Bensheim-Auerbach station

• Main-Neckar Railway ( 47.2 km )

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The station Bensheim -Auerbach is a former railway station, which has since been demoted to a breakpoint. It is a Grade I listed cultural monument in the district of Bensheim Auerbach. On the 3 tracks ( track 1 and 2 are regularly used) the breakpoint keep only regional trains.

History

The station Bensheim -Auerbach was built in 1850 for the Frankfurt am Main to Heidelberg leading Main-Neckar Railway. The design for the station to be from the Darmstadt city architect Georg Moller.

Presence

The station Bensheim -Auerbach is a stop of category 5 He has the station number 489

In December 2007, plans of Deutsche Bahn AG announced that it intends to sell the reception building. Shortly afterwards, the railway announced the sale to an investor known.

As an increasingly important transport hub in the region, the station is part of the overall concept for the Hessentag 2014 in Bensheim and the S-Bahn concept in the transport association Rhein- Neckar. It is therefore restored and redeveloped comprehensively since April 2012.

Rail links

• RB 60 Heidelberg Hbf - Weinheim ( Bergstr ) - Bensheim - Darmstadt Hbf - Frankfurt (Main ) Hbf ( regional train )

Construction

The station is a two-storey residential or administrative buildings. He is covered with a gable roof with a low roof pitch. Below the eaves are small mezzanine windows. The station is built in three axes with yellow sandstone. The southern gable is performed in timber. To the platforms towards the canopy stands on cast-iron columns, which probably date back from 1846. On the south side of a small layout house was built around 1920. There are architectural evidence that this cultivation of Heinrich Metz village dates.