Offenburg station
- DB Netz
- DB Station&Service
- Appenweier–Strasbourg railway (KBS 719)
- Rhine Valley Railway (KBS 702)
- Black Forest Railway (KBS 720)
Preceding station | DB Fernverkehr | Following station | ||
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Baden-Baden towards Berlin Ostbahnhof or Hamburg Hbf | ICE 12 | Freiburg Hbf towards Interlaken Ost or Chur | ||
Baden-Baden One-way operation | ICE 20 | Freiburg Hbf towards Basel SBB | ||
ICE 22 | Freiburg Hbf towards Basel Bad Bf | |||
Baden-Baden towards Hamburg-Altona or Amsterdam Centraal | ICE 43 | Freiburg Hbf towards Basel SBB | ||
Baden-Baden towards München Hbf | ICE 60 | Freiburg Hbf towards Basel Baden | ||
Preceding station | SNCF | Following station | ||
Strasbourg-Ville towards Paris-Est | TGV inOui | Lahr (Schwarzw) towards Freiburg Hbf | ||
Preceding station | ÖBB | Following station | ||
Bonn Hbf towards Amsterdam Centraal | Nightjet | Freiburg Hbf towards Zürich HB | ||
Karlsruhe Hbf towards Hamburg-Altona | ||||
Baden-Baden towards Berlin Hbf | ||||
Preceding station | DB Regio Baden-Württemberg | Following station | ||
Appenweier towards Karlsruhe Hbf | RE 2 | Gengenbach towards Konstanz | ||
RE 7 | Lahr (Schwarzw) towards Basel Bad Bf | |||
Terminus | RB 26 | Friesenheim (Baden) towards Freiburg Hbf | ||
Preceding station | SWEG | Following station | ||
Appenweier towards Bad Griesbach | RB 20 | Offenburg Kreisschulzentrum towards Freudenstadt Hbf | ||
Appenweier towards Strasbourg-Ville | RB 25 | Terminus |
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Offenburg station (German: Bahnhof Offenburg) is a railway station 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.
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]
References
- ^ "Stationspreisliste 2024" [Station price list 2024] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 24 April 2023. Retrieved 29 November 2023.
- ^ "Tarifzonenplan des Tarifverbund Ortenau" (PDF). Tarifverbund Ortenau. 1 November 2021. Retrieved 11 December 2021.
- ^ 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.
- ^ a b 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.