebra railway, which was established by the Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel, the Grand Duchy of Hesse and Free City of Frankfurt, but was confiscated by the Prussian government following the War of 1866.

Station facilities

Platforms

The station has 4 platform tracks, a "home" platform (next to the station building), an island platform and a side platform. The home platform (platform 1) is only used by Regionalbahn services running on the Schlüchtern–JossaGemündenWürzburg route, which begin and end here. The central platform (tracks 2 and 4) is used by Regional-Express services on the FrankfurtFulda route. The side platform (platform 5) is rarely used. About 3 km east of the station is the beginning of the Schlüchtern tunnel through the Distelrasen ridge.

Entrance building

The stately entrance building of 1868 is now listed as a monument under the Hessian Heritage Act. It is a built in various styles on the hillside above the town on the south side of the tracks. The two storey brick building has an H-shaped floor plan with a completely symmetrical facade. The freight shed is uphill to the west. The canopies over the pedestrian underpass were built in 1910 of steel and glass in the Art Nouveau style.

Operations

Fares in Schlüchtern are set by the Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund (Rhine-Main Transport Association). The station is served by a Regionalbahn service every two hours and a Regional-Express service every hour. It is served by a single Intercity service on the BebraFuldaFrankfurt route from Mondays to Fridays, which stops at the station at 5:56. On Mondays the service starts from Berlin-Gesundbrunnen. It stops in the opposite direction at 19:09.

References

Footnotes

  1. ^ a b c "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) (10 ed.). Schweers + Wall. 2017. ISBN 978-3-89494-146-8.

Sources

  • Landesamt für Denkmalpflege Hessen, ed. (2005). Eisenbahn in Hessen. Kulturdenkmäler in Hessen. Denkmaltopographie Bundesrepublik Deutschland (in German). Vol. 2.1. Stuttgart: Theiss Verlag. pp. 184ff. ISBN 3-8062-1917-6.

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