Mainz Römisches Theater station

Mainz Römisches Theater station is a station in the city of Mainz, the capital of the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate on the Main Railway from Mainz to Frankfurt am Main. It is the most important station in the city after Mainz Hauptbahnhof. It is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 3 station.[1] The station is served by S-Bahn and regional trains.

Mainz Römisches Theater
Junction station
View of the station from above the Mainz Railway Tunnel
LocationHolzhofstr. 1a, Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate
Germany
Coordinates49°59′36″N 8°16′40″E
Owned byDB Netz
Operated byDB Station&Service
Line(s)
Platforms4
Train operatorsS-Bahn Rhein-Main
Connections
Other information
Station code3900[1]
DS100 codeFMS[2]
IBNR8000139
Category3[1]
Fare zone
Websitewww.bahnhof.de
History
Opened1884
Previous namesMainz Süd
Services
Preceding station   DB Regio Mitte   Following station
toward Koblenz Hbf
RE 2
Left Rhine Railway
Preceding station   Hessische Landesbahn   Following station
RB 75
Rhine-Main Railway
Preceding station   Rhine-Main S-Bahn   Following station
toward Hanau Hbf
Preceding station   Rhine-Neckar S-Bahn   Following station
Terminus
S 6
via Mannheim
toward Bensheim
Location
Mainz Römisches Theater
Location within Rhineland-Palatinate

History

Mainz Römisches (Roman) Theater is the third name of this station. Until the timetable change in December 2006, it was called Mainz Süd. It was opened as Mainz-Neuthor station on the Rhine-Main Railway from Mainz to Darmstadt and Aschaffenburg. The railway between Mainz and Darmstadt was opened on 1 August 1858 and used a train ferry to cross the Rhine until 1862 when the South Bridge was put into service. The Mainz-Ludwigshafen line opened later. In 1884 a bypass of central Mainz was opened along with Mainz Hauptbahnhof with its southern end near the original Mainz-Neuthor station.

Entrance building and its facilities

The platform canopies were rebuilt between December 2006 and December 2008 (photo of April 2007)

A new station building was opened in 1884 on the north side of the platforms, but it was largely demolished in 2006. It was a brick building, designed by Johann Philipp Berdellé. The ground floor had Rundbogenstil rounded portals that continued into the windows of the lower eastern arcade. The main building had two storeys, with rectangular windows of bunter sandstone in a renaissance revival style. After the redesign and construction of commercial buildings at the station, only the listed facade of the old building has been preserved near the rail tracks. This facade has been integrated into the new building.

The station retains the historic cast iron columns with fluted shafts and composite capitals of the platform roof, which were built in a neoclassical style in 1861 and which had probably been previously used at the old Hessian Ludwig Railway station in Darmstadt. They were refurbished in the spring of 2008. However, the overall redevelopment of the station itself has still not started. The renovation work at the station will cost around € one million.

Directly above the station is the citadel. The Neutor barracks were built in 1866 directly below the station to defend the railway from a possible French invasion. Both buildings had to be bypassed.

The name of the station used since December 2006 is derived from the adjacent ruins of a former Roman theatre. The platform of track 4 crosses the stage area of the ancient theatre. During construction of the railway line through this ground no thought was given to protecting this monument. The retaining wall of the 19th century railway has been partially removed in recent years, enabling the excavation of the theatre.

Rail operations

Line S 8 train of the Rhine-Main S-Bahn on the way to Offenbach via Frankfurt

The station has three platforms on four tracks. The tracks towards Mainz Hauptbahnhof enter the Mainz railway tunnel immediately west of the station under the Eisgrub.

From here, three routes are operated to the southeast:

Trains run to the northwest to Mainz Hauptbahnhof, Wiesbaden Hauptbahnhof, Koblenz Hauptbahnhof and to Saarbrücken Hauptbahnhof.

Tracks 2, 3 and 4 are not yet adapted for access for the disabled. A lift from the listed pedestrian underpass only currently exists to the platform for track 1.[3]

Regional and S-Bahn services

Regional rail services are as follows:

Line Route Frequency
WiesbadenMainzMainz Römisches TheaterRüsselsheimFrankfurt AirportFrankfurt Hbf (tief)Offenbach (Main) Ost (– Hanau) Every 30 mins
RB 44 Mainz Hbf – Mainz Römisches TheaterWormsLudwigshafenMannheimNeu-Edingen/Mannheim-Friedrichsfeld Every 30 mins
RB 75 Wiesbaden – Mainz Hbf – Mainz Römisches TheaterGroß-GerauDarmstadtDieburgAschaffenburg Every 60 mins (30 in peak hours)
RE 2 Frankfurt Hbf – Frankfurt Airport – Rüsselsheim – Mainz Römisches Theater – Mainz Hbf – BingenKoblenz Every two hours

The places written small are not served regularly.

Buses

The station is connected by the Mainz public transport network through two nearby bus stops:

  • Bahnhof Römisches Theater/CineStar: lines 64, 65, 66E, 67E, 71, 92
  • Zitadellenweg/Bahnhof Römisches Theater: lines 64, 65, 66E, 67E, 90, 92.

There are direct connections to Mainz Hauptbahnhof (lines 64, 65, 71, 90, 92) and to the centre of Mainz (lines 64, 65, 66E, 67E, 71, 90, 92).

References

  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.
  3. "Vom Schandfleck zum Schmuckstück: Bahnhof Römisches Theater hat aber ein Problem". Allgemeine Zeitung Landskrone (in German). Verlagsgruppe Rhein Main. 28 December 2009. p. 14. Retrieved 27 November 2011.
  • Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas) (2009/2010 ed.). Schweers + Wall. 2009. ISBN 978-3-89494-139-0.
  • Heinz Schomann (2005). Landesamt für Denkmalpflege Hessen (ed.). Eisenbahn in Hessen. Kulturdenkmäler in Hessen. Denkmaltopographie Bundesrepublik Deutschland (in German). 2.1. Stuttgart: Theiss Verlag. p. 234 (line 014). ISBN 3-8062-1917-6.
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