Darmstadt Süd station

Darmstadt Süd
Through station
Entrance building from the street side
Location	Darmstadt, Hesse Germany
Coordinates	49°51′20″N 8°38′12″E / 49.85556°N 8.63667°ECoordinates: 49°51′20″N 8°38′12″E / 49.85556°N 8.63667°E
Line(s)	Main-Neckar Railway (29.7 km)
Platforms	2
Construction
Architect	Friedrich Mettegang
Other information
Station code	1129
DS100 code	FDS[1]
IBNR	8001377
Category	5[2]
History
Opened	1912
Services
Preceding station   Deutsche Bahn   Following station Darmstadt Hbf toward Frankfurt (Main) Hbf RB 60 Main-Neckar Railway Darmstadt-Eberstadt toward Heidelberg Hbf Darmstadt Hbf Terminus RB 66 Pfungstadt Railway Darmstadt-Eberstadt toward Pfungstadt

Darmstadt South station (German: Bahnhof Darmstadt Süd) is in the city of Darmstadt in the German state of Hesse on the Main-Neckar Railway. The station building is protected under the Hessian Monument Protection Act. It is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 5 station.^[2]

History

Darmstädt South station (track side)

The first station was built on the old route of the Main-Neckar Railway, at the corner of Donnersbergring and Bessunger Straße on 15 October 1879 as Haltepunkt Bessungen (Bessungen halt); it was called Darmstadt Süd from 27 November 1902. It was served by passenger and freight services. With the construction of the Darmstadt Central Station (Darmstädt Hauptbahnhof) from 1909 to 1912, the Main-Neckar Railway was shifted to the west and lowered and a new Darmstädt South station was built.

The station building was acquired as part of a package with other station buildings by the British real estate investment company, Patron Capital on 1 January 2008.^[3]

Architecture

The new South Station was designed in neoclassical and traditional styles by the architect of the Mainz railway division (Eisenbahndirektion), Friedrich Mettegang. The cubic building has a rendered facade and windows with horizontal bars and shutters. A balcony standing on four square pillars points to the street front. The upper building is topped by a hip roof, and on the east side it has a “bat” dormer (Fledermausgaube) with a central round clock. The dormer windows have wood paneling, decorated by tapes and diamond motifs and turned round columns.

Rail services

The station is served Regionalbahn service RB 60: Heidelberg Hbf–Weinheim–Bensheim–Darmstadt Hbf–Frankfurt (Main) Hbf. Since the timetable change of 2011/2012 on 11 December 2011, the South station has been services by Regionalbahn service RB 66 (the Pfungstadtbahn) from Darmstadt to Pfungstadt.

Line	Route
RB 60	Frankfurt Hbf – Langen (Hess) – Darmstadt Hbf – Darmstadt South – Bensheim – Weinheim – Heidelberg Hbf
RB 66	Darmstadt Hbf – Darmstadt South – Pfungstadt

The South station also has a stop on bus route H (between Darmstadt Anne-Frank-Straße and Darmstadt Alfred-Messel-Weg or Kranichstein Kesselhutweg) operated by HEAG mobilo, the Darmstadt municipal bus company.

Notes

1. Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas) (2009/2010 ed.). Schweers + Wall. 2009. ISBN 978-3-89494-139-0.
2. "Stationspreisliste 2016" [Station price list 2016] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 1 December 2015. Retrieved 24 January 2016.
3. Klaus Honold (16 February 2010). "Südbahnhof: Als Erstes wird das Dach repariert" (in German). Echo-Online. Retrieved 5 May 2013.

References

• Landesamt für Denkmalpflege Hessen, ed. (1994). Stadt Darmstadt. Kulturdenkmäler in Hessen. Denkmaltopographie Bundesrepublik Deutschland (in German). Braunschweig: Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn Verlagsges. p. 450. ISBN 3-528-06249-5.

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