Bensheim station
- Main-Neckar Railway ( 49.5 km )
- Nibelungen track ( 23.9 km )
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The Bensheim station is a IC-/EC-Bahnhof on the route Frankfurt -Heidelberg ( Main-Neckar Railway ). The station is also Start-/Endpunkt the single track, non-electrified railway Worms Bensheim ( Nibelungen train). On Bensheim Bahnhof hold 114 daily trains, including approximately one-third of long-distance transport. It is classified in the category 4 station. As a cultural monument of Bensheim station is a listed building.
History
Almost eleven years after the Adler locomotive was taken between Nuremberg and Fürth in operation, the Main-Neckar Railway started in 1846 on their operation. For this year also comes the Bensheim station. The structure of this artery on three small states in the Rhine Valley, gave the business and industry throughout the region a significant positive pulse. 1851 was the district Auerbach - then still a separate municipality - its own train station.
1869 was the Nibelungen train, a section of the Hessian Ludwig Railway (HLB ), taken between Worms and Bensheim in operation. Bensheim now had two railway stations of two railroad companies, which were only 1872 interconnected by rail. Already in 1869 there were plans to extend the Ludwigsbahn to tap the Odenwald on the Lauter, according to Linde rock traffic- up by Reichel home. However, further experiments of this project in 1895 to realize in 1925 and 1926, ultimately failed. Between 1910 and 1912 the railway line was laid up in the city area after the construction of a dam.
Mid-1990s, the only Bensheimer goods station was closed a few years later, the dismantling of the railway tracks began.
Reception building
The station building was based on plans Georg Moller in the style of classicism on the city side, east of the railway line, built in 1845. The two-colored facade of the two-storey, basement sandstone building was characterized by nine window bays, with a central group of five. In 1900, the frontage was remodeled by two on the sides symmetrically arranged and designed as Oktogonalpavillions Stems and further lateral extensions. The eaves of the flat hip roof is adorned by a revolving Volutenfries. After Florsheim station it is the oldest completely preserved station building Hesse.
Future Plans
No later than 2015, operate on the mountain road and in the reed with connection to the two nearest metropolitan Rhine -Neckar and Rhine-Main every half hour the train, wherein the compound of Bensheim- Mannheim already exists. To this end, the train station is made S-Bahn safe by the platforms are raised. Further comprising the station redevelopment, which is expected to cost 7.5 million euros, an extension of the platforms, so that can keep a long -distance trains. The entire station is to be made accessible with elevators and escalators.
With the S -Bahn also advances the hope of becoming ICE breakpoint closer. District Matthias Wilkes is composed with the Bensheimer Mayor Thorsten Herrmann and the two mayors of Weinheim and Heidelberg to ensure that in addition to the planned ICE Quick Frankfurt- Mannheim -Stuttgart along the A67, on the current Main-Neckar line and the mainline train stations Bensheim, Weinheim and Heidelberg are established as ICE stations. For this purpose, they wrote a direct letter to the then Mehdorn, so that the fast trains later than 2017 also roll on the mountain road.
Tracks
- Track 1 and 2 serve the long-distance and regional transport ( direction Frankfurt am Main and Heidelberg / Mannheim)
- Track 3 is the regional transport direction Mannheim ( hour)
- Track 4 is the regional transport direction of the Nibelungs train Worms ( hour)
- Track 5 served the freight station as transit railway (now overgrown and decommissioned )
Regional trains
Daily trains to Berlin- south cross, Stralsund, Salzburg, Konstanz, Karlsruhe, Hamburg- Altona, Hanover, Munich, Kassel, Stuttgart, Ostseebad Binz and Zurich.
Regional connections
- With RB 63, then change into Buerstadt: RE 70 Mannheim - Lampert Home - Buerstadt - Biblis - Frankfurt am Main (Regional Express)
- With RB 63, then change into Buerstadt: RB 2 Karlsruhe - Mannheim - Lampert Home - Buerstadt - Biblis ( regional train )
- RB 63 Worms - Buerstadt - Bensheim ( regional train )
Bus station
Prior to the reception building of the station is the covered bus station with seven stops and connections in Bensheim Districts by Citybus, the Lauter, after Buerstadt, Heppenheim, Jugenheim and Lorsch by bus.