Station code 0957 Category 5 Opened 30 October 1870 | DS100 code FBDG Website www.bahnhof.de Platforms in use 2 | |
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Location Büdingen, Hesse
Germany Line(s) Gießen–Gelnhausen railway (54.8 km) Similar Glauburg‑Stockheim station, Gelnhausen station, Schlosshotel Büdingen, Grünberg station, Nidda station | ||
Büdingen (Oberhess) station is a station on the Gießen–Gelnhausen railway (also known as the Lahn-Kinzig Railway) in the town of Büdingen in the German state of Hesse. The station is located in the centre of the town. Büches-Düdelsheim station is also located in the municipality, in the district of Büches. The station is classified by Deutsche Bahn (DB) as a category 5 station.
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History
The station was opened on 30 October 1870 as the end of the third section of the Lahn Gießen–Gelnhausen railway (Nidda–Büdingen) by the Upper Hessian Railway Company (German: Oberhessische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft). Exactly a month later, the railway was extended to Gelnhausen.
The entrance hall of the station is now listed as a monument under the Hessian Heritage Act. The station building is now owned by a private investor and serves as a station for years no longer. The condition has deteriorated and dilapidated.
Operations
Büdingen is served only by the RB (Regionalbahn) 36 service of the Hessische Landesbahn (Hessian State Railway, HLB) on the Gießen–Nidda–Glauburg-Stockheim–Gelnhausen route. The “house” platform (platform 1) is used by trains towards Gelnhausen. Track 2 is used by trains towards Nidda or Gießen. The service operates at 60-minute intervals in both directions, but is supplemented by an extra service towards Gelnhausen in the morning peak and after lunch and from Gelnhausen in the evening peak. Gießen can be reached in around 75 minutes by train, Frankfurt (with a change in Gelnhausen to the RE 50 service) in about an hour.
The Lahn-Kinzig Railway also offers interchanges in Nidda (with SE/RB 32 towards Friedberg or Frankfurt) and in Glauburg-Stockheim (with RE/RB 34 towards Bad Vilbel or Frankfurt).
Buses
Büdinger station is connected by several bus routes to the surrounding area.