Hanau Central Station

Hanau Hauptbahnhof S
Junction station
Station forecourt
Location	Am Hauptbahnhof 14a, Hanau, Hesse Germany
Coordinates	50°07′17″N 08°55′47″E / 50.12139°N 8.92972°E / 50.12139; 8.92972Coordinates: 50°07′17″N 08°55′47″E / 50.12139°N 8.92972°E / 50.12139; 8.92972
Line(s)	Friedberg-Hanau line (KBS 633) Kinzig Valley Railway (KBS 615) Kahlgrund Railway (KBS 642) Odenwald Railway (KBS 641) North Main line (KBS 640) Hanau–Aschaffenburg line (KBS 640) South Main line (KBS 615, 641) S8 S9
Platforms	11
Other information
Station code	2537
DS100 code	FH
IBNR	8000150
Category	2
Website	www.bahnhof.de
History
Opened	1 May 1867
Electrified	1958
Traffic
Passengers (2010)	About 20,000

Hanau Hauptbahnhof is a railway station at Hanau in the German state of Hesse, and is a major railway junction east of Frankfurt am Main. It was opened in 1867, but the current building was built in the late 1960s. It is located about 1.5 kilometres south-east of central Hanau. It is classified by Deutsche Bahn (DB) as a category 2 station and has many train services, including Intercity Express, regional and S-Bahn services.

Hanau Hbf station is a central hub of the railway network that is served by six routes. It is served by:

Today’s Hanau Hauptbahnhof was opened on 1 May 1867 on the route of the Frankfurt–Bebra railway as a temporary terminus called Hanau Ost (east). The first station in Hanau was opened in 1848 as the terminus of the Frankfurt-Hanau Railway Company (Frankfurt-Hanauer Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft), which is west of central Hanau at the site of the current Hanau West station.

The Hanau east station was built at the junction between the extension of the Frankfurt-Hanau railway (which runs on the north bank of the Main) connecting with the Main–Spessart railway to Aschaffenburg and the Kinzig Valley Railway to Bebra. Its position was chosen to allow the building of a bridge over the Main to Steinheim as part of the south bank route to Frankfurt. At the same time Hanau depot (Bahnbetriebswerk Hanau) was built at Heideäcker. An entrance building was built at Hanau Ost on the island between the line towards Fulda (northern tracks) and the line to Aschaffenburg (southern tracks).