Niederhöchstadt station

Niederhöchstadt station is a junction station in the Niederhöchstadt district of the town of Eschborn in the German state of Hesse. The stations of Eschborn and Eschborn Süd are nearby. Just north-west of the station the Limes Railway to Bad Soden separates from the Kronberg Railway to Kronberg. The station is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 5 station.[1]

Niederhöchstadt
Through station
LocationEschborn, Hesse
Germany
Coordinates50°09′14″N 8°32′51″E
Owned byDB Netz
Operated byDB Station&Service
Line(s)
Platforms2
Other information
Station code4500[1]
DS100 codeFNHS[2]
IBNR8004380
Category5[1]
Fare zoneRMV
Websitewww.bahnhof.de
History
Opened1 November 1874
Services
Preceding station   Rhine-Main S-Bahn   Following station
Schwalbach Nord
toward Bad Soden
Eschborn
toward Kronberg
Eschborn
toward Langen
Location
Niederhöchstadt
Location within Hesse
Niederhöchstadt
Location within Germany
Niederhöchstadt
Location within Europe

History

Niederhöchstadt station was opened by the Kronberg Railway Company (German: Cronberger Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft, using the old spelling of Kronberg) along with the line to Kronberg on 1 November 1874. The station building dates from the turn of the century in 1900 and is a heritage-listed building. It is a two-storey brick building with a shallow hipped roof with a small tented roof covered with dormers. The platform side of the building has a complex structure with a central projection covered by a gable, wall panels and cornices. A polygonal bay window was later added on the ground floor for supervisory personnel and an annex was built on the north side.[3]

On 22 December 1970, the first section of the Limes railway was opened between Niederhöchstadt and the Schwalbach Limes station on the edge of Eschborn and opened as a shuttle service. Almost 2 years later, on 6 November 1972, the gap to Bad Soden was closed. Up to that time Bad Soden only had a rail connection via the Soden Railway to Frankfurt-Höchst, which is now operated as Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund line RB 13.

Since 28 May 1978, the Rhine-Main S-Bahn have operated as line S 3 over the Limes Railway and line S 4 over the Kronberg Railway, at first running only to Frankfurt Central Station. They now terminate at Langen (S4) and Darmstadt Central Station (S3).

Services

The station is now served only by S-Bahn lines S 3 and S 4, running from Bad Soden (S 3) and Kronberg (S 4) to Frankfurt Central underground station, Frankfurt South, Neu-Isenburg, Langen (terminus of S 4) and Darmstadt (terminus of S 3).

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) (10 ed.). Schweers + Wall. 2017. ISBN 978-3-89494-146-8.
  3. "Niederhöchstadt station" (in German). Landesamtes für Denkmalpflege Hessen. Retrieved 25 June 2012.
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