Oberursel station

Oberursel station
Through station
Entrance building and island platform
Location	Oberursel (Taunus), Hesse Germany
Coordinates	50°11′56″N 8°35′18″E / 50.19889°N 8.58833°E / 50.19889; 8.58833Coordinates: 50°11′56″N 8°35′18″E / 50.19889°N 8.58833°E / 50.19889; 8.58833
Line(s)	Homburg Railway Line A (U-Bahn)
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	4702
DS100 code	FOU
Category	4
Website	www.bahnhof.de
History
Opened	1860
Traffic
Passengers	about 11,000

Oberursel (Taunus) station is a station on S-Bahn line S5 in Oberursel (Taunus), near Frankfurt am Main, Germany on the Homburg line. The former Mountain Railway (German: Gebirgsbahn) ran from the station to Hohemark; it is now part of U-Bahn line U3.

The Homburg Railway was opened in 1860 to connect Frankfurt and Bad Homburg, replacing a horse bus line established in 1850. Oberursel station was opened with the line. The station was initially west of the crossing of the Frankfurter Landstraße; later the existing station was built east of the road.

In 1901 the line from Homburg to Friedberg was extended to Friedrichsdorf. At the personal request of the Emperor, the capacity of the entire route from Frankfurt to Friedberg and Friedrichsdorf was increased, including the duplication of the line from 1907 to 1910.

In 1899 the standard gauge Mountain Railway was opened to Hohemark, with steam-hauled freight and passenger trains. A connection was built to the Homburg Railway in the eastern part of the station. In 1910 this was followed by a light railway from Heddernheim, which connected the Mountain Railway with the Frankfurt tram network.

From 1968 the line from Frankfurt to Hohemark was operated as premetro line 24, later renamed line A3. In 1978 Oberursel became the terminal of U-Bahn line U3. The line, which had been single-track, was duplicated for its incorporation in the U-Bahn. The link to the Homburg Railway was used for the delivery of the U-Bahn’s original U2 rollingstock.