Sinsheim (Elsenz) Hauptbahnhof
Sinsheim (Elsenz) Hauptbahnhof | |
|---|---|
| Through station | |
_Hbf_mit_BR_425.JPG) Station with class 425 EMU | |
| General information | |
| Location | Sinsheim, Baden-Württemberg Germany |
| Coordinates | 49°15′02″N 8°52′29″E / 49.250537°N 8.874807°E |
| Line(s) | |
| Platforms | 3 |
| Other information | |
| Station code | 5870 |
| DS100 code | RSM |
| Category | 4 [1] |
| Website | www.bahnhof.de |
| History | |
| Opened | 1868 |
Sinsheim (Elsenz) Hauptbahnhof — called Sinsheim (Elsenz) station until 2010 — is a station on the Neckargemünd–Bad Friedrichshall-Jagstfeld railway in the German state of Baden-Württemberg. The station falls within the area of the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Neckar (Transport association of Rhine-Neckar) and is an important station in the Kraichgau. In the area of the city of Sinsheim, there are also stations (all called Haltepunkte in German, “halts”) at Hoffenheim, Sinsheim Museum/Arena, Steinsfurt and Reihen.
History
The station was opened in 1868 to coincide with the opening of the Meckenheim–Rappenau section of the Neckargemünd–Bad Friedrichshall-Jagstfeld railway of the Grand Duchy of Baden State Railways. The station building was built in 1867/68. It was designed in the Weinbrenner style by a student of the architect Friedrich Weinbrenner.[2] The building, including its ground and upper storey, is listed as a cultural monument by the state of Baden-Württemberg.[3]
The station facilities had been expanded by 1900 with an overpass over Dührener Straße (street).
In 2009, the town of Sinsheim began to renovate the entrance building and the surrounding area, including the establishment of a park and ride parking area and the redesign of the bus station. The existing pedestrian zone of the town was extended to the station. Since December 2009, trains on the Rhine-Neckar S-Bahn have stopped at Sinsheim Hauptbahnhof.[4]
Station infrastructure
The station building has a largely symmetrical floor plan centred on an axis extending from the southern end of Bahnhofstraße. The platforms are on the south side of the building. East of the station building is the bus station. The tracks and the street of Jahnstraße to its south are spanned by a footbridge. This was rebuilt during the line’s electrification. The station has three platform tracks. Track 1 is located next to the station building and tracks 2 and 3 are on a central platform. South of the tracks is a timber roundhouse, including a turntable. The roundhouse, which, with its stalls for two locomotives, is used by Eisenbahnfreunde Kraichgau (railway friends of the Kraichgau) as its club house, stood in Meckenheim until 1947.[5]
Rail services
In 2012, Sinsheim Hauptbahnhof is served by Regional-Express service RE 2 (Mannheim–Heilbronn) every two hours. On weekends, occasional services of Regionalbahn service RB 10 run on the Mannheim–Stuttgart route. There are hourly services of RB 74 between Sinsheim and Bad Friedrichshall-Jagstfeld. Every half hour there is a service of line S 5 of the Rhine-Neckar S-Bahn (Heidelberg–Eppingen).
All services are usually operated with class 425 electric multiple units. Individual services of the Mannheim–Heilbronn route are operated as push-pull trains propelled by class 111 locomotives and five Silberling carriages.
The main station is next to a bus station, which is served by bus lines 741, 761, 763, 765, 767, 768, 771, 772, 795, 796 and 797 of the PalatinaBus company, which connect to the town of Sinsheim.[6][7] Shuttle buses to the Rhein-Neckar Arena football stadium, where TSG 1899 Hoffenheim plays its home games, also operate from the bus station.[8]
Notes
- ^ "Stationspreisliste 2024" [Station price list 2024] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 24 April 2023. Retrieved 29 November 2023.
- ^ "Bahnhofsgebäude, Baujahr 1868" (in German). City of Sinsheim. Retrieved 15 June 2012.
- ^ "Neues Leben im Bahnhof Sinsheim" (PDF) (in German). Dombrowski Massivhaus. Retrieved 15 June 2012.
- ^ "Neues Leben im Bahnhof Sinsheim" (in German). Dombrowski Massivhaus. Retrieved 15 June 2012.
- ^ "Vereinsheim Lokschuppen" (in German). Eisenbahnfreunde Kraichgau e.V. Retrieved 15 June 2012.
- ^ "Liniennetz Waibstadt" (in German). Palatinabus. Retrieved 15 June 2012.
- ^ "Palatina Bus gewinnt Vergabe für Linienbündel Sinsheim Süd" (in German). Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Neckar GmbH. Retrieved 15 June 2012.
- ^ "Mit den Öffentlichen zum Hoffenheim-Spiel" (in German). Rhein-Neckar blog. Retrieved 15 June 2012.
