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Bensheim Auerbach station

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Station code
  
489

IBNR
  
8000877

Address
  
64625 Bensheim, Germany

Platforms in use
  
3

DS100 code
  
FBAU

Category
  
5

Opened
  
1850

Architect
  
Bensheim-Auerbach station

Location
  
Otto-Beck-Str. 32, Bensheim, HesseGermany

Line(s)
  
Main-Neckar Railway (47.2 km) (KBS 650)

Similar
  
Bensheim station, Staatspark Fürstenlager, Zwingenberg (Bergstraße) station, Weinheim (Bergstraße) station, Bickenbach (Bergstr) station

Bensheim-Auerbach station is a station on the Main-Neckar Railway in the Bensheim district of Auerbach on the Mountain Road in the German state of Hesse. It has a heritage-listed entrance building. The station is classified by Deutsche Bahn (DB) as a category 5 station. Only Regionalbahn services stop at the 3 platform tracks (only tracks 1 and 2 are used regularly).

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History

The station was opened in 1850 along on the Main-Neckar Railway, which was opened in 1846 between Frankfurt and Heidelberg.

The plans for the entrance building were probably drawn up by the Darmstadt court architect Georg Moller. The station is a two-storey building, originally containing railway residential and administrative spaces. It features a gable roof covered with a low pitched roof. Beneath the eaves there are small mezzanine windows. The station has three lines of windows built of yellow sandstone. The southern gable is clad in timber. On the trackside toward the roof there are cast iron columns, which were probably made in 1846. On the southwest side a small signal box house was built in 1920. There is architectural evidence that it was designed by Heinrich Metzendorf.

Infrastructure

The station is classified as a category 5 station.

In December 2007, DB announced that it intended to sell the station building and shortly later that it had sold it to an investor.

The station is an increasingly important transport hub for the region and it is included in the overall concept for Hessentag 2014, which is being celebrated in Bensheim. There are also proposals to include it on a new line of the Rhine-Neckar S-Bahn. Work has therefore been under way since April 2012 to fully rehabilitate it.

Operations

The trains is served by the RB 68 Regionalbahn (stopping) service on the Heidelberg Hbf–Weinheim (Bergstr)–Bensheim-Auerbach–Bensheim–Darmstadt Hbf–Frankfurt (Main) Hbf route.

References

Bensheim-Auerbach station Wikipedia


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