Heppenheim (Bergstr) station
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Heppenheim (Bergstr) station
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Heppenheim station in 2007
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| Location | Kalterer Str. 4, Heppenheim, Hesse Germany |
| Coordinates | 49°38′30″N 8°38′0″E / 49.64167°N 8.63333°ECoordinates: 49°38′30″N 8°38′0″E / 49.64167°N 8.63333°E |
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| Platforms | 2 |
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| Station code | 2693 |
| DS100 code | FHP |
| IBNR | 8002757 |
| Category | 5 |
| Website | www.bahnhof.de |
| History | |
| Opened | 22 June 1846 |
Heppenheim (Bergstraße) station is a station in the town of Heppenheim and it is the most southerly station in the German state of Hesse on the Main-Neckar Railway between Frankfurt and Heidelberg. On weekdays the station is served by two Intercity services on the long-distance network of Deutsche Bahn. The station is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 5 station.
The station was opened along with the Langen–Darmstadt–Heppenheim section of the Main-Neckar Railway on 22 June 1846. During the Baden Revolution of 1848 the station was occupied many times.
In 1903, the Lorsch–Heppenheim section of the Nibelungen Railway was opened. Because of the failure to connect to the Odenwald, traffic on the Nibelungen Railway was below expectations. Several decades later, the Heppenheim–Lorsch line was closed and dismantled.
On weekdays, there is one InterCity service to Frankfurt and Saarbrücken.
The station building was built between 1845 and 1846 after a design by Georg Moller in the neo-classical style on the town side, to the east of the line. The facade of the lower level of the two-story sandstone building is marked on the long side by five portals, the central group of three on the ground floor act as entrances to the vestibule. On the narrow sides of the building there are three window portals. The whole length of the eaves of the flat hip roof are decorated with a volute frieze. On both sides of the main building there are approximately symmetrical, single storey extensions. The platform canopy in front of the entrance building is built as lattices on thin columns with small capitals, built in cast iron. The building is listed by the Hessian heritage office as an early railway station of outstanding historical significance.
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