Offenburg station

Offenburg station is in Baden-Württemberg and has seven tracks on four platforms. Offenburg used to be a railway town and the station was of major economic importance to it. In recent years the maintenance facilities and much of the rail freight yards have been closed. The station is very centrally located within the city and is easily accessible by 18 different bus routes from the central bus station, 50 metres from the railway station.

Offenburg
Through station
Offenburg station, 2005
LocationHauptstraße 1
77652 Offenburg
Baden-Württemberg
Germany
Coordinates48°28′34″N 7°56′45″E
Elevation159 m (522 ft)
Owned byDeutsche Bahn
Operated by
Line(s)
Platforms7
Other information
Station code4745
DS100 codeRO
IBNR8000290
Category2 [1]
Fare zoneTGO: 50[2]
Websitewww.bahnhof.de
History
Opened1844
Services
Preceding station   DB Fernverkehr   Following station
ICE 12
towards Cologne
ICE 43
towards Basel SBB
Preceding station   SNCF   Following station
toward Paris-Est
TGV
toward Freiburg
Preceding station   DB Regio   Following station
RE
Gengenbach
toward Konstanz Hbf
TerminusRE
Preceding station   Ortenau S-Bahn   Following station
toward Strasbourg
RB Terminus
toward Bad Griesbach
RB Terminus
TerminusRB
Offenburg Kreisschulzentrum
Location
Offenburg
Location in Baden-Württemberg
Offenburg
Location in Germany
Offenburg
Location in Europe

Rail services

InterCityExpress services operate through the station every two hours between Berlin, Frankfurt and Basel and less frequently between Cologne, Frankfurt Airport and Basel. InterCity trains operate from a variety of destinations in Germany and Switzerland. Regional-Express trains operate to and from Karlsruhe, Basel Bad and Konstanz. Regional rail services are operated as the Ortenau-S-Bahn, by Südwestdeutsche Verkehrs-Aktiengesellschaft, a company owned by Baden-Württemberg.

History

The station was designed by the architect, Friedrich Eisenlohr (1805–1855), as a smaller version of the old railway station in Karlsruhe, opened in 1843 and closed in 1913.[3] During World War I several attacks were carried out on the station. The most serious of these took place on 22 July 1918 with four direct hits leading to the collapse of the entire central part of the station entrance building.[4] During the Occupation of the Ruhr in February 1923, Offenburg and Appenweier were also occupied, disrupting the Rhine Valley Railway. Therefore, until 12 December 1923 trains on the Baden Mainline had to be diverted on the route through the Black Forest towns of Donaueschingen, Hausach, Freudenstadt, Hochdorf towards Pforzheim.[4]

Since June 2007 TGV Trains run from Paris Est to Strasbourg, Stuttgart and Munich. Therefore, since 10 June 2007 the Ortenau-S-Bahn has operated railcars every hour (and sometimes every half hour) between Offenburg and Strasbourg. This change extended previous services to Strasbourg including services formerly ending in Kehl.

Service to France
Line Route Frequency
TER Alsace / Ortenau S-BahnStrasbourg – Krimmeri-Meinau – Kehl – Kork – Legelshurst – Appenweier – OffenburgHourly, additional services in peak

References
  1. "Stationspreisliste 2021" [Station price list 2021] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 16 November 2020. Retrieved 3 December 2020.
  2. "Tarifzonenplan des Tarifverbund Ortenau" (PDF). Tarifverbund Ortenau. 1 August 2019. Retrieved 2 May 2020.
  3. Pretsch, Peter. "Friedrich Eisenlohr - Architekt der badischen Eisenbahn(Friedrich Eisenlohr - Architect of the Baden railway)" (in German). Karlsruhe City. Archived from the original on 5 August 2012. Retrieved 28 February 2010.
  4. Kuntzemüller, Albert (1940). Die badischen Eisenbahnen 1840−1940 (The Baden mainline 1840−1940) (in German). Freiburg im Breisgau: Selbstverlag der Geographischen Institute der Universitäten Freiburg i. Br. und Heidelberg. p. 129 ff.
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