Osterburken station

Osterburken
Rhine-Neckar S-Bahn
Junction station

Train in Osterburken station (April 1984)
Location Bahnhofstr. 1, Osterburken, Baden-Württemberg
Germany
Coordinates 49°25′48″N 9°25′22″E / 49.43000°N 9.42278°E / 49.43000; 9.42278Coordinates: 49°25′48″N 9°25′22″E / 49.43000°N 9.42278°E / 49.43000; 9.42278
Line(s)
Platforms 4
Other information
Station code 4790[1]
DS100 codeTO[2]
IBNR80004790
Category4[1]
Website www.bahnhof.de
History
Opened 1866

Osterburken station is at the junction of the Franconia Railway and the Neckarelz–Osterburken railway. It is served by Regionalbahn, Regional-Express and Rhine-Neckar S-Bahn services.

Location

The station is located about 300 metres from central Osterburken.

History

The Royal Württemberg State Railways (Königlich Württembergischen Staats-Eisenbahnen or K.W.St.E.) opened the station in 1866 as the terminus of the Lower Jagst Railway (Untere Jagstbahn) from Heilbronn to Osterburken, now considered part of the Franconia Railway. At the same time the Mannheim–Würzburg railway (Odenwaldbahn) railway was opened.

At the end of March 1945, an "evacuation" train with detainees from the Neckarelz concentration camp was parked near the station for three days. Nine of the detainees died and were buried in a common grave at what is now the old cemetery; a memorial stone is located there.[3]

Services on line S1 of the Rhine-Neckar S-Bahn commenced at the 2003/2004 timetable change on 14 December 2003. As part of the upgrade for the S-Bahn, the platforms for tracks 1 (next to the entrance building) and 3 (bay platform) were equipped for the disabled and are provided with shelters from the weather. The 140 metre-long and 76 centimetre-high platforms now provide level access to the S-Bahn trains, which operate almost exclusively on track 1.

Rail services

Osterburken Station is a railway junction in Baden. The Franconia Railway (Stuttgart–Würzburg) and the Neckarelz–Osterburken railway, part of the Baden Odenwald Railway, meet here. On the latter route, the station is the terminus of line S1 of the Rhine-Neckar S-Bahn. Regional-Express services connect with Würzburg at two-hour intervals, and are supplemented by some additional services. Some Regionalbahn services run to Lauda. Regional-Express services run via Heilbronn to Stuttgart every 60 or 120 minutes. Regionalbahn services run to Heilbronn generally hourly with some continuing to Stuttgart or Ulm. The S1 service provides an hourly connection to Homburg via Mosbach-Neckarelz, Eberbach, Heidelberg, Mannheim, Ludwigshafen, Neustadt (Weinstraße) and Kaiserslautern.

Train class Route Frequency
Regional-Express Würzburg – Osterburken – Bad Friedrichshall – Heilbronn – Stuttgart Every 60/120 minutes
Regionalbahn Osterburken – Möckmühl – Bad Friedrichshall – Heilbronn (– Stuttgart – Ulm) Every 120 minutes
S 1 Homburg (Saar) – Kaiserslautern – Neustadt (Weinstr) – Schifferstadt – Ludwigshafen (Rhein) – Mannheim – Heidelberg – Eberbach – Mosbach-Neckarelz – Osterburken Every 60 minutes

Entrance building

Built in the 1860s, the entrance building was auctioned by Deutsche Bahn in 2014 and bought by the municipality of Osterburken for €120,000. It has an area of around 1090 square metres and a part of the building that is not used by Deutsche Bahn is rented out.[4]

References

  1. 1 2 "Stationspreisliste 2017" [Station price list 2017] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 18 November 2016. Retrieved 14 December 2016.
  2. ↑ Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas) (2009/2010 ed.). Schweers + Wall. 2009. ISBN 978-3-89494-139-0.
  3. ↑ Gedenkstätten für die Opfer des Nationalsozialismus. Eine Dokumentation (in German). I. Bonn. 1995. p. 68. ISBN 3-89331-208-0.
  4. ↑ "Osterburken hat den eigenen Bahnhof gekauft". Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung (in German). 25 September 2014. Retrieved 24 May 2016.

Sources

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