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Bensheim station

Coordinates: 49°40′57″N 8°37′0″E / 49.68250°N 8.61667°E / 49.68250; 8.61667
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Bensheim
Deutsche Bahn Rhine-Neckar S-Bahn
Through station
General information
LocationAmershamplatz 1, Bensheim, Hesse
Germany
Coordinates49°40′57″N 8°37′0″E / 49.68250°N 8.61667°E / 49.68250; 8.61667
Owned byDeutsche Bahn
Operated byDB Station&Service
Line(s)
Platforms4
Construction
Architectural styleNeoclassical
Other information
Station code488[1]
DS100 codeFBH[2]
IBNR8000031
Category4[1]
Fare zone
  • VRN: 35[3]
  • Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund (RMV): 4510 (VRN transitional tariff)[4]
Websitewww.bahnhof.de
History
Opened1846
Services
Preceding station DB Fernverkehr Following station
Darmstadt Hbf ICE 15 Mannheim Hbf
Weinheim (Bergstraße) Hbf
Darmstadt Hbf
towards Hamburg Hbf
ICE 26 Weinheim (Bergstraße) Hbf
Darmstadt Hbf ICE 62 Weinheim (Bergstraße) Hbf
IC 87 Weinheim (Bergstraße) Hbf
Preceding station DB Regio Mitte Following station
Zwingenberg (Bergstraße) RE 60 Heppenheim (Bergstraße)
towards Mannheim Hbf
Bensheim-Auerbach RB 67 Heppenheim (Bergstraße)
RB 68 Heppenheim (Bergstraße)
Terminus RB 63 Lorsch
towards Worms Hbf
Preceding station Rhine-Neckar S-Bahn Following station
Terminus S6 Heppenheim (Bergstraße)
towards Mainz Hbf
Location
Bensheim is located in Hesse
Bensheim
Bensheim
Location in Hesse
Bensheim is located in Germany
Bensheim
Bensheim
Location in Germany
Bensheim is located in Europe
Bensheim
Bensheim
Location in Europe

Bensheim station is in the town of Bensheim on the Main-Neckar Railway, connecting Frankfurt and Heidelberg, in the German state of Hesse. The station is also the beginning and end of the single-track non-electrified Worms–Bensheim line (Nibelung Railway). 114 trains stop at Bensheim station every day, of which about one-third are long-distance services. It is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 3 station.[1] Bensheim station is protected as a cultural monument under the Hessian heritage legislation.

History

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The railway in 1907
The station in central Bensheim

Almost eleven years after the Adler locomotive began to run over the Bavarian Ludwig Railway between Nuremberg and Fürth, the Main-Neckar Railway was opened in 1846. Bensheim station was opened in the same year. The building of this artery through three small states in the Rhine valley stimulated trade and industry throughout the region. In 1851, the Auerbach district—then still a separate municipality—gained its own station.

In 1869, the Nibelungen railway, a section of the Hessian Ludwig Railway (German: Hessische Ludwigsbahn, HLB) was put into operation between Bensheim and Worms. Bensheim now had two railway stations, operated by two railway companies, which were not connected by rail with each other until 1872. As early as 1869 there were plans to extend the Ludwigs Railway to the Odenwald via the Lauter valley to Lindenfels and Reichelsheim to improve transport links. But further attempts to realise this project in 1895, 1925 and 1926 ultimately failed. Between 1910 and 1912, the railway was raised on an embankment through the city area.

In the mid 1990s Bensheim’s freight yard was closed and a few years later the dismantling of its tracks began.

The Rhine-Neckar S-Bahn was extended to run between Bensheim and Mannheim in December 2018. This required the raising of the level of the platforms to the standard height of S-Bahn platforms (76 cm). The station was also renovated, at a cost of €7.5 million, including an extension of the platforms, so that even long-distance trains can stop at them. The station is now fully accessible with lifts and escalators.

Entrance building

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The station in 1882, after a lithograph by Albin Hermann Georg Strauss
The station in 1907

The station building in 1845 was built to plans by Georg Moller in a neoclassical style on the eastern side of the line towards the city. The two-coloured facade of the two-storey, sandstone building had nine bay window around a central group of five windows. In 1900, the outer parts of the facade were replaced by two symmetrically arranged octagonal pavilions designed as porches with further lateral extensions. The eaves of the flat hip roof is decorated with a spiral scroll-like frieze (volute). After Florsheim station, it is the oldest completely preserved station building in Hesse.

Platforms

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  • Track 1 serves long-distance and regional services towards Darmstadt and Frankfurt am Main
  • Track 2 serves long-distance and regional services towards Mannheim and Heidelberg
  • Track 3 serves regional services towards Mannheim and Mainz
  • Track 4 is used for regional services on the Nibelungen line towards Worms.

Train services

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Long-distance services

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EuroCity in Bensheim station
Line Route Frequency
ICE 15 Binz – Pasewalk – Berlin – Halle – Erfurt – Frankfurt – Darmstadt – Bensheim  – Stuttgart Individual services
ICE 26 Hamburg-AltonaHamburg HbfKassel-WilhelmshöheGießen – Frankfurt – Darmstadt – Bensheim HeidelbergKarlsruhe Every 2 hours
ICE 50 DresdenLeipzigErfurt – Fulda – Frankfurt – Darmstadt – Bensheim MannheimKaiserslauternSaarbrücken 1 train pair
ICE 62 Frankfurt – Darmstadt – Bensheim Stuttgart – Munich – SalzburgVillachKlagenfurt Every 2 hours
IC 87 FrankfurtHeidelbergStuttgartSingen Individual services

Regional services

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Line Route Frequency
RE 60 Frankfurt – Darmstadt – Bensheim – Weinheim (Bergstraße) – Mannheim Every 1 or 2 hours
RB 63 Bensheim – Lorsch – Bürstadt – Worms Hourly
RB 67 Frankfurt – Darmstadt – Bensheim – Weinheim (Bergstraße) – Neu-Edingen/Friedrichsfeld (– Mannheim) Hourly
RB 68 Frankfurt – Darmstadt – Bensheim – Weinheim (Bergstraße) – Neu-Edingen/Friedrichsfeld – Heidelberg Hourly
S6 Bensheim – Weinheim (Bergstraße) – Neu-Edingen/Friedrichsfeld – Mannheim – Ludwigshafen MitteLudwigshafen HbfFrankenthalWormsMainz Hourly

Bus Station

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The bus station is in front of the station building with seven bays and connections to the suburbs of Bensheim by Citybus, and to Lautertal, Bürstadt, Heppenheim, Jugenheim and Lorsch.

Notes

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  1. ^ a b c "Stationspreisliste 2024" [Station price list 2024] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 24 April 2023. Retrieved 29 November 2023.
  2. ^ Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas) (2009/2010 ed.). Schweers + Wall. 2009. ISBN 978-3-89494-139-0.
  3. ^ "Wabenplan" (PDF). Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Neckar. February 2021. Retrieved 21 February 2021.
  4. ^ "Tarifinformationen 2021" (PDF). Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund. 1 January 2021. p. 131. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 May 2021. Retrieved 8 April 2021.

References

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  • Landesamt für Denkmalpflege Hessen, ed. (2005). Eisenbahn in Hessen. Kulturdenkmäler in Hessen. Denkmaltopographie Bundesrepublik Deutschland (in German). Vol. 2. Stuttgart: Theiss Verlag. p. 72. ISBN 3-8062-1917-6.
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