Bretten station

Bretten station is the centre of rail transport in the town of Bretten in the German state of Baden-Württemberg. The Württemberg Western Railway and the Kraichgau line cross at the station.

Bretten
Deutsche Bahn
Through station
Line S4 towards Heilbronn
General information
LocationBahnhofstr. 15 75015 Bretten, Baden-Württemberg
Germany
Coordinates49°2′13″N 8°41′35″E
Line(s)
Platforms5
Other information
Station code875
DS100 codeRBT
IBNR8000053
Category4 [1]
Fare zone
  • KVV: 258[2]
  • HNV: 602 (KVV transitional tariff, season and select daily passes only)[3]
  • VPE: 48 (KVV transitional tariff)[4]
Websitewww.bahnhof.de
History
Opened1 October 1853
Services
Preceding station Following station
Bruchsal
towards Heidelberg Hbf
 RE 17b Mühlacker
towards Stuttgart Hbf
Diedelsheim
towards Bruchsal
 MEX 17c Bretten Rechberg
towards Stuttgart Hbf
Preceding station DB Regio Mitte Following station
Wössingen Ost
towards Karlsruhe Hbf
 RE 45 Bretten Stadtmitte
towards Heilbronn Hbf
Location
Bretten is located in Baden-Württemberg
Bretten
Bretten
Location in Baden-Württemberg
Bretten is located in Germany
Bretten
Bretten
Location in Germany
Bretten is located in Europe
Bretten
Bretten
Location in Europe

History

Bretten station was opened on 1 October 1853 as part of the construction of Western Railway from Stuttgart to Bruchsal. In the late 1870s, the Kraichgau Railway was opened from Karlsruhe to Heilbronn, creating a railway junction. At the same time the station was moved from near the town centre to its present location at the junction to the west of the town centre.

The Western Railway through Bretten station was electrified in the 1950s. When Karlsruhe Stadtbahn services opened on the Kraichgau Railway to Bretten-Gölshausen on 25 September 1992, along with the electrification of the Kraichgau Railway, this first two-system light railway (tram-train) line was called line B. In May 1994, Stadtbahn line S9 opened from Bruchsal to Bretten and it was extended to Mühlacker in 1999. In 1994, line B was renamed line S4.

In the summer of 2000 the station was modernised. Among other things, the platforms were raised, waiting rooms were enlarged and a toilet was built. Between 2002 and 2004, with the opening of Stadtbahn operations on the Murg Valley Railway, services were extended to Freudenstadt, but through services were discontinued at the end of 2004 due to the route's high susceptibility to delays. In addition Regional-Express trains operate from Heidelberg to Stuttgart, stopping in Bretten, as does the so-called "Kraichgau Sprinter", which runs twice daily between Heilbronn and Karlsruhe with few stops.

In the station forecourt, there is a bus station served by bus lines 141, 143, 144, 145 and 146, connecting to Bretten and its immediate surroundings.

Notes
  1. "Stationspreisliste 2023" [Station price list 2023] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 28 November 2022. Retrieved 14 December 2022.
  2. "Wabenplan" (PDF). Karlsruher Verkehrsverbund. 13 December 2020. Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 January 2021. Retrieved 19 February 2021.
  3. "Tarifzonenplan 2021" (PDF). Heilbronner Hohenloher Haller Nahverkehr. 1 January 2021. Retrieved 22 February 2021.
  4. "Der VPE Tarifzonenplan" (PDF). Verkehrsverbund Pforzheim-Enzkreis. Retrieved 19 February 2021.

References
  • Ginter, Gottfried (1964). "Bretten als Eisenbahnknotenpunkt". Brettener Jahrbuch für Kultur und Geschichte 1964/65 (in German). Bretten. pp. 107–113.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

"Track plan of Bretten station" (PDF, 193.74 kB) (in German). Deutsche Bahn. Retrieved 24 January 2011.

S4 to Karlsruhe at entrance to station
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