Heppenheim (Bergstr) station
- Main-Neckar Railway ( 53.6 km )
- Nibelungen railway (km 5.2 ) ( decommissioned)
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Heppenheim Train Station ( Bergstr ) of the town of Heppenheim ( mountain road ) is located on the railway line Heidelberg - Frankfurt ( Main-Neckar Railway ). On weekdays the station is connected with two intercity services to the long-distance network of Deutsche Bahn AG (DB).
- 3.1 Reception Building
- 3.2 trackage
History
Opened the railway station as part of the section-wise opening of the Main- Neckar line on June 22, 1846 Langen - Darmstadt - Heppenheim. As part of the Baden Revolution the station was Attacks and occupied several times.
1903, the link Heppenheim - Lorsch of the Nibelungs railway was built. Because of the failure of the Odenwald connection with the Nibelungen train also hoped the traffic below expectations remained. Some decades later, the route Heppenheim - Lorsch was shut down and dismantled.
Compounds
Long-distance traffic
On weekdays there is one intercity route to Frankfurt ( Main ) Hbf and Saarbrücken Hbf
Regional Transport
In the transport association Rhein -Neckar ( VRN) is the route out as a line R60.
On working days, some trains from Mannheim continue to Mainz Hbf, one of them runs to Wiesbaden Hbf
By 2017, Heppenheim is to be integrated into the network of S- Bahn Rhein Neckar.
Railway stations
Reception building
The station building was based on a design Georg Moller in the style of classicism on the city side, east of the railway line, built 1845-1846. The façade of the basement two-story sandstone building is featured on the long side by five axes, the central group of three, designed as portals to the vestibule on the ground floor, has. On the lateral side of the three windows axes are present. The eaves of the flat hip roof is adorned by a revolving Volutenfries. On both sides of the main building are approximately symmetric, single storey extensions. The platform roof in front of the reception building is supported by union construction period lattice beams on thin columns with narrow capitals of cast iron. As an example of the early railway station, the building is a listed building.
Until Hessentag in summer 2004 in Heppenheim, the station was modernized and equipped for disabled people.
Track systems
In the area of the station are still numerous shunting and freight tracks that led to different companies, but today are overgrown. You are no longer used for freight. For passenger transport, two platform tracks available.