Osthofen station

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Osthofen
Station building from the track side
Station building from the track side
Data
Location in the network Intermediate station
Design Through station
Platform tracks 3 (formerly 5)
abbreviation FOHF
Price range 4th
opening 1853
Architectural data
Architectural style classicism
architect Ignaz Opfermann
location
country Rhineland-Palatinate
Country Germany
Coordinates 49 ° 42 '19 "  N , 8 ° 19' 33"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 42 '19 "  N , 8 ° 19' 33"  E
Railway lines
Railway stations in Rhineland-Palatinate
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Platform systems at Osthofen station before modernization for the introduction of the RheinNeckar S-Bahn on the line between Mainz and the main station in Ludwigshafen am Rhein
Osthofen train station, street side
Passage of the Regional-Express Mainz - Karlsruhe through the Osthofen train station (summer 2018)

The Osthofen station is the station of the city Osthofen in Rhineland-Palatinate Alzey-Worms . Formerly an important railway junction of four different railway lines , today it is just a simple S-Bahn station .

Geographical location

The station is located at 37.7 km of the Mainz – Mannheim line in the Upper Rhine Plain . The postal address of the station is Bahnhofstrasse 1, 67574 Osthofen.

history

The station went into scheduled operation on August 7, 1853 , when the line coming from the north from Mainz was ready for operation. The builder of the route and the station was the Hessian Ludwig Railway . On August 25, 1853, the section leading south from the station to Worms went into operation.

Over the course of time, the station received additional connections, but these have largely been abandoned:

The associated locomotive station was given up as early as 1927. By 2016, the station was rebuilt to be barrier-free.

Today the S-Bahn line S6 of the S-Bahn Rhein-Neckar runs between Mainz and Mannheim . Since the 2018/2019 timetable change in December 2018, the route has been operated every half hour - even on weekends.

description

Osthofen station is a through station with three platform tracks . The station building is on its side to the west of the tracks. There is a house platform ( platform 1) and a central platform ( platform 2 and 3); this is reached via a tunnel with elevator systems . According to the timetable, only tracks 1 and 2 are used to stop the passenger trains. There is also a passing track east of the platforms . To the south of the platforms there used to be several parking and loading tracks . In addition, tracks from the railway line to Guntersblum branched off here. The station belongs to category 4.

Reception building

The station building in Osthofen is a standardized type of building that the architect of the high-rise buildings on the route, Ignaz Opfermann , had built in most of the stations along the route. Despite all the changes to the building and its surroundings, its external appearance is well preserved. Two single-storey wings parallel to the platform are attached to the two-storey, gable-end middle section. In contrast to the main building, these are eaves. The main building is triaxial. The reception building is classicist, has clear cubic shapes and a flat roof pitch. Arched windows and cornices predominantly structure the building. Inside there were separate waiting rooms for first and second class on the one hand and third class on the other . The station restaurant was only installed later.

The reception building is a testament to artistic creation and the history of technology and a building that characterizes the town of Osthofen, whose preservation, maintenance, documentation and scientific research are of historical, scientific, artistic, urban development and public interest . According to the criteria of the Rhineland-Palatinate Monument Protection Act , it is therefore a cultural monument . Nevertheless, it is not listed as such in any list of the Directorate State Monument Preservation ( State Office for Monument Preservation Rhineland-Palatinate).

The reception building now houses a police station , a post office and a restaurant, among other things .

traffic

Rail transport

Trains on the S6 S6 of the RheinNeckar S-Bahn from Mainz via Worms and Frankenthal to Mannheim stop at Osthofen station every 30 minutes . Some trains continue from Mannheim via Weinheim to Bensheim . The journey time to Mainz main station is around 40 minutes, Mannheim main station can be reached in around 45 minutes. Occasionally, trains on Regional Express lines 4 and 14 between Frankfurt and Karlsruhe or Frankfurt and Mannheim also stop in Osthofen .

The former routes to Westhofen and Gau Odernheim were completely shut down in 1958 and 1992 . On the Osthofen – Rheindürkheim – Guntersblum railway line, known as the “Altrheinbahn”, only a few goods traffic to Worms-Rheindürkheim take place today .

Bus transport

From the Osthofen Bahnhof bus stop , the VRN buses 431, 432, 434 and 435 run to Worms , Alzey and other places in the Alzey-Worms district.

literature

  • Reinhard Dietrich : A railway is opened . In: Der Wormsgau 33 (2017). ISSN  0084-2613 . ISBN 978-3-88462-380-0 , pp. 111-126.
  • Hans Döhn: Railway policy and railway construction in Rheinhessen 1835-1914 . Mainz 1957.
  • Ralph Häussler: Railways in Worms. From the Ludwig Railway to the Rhineland-Palatinate Clock. Publishing house Stefan Kehl. Hamm (Rheinhessen) 2003. ISBN 3-935651-10-4 .
  • Silvia Speckert: Ignaz Opfermann (1799–1866): Selected examples of his construction work in the vicinity of the city of Mainz = housework to obtain the academic degree of a Magister [!] Artium. Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz 1989. Typed. Volume 1: Text, Volume 2: Tables. Mainz City Archives: 1991/25 No. 11.

Web links

Commons : Bahnhof Osthofen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ abbreviation
  2. ↑ Internet presentation of Osthofen train station
  3. ↑ Internet presence of the State Main Archives Koblenz : August 24, 1853. The opening of the Mainz – Worms railway line . Accessed September 16, 2017; Dietrich: A railway is opened , p. 114f.
  4. ↑ Internet presence of the State Main Archives Koblenz : August 24, 1853. The opening of the Mainz – Worms railway line . Accessed September 16, 2017; Dietrich: A railway is opened , p. 115ff.
  5. ↑ Häussler, p. 144; Georg Jakob Ertel: The Gickelche - The Westhofen Railway . Westhofen 2002. Without ISBN.
  6. ^ Eisenbahndirektion Mainz (Ed.): Collection of the published official gazettes. November 24, 1900. Volume 4, No. 54. Announcement No. 514, p. 401
  7. ^ Martin Krauss: Development of the Railway Infrastructure 1997/98. In: Bahn-Report . 2/1999, pp. 4–7 (7)
  8. ^ Deutsche Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft (Ed.): Official Gazette of the Reichsbahndirektion in Mainz of May 21, 1927, No. 22. Nachrichten, p. 148.
  9. ^ City portrait on the website of the city of Osthofen
  10. ↑ Vorderpfalz: New S 6 from Mainz to Mannheim , rheinpfalz.de , May 25, 2018
  11. ↑ DB station data 2018
  12. ↑ Speckert, p. 74
  13. ↑ § 3 Paragraph 1 RPDSchG
  14. ↑ See: Dieter Krienke and Ingrid Westerhoff: District of Alzey Worms. Verbandsgemeinden Eich, Monsheim and Wonnegau = monument topography Federal Republic of Germany . Cultural monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate 20.3. Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Worms 2018. ISBN 978-3-88462-379-4 , pp. 243–288; List of monuments in Osthofen , Alzey-Worms district .
  15. ^ Note on the homepage of the Wonnegau community
  16. ↑ Deutsche Post | Branches, DHL parcel shops and points of sale | Osthofen. Retrieved January 25, 2019 .
  17. ↑ Homepage of the station restaurant
  18. ↑ Line timetables of the RNN (individual timetables available as PDF)
  19. ↑ Transport & Public Transport | City of Osthofen. Retrieved January 28, 2019 .