Darmstadt Süd station

• Main-Neckar Railway ( 29.7 km )

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The Darmstadt Süd station located on the Main-Neckar Railway in Darmstadt. Former through station has now been converted to the breakpoint. The station building is a cultural monument under the Hessian Monument Protection Act.

History

The first station was built on the old track route of the Main-Neckar Railway, at the corner Donnersbergring and Bessunger Street on October 15, 1879 as the breakpoint Bessungen, which was called from the November 27, 1902 Darmstadt Süd. It was a stop for the passenger and freight transport. With the construction of the Darmstadt main station it came from 1909 to 1912 to the direction of the west and lowering of the railway line and the construction of a new South Station as a breakpoint.

On 1 January 2008, the British real estate investor Patron Capital acquired the station building in a package with other station buildings.

Architecture

The draft of the new South Station in Classicism and home style dates from the building officer of the railway department of Mainz, Friedrich Mette gear. The cubic building has a rendered facade and windows with horizontal bars and shutters. A balcony on four square pillars standing points to the street frontage. The upper building concludes with a hipped roof, showing a broad, hipped dormer bat with central Runduhr on the east side. The dormer windows have wood paneling, decorated by cassette and diamond motifs and turned round columns.

Vehicular importance

At the breakpoint keep regional trains line RB 60 Heidelberg Hbf - Weinheim ( Bergstr ) - Bensheim - Darmstadt Hbf - Frankfurt (Main) Hbf Since the timetable change 2011/2012 on 11 December 2011, the South Station and stop for the period beginning at the Darmstadt Hauptbahnhof Pfungstadtbahn (RB 66).

The South Station also has a public bus H ( Darmstadt Anne- Frank-Straße - Darmstadt Alfred Messel - way or crane stone Kesselhutweg ) HEAG mobilo.