Bensheim station

Bensheim
Bensheim
Through station
General information
Location	Amershamplatz 1, Bensheim, Hesse; Germany
Coordinates	49°40′57″N 8°37′0″E
Owned by	Deutsche Bahn
Operated by	DB Station&Service
Line(s)	Main-Neckar Railway (49.5 km) (KBS 650 ; Nibelung Railway (23.9 km) (KBS 653);
Platforms	4
Construction
Architectural style	Neoclassical
Other information
Station code	488[1]
DS100 code	FBH[2]
IBNR	8000031
Category	4[1]
Fare zone	VRN: 35[3]; : 4510 (VRN transitional tariff)[4];
Website	www.bahnhof.de
History
Opened	1846
Services
Location
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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

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

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

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

Long-distance services

EuroCity in Bensheim station

Line	Route	Frequency
ICE 15	Binz – Pasewalk – Berlin – Halle – Erfurt – Frankfurt – Darmstadt – Bensheim – Stuttgart	Individual services
ICE 26	Hamburg-Altona – Hamburg Hbf – Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe – Gießen – Frankfurt – Darmstadt – Bensheim – Heidelberg – Karlsruhe	Every 2 hours
ICE 50	Dresden – Leipzig – Erfurt – Fulda – Frankfurt – Darmstadt – Bensheim – Mannheim – Kaiserslautern – Saarbrücken	1 train pair
IC 62	Frankfurt – Darmstadt – Bensheim – Stuttgart – Munich – Salzburg – Villach – Klagenfurt	2 train pairs

Regional services

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 Mitte – Ludwigshafen Hbf – Frankenthal – Worms – Mainz	Hourly

Bus Station

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

"Stationspreisliste 2023" [Station price list 2023] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 28 November 2022. Retrieved 14 December 2022.
Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas) (2009/2010 ed.). Schweers + Wall. 2009. ISBN 978-3-89494-139-0.
"Wabenplan" (PDF). Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Neckar. February 2021. Retrieved 21 February 2021.
"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

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.

External links

"Bensheim station heritage listing" (in German). Landesamt für Denkmalpflege Hessen. Retrieved 2 December 2011.

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[categories-1] "Stationspreisliste 2023" [Station price list 2023] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 28 November 2022. Retrieved 14 December 2022.

[Eisenbahnatlas-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.