Offenbach (Main) Central Station
| Offenbach (Main) Hbf | |
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 Entrance building north side from Kaiserstraße
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| Location in the network | Intermediate station |
| Design | Through station |
| Platform tracks | 6th |
| abbreviation | FO |
| IBNR | 8000349 |
| Price range | 4th |
| opening | 1873 |
| Profile on Bahnhof.de | Offenbach__Main__Hbf |
| Architectural data | |
| Architectural style | Neo-renaissance |
| architect | de la Sauce and Schenk |
| location | |
| City / municipality | Offenbach am Main |
| country | Hesse |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 5 '58 " N , 8 ° 45' 39" E |
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| Railway stations in Hessen | |
The main station of the city of Offenbach am Main is located on the Frankfurt-Bebraer Eisenbahn / Hessische Kinzigtalbahn , which runs here, between Frankfurt am Main and Hanau , south of the Main . At the same time, it is the starting point of the Rodgau Railway , which leads via Obertshausen , Rodgau and Rödermark-Ober Roden to Dieburg (originally to Reinheim ).
history
The main station was built between 1872 and 1873 as part of the construction of the Frankfurt-Bebraer Railway and received a reception building in the neo-renaissance style . The client was the Royal Railway Directorate Frankfurt (Main). Initially located in the middle of fields, the gap to urban development only began to close ten years later. Due to the urban development, the tracks , which had been laid at the same level as road traffic , had to be laid on a railway embankment in the period from 1912 to 1926 in order to be able to bridge the increased traffic without crossing. To do this, the railway station's track field also had to be raised. A new construction of the reception building was out of the question because of the poor economic situation. The station building was only radically rebuilt from 1923 to 1927 according to a design by the railway architects Ernst de la Sauce and Franz Schenck. The result was a cubic building with corner pavilions in the style of Expressionism and German Art Deco with a "conservative-traditionalist charisma". The reception building is a cultural monument according to the Hessian Monument Protection Act . The bird fountain, which was designed by Bruno Schäfer , is located on the platform between track 1 and 2 .
The station is part of the Route der Industriekultur Rhein-Main project .
meaning
After the main station was temporarily connected to the ICE network of Deutsche Bahn from May 1996 , it is now almost completely decoupled from long-distance traffic. It is only used by long-distance transport in exceptional cases such as route closures, capacity problems or long delays. There are only regional connections to destinations within Hesse and Bavaria (as of July 2019).
The importance of Offenbach's main train station had already been greatly reduced because the lines of the Rhein-Main S-Bahn that crossed Offenbach were relocated to a tunnel under Offenbach's city center , a route that bypasses the main train station and partly connects to the western area The route of the former Frankfurt-Offenbacher local railway is based on.
After Deutsche Bahn had not invested in the station building for a long time, the rail counter was also closed in January 2011, so that Offenbach Central Station is no longer manned by railway personnel. In Offenbach, some violent criticism - also from the magistrate - was loud against the Deutsche Bahn. In this context, it was also criticized that the responsible persons at Deutsche Bahn for the city of Offenbach are de facto unavailable.
The last shop tenant moved out in January 2014. Since then, it has no longer been possible to buy newspapers or food while waiting for a train in the reception building. In addition to the kiosk, there was also a restaurant and toilets, which have now been walled up.
According to a 2014 census, Offenbach's main train station is used by an average of 3500 passengers a day; another 1,500 people use it exclusively as a pedestrian walkway.
Due to the decreasing importance of the train station in terms of transport, part of the reception building of the University of Design was made available free of charge for students to use as a studio.
Although the station is not connected to the Rhein-Main S-Bahn network, it is still very often used in the event of disruptions, e.g. B. used on the main line of the S-Bahn or during construction work as an alternative stop.
Connection
Regional traffic
| line | route | Tact |
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| RE 50 | ( Bebra (temporarily and / or on the edge of the day) -) Fulda - Wächtersbach - Gelnhausen - Hanau Hbf - Offenbach (Main) Hbf - Frankfurt (Main) Hbf | 60 minutes |
| RE 55 | ( Bamberg - Schweinfurt Hbf (only in peak hours and 2 × as Freizeit Express Frankenland on weekends)) Würzburg Hbf - Aschaffenburg Hbf - Hanau Hbf - Offenbach (Main) Hbf - Frankfurt (Main) Hbf | 120 minutes
60 minutes (only during peak hours) |
| RE 85 | ( Erbach (Odw.) (Only during peak hours and on weekends) -) Groß-Umstadt Wiebelsbach - Babenhausen (Hess) - Hanau Hbf - Offenbach (Main) Hbf - Frankfurt (Main) Hbf | 120 minutes |
| RB 51 | ( Fulda - Flieden - Schlüchtern (only on the edge of the day) -) ( Bad-Soden Salmünster (temporarily) -) Wächtersbach - Gelnhausen - Langenselbold - Hanau Hbf - Offenbach (Main) Hbf - Frankfurt (Main) Hbf | 60 minutes |
Bus transport
The train station is served by the following bus lines (as of July 2019):
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(S) Kaiserlei west side - Goethering - Nordend - Theater / Messe - OF-Hbf - (S) OF-Ost - Bieber - Waldhof Markwaldstraße (- (S) OF-Waldhof - Waldhof industrial area) -
(S) Kaiserlei west side - Goethering - Nordend - Theater / Messe - (S) Marktplatz - OF-Hbf - Klinikum Offenbach - Lauterborn - Tempelsee - (S) OF-Bieber -
Wetterpark - (S) OF-Ost - (S) Marktplatz - OF-Hbf - Klinikum Offenbach - Caritas / Buchrainweiher -
OF-Hbf - (S) Marktplatz - Theater / Messe - Frankfurt-Fechenheim - Frankfurt-Riederwald - Frankfurt-Seckbach Leonhardsgasse -
OF-Hbf - Marktplatz - Theater / Messe - Frankfurt-Fechenheim - Frankfurt-Mainkur Bf - Hessen-Center - Frankfurt-Bergen-Enkheim - Bad Vilbel (individual trips)
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(S) Marktplatz - OF-Hbf - Klinikum Offenbach - Odenwaldring - Bert-Brecht-Straße - Neu-Isenburg - Dreieich-Sprendlingen - Langen -
OF-Hbf - (S) Kaiserlei west side - Frankfurt-Seckbach - Bad Vilbel
Track system and signal box
The station has six platform tracks, of which track 6 is no longer continuously accessible today. Track 6 is a blind track that can only be approached from the east, which is blocked by a buffer stop about halfway along the platform . In the past, trains typically departed from tracks 5 and 6 in the direction of Rodgaubahn and Dietzenbach . After both routes were no longer served from Offenbach main station as planned, at least track 6 was felt to be superfluous and therefore partially dismantled. It also no longer has a train destination indicator .
The extensive sidings east of the station along Feldstrasse have not been used for decades and are no longer connected to the rail network.
The interlocking of Offenbach main station was until September 22nd, 2012 a track plan pushbutton interlocking of the type SpDr L 20, built in 1956, with the two connected mechanical interlockings Oo and Og and the mechanical shunting interlocking Ro (years of construction 1925 to 1939). Today's ESTW -A Offenbach Hbf von Thales is controlled by the ESTW-UZ Hanau Hbf, which is integrated into the Frankfurt operations center and borders on the ESTW-A Mühlheim Ost, the ESTW-Z Offenbach Ost, and the Sp-Dr- S60 signal box Frankfurt Süd. The 28 M € signal box went into operation on September 23, 2012 at 1:37 pm. It controls 135 signals, 38 turnouts and 88 track vacancy detection sections, as well as 7 additional control units, to Offenbach Ost. In the Offenbach Gbf station section there is a local switching area with 24 electrically localized points from BBR and 8 manual points.
Track occupancy
Of the total of six tracks, only four are generally used (as of July 2019):
Platform 1: Trains in the direction of Frankfurt (individual journeys when trains are being overtaken )
Track 2: trains in the direction of Frankfurt
Track 3: Trains in the direction of Wächtersbach, Fulda, Würzburg, Bamberg, Groß-Umstadt-Wiebelsbach and Erbach
Track 4: Trains in the direction of Wächtersbach, Fulda, Würzburg, Bamberg, Groß-Umstadt-Wiebelsbach and Erbach (individual journeys for train overhauls)
Track 5: no scheduled trains
Track 6: no scheduled trains
development
From the start of operations, only the railway line between Frankfurt and Hanau was available. When it opened in 1873, the Rodgau Railway was not yet part of the station. After the renovation in the years 1912 to 1926, the former independent station of the Rodgaubahn was closed and it was integrated into the new main station. Finally, the main station was approached by trains to Fulda, Dietzenbach, Reinheim and Frankfurt. After passenger traffic on the Rodgau Railway between Dieburg and Reinheim was discontinued in 1965, the trains from Reinheim to Dieburg were shortened. When passenger traffic on the route to Dietzenbach was completely discontinued on June 18, 1982, the routing from Offenbach main station was taken over by rail buses that were common at the time. A few years earlier, the timetable on the route had been thinned out, as the demand no longer corresponded to the train offer at the time.
When the Offenbach City-Trasse started operating in May 1995 , the station lost a large number of passengers to the S-Bahn lines operating there, as the Marktplatz station was closer to the city center and the S-Bahn lines offered a more frequent timetable Has. However, the main train station remained as the hub of the former rail bus routes that were still in service at the time and that had been operated years earlier by the Untermain rail subsidiary.
As a reaction to the low passenger use, the main station was connected to the ICE network of Deutsche Bahn AG in May 1996. However, since this did not lead to an increase in usage, the main station was decoupled from the ICE network again when the timetable changed in 2000.
In the late 1990s, the Dreieichbahn trains were extended to Dieburg via the Rodgau Railway. The trains from Offenbach only went to Rödermark-Ober-Roden.
When the Rodgaubahn and the Offenbach Bieber-Dietzenbach railway were converted for S-Bahn operations from May 2001, the main station suffered another setback. On October 10, 2003 a regional train to Rödermark-Ober-Roden left for the last time. In the following days, an S-Bahn advance service was started on the two converted routes. On December 14, 2003, most of the regional bus routes still running at the main train station were discontinued and replaced by the S1 and S2 S-Bahn lines extended from Offenbach Ost and Frankfurt Süd.
Since the load of the Frankfurt S-Bahn tunnel was still exhausted at that time, the main station was approached from December 2003 as a temporary measure by the S2 amplifiers of the S-Bahn Rhein-Main from and to Dietzenbach.
From the 2005/2006 timetable change, Offenbach main station was now also served by trains in the direction of Aschaffenburg, Würzburg and Groß-Umstadt-Wiebelsbach.
Since the 2006/2007 timetable change, the stop of the IC connection from Passau to Hamburg at Offenbach Central Station has been canceled.
On June 14, 2010, the S-Bahn connection to Offenbach's main station was cut again, as the S2 trains will be tied through the tunnel of the Offenbach City Trasse and the Frankfurt S-Bahn tunnel from this point on.
With the timetable change in December 2016, the last two IC connections were also downgraded to fast RE connections on the RE50 line. Since then Offenbach has been dependent on scheduled long-distance traffic.
literature
- Railway in Hessen. Cultural monuments in Hessen. Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , ed. from the State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen, Theiss Verlag Stuttgart, 2005, 3 volumes in a slipcase, 1,448 pages, ISBN 3-8062-1917-6 , Vol. 2.1 (route 019).
- Michael Hofmann, The Railway in Offenbach and in Rodgau, DGEG Medien 2004, ISBN 978-3-937189-08-6
Web links
- Track plan of Offenbach (Main) Hbf station , DB Netz AG (PDF; 1.4 MB)
- State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen (Ed.): Bismarckstraße 146 In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hessen
- Offenbach (Main) Central Station. In: Structurae
Individual evidence
- ^ A b State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): Bismarckstrasse 146. In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hesse .
- ^ Railway in Hessen, Vol. 2.1, p. 344.
- ↑ Local route guide No. 9 of the Route der Industriekultur Rhein-Main. (PDF; 519 kB) In: krfrm.de. KulturRegion FrankfurtRheinMain gGmbH, December 2005, accessed on November 14, 2015 .
- ↑ Simone Weil: Tickets on the move. In: op-online.de. January 5, 2011, accessed April 24, 2016 .
- ^ Sigrid Aldehoff: Offenbach: Standstill at the main station. In: fr-online.de . February 11, 2015, accessed April 24, 2016 .
- ↑ Sigrid Aldehoff: Offenbach Central Station: Sunk in insignificance. In: fr-online.de. March 26, 2010, accessed April 24, 2016 .
- ↑ Signal box pictures Of-HbF
- ↑ Successful commissioning of ESTW-A Offenbach main station. (PDF; 3.33 MB) (No longer available online.) Thales Transportation Systems GmbH, December 19, 2012, archived from the original on March 1, 2016 ; accessed on March 1, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
