Osterburken station

Osterburken station is at the junction of the Franconia Railway and the Neckarelz–Osterburken railway. It is served by Regionalbahn, Regional-Express and Rhine-Neckar S-Bahn services.

Osterburken
Junction station
Train in Osterburken station (April 1984)
LocationBahnhofstr. 1, Osterburken, Baden-Württemberg
Germany
Coordinates49°25′48″N 9°25′22″E
Owned byDeutsche Bahn
Operated by
Line(s)
Platforms4
Other information
Station code4790[1]
DS100 codeTO[2]
IBNR80004790
Category4[1]
Websitewww.bahnhof.de
History
Opened1866
Services
Preceding station   DB Regio Baden-Württemberg   Following station
Möckmühl
RE
Terminus
Adelsheim Ost
RB Terminus
Preceding station   Rhine-Neckar S-Bahn   Following station
Adelsheim Nord
S 1
via Mannheim		Terminus
  Future service as of 15 December 2019  
Preceding station   Go-Ahead Baden-Württemberg   Following station
Möckmühl
RE 8
via Heilbronn - Lauda
  Future service as of 14 June 2020  
Preceding station   Abellio Rail Baden-Württemberg   Following station
TerminusRB 18
via Stuttgart
Adelsheim Ost
Location
Osterburken
Location in Baden-Württemberg
Osterburken
Location in Germany
Osterburken
Location in Europe

Location

The station is located about 300 metres from central Osterburken.

History

The Royal Württemberg State Railways (Königlich Württembergischen Staats-Eisenbahnen or K.W.St.E.) opened the station in 1866 as the terminus of the Lower Jagst Railway (Untere Jagstbahn) from Heilbronn to Osterburken, now considered part of the Franconia Railway. At the same time the Mannheim–Würzburg railway (Odenwaldbahn) railway was opened.

At the end of March 1945, an "evacuation" train with detainees from the Neckarelz concentration camp was parked near the station for three days. Nine of the detainees died and were buried in a common grave at what is now the old cemetery; a memorial stone is located there.[3]

Services on line S1 of the Rhine-Neckar S-Bahn commenced at the 2003/2004 timetable change on 14 December 2003. As part of the upgrade for the S-Bahn, the platforms for tracks 1 (next to the entrance building) and 3 (bay platform) were equipped for the disabled and are provided with shelters from the weather. The 140 metre-long and 76 centimetre-high platforms now provide level access to the S-Bahn trains, which operate almost exclusively on track 1.

Rail services

Osterburken Station is a railway junction in Baden. The Franconia Railway (Stuttgart–Würzburg) and the Neckarelz–Osterburken railway, part of the Baden Odenwald Railway, meet here. On the latter route, the station is the terminus of line S1 of the Rhine-Neckar S-Bahn. Regional-Express services connect with Würzburg at two-hour intervals, and are supplemented by additional peak hour services. Regional-Express services run via Heilbronn to Stuttgart every 120 minutes. Regionalbahn services run to/from Heilbronn and Stuttgart, some starting or ending at Lauda. The S1 service provides an hourly connection to Homburg via Mosbach-Neckarelz, Eberbach, Heidelberg, Mannheim, Ludwigshafen, Neustadt (Weinstraße) and Kaiserslautern.

Train class Route Interval
IRE Osterburken – Bad Friedrichshall – Neckarsulm – Heilbronn – Stuttgart One train pair
RE Würzburg – Lauda – Osterburken – Bad Friedrichshall – Neckarsulm – Heilbronn – Bietigheim-Bissingen – Ludwigsburg – Stuttgart 120 minutes (+ extra services in peak)
RB (Lauda –) Osterburken – Möckmühl – Bad Friedrichshall – Neckarsulm – Heilbronn – Bietigheim-Bissingen – Ludwigsburg – Stuttgart 60 minutes
S 1 Homburg (Saar) – Kaiserslautern – Neustadt (Weinstr) – Schifferstadt – Ludwigshafen (Rhein) – Mannheim – Heidelberg – Eberbach – Mosbach-Neckarelz – Osterburken 60 minutes

Entrance building

Built in the 1860s, the entrance building was auctioned by Deutsche Bahn in 2014 and bought by the municipality of Osterburken for €120,000. It has an area of around 1090 square metres and a part of the building that is not used by Deutsche Bahn is rented out.[4]

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References
  1. "Stationspreisliste 2020" [Station price list 2020] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 4 November 2019. Retrieved 15 November 2019.
  2. Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas) (2009/2010 ed.). Schweers + Wall. 2009. ISBN 978-3-89494-139-0.
  3. Gedenkstätten für die Opfer des Nationalsozialismus. Eine Dokumentation (in German). I. Bonn. 1995. p. 68. ISBN 3-89331-208-0.
  4. "Osterburken hat den eigenen Bahnhof gekauft". Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung (in German). 25 September 2014. Retrieved 24 May 2016.

Sources
  • Helmut Maisch und Herbert Walz (1998). Osterburken ... wie es einmal war (in German). Horb am Neckar: Geiger. ISBN 3-89570-503-9.
  • Helmut Neumaier (1973). Osterburken Stationen seiner Geschichte (in German). Heidelberg: Milte.
  • Elmar Weiss, Helmut Neumaier (1986). Geschichte der Stadt Osterburken (in German). Osterburken: Stadt Osterburken.
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