Schlüchtern station

Schlüchtern
Junction station
General information
Location	Am Bahnhof 1 Schlüchtern, Hesse Germany
Coordinates	50°20′28″N 9°30′35″E
Owned by	DB Netz
Operated by	DB Station&Service
Line(s)	Flieden–Gemünden railway (77.6 km) Kinzig Valley Railway (74.4 km)
Platforms	4
Other information
Station code	5601
DS100 code	FSUE
IBNR	8000891
Category	4
Website	www.bahnhof.de
History
Opened	15 December 1868
Services
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Location 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.

History

The station was opened on 15 December 1868 along with the Neuhof–Steinau (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–Jossa–Gemünden–Würzburg route, which begin and end here. The central platform (tracks 2 and 4) is used by Regional-Express services on the Frankfurt–Fulda 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 Bebra–Fulda–Frankfurt 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

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.

External links

• "Photographs of stations" (in German). vergessene-bahnen.de. Retrieved 29 June 2012.