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
Location	Hauptstraße 1 77652 Offenburg Baden-Württemberg Germany
Coordinates	48°28′34″N 7°56′45″E
Elevation	159 m (522 ft)
Owned by	Deutsche Bahn
Operated by	DB Netz DB Station&Service
Line(s)	Appenweier–Strasbourg railway (KBS 719) Rhine Valley Railway (KBS 702) Black Forest Railway (KBS 720)
Platforms	7
Other information
Station code	4745
DS100 code	RO
IBNR	8000290
Category	2 [1]
Fare zone	TGO: 50[2]
Website	www.bahnhof.de
History
Opened	1844
Services
Preceding station   DB Fernverkehr   Following station Karlsruhe towards Berlin Ostbahnhof ICE 12 Freiburg towards Interlaken Ost Karlsruhe towards Cologne ICE 43 Freiburg towards Basel SBB Preceding station   SNCF   Following station Strasbourg toward Paris-Est TGV Lahr (Schwarzw) toward Freiburg Preceding station   DB Regio   Following station Appenweier toward Karlsruhe Hbf RE Schwarzwaldbahn Gengenbach toward Konstanz Hbf Terminus RE Rheintalbahn Lahr (Schwarzw) toward Basel Badischer Bahnhof Preceding station   Ortenau S-Bahn   Following station Appenweier toward Strasbourg RB Europabahn Terminus Appenweier toward Bad Griesbach RB Renchtalbahn Terminus Terminus RB Kinzingtalbahn Offenburg Kreisschulzentrum toward Freudenstadt Hbf
Location
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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-Bahn	Strasbourg – Krimmeri-Meinau – Kehl – Kork – Legelshurst – Appenweier – Offenburg	Hourly, additional services in peak

References

1. "Stationspreisliste 2020" [Station price list 2020] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 4 November 2019. Retrieved 15 November 2019.
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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