Offenbach Central Station
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Offenbach am Main Hauptbahnhof
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| Location |
Offenbach am Main, Hesse Germany |
| Coordinates | 50°5′58″N 8°45′39″E / 50.09944°N 8.76083°ECoordinates: 50°5′58″N 8°45′39″E / 50.09944°N 8.76083°E |
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| Platforms | 6 |
| Construction | |
| Architect | De la Sauce and Schenk |
| Architectural style | Renaissance Revival |
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| Station code | 4742 |
| DS100 code | FO |
| Category | 4 |
| Website | www.bahnhof.de |
| History | |
| Opened | 1873 |
Offenbach am Main Hauptbahnhof is a railway station serving the German city of Offenbach am Main. It is located on the Frankfurt–Bebra railway/South Main line between Frankfurt and Hanau on the south bank of the Main. It is also the starting point of the Rodgau Railway, via Obertshausen, Rodgau and Ober-Roden to Dieburg (originally to Reinheim).
The station was built from 1872 to 1873 during the construction of the Frankfurt–Bebra railway and was given an entrance building in Renaissance Revival style. It was commissioned by the Königliche Eisenbahndirektion (Royal Railway Division) of Frankfurt. Because of the development of the city around the line which was originally laid on the same level as the roads, the railway was put on an embankment between 1912 and 1926 so that the increasing road traffic could run under it. This forced the rail track field to be elevated. A new station building was out of the question because of the depressed economic conditions. The entrance building was radically restructured in the 1920s with a "conservative-traditionalist” appearance. The entrance building is listed as a monument under the Hessian Monument Protection Act. There is fountain by Bruno Schaefer called Vogelbrunnen ("bird fountain") on the platform between tracks 1 and 2.
The station was temporarily connected to Deutsche Bahn’s Intercity-Express network in May 1996, but it now has few long-distance services. It has up to two Intercity services each day. Otherwise there are only regional services to destinations in Hesse and Bavaria.
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