Büdingen (Oberhess) station

Büdingen (Oberhess) station
Through station

Former station building
Location Büdingen, Hesse
Germany
Coordinates 50°17′20″N 9°06′09″E / 50.288904°N 9.102377°E / 50.288904; 9.102377Coordinates: 50°17′20″N 9°06′09″E / 50.288904°N 9.102377°E / 50.288904; 9.102377
Line(s)
Platforms 2
Other information
Station code 0957
DS100 codeFBDG
Category5 [1]
Website www.bahnhof.de
History
Opened 30 October 1870

Büdingen (Oberhess) station is a station on the Gießen–Gelnhausen railway (also known as the Lahn-Kinzig Railway) in the town of Büdingen in the German state of Hesse. The station is located in the centre of the town. Büches-Düdelsheim station is also located in the municipality, in the district of Büches. The station is classified by Deutsche Bahn (DB) as a category 5 station.[1]

History

The station was opened on 30 October 1870 as the end of the third section of the Lahn Gießen–Gelnhausen railway (Nidda–Büdingen) by the Upper Hessian Railway Company (German: Oberhessische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft). Exactly a month later, the railway was extended to Gelnhausen.

The entrance hall of the station is now listed as a monument under the Hessian Heritage Act. The station building is now owned by a private investor and serves as a station for years no longer. The condition has deteriorated and dilapidated.[2]

Operations

Büdingen is served only by the RB (Regionalbahn) 36 service of the Hessische Landesbahn (Hessian State Railway, HLB) on the Gießen–Nidda–Glauburg-StockheimGelnhausen route. The “house” platform (platform 1) is used by trains towards Gelnhausen. Track 2 is used by trains towards Nidda or Gießen. The service operates at 60-minute intervals in both directions, but is supplemented by an extra service towards Gelnhausen in the morning peak and after lunch and from Gelnhausen in the evening peak. Gießen can be reached in around 75 minutes by train, Frankfurt (with a change in Gelnhausen to the RE 50 service) in about an hour.[3]

The Lahn-Kinzig Railway also offers interchanges in Nidda (with SE/RB 32 towards Friedberg or Frankfurt) and in Glauburg-Stockheim (with RE/RB 34 towards Bad Vilbel or Frankfurt).

Preceding station   Hessische Landesbahn   Following station
Büches-Düdelsheim
toward Gießen Hbf
RB 36
Lahn-Kinzig Railway
Mittel-Gründau
toward Gelnhausen

Buses

Büdinger station is connected by several bus routes to the surrounding area.

Notes

  1. 1 2 "Stationspreisliste 2016" [Station price list 2016] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 1 December 2015. Retrieved 24 January 2016.
  2. "Bahnhof ist Thema der Parlamentarier". Kreis-Anzeiger (in German). 25 May 2012. Retrieved 12 July 2012.
  3. "Timetable for RB 36" (PDF) (in German). Hessischen Landesbahn. Retrieved 12 July 2012.

References

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