Bickenbach (Bergstr) station

Bickenbach (Bergstr) station is the only station in the municipality of Bickenbach in the German state of Hesse on the Main-Neckar Railway between Frankfurt and Heidelberg.The station is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 5 station.[1]

Bickenbach (Bergstr) station
Through station
LocationBahnhofstr. 77, Bickenbach, Hesse
Germany
Coordinates49°45′35″N 8°36′12″E
Line(s)
Platforms3
Other information
Station code618[1]
DS100 codeFBI[2]
IBNR8000948
Category5[1]
Websitewww.bahnhof.de
History
Opened1848
Services
Preceding station   Deutsche Bahn   Following station
RE 60
Main-Neckar Railway
toward Mannheim Hbf
RB 68
Main-Neckar Railway
Hähnlein-Alsbach

History
Platforms

The station was opened in 1848 on the Main-Neckar Railway, which connects Frankfurt and Heidelberg. Initially, only a few stations were planned. But between 1848 and 1888 other stations were opened, including in Bickenbach and Erzhausen. The station building was designed by the Darmstadt city architect Georg Moller.

In December 1894, construction began on a branch line from Bickenbach to the neighbouring community of Seeheim-Jugenheim. The Bickenbach–Seeheim line was opened on 6 July 1895.

During the Second World War, the station was repeatedly the target of air raids.

On 31 December 1955, passenger traffic on the Bickenbach–Seeheim line was discontinued. Freight traffic was abandoned in July 1960. The line was dismantled in March 1961.

Infrastructure

Bickenbacher station is classified as a category 5 station. Approximately 50 trains stop in Bickenbacher station each day (Regional-Express and Regionalbahn). The station has not been made accessible for the disabled. It has three platform tracks at a “home” platform (next to the station building) and an island platform. In the station forecourt there is a park and ride car park. There are interchanges with buses.

Rail services
Regionalbahn service on the Main-Neckar Railway in Bickenbacher station running from Frankfurt to Heidelberg

57 regional services operated by Deutsche Bahn stop in Bickenbach (Bergstraße) each day.

LineRouteFrequency
RE 60Frankfurt (Main) – Darmstadt – Bickenbach (Bergstraße) – Bensheim – Weinheim (Bergstraße) – Mannheim Every 120 minutes (Mon-Fri)
RB 68Frankfurt (Main) – Darmstadt – Bickenbach (Bergstraße) – Bensheim – Weinheim (Bergstraße) – Neu-Edingen/Mannheim-Friedrichsfeld – Heidelberg Every 60 minutes

Notes
  1. "Stationspreisliste 2021" [Station price list 2021] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 16 November 2020. Retrieved 3 December 2020.
  2. Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas) (2009/2010 ed.). Schweers + Wall. 2009. ISBN 978-3-89494-139-0.
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